1st day back in office, this is truly horrible

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who has to go into tge office every day due to the nature of my work, I agree with OP. Why make someone who can do their work remotely come onsite?
I have a colleague who comes into the office once a month so that people such as myself can give her paper documentation. The rest of the time I don't need to see her face to face.

+1 Team OP.
Don't the rest of you want us off the roads?

It makes so much more sense to travel and coordinate for in-person just a few times a year. The rest of the times, someone's always virtual anyway. So virtual works.

I’m torn. I 100% don’t want OP causing unnecessary traffic, but it’s also just gross to complain like this when working from home is such a privilege.

+100. Not to mention…you’ve had it this good this long. Pony ride’s over.

DH and I both have full time WFH jobs. Many of our neighbors work from most if not all of the time. We’re in a wealthy neighborhood full of people working in law, IT, finance, etc. I find it amusing how many bitter office workers on here trying to convince themselves those of us working from home are “losers” in our pajamas watching Netflix all day. Go check out the money and finance forum and try to figure out how many of these high earners are actually commuting to an office on a regular basis …

This. I just got promoted and now make $250k which is not quite high earner level but not terrible for 35 either. FT WFH

People in finance/Wall Street are not working from home. My husband goes to the office 5 days a week. But he makes 10x what you do in a bad year…so there’s that.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who has to go into tge office every day due to the nature of my work, I agree with OP. Why make someone who can do their work remotely come onsite?
I have a colleague who comes into the office once a month so that people such as myself can give her paper documentation. The rest of the time I don't need to see her face to face.

+1 Team OP.
Don't the rest of you want us off the roads?

It makes so much more sense to travel and coordinate for in-person just a few times a year. The rest of the times, someone's always virtual anyway. So virtual works.

I’m torn. I 100% don’t want OP causing unnecessary traffic, but it’s also just gross to complain like this when working from home is such a privilege.

+100. Not to mention…you’ve had it this good this long. Pony ride’s over.

DH and I both have full time WFH jobs. Many of our neighbors work from most if not all of the time. We’re in a wealthy neighborhood full of people working in law, IT, finance, etc. I find it amusing how many bitter office workers on here trying to convince themselves those of us working from home are “losers” in our pajamas watching Netflix all day. Go check out the money and finance forum and try to figure out how many of these high earners are actually commuting to an office on a regular basis …

This. I just got promoted and now make $250k which is not quite high earner level but not terrible for 35 either. FT WFH

People in finance/Wall Street are not working from home. My husband goes to the office 5 days a week. But he makes 10x what you do in a bad year…so there’s that.

DP but okay cool? I feel like 250 is just fine but you love competition

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Anonymous wrote:Oh STFU. You’ve had YEARS more time at home than many of us. If you don’t like it, quit. What utter nonsense.

My job sucks so everyone else’s should too! Wahh!

OP is not the childish one here. Lots of bootlickers and crappy middle managers here.

Lol. Tell me you will never be more than a bitter, low level employee and are going nowhere fast in your company* without telling me.

LOL indeed. I am fully remote and a well paid SME so you are 0/3.

Just what I thought. Oh! A SME job. Sorry, earning 150k is not setting the world on fire.

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Yes I’m sure all the doctors, nurses and school teachers are crying a river for you

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Going to be really interesting calling people back to office.

Since people moved away without telling boss.

Some kicked back retiring as WFH cushy so why retire

Some are working two full time jobs and will have to pick which one to go back too.

Reasons above are enough reasons to force people back.

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OP find another gig. You sound like such an insufferable brat.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who has to go into tge office every day due to the nature of my work, I agree with OP. Why make someone who can do their work remotely come onsite?
I have a colleague who comes into the office once a month so that people such as myself can give her paper documentation. The rest of the time I don't need to see her face to face.

+1 Team OP.
Don't the rest of you want us off the roads?

It makes so much more sense to travel and coordinate for in-person just a few times a year. The rest of the times, someone's always virtual anyway. So virtual works.

I’m torn. I 100% don’t want OP causing unnecessary traffic, but it’s also just gross to complain like this when working from home is such a privilege.

+100. Not to mention…you’ve had it this good this long. Pony ride’s over.

