1st day back in office, this is truly horrible

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02/03/2023 08:18

Subject: 1st day back in office, this is truly horrible

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How is this supposed to increase my productivity? I am so PO'ed right now. First, I had to wake up 1.5 hours earlier than I do when I WFH so that I could eat breakfast, get ready and commute. That's 1.5 hours less sleep than I normally would get, and my brain power and focus is probably now 50% of what it is when I WFH because I'm more tired. I can't imagine how much this will compound over an entire week, month, and a year of simply getting less sleep because you are required to show up for office culture. Secondly, there is nothing more awful than getting up in the morning, having to lug all sorts of crap to the office like your computer, lunch, and gym clothes for after work, and get slammed with freezing cold temperatures. And for what? So I can waste time and fuel in traffic? The stupidest part about this all is that we have a hybrid model where people can pick and choose which days to come into the office. That means many meetings are still held virtually anyway, so all I'm doing is wasting huge amounts of time getting ready to go into the office and for commuting just to do the same exact crap I'd do with WFH anyway, which is to sign into virtual meetings. They are doing in person meetings in the office where they book rooms and sign into a virtual meeting, but it is soooooo annoying for people who attend virtually who are always on time, because people in the office are always late to meetings since it is impossible to make it to a meeting on time at a different office location if you have back to back meetings. So much wasted time and productivity down the drain when you're constantly waiting for people to show up and they're 5 minutes late because they have to walk from location to location. How much time is wasted during the week with all of the meetings and people are always 5 minutes late when all of that could be avoided if people just WFH and attended everything on time by using virtual meetings?

I can't wait to look forward to the end of the day too when I have to unnecessarily pollute the environment wasting gas on a commute and also have to waste tons of time sitting in traffic. It is uncompensated use of my personal time consumed by commuting and I'm being forced to use my own money to burn on gas to get to work I could be doing more productively at home. I'm so angry right now. Our coffee machine and coffee options are terrible and the bathrooms are filthy when I could be doing my duty at home in my nice clean bathroom and making my own gourmet coffee. I'm already going to be looking for a new 100% WFH job after this. I am highly skilled and have years of experience in my field. I am very difficult to replace because it often takes 2+ years to train a new hire until they are up to snuff in terms of being trusted to work on their own in our field. Employers should be put on notice: their best employees are angry at being forced to do stupid office culture that tanks productivity, makes people losesleep, and wastes so much of their time on commutes. Get into the 21st century and drop the stupid office culture from the 1900s.