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"Returning to the office" is such a gross phrase. Get fucked.
It feels like a phrase from a cult trying to convince ex members to return to the fold.
My employer has stooped so low as to call it "return to work". Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?
I'm currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don't expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.
They hate the idea of not being able to control others as much as possible.
Even as they email directives in their pajamas, while skinnin' it on Pornhub at the same time.
In my salary calculations, office days will attract an added cost and is part of the negotiation. MDA , with its multiple sites and janky schedule, for instance, was a 100k job with 300k of attracted bullshit.
We didn't come to an agreement.
This.
"According to my analysis, a "Work From Home" strategy would eliminate the burden of office rent, utilities, inspections, and other arbitrary expenses."
"None of that affects my compensation package. Requiring employees being here would increase productivity, and profit."
"Actually, the data has shown that productivity and work flow has incre..."
"Fuck that, I know they're jerking off, eating Cheetos, and playing video games on my clock. Bring them back, now."
Isn't it. It has a strange implication as though being in the office is the proper place and one day we all just forgot to be there.
This guy seems to have no clue that introverts and neurodivergents are way more sensitive to the hot/cramped/bright/loud environment as the toxicity it is - fun fact: open plan offices are considered sexist - and if he can't engage his people at their fullest simply by enabling people to self-select work environment, then he needs a little more mentoring.
But that went out of style 20 years ago with technical writers and putting employee health before workload as required.
Your first mistake is assuming this person thinks other people are "People," neurodivirgent or not. Other "people" are objects to be used when useful, and discarded when not. The only thing that matters is what can empower and enrich one's self.
Your second mistake is thinking the the "Work Culture" of 20 years ago is a dead ideology. It's not, they have a goal, and conviction to bring that back.
I'm not trying to be condescending, or insulting, but these people are incapable of empathy, and don't have a conscience. The smart ones hide their psychopathy to a degree to keep themselves out of prison. They do not care about anything, or anyone not themselves, or anything that is not useful to their ambitions, or goals.
I mean that literally. THEY. DO. NOT. TRULY. CARE. ABOUT. ANYTHING. BUT. THEMSELVES.
I'm going to start calling it "Leaving your home".
Especially to "differentiate yourself" 🤣 it's basically the exact opposite.