Kepler
Cornell Big Red
-- Jefferson Davis, 1865
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-- Jefferson Davis, 1865
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
My boss yesterday sends me a text before 5 AM asking me to come in due to a call off.
I left her on "read" and roll back over.
7 AM, I wake up, and I'm going about my day. 7:30, she calls and I let it go to voicemail.
It was honestly the most powerful I've felt in a while.
I left her on "read" and roll back over.
7 AM, I wake up, and I'm going about my day. 7:30, she calls and I let it go to voicemail.
It was honestly the most powerful I've felt in a while.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Which is really just “we need people back at the office to justify these huge office complexes we built”.
FadeToBlack&Gold
8647
Yes and no. "Nobody wants to work" started as just the latest lame Boomerism equivalent to the "welfare queens" trope of the 80s. These retiring or retired fossils think they still make the rules and that they are entitled to quick service with a smile and a thank you from someone making peanuts who can't even afford health insurance. Unfortunately, it has trickled down to younger Dumpies.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Apparently DHS just block-approved everyone who is working remote to continue, in perpetuity, even after the plague ends, if they want to. Their savings in overhead, commuting benefits, etc is huge.
The entire USG may follow.
It doesn't affect those of us in cleared space, but it's a huge repudiation to the cavemen who said remote would never work because "people are sneaky and lazy." No. Righties are sneaky and lazy. People work to be fulfilled.
Little by little, the petty overseers are losing their grip. White collar work serfdom is dying. Blue collar work slavery is, sadly, very much alive, and a lot of workers will vote to protect it!
The entire USG may follow.
It doesn't affect those of us in cleared space, but it's a huge repudiation to the cavemen who said remote would never work because "people are sneaky and lazy." No. Righties are sneaky and lazy. People work to be fulfilled.
Little by little, the petty overseers are losing their grip. White collar work serfdom is dying. Blue collar work slavery is, sadly, very much alive, and a lot of workers will vote to protect it!
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I was talking with my manager today about the return to office. I wanted to know what she was expecting of me. She thinks it will be a slow roll over the first 5-6 months, meaning we can do what we want. If I want to just go in two days, I can. If I choose to not go in one day, I can, etc. However in the fall, depending on where we are in the world, there may be a more formal request to head back to the office. I work in Corporate Headquarters and we own our buildings in the campus but the cost to keep them open and active (lights, heat, etc.) with no one in them may mean the need to sell off space, etc. We'll see.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Again, righties aren’t wanting people to get back to offices because they think people are “sneaky and lazy”, it’s to protect their real estate investments. Less people in the office means less office space is needed, and righties have a fuckton of corporate real estate investments.
MichVandal
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One massive "irony" in this are the companies who are saving billions NOT doing planned renovations. My company had a multi-year, multi-billion dollar plan to update our entire campus- so far, two parking structures have been done, and there have been massive delays getting it really started. Talk about good timing.
The buildings will still be there, but the company just celebrated 120 years- so it's not as if the land isn't already owned, and, for the most part, all of the investment into the actual buildings has paid off.
Our new work model is hybrid, with the emphasis on WFH. Regular "at work" meetings are not allowed- they have to have real reasons.
And I work for one of the larger companies in the country.
Someday that may shift back- but I'll be long gone before that happens.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Either way the Right can DIAF.
Thanks, Obama.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
The good stuff must have been diverted to the FEMA deathcamps.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Can I tell my boss "sounds like a personal problem" the next time she asks me to come in on my day off?
wolverineTrumpet
not particularly bad
Worked 12 hours yesterday. Thankfully, this is not a regular thing. Today I am tired and unfocused. Further cements my opinion that I'd like my health care providers to not be working long hours.
Question: when the song/movie '9 to 5' came out, did people actually work those hours? I have never started work that late, nor had just 8 hours without a lunch time added
Question: when the song/movie '9 to 5' came out, did people actually work those hours? I have never started work that late, nor had just 8 hours without a lunch time added
They did, and often do (though 9 often becomes 8 or 8:30 and 5 is as likely to become 4 as it is 6).
I have a 9-5 job, although I haven't worked only 40 hours in some time. I go out of my way to limit hours worked (working from home means you're just a room away...), but even though I may technically "start checking out" at 5, I'm almost always on until 5:30-6 when my girlfriend peels me away. And today I got started at 8 for a meeting (holy hell, scheduling a bunch of oncology and pharmacy staff it difficult). I have meetings until 6:30 today.
RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
Depends on the work sector...
But for most Millenials, that is some forgotten myth of the past, ha ha...
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
As long as we cover core hours they don't care. Much.
Core are usually 10-3. You are still expected to work 8 but even that's fungible in both directions. If you regularly get your work done, you aren't chained to a desk.
That said, it's usually 45-50/wk for me. Usually 8:30-5:30, sometimes more, sometimes less. The bad weeks are awful though.
Core are usually 10-3. You are still expected to work 8 but even that's fungible in both directions. If you regularly get your work done, you aren't chained to a desk.
That said, it's usually 45-50/wk for me. Usually 8:30-5:30, sometimes more, sometimes less. The bad weeks are awful though.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
I have religiously worked no more than 40 hours since entering my industry in 2003.
Fucker's aint getting one more minute of my life than I must give them. If they overpromise work from our team that's their problem to explain to their bosses.
I *may* have slowed down productivity in the past to express a philosophical difference with leadership.
It's a job, it's not important. It's just an annoying fact of living, like sh-tting.
Let the people who get rich off my life sentence get just a little less rich.
Fucker's aint getting one more minute of my life than I must give them. If they overpromise work from our team that's their problem to explain to their bosses.
I *may* have slowed down productivity in the past to express a philosophical difference with leadership.
It's a job, it's not important. It's just an annoying fact of living, like sh-tting.
Let the people who get rich off my life sentence get just a little less rich.
If there's a better thread...
That is so good.
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