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Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by irrational on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:45PM (#38944526)
Except, some jobs really really don't require much if any collaboration. We've been having to come back into the office since last September. In all that time, I've only spoken to another person a single time. Literally one hour in one day in the past 5 months. All meetings are still over zoom and when I'm not in a meeting, I just find some place in the building to sit and work. Except many people still weren't coming in since september and now they have cracked down on it and said people must be in the office and they are checking badge check-ins and the ip address of where our work laptops are being used to see if they are on the campus network or not. The result is tons of people are here now, but there isn't room for them. Before the pandemic, the company started getting rid of cubicles and moving to rooms full of desks and you just find somewhere to sit. But they don't have enough places to sit for everyone so if you don't get here early, you just end up sitting on the floor or wandering around. It is crazy how much lost productivity we are experiencing.
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by gverrilla on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:48PM (#38945298)
I had a friend reporting a similar situation in the big consultancy firm he works for. There would be more workers than available seats. He said they would do it to make people get to the office BEFORE their working hours. Dark patterns all around.
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by coldpie on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @08:42PM (#38946320)
Buddy, why on Earth are you still working there?
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by irrational on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:54AM (#38952173)
Really good benefits. Just in terms of vacation, we get 11 vacation days a year, a paid week off in the summer, paid Fridays off in the summer, 6 week paid sabbatical every 5 years, and 8 hours of paid time off every pay period (26 times a year) that we can bank and roll over from year to year.
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by mike_hock on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:04PM (#38944780)
> sitting on the floor

What the fuck?!

Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by irrational on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:16PM (#38944945)
HR frowns on that.
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by QuiDortDine on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:09PM (#38945490)
Yeah I'm about to be harmed by my working conditions
Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by digging on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:37AM (#38953641)
I can do my job equally well in-person or remotely, but that's because I don't connect to my team. I started here before the pandemic and we never really clicked in a way that made in-person collaboration happen.

Whereas in my previous role, going remote would have had a negative effect, because we liked talking to each other and working with each other. I believe that on that team our online communication would have been more and better-quality than what I have now, but still less collaborative than in-person.

Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company by paulddraper on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:49PM (#38957882)
> some jobs really really don't require much if any collaboration

Yes, some jobs don't.

> tons of people are here now, but there isn't room for them

Well that's stupid.