Four days a week, not five. Four days a week. Buncha spoiled little pussies.

They just don't know, do they, gents? They just don't know.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/...-warn-long-term-harm

Vacation is over, bitches. Your Fauci Funfest is finally finished.

"OH MY GOD! PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!"

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'likely to have unintended consequences that cause long-term harm to the company,’

sounds more like a threat.

Just do a Ronald Reagan and fire those who don't show up for work. Legally defensible too, as in, well, they didn't show up as required per policy.

Working really fucking hard through the best years of my life shouldn't be the badge of honor it's made out to be.

I'm happy to trade away my commute time for more hours at home with my children, or even more actual productivity at work.

Park's closed, moose out front should've told ya.

Seriously, if you don't wear the Mouse costume or pick up every scrap of litter at the park, no one would notice if you were gone.

They need not worry, this is a self correcting problem.

7500 Layoffs at Disney.

Sounds like 2,300 resignations to me. What’s happened is those fucks are opposed to going back to the office because they moved to a lower cost of living area and can’t or won’t move back. Yet they were still collecting their high cost of living area salary.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
Working really fucking hard through the best years of my life shouldn't be the badge of honor it's made out to be.

I'm happy to trade away my commute time for more hours at home with my children, or even more actual productivity at work.

This.

I know I’m going against the grain here, but I left a job because they wanted me to go back to the office.

I’m the only person in the entire Western Hemisphere for this company that does what I do. I reported in to Europe, my closest “colleague” was a peer in Italy. Oh, and I deal 99% of the time with external individuals, not people at the company I work with… and when I do interact with someone at work, it’s via video as they are in Europe.

Moved to a new company, same type of job, same reporting structure (unique in Western Hemisphere, report to Europe). I work from home, make more money, and have saved the company about $750k in my first year.

I’ve also managed to spend at least 500-1000 more hours with my daughter that I would otherwise have forfeited being stuck in traffic. In exchange, I’m more than happy to take 4am calls with Europe or 11pm calls with Asia as needed.

having spent the last 40+ years actually working out in the world at different people's home... I'm having a problem wrapping my head around all these 'office workers'. but it seems that is where most people used to work... in an office.

Here was one of my work locations:

Those who do not need to be in-office will be replaced with dirt cheap off-shore labor. If you do your work remotely it doesn’t matter where the new you is located.

Of course there are exceptions but everyone who cries out to the heavens about how much more efficient they are working at home is full of shit. Of course you would rather stay home and work in your pajamas. I for one would actually like to call a business and get an actual person on the line not a message. I also would love to conduct said business without their kids screaming in the background.

I don’t GAS that you would rather work at home. It isn’t good for anyone but the employee.

This isn’t directed at anyone in this thread. I’ve heard this nonsense for years. You shouldn’t have to live for work, blah, blah, blah. We work less and have it easier than anytime in human history and yet it isn’t enough.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
working at home is full of shit.

If everything was so much more productive working from home the results would be obvious to everyone. I don't see it.

What I do see is my day being filled up with remote meetings with people working from home. They're as unprepared, late and unresponsive as anyone I've ever worked with.

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Originally posted by jed7s9b:
Those who do not need to be in-office will be replaced with dirt cheap off-shore labor. If you do your work remotely it doesn’t matter where the new you is located.

Any company wanting to take advantage of dirt cheap overseas labor can already do so, regardless of whether the work can be done remotely. Even "in person" jobs are easily outsourced: building a car, for example, is a highly complex activity requiring hundreds of people to physically touch and interact with the product line. Yet, here we are, buying cars made in Mexico.

You could, for years now, offshore just about any office job if you wanted to. Basically since the invention of reliable internet. Any company that is even the most remotely technologically capable, should already have their IT set up to allow their employees to work from anywhere.

Really, no job is safe, save for perhaps tradesmen who must physically be present to diagnose infrastructure that cannot be moved overseas.

I’ll light a candle for these poor downtrodden little flowers. Be strong comrades!

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
Of course there are exceptions but everyone who cries out to the heavens about how much more efficient they are working at home is full of shit. Of course you would rather stay home and work in your pajamas. I for one would actually like to call a business and get an actual person on the line not a message. I also would love to conduct said business without their kids screaming in the background.

I don’t GAS that you would rather work at home. It isn’t good for anyone but the employee.

This isn’t directed at anyone in this thread. I’ve heard this nonsense for years. You shouldn’t have to live for work, blah, blah, blah. We work less and have it easier than anytime in human history and yet it isn’t enough.

What you are seeing is the stratification of expertise. Anyone you are interacting with as a customer, are often lackluster as employees. You never interact with the people who are truly good at their jobs; people who are intelligent, driven, professional and posses knowledge or skills valuable to the company, do not answer customer phone calls. Jobs are getting increasingly complex, and require more specialized skills to get good at it, so you are seeing the upper tiers of jobs stratifying away from the bottom jobs.

