Time to get up and drive to the office so I can swipe my badge and check the box for a made up RTO report.
Bonus, will you even get a seat you wonder. It doesn’t matter that it’s less than your home office. You need to play musical chairs to live the intent.
Isn’t it great driving 45 minutes to the office to have no designated space and be on teams calls with people sitting 50 feet away from you?
What a joke this place has become. Sad! Even prisoners have designated space.
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Absolutely relatable! The modern RTO policies often feel like they miss the mark on enhancing productivity or office culture. It sounds like the struggle for space and meaningful interaction in the office is becoming a widespread issue. If you're concerned about how these work conditions might hint at deeper company instability, you'll want to read more about what's happening in the tech industry. The linked article discusses the implications of mass layoffs and how they're stirring concerns among employees across various sectors, including AT&T. It’s a critical read to understand the broader context and prepare for what might be coming.
https://helpfromhr.com/blog/mass-layoffs-in-us-tech-industry-cause-concern-for-att-employees
We are not 50 feet apart, we are shoulder to shoulder also, but the guy I’m in a teams call with is about 50 feet (10-15 cubicles) away.
“ with people sitting 50 feet away from you?”
50 feet? In my office people are sitting shoulder to shoulder (with no partitions)
like a 3rd world country call center.
I can’t even imagine what having 50 feet of space is like. lol
“ Can I smoke cigarettes at my desk too? I need to fully immerse myself in the experience.”
Sure. Grab a pack out of the cigarette machine in the lobby.
The RTO future, straight out of the 1970s?
Can I smoke cigarettes at my desk too? I need to fully immerse myself in the experience.
"The RTO crying must stop. This "acting like babies" can't go on forever."
Or you can stop crying and just scroll on by. Oh the irony of aholes like yourself
" This "acting like babies" can't go on forever."
Sure it can.
"Wait 2 more weeks until March when Legg RTO hits 5x8."
A portion of Legg's organization is still 3x8 until summer, after the building renovations are done.
The RTO crying must stop. This "acting like babies" can't go on forever.
Is there an Arlington office?
Arlington here. Sitting in the same wing as a chunky Service now guy bellowing to his teammates two seats away like he’s ordering chicken wings at the local Hooters. His teammates are enabling this behavior by not shushing him! Data this, data that…….. data, data, data, all day long. Whenever he speaks I see two or three other people look up and stare in his direction. Qué diablos!!!
“I don’t think you understand that much more than half the company was NOT in an office 5 days a week prior to COVID.”
That was in the past. Look towards the future.
Rules change. Not everything is fair. Did you not learn this as a child?
I love sitting next to the person who never learned how to read without whispering the words to themselves with a whistling “s.”
And the team members who actually are on the same team, who decide to just yell their questions to their teammate, over the heads of other folks in the office who are not on their team.
Oh yeah, if you think we are just whiners - you either are a favorite who still gets to WFH, or a tech who needs to try driving a work truck with square wheels. That’s the type of nonsense RTO is. No desks.
Ge-z ——still complaining. Don’t you have anything new to talk about? I hope you are single. Any spouse would just walk away.
I don’t think you understand that much more than half the company was NOT in an office 5 days a week prior to COVID.
the only people who can really be upset are people hired as remote workers and those hired during covid and were not told this will happen, the rest of you stop being whiny brats.
8 and skate is all I do now. I check boxes also.
New day, same circus. Same clowns at the top get that check and cash. It don’t lift a finger for anything beyond the minimum.
Just be glad you were sitting in an office from 11pm to 7am over the weekend, alone, in the name of collaboration.
Some of us have to actually deal with this kind of Jedi mind fck.
Ughhh I think we are all feeling the dread
“Wait 2 more weeks until March when Legg RTO hits 5x8. That’s when the real fun starts.”
We have a winner here everyone! Someone that still believes a single word that comes out of Leggs yapping Chihuahua mouth. Yap! Yap! Yap! Yap! Yap Yap!
Nobody is going to be 5x8. You think he’s going to ruin his DEI master plan by forcing them into an office five days a week and then firing them when they don’t show up? PUULLEEZZEE. We’ll just see about that Francis.
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Wait 2 more weeks until March when Legg RTO hits 5x8. That’s when the real fun starts.