At my last W-2 job they made me come into the office four days a week even though I had a remote work job. I supported specialized internal application softwar

At my last W-2 job they made me come into the office four days a week even though I had a remote work job. I supported specialized internal application software for three departments spaced roughly 500, 1000, and 2000 miles away from me. I never in my entire term at that job went onsite, they didn't see the point of paying all the money. I never physically met more than 5 or so people I worked with. This seems "normal" at very large megacorporations if you work at a higher level. I knew Scala and Play framework (trendy and cool at the time; does anyone still use?) so I got shoved into the role; at least they didn't force me to move to one of the operations sites; presumably the other two would squeal too much if the third "got me". This seems to be how most major corporations work; the "active directory genius" (not me..) is in charge of all AD servers worldwide; does it really matter which city he lives in if he's responsible for servers all over the world? Same for "the woman who's really good at docker" or the guy whom actually understands DNS. For years I wasted a lot of time, money, and gasoline to drive 20 miles into work just to work on server software 1500 miles away all day long. May as well stay home.