I remember seeing an article about Alberta and how if the temperature was above a certain °C for too long there was hive collapse (I’d just link the article if my search fu wasn’t failing me, sorry you’re getting the shoddy memory version). The article also implied we were pretty much boned because it looked like climate change, regardless of the cause, was going to push us there in a few years because we’d missed some doomsday cutoff (I love the whooshing noise those make as they go by).
It’s awesome being at a permanent remote startup that’s hiring right now, we get the cream of the crop that is leaving those other companies right now.
Fuck Texas, they’ll find the roles reversed when their desert shithole becomes unable to support human life. I say throw a border around that bitch and let them apply in place for asylum.
It’s not because of commercial real estate that offices are forcing people back.
It’s simply because managers who are in charge of making that decision prefer to be in the office.
They like everyone in the office, so they’re forcing it on everyone. Either because it makes them feel more powerful to look at all their underlings, because they enjoy working face-to-face (probably how they got high up in the company), or because they suck at their jobs and can only micro-manage by looking over people’s shoulders
Absolutely. This was the entire reason the CEO at my last company forced everyone to return to office, giving local managers zero latitude to allow flexibility. He sent out videos saying crazy things like “introvert or extrovert, we’re all energized by working in person together!” Just completely tone deaf bullshit. We got a month’s notice for when we had to return, and I found a new job in that month and am much happier now.
Zero reason for people to be in the office if they can be just as productive as home, and happier doing it.
I wish I shared your optimism. ChatGPT looks like a drop in replacement for some of the buzzword spouting VPs already but I wouldn’t hold my breath because they’ve been using it as an excuse to get rid of the rank and file instead.
I bought a house that’s further away from where my office was than I’d have ever considered buying if not for the permanent wfh change made during the pandemic.
I’m now a minimum of an hour away from where most jobs would be in-person, and that’s not something I’m ever willing to do again.
I also did this, and as a family we’re much happier, but recent return to office mandates now mean I travel 1.5 hours each way 3 times a week, also at a cost of $80 in petrol.
We’re not willing to give up our life to move back, so I am definitely keeping eyes open for similar paying jobs that have less in-person requirements.
Civil rights charges? I count several counts of battery, kidnapping, sexual assault, and attempted murder.
How in the world can you call putting a gun in a handcuffed person’s mouth and pulling the trigger anything but attempted murder? Or forcing a sex toy into the mouth of an unconsenting, handcuffed person anything but sexual assault/rape?
This above all is why every trumper dipshit can F right off with their “pedos!” attack line. They go right to that and being so concerned for their daughters if you call them out on book banning, and they’ve got MAGA TRUMP2024 all over them. Like really?
“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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