I guess this could just as easily be posted in an anti-work community

  • P34C0CK@lemmy.world
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    is now asking all employees within 50 miles of a company office to go in at least two days a week on a hybrid schedule.

    I briefly worked for a company that took this approach. The oversight they made was they had 2 offices (different teams in each), but as long as you lived within 50 miles of one of the offices, you had to come in.

    Even if your team was exclusively in office 1, and you lived outside the radius of office 1 BUT were in the radius of office 2…you had to come in to office 2…and teleconference with your team in office 1 🤦

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          I know a lawyer in the Boston suburbs who went full WFH during the pandemic. He loved his job but was upset when his boss pushed for him to come back to the office. Boss said he lived too close to the office in Boston to justify it.

          Lawyer moved to Vermont with his girlfriend and still works fully remote for the same law office.

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            I love it that the lawyer literally laywered his way out of having to return to the office.

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        see that little shack about 40 miles away, out town road 37, past the old faded barn and the tree that looks like homer simpson?..

        no. the other barn. the one on the edge of that huge dairy farm.

        yea. that’s the one. well, that shack is outhouse at your new office. the office itself is the smaller shack behind it.

        wifi? sure! at the adjacent on-site outdoor gym, there’s an old exercise bike hooked up to a generator to power it.

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          Or I could move 100 miles to a city? Not living in the middle of nowhere lol

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      Wow that’s next level dumb. My job did something similar. Someone whose team was based out of Texas yet they still made the 2 people from MI go to the MI office. And on separate days “so someone was always available”

      Then the same company closed 75% of their massive building and said the hybrid employees have to share cubes with other people. I’m so glad HR made me permanent remote.

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      50 miles during a commute is way too far. My employer has pushed for people whose commute would be 1 hour maximum during rush hour to try to come into an office once a week. Where I live it can take an hour to go 10-15 miles during rush hour…

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      There’s a guy at my company that lives in Sacramento, and commutes twice a week to go in the office in mountain view. That’s a 4 hour commute with no traffic.

      His entire team is in the San diego office. There’s literally zero point, but I guess his manager isn’t willing or capable of fighting for an exception to the hybrid mandate.

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        A friend of mine works for amazon (well, worked). He was fully remote. He moved from seattle to chicago.

        Then they told everyone to go back to the office, lol.

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          This happened to me although I don’t work for Amazon.

          I have great fun telling them I don’t even live on the same continent anymore. Somehow they thought it was my fault, despite the fact that they said that it was fully remote.

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        50 mile radius of the office address.

        So if your home was 40 miles away but your commute was 55 miles…you still had to go 🙄