• PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I work for a FANG company and 2 years ago I willingly took a 13% pay cut on the condition I could work from home permanently. The pay cut hurt but my productivity and output jumped so high that received a promotion along with bump in pay a year later. Being a tech company, they track a lot of metrics around productivity and I know I am 28% more productive when working from home. I refuse to return to an office just because of office politics and drama that distracts me from doing my job. I’m not there to socialize.

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      9 months ago

      Forget socializing… it’s all “hey, can you join a meeting?” that has absolutely fuck all to do with you. Slack invites? Ignore. Outlook calendar items? Delete. Much harder to dodge in person.

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        9 months ago

        I feel like it’s worse virtually.

        Saying “Sorry, can’t walk and chat with you, have to catch up on shit” in person vs

        Hearing “saw you were free at 430pm, so I threw a zoom on there. Oh? Well you should block out you’re picking up your kid” remote

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          9 months ago

          This. And those 5 minute walk and chats, although annoying at times (also they could be fun and productive at times), were less painful than the endless meeting invites I get now. Because a 5 minute walk and chat folks know you are busy. If they see you at your desk plugging away they no you’re busy. But for some reason people now think they are entitled to unscheduled time on your calendar.

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              9 months ago

              Because I need to accept some meetings, but not any meeting. But the difference is the volume of meeting invites coming in. And folks expecting me to show up even when I didn’t respond yes.

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        9 months ago

        I am not asking for your sympathy either. You are however VERY misguided. I totally understand the perspective of “big bad company” but without people like me fighting behind the scenes, I guarantee you things would be a million times worse for everyone on planet earth. I have been targeted in the past due to my stance on privacy but I refused to cave to the pressure. Even after high level managers demanded my “obedience” I resisted and won. You can call them parasites but if all they good people leave (and we do exist) then you might as well just give up now and welcome 1984 with open arms.