• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    we’re in the office one day a week, mandatory for everyone regardless of seniority.

    My direct reports have begged me to miss it on occasions where they really want to meet a deadline and know that the in office day means they’ll barely get anything done.

    I have to push the deadline back rather than honor their request because my boss’ boss is fanatical about it.

    It’s so fucking stupid.

    • Wanpieserino@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Why can’t you do the same at the office compared to at home? Do you simply work more hours at home since you don’t have to commute?

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        I work at home in relative silence with two big screens. In office there is constantly music playing, and everyone’s cheek by jowl, I’m working on a laptop, and there’s a lot of big personalities and I can’t just go to my kitchen to make lunch or get coffee, I have to leave the building and buy something. Plus there’s a “team building” thing at 4pm. Its constant interruptions about look at this quilt I made, did you see Jim’s new shoes, look at my new puppy, even on topic conversations are disrupting because I’m trying to work on project A while two people are talking about project B two feet from my ear.