DH and I both have full time WFH jobs. Many of our neighbors work from most if not all of the time. We’re in a wealthy neighborhood full of people working in law, IT, finance, etc. I find it amusing how many bitter office workers on here trying to convince themselves those of us working from home are “losers” in our pajamas watching Netflix all day. Go check out the money and finance forum and try to figure out how many of these high earners are actually commuting to an office on a regular basis …

This. I just got promoted and now make $250k which is not quite high earner level but not terrible for 35 either. FT WFH

I highly doubt this party will last. Companies are going to start finding where they can cut costs, and they're already wondering why they should pay someone 250K to do FT WFH in the DC area when they can easily find an equally qualified worker to do the same thing for $150K in a lower-cost one. I'm not saying this to be spiteful, but it's a question that's in the minds of many people running companies who are battling this issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of us have been going back to work since 2021 and enduring wearing masks for a period of time and getting Covid checks at work. This is 2023. It’s time to get back to normalcy. Good luck, off, finding your next job. I hope they don’t give you a writing test.

Normalcy is now WFH. My employer cut our office lease short and I now don’t even have an office to go into. Sorry you have to schlep into an office, but based on my peer group, that certainly isn’t the norm.

OP has valid complaints. Being forced to go into an office is like getting a pay cut. You’re putting in more hours per week (commuting) and losing money on gas. COVID sort of let the cat out of the bag so to speak as far as employees realizing it doesn’t have to be this way. Employers can try to squeeze that toothpaste back into the tube, but it’s too late. Unless you have a need to be in person for a particular task, it just feels punitive and micro-managing to force people to do their work in an arbitrary office location.

well, our employer put the toothpaste back in the tube. And traffic in the last 18 months in DC metro has risen substantially as others got their toothpaste back in, too.

Cool. But you know that toothpaste didn’t go neatly back into the tube … congrats to the employers who now have a building full of disgruntled, disengaged employees (b/c you know a lot of them feel the same as OP even if not venting it online). And in a few years all they’ll be left with are the duds who couldn’t find a better remote job. The quality employees will take their skills to one of the many other companies offering mostly telework duties.

If you think that technology and workforce expectations haven’t changed the employment market, then you have your head in the sand. Maybe you’re too busy with your commute to keep up with current labor market trends.

I actually think people who believe that FT WFH is the future have their heads in the sand.

It’s obviously moving to hybrid.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM shows who it is all along - a bunch of middling, unimpressive boomer middle managers stuck in a dinosaur mindset of the 20th century.

Can you all please retire and let the workforce modernize already? You are a huge drag on worker productivity with all of your inane micromanaging and stupid office culture that only wastes tons of time.

You are stupid.
Millennial problem.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM shows who it is all along - a bunch of middling, unimpressive boomer middle managers stuck in a dinosaur mindset of the 20th century.

Can you all please retire and let the workforce modernize already? You are a huge drag on worker productivity with all of your inane micromanaging and stupid office culture that only wastes tons of time.

Amen. Back before COVID I had to work in person and as a manager I had to run the dishwasher and put away boomer dishes. Never again

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Unless you are a hospital or medical profession there is no reason for an office. Our company moved 100% virtual and all the workers are happy and we cut a lot of costs

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Stop using the word boomer like an insult while going on other threads complaining about bigotry. It’s an ageist term that also full of disgusting inaccuracy. TikTok is full of Gen Z complaining that they want to work in person.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop using the word boomer like an insult while going on other threads complaining about bigotry. It’s an ageist term that also full of disgusting inaccuracy. TikTok is full of Gen Z complaining that they want to work in person.

Ok b00mer

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Anonymous wrote:Stop using the word boomer like an insult while going on other threads complaining about bigotry. It’s an ageist term that also full of disgusting inaccuracy. TikTok is full of Gen Z complaining that they want to work in person.

Ok b00mer

Np, I am a boomer. What wrong with being a boomer? You’re miserable like is somehow my fault? Kids…

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This is why Gen Z and z boomers get along. It is tge two lazy self entitled generations in middle that are losers.

Here is an example. My company next Thursday is throwing a big Thirsty Thursday. As the new people, single people and bosses want to meet each other.

The hard core hermits between 34–55 are boycotting. Last time we had 100 percent under 30 and over 55.

I am 60 my kids are fully grown I hate WFH full time and remote with no office. The “kids” under 30 single Want to go in.


Should be fun. We are doing two same night. One in LA and one in NYC.

I am taking Amtrak, checking in hotel, we have a club rented out. Then let’s me last year do some bar hopping, was a blast. And I am old. It is kinda like the over 55 is the moms and Dads of the under 30 and it is fun. The middle people are just angry hermits.

I have been giving out best pizza. Bagels, best sites to see best bar info as a lot of young people new hires never even been clubbing or partying in NYC. Usually around 1am us
old folks turn in. Last year the young crowd stayed out till 4am.

Guess what no one needs you 36-49 years olds at work you are Debbie downers.