"COFFEE BADGING" IS BACK! - ANOTHER DUMB BUZZWORD

[@SidTheITGuy]

The reality of corporate is this -> You can be the most hardworking, revenue generating, loyal, punctual, honest employee. And still you can get laid off from the company in a company-wide Zoom call or an email.

[@CowToes]

I wouldn't mind "Luigi Time."

[@rika6767]

Or a letter. My case. During the holidays

[@rika6767]

@@mirceazaharia2094 Either they probably didn't care and forgot to speak about this to me in person before sending that letter, or they wanted to hurt me during the holidays. My reaction to their bizarre ways? I shrugged. I will never, ever let them think they even came close to bothering me. Fuck them.

[@rika6767]

@@mirceazaharia2094 and yup, that's right. Malfunctioning it is. Employers can't be trusted.

[@tuuts_]

I got laid off over Skype.

[@moretoliving2236]

Notice how she said "they looked at badging to determine who is promotable" but never mentioned that NONE of those people ACTUALLY GOT PROMOTED.

[@TKUltra882]

crazy stuff lol

[@Lobos222]

They also assumed that longer work hours meant more productivity. It is kinda like saying the guy that stays the longest in the pool is the fastest swimmer, but the guy that did hes laps in the shortest time was not the fastest...

[@OldDemonTooth]

They literally just said we promote on a metric that ISN'T based on merit.

[@ShotgunWizard]

@@Lobos222 yup, I’ve seen people over the years being « online » until 11pm Then I worked with them in person, they were taking multiple hours breaks through the day… it’s all about looking busy while not being productive

[@aeow8859]

​@Lobos222 this one always really misses me off. "Your counterpart on x team is always working from 8 til 6, its not fair if you consistently come in at 10." "They still literally do less work than me"

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

“If you don’t come back to the office we’ll fire you and then do a 1000 hours of interviews to not hire anyone to replace you and then give your tasks to someone else who will quit the next month…”

[@ch3cksund3ad]

Literally

[@Ragnar452]

It kind of happens this way.

[@mohamedabdel-gawad9573]

Very accurate

[@alphacentauri2921]

The push for RTO had nothing to do with productivity. It was always about protecting the commercial real estate industry. Without people in the office businesses cannot justify the expense of rental costs.

[@alexpark472]

That's their problem. The companies need to adapt or deal with it like normal people have to. These corpos think they deserve more than everyone else.

[@Alex-mc5yn]

Yeah, it feels so irrational from the company's side. You'd think they would jump on an opportunity to do away with office rent costs, maybe downside if there is a percentage of employees who necessarily need to be in office. Not to mention that if they go full remote, they could pick from a lot larger talent pool. Almost everyone wants to work remotely.

[@Fedex211]

It’s an uphill battle that has left a sour taste in younger generations mouths. Remote work will become more prevalent and these commercial buildings will need to rezone to some new multi-use or mix to become occupied again. It no longer makes sense to hoard hundreds of people to central locations while carbon footprints are an ongoing battle for these companies.

[@kingartifex]

ok but they should accept the "coffee badging" then. People are coming to the office, clocking in getting their work done, leaving before rush hour. From a data statistics point of view, they can still justify their oh-so-precious office to the managers. But that still isn't enough, they aim to have a toxic work culture like in asia

[@86Framer]

RTO is more about hiding just how unproductive many office jobs including those that should’ve been cut decades ago really are. For example we have over double the college administrator workers per student than we did in say 1980.

[@underclockerrocketcar7286]

Lol Amazon had major backlash against their RTO, which started yesterday. Roughly 50k people hitting the roads during rush hour...people are tired of wasting their lives for companies that dont care. Period!

[@sawyer4981]

"Please peons, come to the office so we can micro manage you" Bros are really still pissing on us & trying to convince us it's just raining lol

[@johnyepthomi892]

And that too by behaving like toddlers.

[@slamimeat2663]

They need to justify their cushy jobs somehow. I mean most of them don’t have anything to do besides watch people.

[@Jadty]

Looool

[@markt2398]

I truly love the "we're family here" line they use. Now imagine your actual family sitting you down one day and saying "you've been a great son/brother/father/uncle... but we have to let you go. Sorry man times are tight and we just can't swing that many christmas presents this year but thanks for all your years of service for the family".

[@kaasmeester5903]

An old bit of wisdom: “Don’t do business with your family”

[@jaang7424]

That's how modern marriages work for men, btw.

[@thexalon]

"We're like a family here" "Which family? The Corleone Family? The Donner Family?"

[@sydneyhart]

If these workplaces weren’t so damned toxic, maybe employees wouldn’t be quiet quitting and coffee-badging!

[@TshepoKotelo]

That's the main reason people work for themselves.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

Noooooooo waaaayyyyy we are family, remember 🤣

[@invisibleloveone]

Hey, what about the pizza party?

