Back to Office at IBM

[Anonymous]

Too many people are abusing WFH. This is one of the reasons why employers are determined to bring people back. This TikTok thing of sharing work experiences online is abusing the privacy of the company and the people on the other side of the videos. Not everyone wants their life shared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*Boomers have entered the chat.*

Definitely. When you talk to boomers it’s obvious they don’t understand how much work has changed over the last two decades.

They seem puzzled when they find out my coworkers don’t even work out of my same office. It’s like they don’t understand the nature of a global company. They envision something out of office space.

Full of yourself much? Do you know what is said of assuming?

I'm a 'young' boomer and completely support telework and remote. Many of us do.

*Boomers cover nearly 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe you posted this at midnight. Maybe get to bed earlier and stop worrying about how other people do their work.

It wasn’t midnight where I am. Sweetie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*Boomers have entered the chat.*

Slackers have entered the chat.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who things zoom meetings are actual work are idiots.

When remote I worked with Jira, Slack, Google Docs, roadmaps, KPIs, Epics etc. we rarely used phone or email for work and we rarely had zoom type meetings.

Every few months hop on a plane or train to meet up with people IRL.

My old company one dept just rolled out In Person Remote work. It is a hit.

His In Person Remote work is all new hires live right by office or commit to staying by office Tues and Wed night. They work from home Monday and Friday and in person “remote” Tuesday through Thursday. No one os commuting.

He buys breakfast every day, buys lunch everyday and does happy hour every Wed.

I love in DC and in person remote is in Manhattan I would have jumped on it. My MIL lives near office and I can stay for free. They try to bang out all with those three days with 10-11 hours in office than Monday and Friday are goof off days and a little work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who things zoom meetings are actual work are idiots.

When remote I worked with Jira, Slack, Google Docs, roadmaps, KPIs, Epics etc. we rarely used phone or email for work and we rarely had zoom type meetings.

Every few months hop on a plane or train to meet up with people IRL.

My old company one dept just rolled out In Person Remote work. It is a hit.

His In Person Remote work is all new hires live right by office or commit to staying by office Tues and Wed night. They work from home Monday and Friday and in person “remote” Tuesday through Thursday. No one os commuting.

He buys breakfast every day, buys lunch everyday and does happy hour every Wed.

I love in DC and in person remote is in Manhattan I would have jumped on it. My MIL lives near office and I can stay for free. They try to bang out all with those three days with 10-11 hours in office than Monday and Friday are goof off days and a little work

Sounds like plenty of goofing off on the in person days with breakfast, lunch, and happy hour.

I personally think employees should be strapped into their desks with a seatbelt that can only be unlocked with a code from their supervisor. 5 minutes for bathroom breaks and 15 minutes for meals. After that time an alert will signal and GPS will be used to locate the errant employee. After 3 such incidences, employee is pipped and fired. Cell phone and wifi reception blockers will be placed throughout the building to prevent personal phone and internet use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*Boomers have entered the chat.*

Slackers have entered the chat.

Assuming that anyone who works from home is a slacker is, indeed, about the most boomer mentality one could have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who things zoom meetings are actual work are idiots.

When remote I worked with Jira, Slack, Google Docs, roadmaps, KPIs, Epics etc. we rarely used phone or email for work and we rarely had zoom type meetings.

Every few months hop on a plane or train to meet up with people IRL.

My old company one dept just rolled out In Person Remote work. It is a hit.

His In Person Remote work is all new hires live right by office or commit to staying by office Tues and Wed night. They work from home Monday and Friday and in person “remote” Tuesday through Thursday. No one os commuting.

He buys breakfast every day, buys lunch everyday and does happy hour every Wed.

I love in DC and in person remote is in Manhattan I would have jumped on it. My MIL lives near office and I can stay for free. They try to bang out all with those three days with 10-11 hours in office than Monday and Friday are goof off days and a little work

Sounds like plenty of goofing off on the in person days with breakfast, lunch, and happy hour.

I personally think employees should be strapped into their desks with a seatbelt that can only be unlocked with a code from their supervisor. 5 minutes for bathroom breaks and 15 minutes for meals. After that time an alert will signal and GPS will be used to locate the errant employee. After 3 such incidences, employee is pipped and fired. Cell phone and wifi reception blockers will be placed throughout the building to prevent personal phone and internet use.

3 incidences? Look at old softy over here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is good to see. The days for slacking are over.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-managers-move-near-office-184216743.html

lol. Who’s going to tell OP, who thinks slacking never happens in an office?

