Once upon a time, at an All Hands event(for those that remember), when speaking about a few bad apples in our B3 Culture, Ben M. said "If they do not fit with our culture, we want to help them find somewhere where they do fit with the culture!" It was a shot across the bow to anyone not intent on protecting our Culture, and inspiring to everyone who valued the uniqueness of our Crown culture. Today JB tried to align with the same sentiment but, the optics were completely different. When BM said it, it was in reference to a few but, today a large majority of the company were told to change careers if they didn't like the direction we are going. Not very inspiring and Yes, that is the new CC.
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I just don’t get it if you’re such a great employee then go somewhere else and get a job and quit trying to change Crown Castle. All this negativity only ruins your life. If you don’t think you’re paid enough, go somewhere else and see what you will get paid. Having a job is a privilege and a blessing. No one is trying to keep you here against your will. I don’t like going back to the office but that’s my choice to stay at this company or leave. Y’all don’t know what it was like to work back in the day in a corporate office. I can tell you that Crown Castle is still one of the best places to work. Hybrid is still better than the way it was before the pandemic, when they weren’t even considering the idea of working remotely. This complaining is tired!!!
Ok boomer
Some people would literally cut their arm off to work from home. People are stretching the truth and exaggerating their struggles so they can play the victim because they have to return to work... wake up and be an adult!
We're being called back to be babysat during a pandemic.
It's called the curse of middle management!
"The people complaining about having to drive into work are ridiculous. You commuted before the pandemic, why is it a problem now?"
Commuting already presented a major work-life balance problem for many people before the pandemic. People brought this up at company call year after year. I knew people who left Crown for companies offering remote work options before the pandemic.
Some people hate their personal lives and use the office to escape, or they're incredibly isolated in their personal life so the office gives them acquaintances corralled into the same space five days a week. In both cases, the more long-term solution entails addressing the underlying issues with their personal life, not forcing connections with colleagues at the expense of work-life balance.
The EMT used to insist that remote work would result in lower morale and collaboration, but we worked remote during a major reorganization for over a year and experienced first-hand how much more energy and family time and work-life balance we enjoy without commutes.
It's true that three days a week is an improvement, but the fact remains that many of us are driving to work to teleconference with teammates in other time zones. We're potentially returning to the office in time for flu season, with loaded political assumptions about what it means for co-workers to wear a mask or not (although we aren't verifying who is vaccinated or not anyway). Commuting presents transportation and housing expenses that are more significant to teammates in lower paybands than the EMT and VPs making decisions about remote work.
We're being called back to be babysat during a pandemic.
The people complaining about having to drive into work are ridiculous. You commuted before the pandemic, why is it a problem now? Not only that but it is now hybrid, some days you do get to stay home. The bottom line is that there are going to be people complaining no matter what. You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. Suck it up!
KoP Crown person: That puts things in a bit more perspective.
Here in King of Prussia, it takes many employees over 2 hours 1 way to get into the office, if you leave your house after 6AM you are stuck in traffic on 1 of the 2 most heavily populated highways in the US. In addition, the cost of leasing a building here is among the highest in the NE. All of us here can do the same job from home, we have proven this. Why waste all this time and money? Going into an office to do the same job I can do from home makes no sense to me.
For a lack of a better analogy: for every ro--h you see indoors, there are 10 you do not see. I know many people that do not submit surveys or ask questions for fear of being singled out/retaliated against. Furthermore, we are not a company of 5,000 and as that denominator gets smaller, the number of employees that speak up becomes a larger percentage.
The post I am responding to reeks of management. I don't know anyone paid handsomely at Crown other than management... Post ID: @dhx+1b049bPS
To the first comment, you're correct to a point. If you're complaining about your normal commute that's d-mb. However you may not be aware that several office's leases were not renewed during the pandemic and some people are now being asked to commute multiple counties away.
I would hope it's those who are complaining.
People are leaving Crown Castle, do you think all the new job openings posted are due to growth? Have you noticed the mass exodus of top producing sales managers and sales reps to other telco's? Attrition at Crown Castle is at an all time high thanks to Jay. Regarding the get back into the office comment, most studies show that employees who work from home are not only more productive than workers who commute into an office but they are also happier. I'm sure HR knows this but you will never hear it from them.
Sounds like Business Support has found this post by the tone of the replies. Will the Jay worship ever abate?
What large majority? Who do you think you are speaking for? We were given options: Get Vaccinated or Wear a Mask and get back to the office. If you don’t like it, leave. It’s a free country!
Quit complaining...I’m tired of doing your work for you anyway.
I believe you are assuming that a “large majority” of us don’t want to return to work and do our jobs. The jobs which we are paid handsomely for. They also showed that almost all of those questions came from about 50 people. 50 people out of 5000 is not a majority. Every time a Q&A goes out, you folks line up like a bunch of wolves salivating over a ki-l — posting repeat questions about the same topic 10 different ways. It’s a company conversation — be civil or turn off the anonymity — they know who you are anyway.
The question they were responding to was someone complaining about long commutes as a reason for not wanting to return to work. My questions are: Didn’t that commute exist before the pandemic? If it didn’t, then you made a conscious choice to move further away during the pandemic banking on the ability to permanently work remotely.
I know 200+ people who lost their jobs last fall who would be MORE than happy to take the place of someone unwilling to drive to work. Where else in the world would bend to your whim like that? I sometimes roll out of bed in the morning and say that I don’t want to go to work, but then I look at the people on unemployment or who have run out of unemployment and am thankful for that.
The original post reeks of entitlement and privilege.