[@Middleground_Opinion]

Even if the environment is peaceful and you get along with coworkers it doesn’t change the commute, the lunch hour waste of time, and distracting water cooler small talk.

[@PreppyPrincess777]

I FINALLY work where the environment is pretty decent but I really enjoy having a hybrid role.

[@madmerlot841]

Waking up at 5am to beat the commute before remote work was allowed. Boy I missed that! Meaningless in-person meetings to have "pot luck" lunches and be unproductive for the RTO sounds terrific. The commute home was also equally terrible if I stay at the office too long. Late days meetings until 05pm so I can get home at 07pm at night. WOOHOO!

[@senti5468]

The meetings. Oh god the meetings. 10 people just sitting there, dying inside while two dipshits make their personal grievances your problem for an hour and waste everyone's time.

[@jgood005]

Oh and don't forget passing around random birthday cards every couple days to sign. And the party planning committees that always pop up and get in petty squabbles over who brings napkins to the next potluck or whatever. Don't you miss hearing people talk about their lunch plans from 10-1 every day? What about all the passive agressive notes and emails about dishes in the break room or the break room fridge?

[@madmerlot841]

@@jgood005 I heard two women LOUDLY gossiping about wedding plans in Hindi over the cubicle wall. I don't speak Hindi but they switched over to Hindi after they started to talk about one of their wedding plans. BTW rice ferments in the fridge if you leave leftovers in too long. Trust me it's as gross as you think it is.

[@timgibney5590]

but but your collaboration! Think about your collaboration and ideas to crush the competition that have to happen in a cubicle.

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

Be a Honey Badger, not a Coffee Badger and don't tolerate being badgered by your boss.

[@saininj]

Can I borrow this?

[@EgonDaLatz]

As one of the last things in 2024, I accepted a job offer with a 25% pay raise and more senior responsibilities. During the interview, when asked about the hybrid approach, I told them that I wouldn't mind being in the office, provided that I'm given a quiet room for focus work where I could do my job undisturbed - especially if the task is urgent. The moment they screw me over and my performance declines due to the mandatory office presence, I'll coffee badge the hell out of the company. Then they can decide what's more important: good performance and a job well done, or being present in the office because some "leaders" are still mentally stuck in the 1927 movie 'Metropolis'

[@nettewilson5926]

They don’t make decisions rationally. They don’t care how good you are because they cannot recognize quality. They only reward bootlicking and cronyism

[@moptopmaven250]

It’s scary the extent people go through not only for themselves or whether they put people through just so they can feel power have control. The narcissism is real.

[@BungieStudios]

People that have no control over their own lives seek to micromanage others.

[@ruffethereal1904]

I agree with the idea that everyone should have a manager role at least once. Then, you'll know what you are when you have power, and if you should never wield it.

[@86Framer]

These managers forcing RTO are mostly just trying to hide how unproductive many of their departments actually are. It’s an open secret that an awful lot of white collar workers have “BS Jobs”. Why pay 4-6 people a living wage for the work that one guy working full time can do?

[@krillin6]

And in politics and under capitalism, narcissists are rewarded with money and power. Having no soul is part of the job requirement.

[@StrikerEureka85]

i remember somebody told me some time ago: "want to get promoted at work? just show up early and leave late every day. you barely have to do any actual work. those are the ones that get promoted."

[@Jadty]

The George Costanza method.

[@randomrfkov]

Getting Japanned 😢

[@julesgamingnstuff]

@@Jadty Look angry too, it looks like you are working hard (just watched that episode)

[@coroag6659]

I hate how this "we pay your paycheck so you have to do what we say". Let me put it this way, you wouldn't have a company without the people you pay to run it. The corporate ladder is a pyramid scheme made of layers. The further up the layers you go the less you have to power struggle above you, but you have to keep pushing the foundation layer down. But the problem is if the employees you hire for the foundation layer all just say F this. Your layer crumbles and doesn't exist. The only way most companies can function is if the management can have charisma and people skills to delegate tasks. If you can't delegate any tasks because people don't want to be there or don't want to do the tasks you are hiring them for. You don't have a company. You may have the money to pay people to work, that doesn't mean they want to work for you. If they don't want to work for you, that money you would pay people doesn't do anything. I hate this power struggle dynamic since people don't get at the end of the day, employees always have the power, since we choose who we work for.

[@BungieStudios]

They act like it's the Great Depression and we're here in Californy begging for jobs. That's not at all how it works anymore. It's a transactional relationship in these high skilled fields.

[@christinebeames712]

If the same work was being done at home ,there is no reason for the employer to want them in the office , I suspect the work output has gone down

[@No.yourewrong]

Most people are being drip fed, and a break in income would be catastrophic. That's what gives employers power. A desperate and hungry workforce.