[Anonymous]

If you want to go back to old days. When I was a supervisor in the 1980s I had a bathroom break log for exceptions.

Employees were required to pee or poop on own time before shift, after shift or during break or lunch. If you had to go we could make a five minute exception men and women and a 15 minute exception of a women has her period. Yes we tracked periods.

We allowed zero personal items in desk. We had lockers to lock up pocketbooks, coats or briefcases out side work area.

Zero personal phone calls allowed. Late more than three times in a year greater than 7 minutes fired. Call in sick greater than 3 instances fired.

Desks had no drawers. We had all employees facing forward and no personal talking allowed. I sat in back with a key stroke monitor and I could access all the screens.

We also had strict productivity goals. Don’t meet them fired.

We also did bed checks. Call in sick and we randomly do bed checks. Not in bed or at doctor when sick fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to go back to old days. When I was a supervisor in the 1980s I had a bathroom break log for exceptions.

Employees were required to pee or poop on own time before shift, after shift or during break or lunch. If you had to go we could make a five minute exception men and women and a 15 minute exception of a women has her period. Yes we tracked periods.

We allowed zero personal items in desk. We had lockers to lock up pocketbooks, coats or briefcases out side work area.

Zero personal phone calls allowed. Late more than three times in a year greater than 7 minutes fired. Call in sick greater than 3 instances fired.

Desks had no drawers. We had all employees facing forward and no personal talking allowed. I sat in back with a key stroke monitor and I could access all the screens.

We also had strict productivity goals. Don’t meet them fired.

We also did bed checks. Call in sick and we randomly do bed checks. Not in bed or at doctor when sick fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Short IBM stock. Well they do have a solid AI business.

But requiring people to work in office B instead of office A? A stealth layoff that is only based on location? Seems a terrible way to run a business and bad for morale. IBM should know that the days of office work are coming to an end. Requiring workers to go into an office to be on video calls is highly inefficient and archaic.

If IBM doesn’t want remote workers then it should not allow workers to use Teams and should require use of desk telephones like it’s 2005.

My one boss restricted personal calls to 5 minutes a day and turned off voice mail as people should answer their damn phone. My computer was restricted to internal email only and no internet. And cell phones not allowed in office. And not talking in office except work related. And we worked 8am to 7pm every day.

We got a lot of work done! I loved it. Why promotions were plentiful and raises and bonuses big and shareholders very happy

Sure if you pay generously and give big bonuses for hard work, people will respond. Most companies are giving a little less than inflation COLA raise and expecting Netflix level work product but without Netflix pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to go back to old days. When I was a supervisor in the 1980s I had a bathroom break log for exceptions.

Employees were required to pee or poop on own time before shift, after shift or during break or lunch. If you had to go we could make a five minute exception men and women and a 15 minute exception of a women has her period. Yes we tracked periods.

We allowed zero personal items in desk. We had lockers to lock up pocketbooks, coats or briefcases out side work area.

Zero personal phone calls allowed. Late more than three times in a year greater than 7 minutes fired. Call in sick greater than 3 instances fired.

Desks had no drawers. We had all employees facing forward and no personal talking allowed. I sat in back with a key stroke monitor and I could access all the screens.

We also had strict productivity goals. Don’t meet them fired.

We also did bed checks. Call in sick and we randomly do bed checks. Not in bed or at doctor when sick fired.

Now that's what I'm talking about!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is good to see. The days for slacking are over.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-managers-move-near-office-184216743.html

lol. Who’s going to tell OP, who thinks slacking never happens in an office?

There are 3M+ Feds as a great example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to go back to old days. When I was a supervisor in the 1980s I had a bathroom break log for exceptions.

Employees were required to pee or poop on own time before shift, after shift or during break or lunch. If you had to go we could make a five minute exception men and women and a 15 minute exception of a women has her period. Yes we tracked periods.

We allowed zero personal items in desk. We had lockers to lock up pocketbooks, coats or briefcases out side work area.

Zero personal phone calls allowed. Late more than three times in a year greater than 7 minutes fired. Call in sick greater than 3 instances fired.

Desks had no drawers. We had all employees facing forward and no personal talking allowed. I sat in back with a key stroke monitor and I could access all the screens.

We also had strict productivity goals. Don’t meet them fired.

We also did bed checks. Call in sick and we randomly do bed checks. Not in bed or at doctor when sick fired.

JInfinity that wasn’t the norm in the US in the 80s and your fantasy posts are getting old.