Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by PraetorianGourd on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:34PM
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Personally this just isn't the hill I'd die on. We've seen decades of wage stagnation, reductions in benefits, the gutting of retirement plans, hours-worked manipulation and so on and the thing we collectively rise to defend is... remote/hybrid work?
I guess it might be because all the items in the list generally impact the poor and working class, while we bourgeoisie don't really face _those_ problems. So we tilt at windmills.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by closeparen on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:46PM
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In some ways it’s very radical that people are trying to overturn such a fundamental part of being an adult as you have to go to work.
On the other hand the housing and transportation planning in this country are extremely dysfunctional. People live far from where they work and the commutes are brutal. I was hoping for a revolt against car-centric suburban planning orthodoxy, but I guess a revolt against ever having to go places also works.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by PraetorianGourd on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:51PM
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I think we've seen the opposite of the desired impact. People are moving _out_ of dense urban neighborhoods to suburban and exurban enclaves as the primary motivator for living close-in (it reduces commute/offers public transit) is becoming a non-issue.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by closeparen on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:59PM
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Yes that's what I mean: the transportation-sucks problem can be solved either by improving transportation or avoiding it. I would have preferred improvement, but getting a giant house in the exurbs and never leaving it also technically works.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by closeparen on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:20PM
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Where are you going to go to dinner? Olive Garden? I think any reasonable version of this lifestyle involves being mostly self-sufficient at home. Especially in an Amazon Prime, UberEats, Peloton world. The stroads and strip malls that are the commercial centers and gathering places of exurbia are really unpleasant. People only go there because they have to. Increasingly they don't have to anymore.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by PraetorianGourd on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:45PM
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I've not eaten at an Olive Garden in years. No idea where to live, but in the suburb I live in there are countless family-owned restaurants with cuisine from all corners of the world.
Btw, having Uber Eats bring you your food does fuck all for your emissions. In fact, it could increase them (depending on where the driver started at their destination afterwards).
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by rdtwo on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:50PM
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I mean working from the office is a huge pay decrease. You add 10 hours of commute + lunch/break time in an unpleasant environment. Easily 15 hours a week that can be better utilized that’s worth real money. For a jpm employee working 60+ hours that’s the difference between leasure time and just work/sleep
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by arrakis2021 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:49PM
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This is the result of years of coddling employees. Something as basic as tracking their attendance - a standard workplace Practice for generations - is now resulting in “panic.”
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by cityzen on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:47PM
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I know this sounds crazy but... you can quit your job and go work somewhere else. I can't imagine working with the "fear of god" or "panic" over stupid shit like this. just find a remote job elsewhere, fuck JPMorgan.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by akhmatova on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:26AM
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I can't imagine working with the "fear of god" or "panic" over stupid shit like this.
Then perhaps you can't quite imagine the I-banking lifestyle then. It is very much, if not fear-, then security-driven. Let's just say it attracts a certain personality profile.
That's why they make go across town to some doctor's office and pee in a cup before they let you in, for example.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by atonse on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:18PM
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I welcome them to do so quickly and aggressively.
That makes my talent search easier because as a fully remote company, we don’t waste time with silly concepts like “I have to see you in the flesh l to believe you’re working.” in information work.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by souptonuts on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:57PM
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yeah we're seeing a lot of quitters, churn, declined offers of hires due to the hybrid/in office positions. Causing a lot of chaos in projects I am on.
Re:JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as of...
by formerkrogemp on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:20PM
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Personally, while I hate the extra workload, I do appreciate that wages are rising for the first time in my working lifetime in my industry. Even with the attendant inflation.
I guess it might be because all the items in the list generally impact the poor and working class, while we bourgeoisie don't really face _those_ problems. So we tilt at windmills.
On the other hand the housing and transportation planning in this country are extremely dysfunctional. People live far from where they work and the commutes are brutal. I was hoping for a revolt against car-centric suburban planning orthodoxy, but I guess a revolt against ever having to go places also works.
Btw, having Uber Eats bring you your food does fuck all for your emissions. In fact, it could increase them (depending on where the driver started at their destination afterwards).
Then perhaps you can't quite imagine the I-banking lifestyle then. It is very much, if not fear-, then security-driven. Let's just say it attracts a certain personality profile.
That's why they make go across town to some doctor's office and pee in a cup before they let you in, for example.
That makes my talent search easier because as a fully remote company, we don’t waste time with silly concepts like “I have to see you in the flesh l to believe you’re working.” in information work.