[@SHAOLINCOWBOY-ip9hw]

1:50 I work remote and meet with colleagues all the time on Teams. It's not a big deal. I work in Tech and a lot of my work involves me doing work on my own. Collaboration isn't needed that much for my job. I think the people pushing for RTO are people who are extroverts who want to be out in the world socializing. it's dumb and it is unfair to introverts. Want to go to the office so you can socialize, gossip, and flirt with people? Then take your happy ass to the office but leave the rest of us out of it!

[@BungieStudios]

6:07 We are not serfs to a corporation. We are not showing up to a farm with our hat in our hand begging for work. It is a mutual transactional relationship. I give my skills to your company, you give me compensation.

[@nettewilson5926]

Pretty soon you will be a serf

[@huckleberryfinn8795]

I do construction and its rough on my body, but man Im glad I dont work in an office, I couldnt handle the idiotic corporate BS 😂

[@CCherry-mk9gh]

Yes be glad you are outside getting air and sunshine. Office life is a SCAM. The office environment is weird. You're expected to show up daily and be (professional) after a long commute. Then, if you have kids you have to pay extra for childcare. Not to mention the possible commute for that. All of this to sit around people with various personalities, smells and hangups. In my experience I've only been actual friends with about 4 people from work in my lifetime. And this is based on early 2000 data. I've been on in/on the plantation a long time.😂 I love how this new generation is fighting back. Office work, with all of the technology today; Does not require in office face to face interaction. It's a scam!!! Just found this kid's channel. He is the GOAT🎉

[@randomrfkov]

To be honest. We would all love to be blue collars. If only we got proper wages anything in a country that's not called Canada and US or in Western Europe. Welders getting $35 an hour? Try .50 cent. Garbagemen getting $80K? Try $1100 a year.

[@nettewilson5926]

Problem is eventually you can’t do a physical job without eventually breaking down your body

[@emmafrost7151]

So stupid. Why should employees waste gas and time to drive to work when they can do their same workplace tasks from home?

[@Nearco1000]

It's simple bcc: they want you to spend money, and they want you miserable, so you can reach out to alcohol, drugs, Netflix, you name it. So, the vicious cycle keeps on and on so they make money.

[@conorhoward10]

The people with the “fewest hours in the seats” being targeted for layoffs… so they chose to layoff people with families without saying they chose people with families…

[@misspat7555]

Yep. Anyone responsible for children will have to leave in time to get the kid(s) before day care closes!

[@Xenozillex]

instead of you know, results based layoffs.

[@princessmarlena1359]

People need to do the bare minimum. Remember, companies don’t care about employees, so employees don’t owe them more than what they are paid.

[@Hi-ok2yc]

Look at them…working perfectly from home…damn hypocrites. Commuting is stupid and they know it

[@koolaidbomber]

There is also the environmental factor.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

​@@koolaidbomber Damn right. It wastes time, stresses out the commuters, burns fuel needlessly, puts wear and tear in the vehicles, roads, the drivers' health. It's just bad overall.

[@ForgottenKnight1]

@@koolaidbomber "There is also the environmental factor." - companies couldn't give half a dog sheet about environmental factors. They care about profit. This RTO move has 3 objectives: 1 masked layoff, 2 replacing of US workers with H1B immigrants or even remote Indians, 3 keeping the value of those buildings up. That's it.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

Remote work is a privilege only afforded to the deserving rich, must be taken away from the undeserving poor.

[@prettyboyjeremy]

​@@BlitzkriegOmegaPlus think about thier corporate real estate or tax incentives they get from cities! If no one is there that millions wasted or tax incentives loss!

[@standcontractdelta8120]

She wrote a book - as we know, all book writers cannot be questioned ever.

[@Perfidion]

I believe her book was called 'Unconvincing Management Propaganda For Disingenuous, Exploitative Turds'.

[@piotrd.4850]

Yes. She did the research and presented it. Nowhere is written she condons it.

[@CCherry-mk9gh]

Notice her background. SHE'S AT HOME 🏡😂

[@Jadty]

Let’s see her early life section…

[@RJ_Games0]

What this year has taught me was that regardless if it’s an “employee market” or a “employer market” you should still job hop and always look out for yourself. These companies continue to show us that they don’t care if they are understaffed or have a high turnover over rate, they will continue to be trash. So don’t feel bad leaving a terrible job whenever you need to. I’m at a point where I’m just like FUCK IT lol. Fuck professionalism, fuck faking like I care, fuck doing a good job, these companies continue to show that they don’t deserve any of that. As long as you are getting the actual job done then that’s all that matters. We should all stop giving a fuck about these jobs and see who really needs who??? 😂

[@HELLOPATTAYA]

Same for me , I don t give a f... As long btc and my stocks go up !

