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Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by dghlsakjg on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:28PM (#42222108)
We’re you in the workforce in 2020?

The entire point of RTO is a reference to returning to the office from when we all decided to not go to work to slow the spread of disease.

If you want a direct example, our first on-site after COVID led to half of my team getting COVID despite testing and masking precautions.

Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by reaperducer on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:47PM (#42222258)
I work in the healthcare industry. Because of this, a lot of people on my extended team still had to go to work, and see patients and their families face-to-face.

The worst part of 2020 for me was repeatedly removing coworkers from the intranet as they died.

Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by cess11 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:32PM (#42222135)
If I weren't, would I see examples of such blog posts in your reply?
Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by dghlsakjg on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:24PM (#42222597)
Why would I point you to a blog post with an example when I already provided one in the post, and when the unspoken premise of the term RTO is a reference to the worldwide phenomena of people not going to the office to avoid spreading a disease.

You may not mean to, but you are coming across as intentionally obtuse. Apologies for my tone of that isn’t the case.

Re:The 'Return to Office' Lies by cess11 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:10PM (#42223910)
Because that's the topic here. Blog posts venting against "RTO". The message I responded to claimed that TFA didn't have anything "new", but to me, as far as I know this genre, that point being brought up was new.

So I asked for examples, so if they exist and this isn't actually uncommon in such blog posts and I've just been unlucky, then I might find some interesting blogs to read. The absolute bulk of somewhat popular tech work blogging is done by very boring, very self-centered people, and I've found caring about epidemic disease to be a decent indicator that people might not be in short-form social media.

But a bunch of what looks to me like illiterate cretins got in the way. Maybe they're not, but by now I don't really care either way, and have given up on the potential for blog recommendations.