Mustang46L t1_j9tdfn5 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 12:42 PM

My employer wants to bring people back to the office. You know who is most happy about it, the mayor of the struggling city. They just want our money for parking, lunch, ect. THAT is why we're headed back to the office.

bog_witch t1_j9uai5q wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:42 PM

>They just want our money for parking, lunch, ect

This drives me up the wall because so many restaurants collapsed with the pandemic and never got back on their feet. Now their storefronts are either sitting empty or have been replaced by some chain that will make it maybe a year before moving on. Nothing like deciding to get takeout for lunch and your choices are between an overworked and understaffed Starbucks, Panera, or Chipotle (if you're lucky, could be just a McDonald's or Popeyes) because the family-owned Korean restaurant and an independent cafe/bakery had to close.

And rather than invest in building public transit, the people cities want to gouge us for parking and add enough cars to make their downtowns virtually unlivable.

It's genuinely depressing.

LakierskiMaterialski t1_j9uitdk wrote on February 24, 2023 at 5:34 PM

some people I’ve met have even more ridiculous reason, they desperately want to get out of the house and away from their annoying family, or loneliness if it is a pathetic old fuck. Usually older mid 40s guys. Aged to be in higher position to order this. Last guy spilled me some really nicely wrapped bullshit how it’s important to socialize in person with your colleagues, cause in reality there’s no one willing to tolerate his boomer bullshit

pathetic people

Mustang46L t1_j9uj38i wrote on February 24, 2023 at 5:36 PM

My prior CFO never stopped working in the office because of wife plus 3 kids at home. He was vocal that he wanted people back because it was too quiet.

Even when I left in Nov our conference rooms had a max occupancy of 3, so we still had to have all of our meetings on Teams.

dirtt_dawg t1_j9vql97 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:16 PM

I had a manager at Samsung who just looooooved to shit on his wife and kids. Daily jokes on how work is better than home. Had the dumbest look when many of us were like…we would rather be home with our families than staying overnight at the lab to test some new cell phones a week before release.