[@Stszelec01]

1st to being laid off when business go bad last to get profits when buissnes is doing good why should I care

[@josiah5776]

Access to "luxuries" at the workplace. Hahahaha! 😂

[@senti5468]

Yeah. My hardware at home is better, my chair better, the tea is absolutely better and printer is never busy with someone else's stuff.

[@josiah5776]

@senti5468 Same. My home setup is light years ahead of employers.

[@alexpark472]

@@senti5468 That's probably because you're not a stingy cheapass when buying decent things even without a big corpo budget lol

[@gregorymoore2877]

It's possible there are "luxuries" at the office that are not available at home, but it should not be a given. For instance, my chair at home is way better than the chairs at my current employer. I prefer the coffee I have at home although it's not anything fancy. My current employer has those fancy machines that provide a decent selection of gourmet coffee which is pretty nice as long as the mixture is adjusted properly. The office might have some fancy equipment that makes the task easier, but the cost of owning such equipment might make it unfeasible to have at home. Sometimes, the equipment is proprietary but the employer will let the employee take it home for a WFH situation.

[@gregorymoore2877]

@@josiah5776 Same here, but I have the luxury of having a dedicated room in my house to use as an office. And I found out about desk setup videos on KZbin to get ideas from. Not everybody has a space like that at home and I can't assume everybody would think about building a nice desk.

[@Raven11177]

The day Im forced back into the office is the day I will truly quiet quit.

[@ricsip]

you are just speaking... you will obey as it was told by that "expert" in the video

[@jonessii]

@@ricsiplmao this mf doesn't know what quiet quitting means

[@BoodskiBro]

Going home half way through the day doesn't sound that bad. You get that collaboration time and you get the heads-down time. Seems like a great way to do hybrid/RTO

[@PropagandaConsoomer]

Oil companies agree with you.

[@BoodskiBro]

@ K

[@conorhoward10]

A decrease in remote jobs could also be a sign that employee churn is down with remote jobs 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@John-du2mq]

Why are companies wasting money on rent? They could get rid of office space and pay employees more but they won't do it.

[@tmajec]

I’d look more closely into the ownerships of the commercial buildings that houses these corporations.

[@idontcare9797]

Commercial real estate agreements are often for many years. Like a decade minimum

[@ricsip]

​​@@idontcare9797who should be fired for not putting a clause into the fkin office rental contract that allowed giving back some parts of the space during the active period? If the company went with the cheaper rental fee when they let that option go, why should I as their employee care that they were greedy and made an actually worse deal with the landlord?

[@siddharths4676]

++ huge tax breaks & benefits for having offices in prime real estate locations.

[@ozcengels]

My company is moving mid year to a smaller office, less desks given wfh. That’s a win i think

[@agamersinsanity]

it must be cheaper in the long run a big office usually costs a lot better off spending those money on WFH.

[@voidspirit111]

​@@agamersinsanitylol, you think the reduction in costs will be used for employees and not used for profits reporting 😂. In most cases companiea don't even compensate wfh properly. No electricity money, no internet money, no heating and so on. Compensarion doesn't take that into account. Thinsk that companies would cover for the 8h you were at work. I have frienda that go to work so they don't pay these costs. And with losts of ppl wfh, rhey have peace and quite at work. It has the Christmas vibe 😂

[@asadb1990]

​@voidspirit111 Well, i guess the employer can pay for furniture and supplemental equipment. But utilities are hard to calculate because you use them outside work as well. The other thing to consider as well

[@Stszelec01]

​@@voidspirit111I don't care 8f they compensate wfh correctly I don't care the money saved by not driving to office is more than enough to cover these costs

[@jgood005]

Yes, thats a good sign and locks them into a smaller footprint. If they ever wanted to force you all back into the office, they'd not only piss off staff, but would also have to lease new office space, a big expense for no reason.

[@stultuses]

Workers need to STOP corporations from miscommunicating about 'work from home' Whenever your boss tries to call it 'work from home', correct them, and say, 'No, it's remote office working' Remove the term HOME from the equation altogether, do not let corporates redefine the narrative by linking it to home!!! Take control of the language

[@welshhibby]

But you’re actually at home and working…so working WFH is factually correct. Your home isn’t the “office”.

[@DCJ-Games]

⁠​⁠@@welshhibbyAnd you can set up an office anywhere you own… 2 things can be true at the same time. His point still stands.

[@aarteestmj4958]

This is woke speech manipulation tactics. Like saying “unhoused” instead of”homeless” for some reason. This is the Leftist’s type of alphabet mafia agenda that we voted out!

[@s0ckpupp3t]

​@@welshhibby I'm not at home, I'm working from Bali

[@phantom8926]

​@@welshhibbyyes, and how do you work from home?

[@millertime6]

It proves that they don’t even know how to gauge productivity 🤣

[@thedopplereffect00]

I tried to show git commit logs once but management wasn't interested

[@millertime6]

@@thedopplereffect00 I've seen Jira used a lot but most of that was a bunch of fluff.

