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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Office-based work is also completely out of sync with the real estate market. Most people change jobs multiple times throughout their careers. It makes no sense to uproot a family and take on the expense of selling a home to work for a job that you have not have (voluntarily or involuntarily) in five years. I even know people in the DC that have sold and bought homes when they changed jobs (e.g., moving between MD and VA or PG and MoCo counties) to be closer to work. Owning a home is a huge deterrent to changing jobs when in office work is required, even within in the same metro area when commutes can be very long.[/quote]

This is a great example of another tangential argument about RTO. My company has decided that we work best together in our office together in person, period full stop. Your real estate market concerns, child care arrangements, feelings about public transportation, etc are all irrelevant. If those are more of a priority for you please go somewhere else and we will find some other worker who better fits our company.[/quote]

No one cares about your company with hostile supervisors.  There is no way to take public transportation to these buildings.  We have teens, no child care issues, but when you are working all day and a few hours at night it’s a driving and safety issue. Do you have to get up at 2am regularly to fix something?   Have calls between 7-12 at night?   Calls at 6-7 am?[/quote]

We don’t have hostile supervisors, people who seem to like interacting with other humans in person do well in my company at any level. I do have to get up and fix something or have calls at night, and I’m compensated well for my time. Also my 12 and 14 year old kids take the metro and public busses without incident so I find these sudden misgiving about public transportation from grown adults laughable. I’m sure my job and lifestyle aren’t for everyone but the constant complaining from the insufferable pandemic-life-is-my-forever-lifestyle crowd is exhausting.[/quote]
I agree with you 1000%. We're somehow supposed to believe that a bunch of adults who have navigated the world up to this point suddenly are incapable of navigating a world where they have to, gasp, arrive at an office in order to work. It's absurd. People are selfish and lazy. That's all it really comes down to. I also think it's really important to model for your children. What actual working looks like. I don't think most adults who are working from home really serve as good role models in that capacity. They're just producing a new generation of even lazier, weird people who are incapable of carrying on a conversation or debating an issue face-to-face.[/quote]

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