AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The quiet part out loud is that this is nothing but a severance-free layoff.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “not enough of you quit when we tried to get you to with this RTO bullshit, so half of you have to stand”

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• BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is what I hate about my company’s hybrid RTO policy. There aren’t enough seats for everyone and it’s not full RTO so we have to schedule our desks ahead of time. Aside from the typical back to office complaints, here are all the reasons I’ve found that hot seats suck:

  • You have to bring all your shit and pack it all up again before you leave including keyboard, mouse, my foot rest because I’m short, etc.

  • You have to readjust the desk, chair, and monitor every time you come in.

  • Because of the previous, the monitor is loaded with grubby fingerprints.

  • Not all desks are the same. Some are in better locations, some have 1 monitor and some have 2, some are longer, some are more adjustable, etc, etc and people fight for the best desks.

  • There aren’t enough meeting rooms and call booths for everyone and people will often just take a room for extended lengths of time or just take a room you signed up for.

  • They make the argument that we need to make connections in person, but my team is in another part of the country and every time I come in, I’m sitting by new people which prevents me from making relationships with people I would otherwise sit nearby on a regular basis thus defeating the purpose.

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  • morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel this in my soul. I’m officed Mondays and Tuesdays. I’m 5 foot 6, and the guy on Wednesday and Thursdays is really, really tall.

    I sure do love adjusting my desk and chair every Monday after Manute Bol’s been sitting there, and I’m sure that every Wednesday he’s wondering how my trip carrying the ring to Mordor is going that I started after work the previous day.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is where you plan the number of monitors. I’m one of the few desks that don’t have two, so no one else wants it and I never need to readjust

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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My company is the same. I love when we all come together in person once a week to sit at our desks and put on our headphones and spend half the day on Zoom calls with our colleagues because they work at an office in a different city.

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is this not constructive dismissal? “You must be in the office, and also there’s nowhere in the office for you to work.”

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  • julysfire@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like they don’t want me to with that day if they don’t have a spot for me.

    Better yet, I have a spot to work. My home.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “I tried to book a seat but they were all taken.”

      Repeat adnausem even if more space is made available.

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  By coming together in person, we can strengthen our connections, foster a vibrant culture, and achieve our shared goals.

  strengthen our connections

  That’s a cruel irony coming from a telecom that refuses to sell connections to millions of Americans who already have an AT&T cable connected to their house.

  vibrant culture If by “vibrant” you mean “lumbering dinosaur that is the textbook definition of ‘engineered incompetence’” then ok because good corporate culture is definitely not what AT&T is known for.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s also ironic given how anti-union these corporations are, as they literally just described a union.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If it were me I’d set up a makeshift work station in obnoxious locations. Make it really obvious I wasn’t given a proper place to work and make it seen by all the higher ups and visitors. Do it every day. Change locations so it’s always new spots.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your new desk:

    LAN Party guy taped to ceiling

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• mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think there may be a law in California for this…

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