My manager wanted me to come to the office daily because the laptop I had couldn’t handle the company VPN, which we were suddenly using in our systems.
He gave me some crap about it and reminded me of the ‘office first’ policy at my workplace.
I looked him dead in the face and said, “You can’t force anyone back to the office. You know that it’s not going to fly with the employees. You can try but it won’t work”.
He didn’t look too happy about that, but he knows it’s reality.
Ended up finally getting an new old laptop for the VPN issue, which some other employee left behind, because the budget was “too tight” even though I couldn’t do my work efficiently. And a few days ago I was told I’d be laid off. Also because of the budget.