Current Events > Americans fight back: employees are quitting instead of giving up WFH

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https://twitter.com/wealth/status/1399801197045813249

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God bless

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Perfect time to start a career in food delivery services

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Why shouldn't they be allowed to work from home? Last year proved it was possible. Commutes are hell, cubicle farms are demoralizing, corporate office culture is rife with abuse and toxicity, and -oh yeah: COVID is STILL a thing. Bravo to the workers for setting boundaries. - LeftistGodzilla

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Seems a lot more fair and noble (or the very least less laughable) than occupy wall street a decade ago. If you can work from home why not. Especially for pointless office jobs that involve a lot of pencil pushing

Edit: Also I love the propaganda of the mother holding her adorable baby. I'm always in favor of stuff like that to manipulate us/pull our heartstrings/think with our emotions instead of logic.
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next article: "Americans are getting evicted at a record rate."

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There's another aspect not many people are talking about. Companies could liable to lawsuits from employees that a forced to return to work when there's still COVID19 cases in their country

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the worst part is the commute
especially in heavily populated cities. in california.
seriously the worst part of working

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If labor is a marketplace when competition drives wages down, don't whine when its suddenly a sellers market - Aspire2Illuminati

Corporations can keep crying (into bankruptcy)

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Nice. More Americans should become parasites. Fuck this lame oligarchy.

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Time to scab

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pick4six posted...

Corporations can keep crying (into bankruptcy)

You get that when companies go bankrupt, people lose jobs right

Its a bad thing

That said im glad people are pushing for wfh. Im planning on going in 2-3 days a week max once we re open
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It's mostly terrible companies that will end up bankrupt. Adjust to the progressive times or fade in obscurity.

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If employers want their employees to commute then stop parking their officers and job sites in the middle of super expansive citys you arent paying them enough to afford to live within even 2 hours of.

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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

the worst part is the commute
especially in heavily populated cities. in california.
seriously the worst part of working

I have had several employees balk at coming back because of their commute. Before working from home they were doing it and just got used to it over the years but being able to stay home made them realize how much it sucks now that they were asked to come back. One is going to retire early instead of continue doing it, another got a different job that wasn't working from an office, but most are just sucking it up.


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pick4six posted...

Corporations can keep crying (into bankruptcy)

Pretty sure that will happen to people not paying their bills long before it happens to corporations
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I always laughed my ass off at those times my employer (which I'm quitting soon) promoted "Green and Clean" bullshit, while at the same time powering their huge ass building with fossil fuels while everyone WFH during COVID, only to now demand them all to return fully as they are "not a WFH employer anymore", thereby increasing both internal energy and carbon footprint costs lmfao.

Good on people not backing down.

g980 posted...

You get that when companies go bankrupt, people lose jobs right

Its a bad thing

Uhh, so they find new jobs. That's how America works yo


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g980 posted...

pick4six posted...

Corporations can keep crying (into bankruptcy)

You get that when companies go bankrupt, people lose jobs right

Its a bad thing

That said im glad people are pushing for wfh. Im planning on going in 2-3 days a week max once we re open

How can any manager trust that you're actually working at home? I understand why people want a return to the office environment.
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good

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voldothegr8 posted...

Pretty sure that will happen to people not paying their bills long before it happens to corporations

We have Joe Biden as our President now, worker civil rights are making a comeback.

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TheRealDill2K4 posted...

How can any manager trust that you're actually working at home? I understand why people want a return to the office environment.

I mean there should be some measurable results from your work they can track (whether you wfh or not)
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I negotiated a partial split. 2 days in, 3 days at home. it works well for me.

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Shit they straight up closed our office so I don't have a choice I'm wfh whether I want to or not.

i do

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TheRealDill2K4 posted...

How can any manager trust that you're actually working at home? I understand why people want a return to the office environment.

Are you for real? Like, this isnt a shitpost?

this is beautiful

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pick4six posted...

There's another aspect not many people are talking about. Companies could liable to lawsuits from employees that a forced to return to work when there's still COVID19 cases in their country

Federal-level Republicans tried to pass liability protection months ago for businesses that forced people back into the office, meaning that the companies would be absolutely absolved of the consequences of their actions. >:(

Most Republicans in the states are now working on similar. That's also part of the push to remove the extra unemployment benefits and return to the old system, so that when people refuse to go back to work in-person, their employer can say that the person refused available employment and therefore is ineligible for benefits.

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If your job can be completed at home and you prove that you can get the same work accomplished at home as you do at the office then why wouldnt a company be happy about that, they could downsize their headquarters and save a bunch.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

Are you for real? Like, this isnt a shitpost?

it's a shitpost, the realdill is a gimmick account

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TheRealDill2K4 posted...