So, yeah, people who do basic jobs are also probably the same people who get distracted by Facebook for half the day if they aren't sitting in an office cubical. But, at the same time, I'm certain the guy with the title like Senior Big Data Analyst doesn't need to be baby sat to be productive.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:

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Originally posted by jed7s9b:
Those who do not need to be in-office will be replaced with dirt cheap off-shore labor. If you do your work remotely it doesn’t matter where the new you is located.

Any company wanting to take advantage of dirt cheap overseas labor can already do so, regardless of whether the work can be done remotely. Even "in person" jobs are easily outsourced: building a car, for example, is a highly complex activity requiring hundreds of people to physically touch and interact with the product line. Yet, here we are, buying cars made in Mexico.

You could, for years now, offshore just about any office job if you wanted to. Basically since the invention of reliable internet. Any company that is even the most remotely technologically capable, should already have their IT set up to allow their employees to work from anywhere.

Really, no job is safe, save for perhaps tradesmen who must physically be present to diagnose infrastructure that cannot be moved overseas.

I had typed a few more sentences using all of the lost factory job as an I-told-ya-so but I deleted them as it seemed redundant.
Remote work may prolong the transition to off-shore workers being that management can save on the cost of having square feet of office space but the transition will surely happen. Those working from home are just a faceless node on the network.

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They also claimed, "This policy will slow, or even reverse, our post-COVID recovery and growth by creating critical resource shortages and causing irreplaceable institutional knowledge loss."

Uhhh, Post-COVID 'recovery and growth'? Pretty sure Disney's revenue and stock price have TANKED BIG TIME during said 'recovery!

I like Elon Musk's position on 'working from home'..."They should pretend to work somewhere else!"

See that what’s these discussions always come down to. People like working from home, no shit, and will defend it no matter what.

This thread is about Disney employees. They loved Covid. Everyone else had to stay home they got to riot and do anything they wanted as long as it was socially conscious. Now the masters are demanding a return to normalcy and work hours and they are threatening to cause chaos.

First off, Disney hasn’t been making a good product anyway so I don’t think we will see a big drop off in quality. Secondly, this battle needs to be fought. Line up all the jobs in America and guess what? Most of them are done better in person. Yes, even you fucking IT guys and your social disorders lol.

9 out of every 10 jobs, made up stat, are performed better in person. Even with coffee breaks factored in. Every time I hear efficiency stuff my brain hears better management/leadership would solve that. Every time I hear my tasks are done my brain hears, then let’s move you onto the next job. I don’t and never will understand this mentality. If you are the cashier but there aren’t any customers at the moment the boss hands you a broom and says “sweep up”. It is reasonable and it saves 5he business from over hiring. If you finish your work early then you don’t have enough work. If you slow roll your work to not finish early you are a shitty worker and should be replaced.

I'm gonna be honest. After working from home the last couple years. If I was "Forced" to go back into the office. I'd just find somewhere else to work. Plenty of people that'd hire me on the spot for remote work.

Getting to spend that extra time with my son is priceless.

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This thread is about Disney employees. They loved Covid. Everyone else had to stay home they got to riot and do anything they wanted as long as it was socially conscious. Now the masters are demanding a return to normalcy and work hours and they are threatening to cause chaos.

First off, Disney hasn’t been making a good product anyway so I don’t think we will see a big drop off in quality. Secondly, this battle needs to be fought.

Yep.
You don't want to return to work? You're Fired!



What would really help Disney is getting rid of all these wokesters and hiring some normal people. But they won't go that far.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
Of course there are exceptions but everyone who cries out to the heavens about how much more efficient they are working at home is full of shit. the employee.

I can only talk about my personal experience, but in that experience I found that a lot of the work I did in the office was busy work that didn’t really need to be done, or at least shouldn’t have been done by me. When I went to working from home I found that I could get all my actual work done in a few hours or less. For most of my career I’ve been a field tech so I didn’t have m a lot of office type work to do, but even the few years that I did spend with a job that was typically done by someone who sat in a cubicle for 8 hours a day, I probably only worked 3-4 on an average day and completed every task.

However the first few years in this career field when I was required to come into the office were invaluable to my growth. On the technical side I learned a lot being able to spend time with the in-house repair technicians and personally I learned a lot from the other people in the office. When I was hired I was the youngest employee in NA, and was the youngest for several years. Being able to be around professional adults in all stages of their lives and was as important as any technical skill I learned. I learned things that helped me in both my personal and professional life from those few years. I value the office experience so much that I still visit one of our offices every few months just to reconnect with the staff and to remind people I’m still alive.

I’m confident that if I hadn’t been required to work in the office for the first few years that I wouldn’t have achieved even close to the success that I have.