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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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