How can any manager trust that you're actually working at home? I understand why people want a return to the office environment.

if your manager cant tell if youre working or not why does your job even exist?

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WashYourHands posted...

If your job can be completed at home and you prove that you can get the same work accomplished at home as you do at the office then why wouldnt a company be happy about that, they could downsize their headquarters and save a bunch.

If your job can be completely done at home you can also lose that job to outsourcing
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voldothegr8 posted...

If your job can be completely done at home you can also lose that job to outsourcing

Retaining employees is cheaper than outsourcing. Not for every industry but for those jobs that can be done at home, absolutely. There are tax benefits to the business and they get some of that money back during the tax season.

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Based

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SquantoZ posted...

Retaining employees is cheaper than outsourcing. Not for every industry but for those jobs that can be done at home, absolutely. There are tax benefits to the business and they get some of that money back during the tax season.

Businesses dont really understand that though. The good ones do but they are rare. Usually businesses care about money now rather than more money long term. You see this with outsourced IT departments. The company always suffers because outsourced anything sucks 99% of the time, but in the extreme short term they saved money and the CEO can put that on their resume

We're supposed to be working from home 2-3 days a week and the rest in the office once we go back. I'm okay with that. Honestly the bigger thing that sucks about the return to normalcy isn't so much the day to day office grind (though that isn't great) but that all of these virtual events are going to start being in person now so I'll need to drive around the state again

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My wife was WFH all last year but theyre transitioning back to office work. Really sucks cause we have a baby on the way and finding childcare wouldnt have been an issue if shed be home. Oh well.

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pinky0926 posted...

it's a shitpost, the realdill is a gimmick account

It's not a shit post. Realdill is really just that stupid.

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This is great, there should be an option.

i like going to the other building though. I worked from home for many years, and it really made me wish i could go somewhere else.

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My commute is only 20-30 minutes, so going to the office isnt a big hassle even though I prefer wfh. What is a big hassle is all of the office covid rules. All of the office shared services/areas (coffee, microwave, fridge, lunch area, etc) are off limits. Instead of making my own lunch Ill have to get take out every day. Masks are mandatory at all times (I dont have an issue with masks but all things being equal it is easier to not wear one at home than it is to wear one at the office). As of now we are just doing volunteers back in the office, but management plans on doing mandatory part time this summer. I suspect full time by end of the year.

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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

the worst part is the commute
especially in heavily populated cities. in california.
seriously the worst part of working

For real. Having my alarm set for 15 minutes before I have to "be" at work is amazing. And being able to take care of random shit at home while I'm working, like doing dishes and laundry and stuff.

Hell, eventually I figure it'd be beneficial for the company as well, to downsize the building and save some money with a smaller footprint so they can give the C level execs more bonuses and shit, because you know if they save money they aint giving it to the working employees.
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I will be one of these employees next month

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Work From Home Gang

Fuck yes closer to our idyllic future where we all don't work and companies no longer exist!

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The Trent posted...

Fuck yes closer to our idyllic future where we all don't work and companies no longer exist!

Trent is big mad lol

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The Trent posted...

Fuck yes closer to our idyllic future where we all don't work and companies no longer exist!

Damn that sounds sweet

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BignutzisBack posted...

Trent is big mad lol

Huge mad baby

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I have never worked from home. I still worked at work all last year, my job can't really be done from home. Still, my commute is 30 minutes but at least I never deal with traffic

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littlebro07 posted...

My wife was WFH all last year but theyre transitioning back to office work. Really sucks cause we have a baby on the way and finding childcare wouldnt have been an issue if shed be home. Oh well.

Was she going to try to work while taking care of the baby? My wife and I tried that for a month last year. It could maybe work if you're both part time, but if you're full time it's not possible.

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The_Yahtz09 posted...

My commute is only 20-30 minutes, so going to the office isnt a big hassle even though I prefer wfh. What is a big hassle is all of the office covid rules. All of the office shared services/areas (coffee, microwave, fridge, lunch area, etc) are off limits. Instead of making my own lunch Ill have to get take out every day. Masks are mandatory at all times (I dont have an issue with masks but all things being equal it is easier to not wear one at home than it is to wear one at the office). As of now we are just doing volunteers back in the office, but management plans on doing mandatory part time this summer. I suspect full time by end of the year.

yeah my office was like that at first. i said i wouldn't go to work if i didn't have coffee at the office. also used the fridge and microwave for my lunches. it's too expensive to not have these normal "luxuries" especially when the drive is 40 min one way.

my workplace is all vaccinated now so we don't bother with masks anymore, at least.

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