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Re:I Quit My Job at Amazon Rather Than Return to the Office ... by red-iron-pine on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:22AM (#37644253)
Most people don't have leverage or the ability to negotiate.

And even if they did, the big orgs, your FAANGM types, set the scale; you're just working within it, to some degree.

Your choice is A) 190k TCO and a commute, or B) nothing... but no commute. or C) getting the market average for whatever is going in Big City Kentucky, which is like 80k for an IT role. And they might still force you to do hybrid.

RTO is dumb, but unless you're in the elite 5% of tech workers you're accepting whatever mgmt throws at you, or else you're hoping you're lucky enough to find a remote gig that's on par -- and that's rare.

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Re:I Quit My Job at Amazon Rather Than Return to the Office ... by ecmascript on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:56AM (#37655935)
Maybe I'm stupid but I'd much rather take the market average than commuting. I do realize many people are not like me tho.
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