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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a manager at a large aerospace and defense company. We had a hybrid arrangement where most people (who didn't have to touch hardware) could work from home a couple days a week. Most people seemed to think it was pretty reasonable. There really are benefits to in person collaboration, so some on site days seemed to make sense.

We recently moved to fully RTO, and I find it frustrating. It's not a big deal personally - I live close and I'm older - but it pisses off a lot of the employees, who see no good reason for it. I don't see any notable productivity increase moving from three to five days on site, it just makes my management job harder.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You mean Amazon is bad to their workers?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He pointed to Amazon’s principle of “disagree and commit,” which is the idea that employees should debate and push back on each others ideas respectfully

That’s all fine and dandy for ending debate about a stupid roadmap feature, but “disagree and commit” is a different story when you’re asking people to spend 3 hours unpaid in a car everyday.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

As a long time Amazon employee, disagree and commit essentially works like this:

Employee: "I'm not convinced this is the best way to do something"

Manager: "Noted, now stfu and do what I say"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Can the Amazon prime boss leave instead?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Do it during holiday season. Do it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Go into the office and waste every resource you can.

Plug in a fan + heater + aquarium + massage pad at your desk and leave everything on constantly even when you leave

Print every email and throw it in the trash.

Make coffee 50x a day and pour it down the sink

Flush a whole roll of TP every hour

Leave sinks on in the bathroom

Use entire tubs of soap to wash your hands

Turn on the microwave for hours at a time

Heat/cool office thermometer to force HVAC into overdrive

Open new browser windows until your computer crashes and repeat until the network goes down

Company wide meme emails that everyone participates in (team building) that crash servers and dominate inboxes

Pour sugar/crumbs everywhere so there's pest problems

Accept every phishing email

Put USB sticks found on the ground into your work computer

Open the door for strangers who want to get in the building without a badge

FORM A UNION

(nuclear option) introduce bedbugs to all your bosses offices

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why don't they just keep working from home and get fired? Instead of having to quit themselves?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Getting fired with cause doesn't come with severance and looks bad on a resume.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You don't put that you were fired on your resume though...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice window behind him there. Good and high up.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Alexa, tell me what "dead sea effect" means.

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