I am doing the bare minimum to not get PIPped and then fired. I'm no longer available in the evenings and no longer working weekends. Mentally checked out and physically exhausted. I am planning my exit for shortly after bonuses hit.
How is everyone else handling this RTO bs?
I'm doing the same thing and most people I know are, we've all exchanged information so we can plan outside of work. The aliases we use are nowhere tied to our real names. It's the best way to do it.
My role requires me to spend multiple weeks, working on zoom calls for the duration of the day (6-8 hrs). We had been giving accommodations during these periods to WFH and when we weren’t we had to do the 3 days a week in office. They’ve now revoked it, and I have to book rooms to work from. So now I get to go to site and work in a closet for 8 hrs, instead of from home. Additionally, there’s no one at my site that works on my team (partially from layoffs), so I’m just hanging out by myself, sitting on zoom calls, in huddle rooms now.
@b2 this was me. I’d chat with a few office friends and sit in my office doing zoom/teams calls and then leave at 3:30 during my lunch for home. I’d log back in for another 90min.
@fz lol if you think there’s any correlation between effort and firing
Sure he might get fired but that’s independent of coasting
@OP you’re the reason they lay people off. I hope you get fired.
@cq until they fire you first. The best laid plans…
Doing about 6 hours a day, three days a week while I eat as much company supplied food and drink all their coffee to save my own money to fund my F-you account. Once my F-you account is fully funded and my house is paid off (about 18 months from now), I'll be first in line to take a package.
@OP this was the approach I took, especially with the after hours/weekend things. I removed Outlook and Teams from my personal phone, so my former boss would SMS text me after hours with work requests that could have been handled during the day but for his terrible time management skills getting in the way. I told him that I identify as French (if you know, you know) and then I would take his work-related SMS text to my personal device and forward it to the corporate retention team. Come in at 9, do my work, leave at 5. Wash, rinse, repeat. Eventually I got packaged out in the first quarter and I’ve been happier ever since. The culture is better outside because I deal with none of that now in my new job.
We’ve been back in office for years already. It’s nothing new.
@b1 and this is why there is RTO!
Glad I’m not the only one.
At the office I do the absolute bare minimum. My whole team is offshore, so I basically just go in to sit through Zoom calls and not interact with a single human in real life. Once my tasks are done I just sit there reading books on my phone
Also here living the dream on my two remote days: one solid hour of “work,” then mouse jiggling so Teams thinks I’m a productivity god… while I’m just chilling and watching TV. F*** ‘em all.
Same