SlopppyEngineer

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SlopppyEngineer ,

I resorted to having Chrome for work things, Opera for Youtube and Firefox for the good stuff. Divide and conquer, I guess.

Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit ( www.theregister.com )

HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

SlopppyEngineer ,

Other time zones and that makes communication difficult, so no quick IM with "by the end of the day" as that means something different over there. Different culture and way of doing things, so have to spend a lot more effort in communication being very clear. Even then they're far away where it's a lot easier to hide stuff until the hole is very deep. Travel expenses going up very quickly for a little training for a new guy. It can be so fun to work with teams in a different continent.

SlopppyEngineer ,

The issue many people have is how some bosses redefine underperforming as "not doing enough unpaid overtime".

SlopppyEngineer ,

Well that’s completely fucked. That’s also illegal.

Exactly. But a little illegal activity never stopped a corp. Wage theft is rampant, estimated at $50 billion a year.

I don’t work for free.

And that's called quiet quitting in OP's post.

SlopppyEngineer ,

Recently the boss asked since guy why he doesn’t put in more effort for the end of year evaluation and a promotion. Guy opens a spreadsheet that he’d been working on. It basically shows that even when he’d double his wage in that promotion, he still would not be able to afford a house and felt striving for a promotion in those circumstances didn’t matter much. The boss left.

A Story

i worked as a manager for a cafe, me and my boss had a good relationship texting after hours, bonus’s. in lock down i was furloughed so i moved across to another city to live with my partner through lock down, my boss out-of-the-blue calls me in the evening telling me to go into work the next morning, something that wasn’t...

SlopppyEngineer ,

Everybody can be replaced. However, the replacement might cost more than you expect.

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