• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My SO was told to travel to office every day of the week, only to sit in zoom meetings because all of their team is elsewhere.

    Reaaaal good use of everyone’s time and our non-renewable resources.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Don’t forget that it’s also effectively a pay cut due to the added expenses and time lost in commuting. They should ask if the company is going to at least pay for the maintenance of the car if they aren’t going to pay for the time spent commuting.

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        4 months ago

        Also the time spent getting ready for office appearances and prepping lunches (or the cost of buying lunches away from home).

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          We are required to show up one day a week, but my employer usually buy breakfast and/or lunch. It’s a decent meal, not a shitty half slice of pizza.

          None of us dress up. Not the bosses, the lawyer, no one. We sit in the conference room looking like it’s finals weeks. No one cares, and we get more done.

          • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            4 months ago

            I do something similar, I’m on a dev team of 2 and a while back we started going in once a month for a “planning day” where we spend a couple hours in person planning out our month and spend the rest of the day talking to the teams who actually use our software to get feedback and ideas. At first the owner would take me and the other dev out for lunch but we’ve turned it into a whole office thing. So usually the whole offices shuts down for about 2 hours for a nice free lunch when we come in. One day a bunch of us went out for mini golf after lunch on the bosses dime. Another month a couple of us played old Xbox games and smoked cigs in the basement while we “brainstormed”.

      • ramble81@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        You know the answer, so why even ask? Just makes you look foolish. Brush off the resume and start looking. They won’t learn.

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        4 months ago

        Paying for commute time for regular workers is not going to happen, for many many decades you getting to work is your own issue…thus why we find a place near highway access or near transit. asking a company to pay travel means they will just hire somebody that lives close by

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            4 months ago

            It has already happened in Vancouver area, people commute in from Chilliwack to afford a home