[@thexalon]

In order to gauge productivity, they'd have to understand the job that they're managing. They don't, they graduated from business school and are desperately looking for numbers that will justify their completely arbitrary decision-making.

[@UserName-q4i5d]

my employer sent the police to my house when I quit his job, now he's begging me with letters to come back

[@TshepoKotelo]

You should sue him

[@mirceazaharia2094]

I think that you COULD sue him. Harrassment for one. Good luck, Happy New Year!

[@alexpkeaton4471]

Was the job pilot and did you quit mid flight?

[@CCherry-mk9gh]

You have documented case of harassment ✍🏼

[@UserName-q4i5d]

@@alexpkeaton4471 "Senior Software Engineer" he also showed up at my doorstep. The guy is a boomer lawyer with a lot of money so he's used to getting his way. Of course none of that money makes its way to your paycheck.

[@Christopher-d3z]

CEOs are scumbadging everyday all the time

[@No.yourewrong]

I'm a ceo, and I work around the clock. I run and own a small business that's barely breaking even right now. I don't have employees. Broad brushes.

[@Xenozillex]

@@No.yourewrong Talking about the big dogs. Someone please tell me how Elon can be the CEO of more than one company?

[@Lilo-A]

What are you - the CEO hall monitor?

[@Christopher-d3z]

@Lilo-A I don't know if I'm a CEO Hall monitor but I know pretty feet when I see them

[@arocomisgamusclademork1603]

No, it's Shareholders. Above CEOs is Shareholders, not Boss desire office company decide charity

[@ClaytonTheberge]

I go into the office once per week and do this, the only difference is my boss knows I will be gone by 2 at the latest. She's absolutely fine with it, because I get my work done.

[@HeavyMetals1969]

Yes don't give up power. When I got hired full-time hours, and was listed as a part-timer, I knew it was what we call a sh!t shop. After six months I didn't get a raise, or health care. I dumped them as soon as they said we can't afford it right now. They closed up shop about 3 months after I left.

[@kkms82]

Long hours spent at the desk don't always equate to being 'productive'.

[@broncorik2268]

I watch a lot of KZbin on my phone at my desk . Anytime they make me come to the office I make sure to do much less then I normally would from home

[@Xenozillex]

This is all about control. The less time you have to yourself, the less likely you will be able to better your own life, maybe be a better educated voter and be more aware of the corruption.

[@theboredprogrammer1114]

@@broncorik2268 This is what I do during RTO days, and I made some work friends that we "arrange meetings" and just goof around inside a meeting room. We consist of mid and senior level employees yet during WFH days, personally I get most of the tasks done because of minimal distractions.

[@prettyboyjeremy]

Nope! I got a month's worth of work done in 3 days and spent almost 40 hours as a viewbot

[@TheCorporateKindergarten2023]

Play the system that wasn't built for you. Corporations should focus on the amount of work being done not the hours we spend in the office. But they cannot because there are no performance criteria especially in offices.

[@devnull1313]

"Indeed" has a Chief Economist?? I just spit my coffee out.

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

Why are you drinking coffee this late?

[@devnull1313]

@@AK-47ISTHEWAY So I can drink more for NYE.

[@Tallonest]

Being at the office sucks ah. Can barely get any work done

[@pointvector1951]

Oh, coffee badgers. Sucks to be you. I live in the office. I have a bed in the rafters above my desk and actually never go home, because I don't have a home to go to. So by the coffee badger data I work 168 hours a week. Beat that noobs.

[@PrecisionClays]

LOL, that's so yesterday, now it's BEER badging... Coming in for a beer lunch. Really people, evolve with the times!

[@fettel1988]

Literally all of us have experienced being let go while the actual worthless P o S is still there.

[@TwinBladeFury]

I literally just coffee badged this week! Went in at 8am, got my coffee/breakfast from the cafeteria, sat through a meeting from 9-10, worked for an hour in office, and then drove home at 11.

[@esentakos]

They will never take us back to the office !! Happy and prosperous new year pal

[@pointvector1951]

Literally all this could be fixed with the abolition of non-supervisory salaried employment. I'm sorry, did I say that out loud? Oh you want me to work 80 hours this week? So 40 hours at time and a half? No? Well, why the change of heart? That's weird.

[@morganseppy5180]

Exempt status has been abused more than the H1B visas

[@DigitalNomad88]

Can we all just be Adults? Let people whom want to go into the Office do so and those whom want to work Remotely do so? Problems Solved!

[@Jupiterxice]

Smh these companies need to realize we are not falling for them carrot and stick manipulation as well going above and beyond.

[@josiah5776]

I'm so glad I'm out of the corporate clown world show.

