The CEO of our company bought a fucking island. A motherfucking island, dude. We got a big fat 1% raise. Tell me how motivated I am. Tell me how fucking motivated I should be.
Fuck outta here
1% motivated
With inflation that’s -11% motivated.
Not really this year. Its been slowed down immensely in the last few months especially.
When I think of things with little ROI, an island would be one of them. So at least there’s that.
The solace is that their island will likely be swallowed by the sea in fairly short order.
Precisely
Devil’s advocate: You can get an island for pretty cheap if you don’t care about amenities. Like, a chunk of inhospitable land on Lake Michigan that can only be accessed by Kayak during the warm months is in tech bro territory.
We’re not necessarily talking about tiny, shitty islands here. For example, the founder of Oracle bought 98% of Lana’i, Hawaii.
It really is inequality run amok.
The question is, how much can they truly defend?
Sure, a few derps they already pay would stay and defend them, but how many are we really talking? How many will stand against the turning tide of just and equitable voices?
Eat the rich
Having an 8-mile-wide moat separating it from the next closest Hawaiian island (let alone North America or Asia) is a pretty good start, unfortunately.
Just did this today, because I learned our departmental bonus is based on our attendance average. I don’t even mind going into work that much, because it’s a nice walk for me in the morning and evening. But if you’re gonna tie annual bonuses to it, you bet your ass I’m gonna cheese your stupid attendance metrics, because engineers are GREAT at maliciously complying to achieve stupid metrics. You pay me to solve problems for you. You do not pay me to warm a chair for you.
“Employees have become accustomed to the flexibility of working from home and may only come to the office when absolutely necessary,” said David Satterwhite, CEO of Chronus,
why the chicken fried fuck would anyone go to the office if it’s NOT “absolutely necessary”?? for fun? go fuck yourself, CEO of chronus
| S Y N E R G Y ? |
Not engaged or actively disengaged employees account for approximately $1.9 trillion in lost productivity nationwide, Gallup found.
Wow, 1.9 Trillion dollars sounds like a lot… until you consider that the top 15 wealthiest INDIVIDUALS in the United States are hoarding more than that.
Guess who’s making them all that money? These “quiet quitting”, “coffee badging” employees.
Rather than framing it as “lost productivity”, why not frame it as “stolen wages” or “wealth drain” instead?
Why not? Because they think it makes these corporate fuckers more money even though they would probably make a lot more if they actually took care of their people.
If they want their precious $1.9 trillion they can start by giving me a more engaging job to do.
Less interested in work - lmfao, No.
Less interested in toxic environments
Less interested in less and less pay
Less interested in non-growth
Less interested in the bullshit.
I’m so tired of old-school managers whose job is to just attend meetings tell me how being in a noisy office is more productive for my highly technical, focus-dependent work.
Sure, pal. Writing scientific code in a place where people attend meetings with their speakers on, and where there’s always the expectation of being interrupted at any time is better than working alone at home.
I know someone who does this. He’s more productive at home, and near-zero people he meets with at the office, but there’s a mandate to badge-in so many days a week. So he does.
He’s not slacking, he’s being made less efficient by complying with a broken policy.
- article blames employees for only doing the work they are compensated for
- first quote is a CEO, no labor leaders quoted at all in the article
- bs trillions of dollars wasted figure for workers distracted, no calculated figure for wasted trillions on out of control executive compensation
- equivocates work from home with decreased productivity when research shows trends in the opposite direction and people would leave if return to office is required, meaning your most effective employees who can find employment elsewhere will leave
Thanks for nothing CNBC
edit: CNBC’s parent company Comcast owns commercial properties, I have to consider this article is at least in part influenced by the decreased commercial property value to be so blatantly anti labor
When someone feels like they have money in their pocket they usually feel pretty good. They chat with people and make plans to do fun stuff.
The bosses want motivated workers, but don’t want to pay for motivation.
Coffee badging is the practice of going into the office for a few hours to “show face,” which could entail coffee with co-workers or sitting in on a work meeting — but then leaving to work remotely.
Thanks, that’s all I wanted to know.
These weirdos want working to be a religious dedication, life is not all about work
What’s the complaint here? Showing up for the community aspect everyone was crying about and then going home to work for the rest of the day is not enough to earn the bare minimum wages everyone is offering?
Because pay and promotions are in no way tied to your effort or productivity?
It comes out to how well you can present yourself in an interview for the next job. Your performance at the current job? Honestly, it doesn’t really matter that much.
I used to have anxiety about not working hard enough or being perceived as a slacker. I now live by advice I received from my father (who was very successful in his career): “if you can get by doing 85%, maybe only give 85%.”
Heh coffee badgers don’t give a fuck
If they don’t want me coffee badging then they can let me work from home. I’m so tired of being forced to waste gas on a commute just to attend zoom meetings in an open-plan office surrounded by other people who are also in zoom meetings.
Peak Zoom meeting! lol.
