My wife’s work is making people come back in office, and she’s above the 50-mile limit they set. (Not only that, she’s worked from home for 10 years now). She brought that up, and they said they were looking into possibly expanding it out. She told her boss if that happens, she’s gone, and they lose someone with almost 19 years of experience who literally writes their training manuals on how to do what she does, lol.
The shear stupidity of these people is astonishing. If I ran a company, it would be nothing but WFH, and I would poach so many good workers, lol.
But how will you make sure their every waking moment is devoted to work? Gotta invest in some ridiculous office space and middle managers to crack the whip.
There is a guy in our group who had a special arrangement because his wife was sick so they allowed him to WFH regularly as long as he came in for certain things.
After Covid, they decided everyone needed to be back in the office NOW and didn’t want to have to deal with people whining because some people got a special pass that was in place before Covid, so they took it away from him.
Instead of answering the hard (obvious) questions and being irritated for a finite amount of time, they made this guy upend his whole life (he lives many hours away) and that of his family - to return to work on a regular basis.
Failure of fucking leadership right there.
*sheer fyi
Shear is a verb
if that happens, she’s gone, and they lose someone with almost 19 years of experience who literally writes their training manuals on how to do what she does, lol.
She openly told her boss that if they tell her to come into the office she will willingly quit the job and forfeit unemployment so they can downsize that headcount and spread around the work to other employees?
Gotta play 3D chess, don’t show them your hand. They now have an easy way to fire her on demand without cause and without having a mark on their employment numbers.
Have to go with the angle of: if you make me move you need to pay my relocation costs because you have asked me to move. After all, this isn’t new and they have known your home address for 10 years. Make them cover the increased cost or they get to pay unemployment for laying you off. That’s the only real angle you probably have anyway that gives them a cost.
Not to mention she wrote a manual on her job so her replacement will have an easy time picking up.
If she’s as petty as I am, the manual will receive a rather intense update prior to her departure.
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“My sellers both work at the same company, which told them they have to be in the office three days a week or they’ll lose their jobs. They have six months to make the move. They’ll probably have to take a $100,000 loss on their home,” Pendleton said.
Pretty sure I would rent out the home instead of taking a $100,000 loss? Rent something to live in where you’re moving to until it’s more favorable to sell.
Six months is plenty of time to find a new job these days.
Right?
Rent to own is also an option.
That assumes you can get a back to ground be you two mortgages though.
This is an excellent opportunity for corporations to buy up homes.
The rich will only get richer until we stand up.
I’m pretty sure I’d stay put and not move back. Let’s be honest. An employer can and will terminate you for practically any reason or no reason at all. Selling a house you bought in a place you want to live in hopes of maintaining a toxic relationship that will end on a whim (your job) barely makes sense from an economic perspective and makes no sense from any other.
To put it in perspective… if you had an emotionally abusive boyfriend who insisted you had to sell your house and move in with him, would you do it? If you relied on him for half your income, would you do it? If the answer to those questions are “yes” then you’re gonna love selling your house because of RTO. If you have any self respect, the very notion of this would make you dust off your resume and resignation letter.
I definitely agree. I was just commenting from a purely financial perspective. Doesn’t really make sense to take a $100,000 hit when you could rent it out and move and probably at least break even while continuing to build equity.
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After seeing the headline, I thought it would be people moving farther away to be outside of the RTO radius. Instead its people moving closer to work because they are cities/states away with WFH.
A lot of companies (Amazon) don’t have a radius. It’s RTO or nothing.
nothing it is, then
I told my boss the other day my upper limit for in office time is one a week. We were 3 days a week before COVID, 0 during COVID, 1 a month after COVID, and just this month they upped it to twice a month.
Hell, if I stopped coming in at all right now there is no way in hell they’d fire me anyway. We have too much stuff to do and not enough time to do it. I know people think that but we’ve got contractual obligations to fill and new regulations to follow. It’d cost them way more to fire me and miss those deadlines waiting for new hires to get up to speed.
Dude, just don’t go. If you’re doing your job from home, why are they asking you to burn fuel and your time on earth sitting in fucking traffic???
If more people stood up for themselves, we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place.
If only more workers could stand up for themselves in unison. Like some united front. But what could we call it?
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It would be a lot easier to sell RTO if rent weren’t outrageously high anywhere near a downtown central business district. I prefer office personally and don’t mind a 20 minute commute or so but any more than that is a real drag. It’s real hard for me to tell someone to fight an hour and a half of rush hour traffic just to get to the office and be harassed for 8-12 hours and then do it all again at night.
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