[@KingFisher-v1i]

I do it to finish doing all 'on-site' stuff e.g. meetings, discussions, then post lunch I can go back home to do high-intensity coding and finish it before 5

[@BungieStudios]

All the coders I know like to work in isolation. They will come in early or stay late to have peace and quiet. Anything else is a distraction to their problem solving. I totally understand.

[@piotrd.4850]

Indeed.

[@jennifersilves4195]

Amazon is still giving a drink a day, *to get people to at least show up*. They have cushy shuttles to and from. The workers aren't shirking by leaving. They showed up, said hi, picked up the memos. We all work better alone sometimes, and you're never alone with the internet anyway.

[@witblitsfpv1265]

Don't these CEOs have work to do?

[@Jadty]

Oy! They’re hiding from the Blue Shells right now.

[@randomrfkov]

Nope. They are just mouth pieces.

[@Xenozillex]

Elon Musk being the CEO of more than 1 company already says how much 'work' these guys do.

[@chernagast6754]

Gotta have those massive office buildings as a tax write off, right?

[@tmajec]

💯

[@alecstahl2387]

I cannot wait to show my future employers my new concept. I call it "tea bagging".

[@darkJohnSmith]

I found out the hard way that "going above and beyond" can actually be used against you. ONLY complete the required tasks. NEVER work for free. All that effort can and will be used against you when the wrong person decides your productivity is getting in their way of climbing the corporate ladder. Execs and admins will always put themselves before the company when those interests differ, you should do the same.

[@LAGG3R]

is there a term for companies quietly shoving more work to the employees without giving more pay? coz i definitely felt that my workload expectations rose dramatically since the mass layoffs begin.

[@Teixas666]

"promotion"

[@radishpineapple74]

Immiseration thesis

[@KodiAdmin]

Ah yes, narcissistic word play. One of the many "wonderful" things about toxic workplaces.

[@morganseppy5180]

Gaslighting. Narcissist prayer is actually how corps work

[@MJCLAXDEN]

So, did the author write the book remotely? Or in the office?

[@babaluba9899]

Old school mentality, they just want seat warmers.

[@Gallus7631]

If a company gives you that same tired old phrase: “we work hard but we play hard”🙄…run away immediately, FAR away!

[@justsomedude6666]

Let's start the new year with a new dystopian corporate buzzword. :3

[@katearcher8881]

I will coffee badge for as long as it's possible. My office is 30-90 minutes away (depending on the time of the day) and that's not including preparation, looking for parking, walking to the office etc. I accepted the offer for the position that recommended 1 day in the office, now it's 5 days required. I'm not going to waste my personal time on this, life is too short. If my employer wants me to waste 4 hours per day, it's going to come out of my 8 hours of work time. Don't come at me in the comments, I know that they can fire me, let them do it, I'll spend my time looking for a new job. I joined this company to have a profitable relationship with the employer, meaning working effectively, I'm not going to turn into a slave just because I might lose the job. Now imagine my company has thousands of workers like this while CEO keeps gaslighting us about riffing and surges of energy in the office. Good luck with overall company productivity.

[@Cubby9999]

When the workstation at the office is worse than my WFH setup lol! Office environment has severely eroded since the HOT DESKing trend.

[@YouMissedBro]

I LOVE driving 1hr into the office in order to use a single monitor hotel desk and huddle in the corner on my headphones. My 3 monitor KVM setup with my home audio system for podcasts and music is WAY TOO CONVENIENT.

[@Cubby9999]

@@YouMissedBro Oh wait get on Teams for meetings in the office FTW

[@piotrd.4850]

Another point

[@thedopplereffect00]

My employer refused to let me take a dual CPU workstation home even though I would have been far more productive than with their 8 year old laptop.

[@WhoTube277]

I still don't think this shit will fly long-term. It's still more cost-effective for these companies to downsize their real estate investments and allow whoever can work from home to work from home.

[@idontcare9797]

I've been saying the same thing. If the Company doesn't want a empty office. Have a smaller office. Then let the employees WFH.

[@spaghetti9845]

funny that employers are pissed about people showing up to get a cup of coffee, bsing and ducking out when they have no problem telling you to show up for work that day just so they can fire you an hour later. They are totally ok wasting your time, but damn if you waste theirs.

[@cougar2013]

Remote work is fine and I’m loving it, but when there is a problem, you cannot beat a face to face interaction. Truth

[@CoryEbeling-r4c]

It's really not hard to understand. Some people are more productive at home and some people are more productive at work. A good manager will identify the sub groups and have them work where they are most productive. This is the blessing in disguise that all the SARS-COV-2 silliness should have taught C suite employees.

[@ricsip]

This wont work going to work in real life. If Joe is allowed to work from home 5 days a week, but Nathan must come to the office, the latter will complain to the HR, due to non-uniform working conditions among employees.

