shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP
we’re in the office one day a week, mandatory for everyone regardless of seniority.
My direct reports have begged me to miss it on occasions where they really want to meet a deadline and know that the in office day means they’ll barely get anything done.
I have to push the deadline back rather than honor their request because my boss’ boss is fanatical about it.
It’s so fucking stupid.
Then why do the highest paid people sit alone in a office away from everyone else ?
Where is the accountability when the C level a-hole separate themselves from their entire company ?
That’s why they golf all the time.
They golf all the time because it’s an easy venue to make sure you’re not being heard making illegal deals.
You are trying to counter corpo propaganda with common sense…
You ain’t wrong but this ain’t what this is about.
Peasants will be working these fields and daddy owner will be “superving” since you can’t trust these field ***** to do anything right without his greatness
Remote makes it easier to seem busy and not get anywhere? This is why you have progress reports. Wtf? It’s way easier to slack off in the office because the assumption is you’re working. At home, someone like this guy would assume you’re slacking off so you’d have to work harder to convince him otherwise.
So they don’t make chalk, but are called chalk.
Had anyone explained to them that chalk is brittle and easy to erase?
Remote makes it easy to look busy without making progress.
Boy, oh boy, do I have some news for you…
Im the office you can bullshit all day about sports and it is considered networking by developing relationships, which counts as working!
Office Space: Meeting with the Bobs comes to mind.
If someone can’t tell if work is being completed or understand why something is held up, they really shouldn’t be supervising that team.
Wasn’t there a study done that showed that remote workers are more productive?
Many. Also his first point is why remote workers would be able to attend the meeting more often, making “iteration” faster. His second point doesn’t make any sense either. People don’t do their jobs for sheer fun. They do it for a paycheck. Yet people actually got more work done while at home more often than not because less distractions from coworkers and stupid in person meetings. Plus some would go eat dinner, and then say 'im going to go finish this so I don’t have to deal with it tomorrow". Which only benefits the company.
Of course he’s into “AI”, but healthcare decisions? Where is Luigi when you need em…
“We want to iterate really, really fast.”
No. YOU want that…
You mean you don’t love having your direction changed all the time?
Skill issue
Motherfucker, I want you to schedule meetings with me, so that I can effectively manage my own time, and not get jerked around at your whim whenever you decide that “we” should do something completely stupid. If you don’t want to have to schedule meetings with people, you don’t value their time.
What you perceive as “looking busy” is quite often me letting things cook a little bit when I’m at an obstacle (technical or otherwise). My taking space to think and make sure I am not just flailing around in a panic all the time or saying the wrong thing the wrong way to the wrong people makes me more effective.
But you wouldn’t know any of that, because you’re a chode.
I’m super unproductive when I work remote. I don’t attend all my meetings, I average about 0.4 MRs per day, and probably only 10 lines of code. I make lazy post-development tickets just to check the box. I sometimes take hours to respond to messages, and I frequently end my day at only 5-7 hours worked.
Mysteriously, none of those things is a good way to measure productivity for software development, and mandating that everyone look like they’re working hard does not ensure optimal creative problem solving.
You don’t attend all your meetings?
I mean, ya many meetings are largely unnecessary, but if you’re missing a fair bit of them and still employed the middle managers aren’t doing their job I guess 😂
Being in the same space with teammates
Ah, so what you mean is that you create an environment that is hostile towards people with sensory sensitivities or issues, while also standing menacingly over everyone’s shoulders all day.
Hard pass.
When I worked in office, there was one guy who literally brought in a gaming laptop. People would sit on their phones all day playing games or scrolling through Facebook. Or take a half hour smoke break every hour. Oh and so many people getting up to go just chit chat with somebody else, not about work, just to talk.
Contrast this with the guy in Seattle who like tripled the size of his company in a year simply because offering remote work options made it super easy to scalp software engineers from his competitors.
