Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Just checking that box and staying the minimum 2 hours. I grab a huddle room when I can, which is most days since I’m in before 6:30 AM. I’m hugely introverted and have incredible social anxiety. I had a telecommuting agreement for over 15 years. I’ve excelled in every review during that time. Now I’m forced to go to a building that doesn’t have anyone I work with in it, so all of my meetings on via MS Teams. I’m not going to that god forsaken cesspool of a building in Des Moines to chitchat with people - I just want to be left alone to get my work done.

Check the box 100%

I'm not

For the OP who asked why are we even coming in to the office … hello??? You sound just as tone deaf as our leadership. We’re coming in because we’re being forced to. We’re in focus rooms because we’re either trying to get something done or trying to get some privacy. Just because there are only a few people on the open floor doesn’t mean I feel comfortable sitting out there.

Hey Shart, don't pi-s down my back and tell me it's rainin'. If you want people to come in to make your political masters happy or to torment people enough that they leave voluntarily and without severance, just man up and say it. The lies have made me lose all respect I had for you as a leader of the company. This "you'll collaborate, even though no one in your group is there!" stuff is not only nonsense, it's demonstrably false. It's embarrassingly laughable. I'm not offended that a CEO wants me to work in a building, I am offended that he actually thinks I "buy" the justification for it that he's providing. I know my job and the group I work with much better than he does, and anyone with an IQ over 50 knows that he's shoveling BS. I may continue to tolerate it, but I will never forget or forgive the treachery that is RTO.

HMHQ is pretty packed T, W, and Th, at least in my area. Sometimes I'll end up with one of the few remaining seats. Monday is somewhat busy (50%). Friday is a ghost town (<10%).

I had a telecommuting agreement for nearly a decade. Now I come in to an office where I usually see maybe (on a busy day), up to 3 people a row away from me, and 1-2 people roaming the halls, or getting water from the break room. There might be a handful of people on a different floor.

I come to the office to comply with a random requirement that makes no logical sense, but means I keep my job for now. I have been looking, and have applied for other jobs, but nothing yet. I force myself to stay for at least 2 hours, but the stupidity of it is evident in the empty cubicles that surround me. I have no co-workers here. There is no interest (in either side) of “collaborating” with the 2-3 people from a role I left behind more than 7 years ago. I made an effort to introduce myself, and chat with them on the first day back in the office. I said hi when someone else was in the office on a different day. I have to go out of my way to talk to these people, and we have no work-related topics to discuss, no reason to “network.” In my last 2 roles, telecommuting was part of my agreement to accept the position. Once upon a time there was a job that I thought would be more interesting, and aligned more with what I wanted to do, but I took the job that wasn’t quite as interesting in favor of having the ability to work from home.

Every time I set foot into the office, I am reminded of all of the nonsensical decisions that are being made. For now, I am biding my time, but my motivation to do well drops lower and lower. I’ll continue to keep searching. Maybe one day things will change, but for now, they continue to change in the wrong direction. Time will tell.

Wasting time and gas money, that's it. Zero upside from my perspective, or my boss's, or their boss. For the BOD/CEO/OP committee there is a benefit though, it pi---s me off enough to consider going elsewhere. That's what they really want to get out of this cluster. Id--ts.

Our floors are so sparse that most of the offices are available, so i usually grab one of those instead of a cube. Much roomier than a focus room and i can use the sit/stand desk.

@nsr+1huFizpC , thanks you just described me

Same as OP observation in Charlotte, both in Brigham/Ballantyne and Wells2/uptown. It seems to be a game of dibs as to who can first squat in the rooms intended for four people or less, secure it with one's personal stuff and...proceed to play on the phone or take a stroll.

Checking the box is pretty much it.

Well for me personally, I don't mind. It's nice to be out of the house for a change. I get to separate my home life now from my work life.
Change of scenery is good. You asked.