[@vf1923]

@@ricsip Yeah it will. Lots of people know where they work better and, given a discussion with their manager, will make an informed choice. So if you say, "Hey employee, I'd like you to be in one days a week for the big meeting and employee cohesion, but the rest is up to you. Give me your plan for the next three months and we'll see how it works." I think most people would choose something that meant they were going to do good work. Good management isn't about dictating based on what you think, but talking to your employees like they are adults. This isn't kindergarten. If an adult chooses to work from home 4-5 days a week and their work is bad, the manager can have a new meeting and (if things don't improve) propose a new plan. I think most people prefer to be treated as adults and will respond well to having agency.

[@witblitsfpv1265]

They can keep their fake promotion carrot. 😊

[@recarsion]

Corporate: "you need to come in to the office and engage with your colleagues, don't you miss watercooler talk?" Employee: *does exactly that then goes back to actually getting shit done* Corporate: "wait not like that"

[@ST-ff1zd]

I could imagine a character for the Dilbert strip - Coffee Badger.

[@everythingisfine9988]

😂 love it! 🦡

[@Derpskinny89]

How dare an employee be comfortable.

[@krillin6]

And in politics and under capitalism, narcissists are rewarded with money and power. Having no soul is part of the job requirement.

[@koolaidbomber]

As a programmer, I want my meetings in the morning and my afternoons for this weird thing called work. I need to focus and get stuff done. I know at any moment I can be laid-off no matter what. My small business was bought out by an h1-b obsessed corporation. Remote work depends on the job, and personally types. IT usually wants to be left alone while sales want to bug everyone. Introvert vs extrovert, imo.

[@scragar]

After a failed deployment I was fixing the issue, it was a simple change, would take 2-3 minutes and we could consider redeploying. Then I got dragged into a meeting to discuss the issue which took 2 hours of people talking over me to remind me how important it is that we fix the issue ASAP. It seems that getting into any high level position requires you make the dumbest choices and waste as much time as possible so you can pretend to be productive(after all you spent 2 hours in a meeting).

[@siddharths4676]

​@@scragaryou work at an American Automobile company ? I feel you man 😔

[@thebigb1286]

They say psychos get into executive positions a lot, and psychos love power. All this seems like psycho mind games. 'We want balance that gives us all the power.'

[@LeandroMartinscg]

You see that this return to office thing is not about results at all, is about control and the feeling of having power over others time and life

[@sirguy6678]

Excellent video! Apparently media companies need something to “report” regardless of truth. It’s more about providing something for people to talk about- besides sports and politics. Coffee Badging is just a “latest trend” that doesn’t exist but allows the media companies to create a pretend crisis.

[@benny_lemon5123]

This is such an absurd conversation- either you need to be in the office or you dont. If i worked from home, previously, id have been fired. Because it was necessary that i be based out of my workplace location. Part of my duties were local "housekeeping" tasks as necessary. If that isnt part of your paid job description, and you are literally employed under an unspecified hybrid model, AND you're completing your required tasks, then literallly whAT IS THE PROBLEM. Not "if you dont like it you can leave", if it IS a requirement, then fire those people (kinda sounds like that isnt the case, though lmaooo) 😂

[@acharris]

If you want me to return to the office, pay me for the time I have to commute to the office.

[@BungieStudios]

Unless you're doing collaborative creative design like entertainment software, or are enforcing strict DLP, I don't see why remote isn't feasible or encouraged. Especially for office jockey positions.

[@mousepotatoliteratureclub]

Nah, we have the technology for remote collaborative creative design. It's called Discord. (Also MS Teams and Zoom, but Discord is better IMO) Work that involves physical product development and/or on-site changes (e.g. construction) is a better example

[@cniht]

An office offering 'access to luxuries'? The only 'luxury' the office offered was a printer that I didn't have to put ink into. And if you're outside the 200Xs you shouldn't be printing things anyway.

[@gsabella4]

I'm close to 2 yoe as a dev, in a hybrid workplace, and i feel completely stuck looking at the job market right now. I want to work for a remote-first company, yet it seems insanely tough right now to find anything.

[@patthetech]

1:24 "a traditional *8 to 5 manner*" woa there chief. the song is 9 to 5 now 8 to 5. You're not getting any more of my life then necessary.

[@tommynationofficial]

I calculated that the difference for someone like me between working from home 99% of the time vs driving to the office and back 99% of the time (about 20-25 minutes each way per day) equals about 1 whole week of free time per year lost to commuting. Plus it would cost about 4000+ USD more per year in gasoline (its 2.5x more expensive here than in the US) and car-related costs, plus paid parking at work (yes, they charge us for parking at work here since 2024 as well - part of the "new green agenda" I guess). Add to this that productivity is way higher at home compared to a somewhat noisy open space work environment, more money spent on lunches in the cafeteria compared to being able to make them fresh for cheap at home, less comfort than the home office, less flexibility during the day all in all, and having to get up even earlier to drive to work than normally needed. I think its nice to meet the colleagues now and then, don't get me wrong, and I can appreciate that some people enjoy seeing others at work and feel that they connect more that way, but like you said Joshua, you have to think of yourself first and what YOU value the most. And I believe for many people, that's about the freedom of working from home.

