nothing is faster than the speed of human interaction. A thirty second conversation can replace an email back-and-forth that goes on for hours or even days,
That shit is just not true
How much time I waste on the telephone or senseless meetings, which could be really answered by text, wouldn’t occupy a couple of people for an hour and I wouldn’t need to be ripped out of focus …Maybe it really depends on the kind of work we’re talking about. But managers sometimes don’t seem to understand that I need to get an idea/concept in my head down in code (or at least some notes) right now, because it could be lost forever and it will take hours to get back to the a viable solution.
But yeah, just quickly call me about some stupid contract thing, where a translation isn’t correct…I will say 95% of the time I agree with this statement. self propagating meetings are the bane of my existence.
but every now and then you just get someone that cannot understand you and every now and then after four or five emails or ten IMs I will just call somebody up and talk to them for 5 minutes and it’s done.
for most people totally unnecessary but you don’t always get to choose the people you work with and their level of reading comprehension.
Those people I usually need to take to the actual hardware, like a test station, where I can show them stuff, while explaining.
The telephone often didn’t make much difference to mails regarding comprehension…
yeah, sometimes it’s still not enough
I don’t get this at all. I understand that some people like working in the office, but remote work improves the mental health of a lot of people, and it seems like you’d want to keep workers rather than exercise dominion over them.
But what do I know? I only watched dozens of people with decades of experience leave for remote work after my own company tried to force everyone back (only to walk it back and go to hybrid work).
and it seems like you’d want to keep workers rather than exercise dominion over them.
They don’t want to keep workers. Most of the RTO operations are pseudo-stealth layoffs. Companies want to reduce headcount and this is a way to make people leave without having to pay out severance or unemployment insurance claims. So this is cheaper for the company.
I should remind everyone that this is one of the most unethical ways to handle the people who have made money for the company they served for years. Any company that uses this strategy deserves to be bankrupt, and their leadership be made poor.
If they can’t treat their employees like human beings, they deserve no future success.
It’s also worth noting that pseudo-layoffs like this often lose the best people first. Those who have the most options
I don’t know why people don’t want to work in the office. I spent a week working from home and it felt like a prison.
I feel office is the prison, complete with other inmates and a warden.
Its the single worst place to be for work.
Different people are different.
That’s a you problem. Your life sucks and your home sucks. Do something about it.
