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There's the opposite to be argued too - going fully remote over the pandemic has negatively impacted the kind of office sociopaths whose contribution was ONLY p
by Simon_O_Rourke 5y ago
There's the opposite to be argued too - going fully remote over the pandemic has negatively impacted the kind of office sociopaths whose contribution was ONLY performative work.
There's one or two I used to put up with pre-pandemic, you know the types, management brown nosers, desk dropping all day long, and trying to command attention where it's simply not warranted. They've dropped off the radar altogether since they can't perform their schtick in person.
- MattGaiser 5y agoDo they not perform or do they just not perform to you? As at a prior job, they didn't disappear, but rather focused on managers and utterly ignored ICs like myself.
- Simon_O_Rourke 5y agoThey're still there, but what they do day-to-day must have changed... I'm not 100% sure what they get up to now, but they could be focusing their A-game on zoom calls with management alright. However, pre-pandemic they would poll the IC's like myself for whatever information they needed via "casual" desk dropping, then present it to some manager as original thinking. The higher friction of setting up video calls, and being called out in group Slacks seems to have reduced this. One went as far as requesting a desk move in order to be closer to a manager, so that at least has all changed.