[@LimewirePirate]

Kind of considering doing this because my management and team work in different states and most people in the office don't know who I am or what I do. 😂

[@DrunkPanda1875]

1:45 Did this guy just say "meeting with colleagues" is a "luxury"? Does he think about what he's saying before he says them or does he just spout off a bunch of words and hope noone is actually paying attention?

[@mriii4358]

Given his tone, it's most likely the latter

[@Xerophun]

If the discourse on X over Christmas wasn't enough to convince you to stand your ground and realize what's really going on, then there might not be anything that could be convincing enough.

[@philipquaglino]

go into office to log into cloud server and speak to co-workers on zoom....I also love how suddenly the push for being green died, never want to hear about reducing carbon emissions EVER again. And many blue collar workers are not enjoying the traffic as they cant get to and from work faster anymore.

[@HiddenAdept]

I'm very fortunate in that I'm remote with a Canadian company that operates in the US. I'm Canadian myself but everyone else in my team is American so it doesn't make sense for them to call me into the office. I would still be working remotely with my team.

[@davidmonaghan1896]

Sooo all these corporate Buzzwords seem like employee "negging" so that workers feel they can't leave or demand proper pay for their work. Also time for Mugs with coffee badger animal designs.

[@cthularthpurgatory2730]

I keep telling my boss im on the "work avoidance programme" since a three year wage freeze then a 3.5% pay rise with a 7% inflation, they have esentually cut my wage by 3.5% so don't expect more work. Cant find staff ... go figure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Love how the managers are employed at home.

[@Derpskinny89]

It's kind of like how in the US many service jobs require workers to do their job standing even if it is completely unnecessary. It's like they need workers to suffer.

[@lumeronswift]

Productivity might drop slightly (?) but health goes up significantly

[@nopenope7777]

Forcing people to work in office decreases productivity. Introverts don't almost ever want to be in office. Extroverts do or most of the time want to be in office. And open hybrid office is the best for all employees. Maybe your kid is sick. Don't need to call out, just work from home then go back when they do. Don't have PTO but want to be on vacation? Take your laptop with you. It's just too versatile to not have. But these old farts who are used to in person and cant literally troubleshoot basic computer issues are holding us back

[@R3AP3R718]

They want people to return to office for all the incentives the company gets. This is not what they are telling the employees, they said it was to collaborate and associate. So if they come in and associate with people then go home and doctour work, thats perfect. Thats literally what you do in the office. You talk to the bosses even if you just want to do your job. The people that work the longest hours are usually people that can not get their work done in 8 hours. This is why corporate america is cant compare to other countries. We are just arrogant and lazy at the management level.

[@dra911]

2:45 "we gave you your time" - Not quite the way I remember it, lol

[@rayromanov]

6:08 You've got that the wrong way around, Jason McFounder. The company is not "giving" me a paycheck; it is settling a monetary debt to me for my services. If those services were delivered as expected by the contract (or better) then the issue is solely in your power-starved head.

[@KangarooFriedRice]

I'm so grateful that the team I am on has been successfully remote since 2020 & no one is concerned about anything other than the team delivering results up to expectation.

[@ololh4xx]

i think im gonna do more coffee badging now ... i "used" to stay in the office for a full day per week - but now that i see whats going with some employers ... im gonna start using my freedom

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

I’m “coffee crunking”, that’s where you chug a pot of coffee and don’t give a….

[@MT-cd7cs]

I know a persistent ‘coffee badger’ - let’s call them .. me. And the reason is half of my colleagues are based abroad.. so visiting the office to ‘work with the team’ is no different from working from home with the same people as some are in office A, some at home in another location, some in the office with me. So, like a lot of corporate life, it’s box ticking. And the reason it’s not called out is because everyone knows it’s box ticking. But no one is willing to say so. Hilariously, just after Covid, our department was advised we’d completed a project, while everyone worked from home, in a much shorter time-scale than had been planned when working from the office (likely due to all of the unpaid work that was carried out by staff at home working beyond their hours). But when the trend changed to ‘return to office’, it was because productivity was so high pre-Covid, in-office… please ignore the aforementioned project 😂 Love the videos, they are my daily, ‘corporate’ life and always enjoy the contradictions, stupidity and plain bs being called out for what it is 👍

[@theneonpython]

I did this at my job for 3 years but i also got everything done. They had no clue what to do with me once i got caught after about 2 years because i never had any other infraction at work, so i just kept doing it until i quit lol