After getting laid off how was the experience coming back as a contractor
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I've done it 2 separate times. Both were for better pay and none of the political dei check in related bs. Better still no performance reviews
As a globally distributed company, remote working and RTO has been a very contentious topic at Uber.
During one of the company All Hands, a member of the leadership team was asked to answer some questions about RTO.
While answering the questions from a remote location, possibly a hotel room a man in a towel briefly walks behind her. This was on one of the weekdays where she required the rest of the company to be working from an office.
In the same meeting, another executive called in remotely and in a tone deaf manner, mentioned that she was calling in remotely from Napa.
Regardless of how you feel about remote work, you have to laugh at the nerve of these types of people who are being compensated millions of dollars per year to implement “rules for thee and not for me“ policies.
In the last week, the company recently started requiring RTO for employees who were previously approved for remote work, increased the number of RTO days for all employees and worsened a much loved employee benefit by moving the 5 year sabbatical to 8 years without grandfathering in a large amount of the existing employees who were getting close to earning the sabbatical.
This last week at Uber has been like none I have ever seen with many previously remote approved employees showing visible frustration over being asked to uproot their families lives to join Zoom calls in person. The Zoom chat in the All Hands turned into a Twitch livestream chat. People were angry, people were threatening to unionize. Some employees were let go.
This entire ordeal has felt like a “let them eat cake” moment. Many people are fed up with the “ruling class”. I’m curious about how this will end.
Sometimes Work is work.
Sometimes we take jobs just to pay the bills.
I would try to come back as a contractor if I was unfortunate to get LR’d because I think it’s potentially an easy hire since I would already know my way around Cisco.
Others can’t wait to go to the next big company… I just don’t care, I do my work well, I don’t drink the cool-aide, and I just want to be able to do an honest days work and earn a paycheck to pay the bills.
No issues. Great rate and none of the politics. Got converted back to blue once my 18 months of contracting was up.
demoralizing and depressing... same job without the benefits, espp, stock, 401k, hsa