"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
09/28/2020 at 08:31 • Filed to: None
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"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
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I’ve reached the end of an era. With our return to the office, leadership is showing their paranoia and have started giving everyone a hard time about “billable” activities and staying “on-task.” Never mind that we were just as productive working from home. We are $2M ahead on net revenue both compared to last year at this time and for our budget this year. What happens when we are successful? They ask us to work even more to make up for losses in other offices.
If I want to avoid too much scrutiny , I have to curtail my old habits. Now when I have a process working, I get to sit and twiddle my thumbs or find “other work” so I can be even more billable. I can’t complain. I’ve been gainfully employed through the pandemic and there’s little risk of it slowing down. Even so, t he environment has changed and I’m not happy about it. At least there’s always a chance to see something awesome in the parking garage.
I’ll try to catch up on evenings and weekends. Have fun, Oppo!
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> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 09:27 |
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Too bad but sometimes it be like that. I’ve cut down on my Oppo time quite a bit this first semester of college out of necessity. No one will fault you for putting important real world things ahead of speculating about cars on the internet no matter how much less fun it may be.
Have a photo of bikes I took for your time.
Sovande
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 09:28 |
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My company (with whom I have only been working for about 3 months-all remote) just opened a new office. They keep telling me I need to go there, but I can’t, for the literal life of me, figure out why I would do that as the virus numbers increase. I would guess it will eventually cost me my job, but I am not willing to get sick and potentially sicken others so that some schools and parks can get renovated. My employer keeps talking about how I have a private office with windows, etc, etc, but that’s the exact thing I already have at home.
Just Jeepin'
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 09:28 |
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Good luck. Be safe. We’ ll still be here when things are quieter. (Probably.)
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> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 09:37 |
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Understandable...jobs are pretty important in the current climate, so best to stay on their good side!
We’ll see you on weekends and evenings! :)
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 09:48 |
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I turned in two proposals for $2m in design work that could keep me busy for the next two years. Fingers crossed.
jminer
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 10:41 |
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This is the sort of thing I dread about a job I’ll be starting in a few weeks. I’m moving from a quasi-governmental agency where productivity doesn’t matter very much. It’s all about system stability and uptime. Next job is a private company where other things will matter again.
I’m making the move because I want some of this shift, but it makes me apprehensive.
Hope the changes at your place don’t drive you too nuts!
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> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 11:53 |
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It’s unfortunate but unsurprising that managers all over the place are reverting to bad old “I don’t trust employees farther than I can throw them” tendencies. This includes both getting people back into offices even though they were productive at home, and general extra micro-manage-y bullshit.
The company that furloughed me back in March is run by people with that exact vibe so I’m actually super thankful that happened as my current job is way better in literally all aspects.
I’m also super thankful to be in the DC area during covid. All the local governments and most residents are taking this shit more seriously than other parts of the country. There was a survey of area employers here where fully 72 % of them said they expect to be WFH until summer 2021.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/15/its-likely-washington-may-be-working-from-home-until-next-summer/
If I were to guess, my old job may very well have been part of the other 28% of that survey.
My company is in no rush whatsoever to get people back in office and is even talking about getting to sublease our space.
fintail
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/28/2020 at 12:33 |
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Looking at the behavior of so many managers, and so many strained worker-employer relations in general, I am surprised there either hasn’t been a massive general strike, or other less pleasant action. I suppose being in a nation with a relatively threadbare safety net and real world cost of living increases that far eclipse CPI data makes that unlikely.
My prior employer had numerous discreetly located crisis phones on every floor - this was a secured building, many floors up - it wasn’t to report intruders, it was in case the last straw is broken for an actual employee. Speaks volumes.