It’s too cold to RTO today so I was considering WFH in my comfy PJ’s and drink my silky smooth fresh ground coffee with Starbucks white chocolate creamer.
Since I won’t be driving into the office I would be saving on gas, commute time and every other time wasting endeavor. Win/win.
My normal WFH routine for days like this would have me excited to log in to my laptop and begin real 1-1, and often 3 way focused, collaborative, adhoc meetings to discuss and resolve the problems of the day. We would work through a path forward with point contacts of various development teams so the day ahead would be as productive as possible before meetings bogged us down.
Now with RTO, everything I have described has gone away. We have all been told that
VPN time is synonymous with slacker time. It doesn’t count and even flags you as an
outlier on reporting metrics while classifying you as non-compliant.
Instead of an early, massively productive day improving productivity and throughput for myself and others on projects and deliverables, I will be taking a personal day and stay as far away from VPN as possible.
John Stankey and Jeremy Legg: Gosh golly gee wh-z I commend you. You’ve managed to do the impossible once again. Your leadership and creative vision have successfully managed to demonstrate the use of a hydraulic construction jack hammer to crack open
an egg shell to solve a problem that never was. Never mind that you scared away all the chickens in the process. The yolks on you.
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“As the complaints multiplied, I started feeling guilty that he had to work there to provide for me. A teenager should not feel that way.”
Your Dad was tougher than you think. Real men usually are. His complaints were just venting about a frustrating job that kept him from spending more time with you. Your Dad never stopped loving you and never blamed you. If only Stankey and Legg had a tenth of your compassion and sensibility, lives would be much better today for at least 500 thousand people, including employees, customers, immediate and extended families, loved ones and the charities they are no longer able to support.
“As the complaints multiplied, I started feeling guilty that he had to work there to provide for me. A teenager should not feel that way.
Please be careful what you say in front of the kids.”
RTO has a side benefit of improving family relationships.
Got me remembering - my dad had a manual labor job and would come home complaining about the work and the people. But I was proud of what he did, so happy when he got the job (I had typed up his application) and told everyone who would listen about my dad the repairman. As the complaints multiplied, I started feeling guilty that he had to work there to provide for me. A teenager should not feel that way.
Please be careful what you say in front of the kids.
Someone’s butt hurt
Post this on yammer
Stinky's working from his yacht today.
No it's not silly
Can vouch for VPN in outlier metrics. They’re have been QA checks from workforce analyst that comes through on teams to a few people in my department. They ask if we’re currently logged in at hub. We’re looking for way out. Work is certainly being done, not slacking. This is about control.
Wow. That was really long-winded coming from someone that can’t drive in cold weather.
TLDR
It was fun to work at T. Now, Stankey and Legg crammed us like chickens in crowded offices where there are no enough desks available. On top of that we had to uproot our life and move thousands miles on our dime to experience this sh-t. That is new culture Stankey is building at T.
“If you decide to stay at home for regular cold weather, go ahead and stay home permanently. No need to log in moving forward”
OP has it wrong. Going into the office would provide an abundance of free hot air coming from the mouths to feed like yours.
If you decide to stay at home for regular cold weather, go ahead and stay home permanently. No need to log in moving forward