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It sure killed the last tiny iota I had left. My company had some WFH before COVID, we all did 6 years full WFH until just recently, they also announced a big "WFH is the future!" Thing last year. Then this year changed their minds and issued an RTO mandate.
I could MAYBE understand working in the same building if my whole team all worked directly together on the same project and we were all in the office, but a giant chunk of the company is all over the country, 3/4 my team is remote, but me and a few unlucky chumps have to drive in to join the video calls from a conference room that never connects correctly and is 10x harder to hear and communicate in.
But this is "for collaboration" we were told. It's been almost a year now and I have yet to have an 100% in person meeting or any meaningful collaboration or anything positive really. It's cost me more money, cost me and the company a lot of wasted time sitting in a car, it made work 10x slower and harder to do, my mental health dropped drastically and a ton of our best coworkers all left and the extra work got dumped on us that stayed.
It's hell. I also "quietly quit" because they don't even care about actual work getting done, only if everyone looks busy and the spreadsheet numbers look all pretty. I used to work hard and enjoyed my job, not anymore, and RTO + strict helicopter management is the cause.
Long ago, I had colleagues who got fucked over by our employer, and they expressed surprise that, after all the loyalty they'd shown to the company, they'd be treated that way. Being a bit of a rescue dog myself, I was perplexed that they'd ever believed that their company felt loyalty to them, the same as the loyalty they felt to the company. These were otherwise intelligent people.
That's a feature of exploitation: the system rewards sociopathy.
I think we might work at the same place lol
Get a P.O. Box way away from the office. Say you moved. Open bank account in county of said P.O box. Bam back to wfh...and you don't have to move. If they ask why you still have your home, tell them your renting it out.
They hiring? I'm perfectly willing to come in to an office and act like I'm doing stuff in exchange for money.
Only if you're an AI agent. Humans, nope.
Could I just tell them I'm Artificially Intelligent? I'm awful at being human, but great at seeming intelligent and hard working for 30 seconds at a time with several hours between each instance.
Management material, right here.