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JPMorgan employees describe 'fear of God' & 'panic' as office attendance tracked
- oneoff786 5y agoNothing in the article suggests anything particularly novel or severe about this policy. What’s up with these panicky quotes
- arrakis2021 5y agoThis is the result of years of coddling employees. Something as basic as tracking their attendance - a standard workplace Practice for generations - is now resulting in “panic.”
- cityzen 5y agoI know this sounds crazy but... you can quit your job and go work somewhere else. I can't imagine working with the "fear of god" or "panic" over stupid shit like this. just find a remote job elsewhere, fuck JPMorgan.
- akhmatova 5y agoI can't imagine working with the "fear of god" or "panic" over stupid shit like this. Then perhaps you can't quite imagine the I-banking lifestyle then. It is very much, if not fear-, then security-driven. Let's just say it attracts a certain personality profile. That's why they make go across town to some doctor's office and pee in a cup before they let you in, for example.
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- wetpaws 5y agoIf all workplaces will start enforcing rules like this (and they likely will), there would be no alternative to escape to.
- atonse 5y agoI welcome them to do so quickly and aggressively. That makes my talent search easier because as a fully remote company, we don’t waste time with silly concepts like “I have to see you in the flesh l to believe you’re working.” in information work.
- souptonuts 5y agoyeah we're seeing a lot of quitters, churn, declined offers of hires due to the hybrid/in office positions. Causing a lot of chaos in projects I am on.
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y agoGive the projects to me for double
- formerkrogemp 5y agoPersonally, while I hate the extra workload, I do appreciate that wages are rising for the first time in my working lifetime in my industry. Even with the attendant inflation.
- PraetorianGourd 5y agoPersonally this just isn't the hill I'd die on. We've seen decades of wage stagnation, reductions in benefits, the gutting of retirement plans, hours-worked manipulation and so on and the thing we collectively rise to defend is... remote/hybrid work? I guess it might be because all the items in the list generally impact the poor and working class, while we bourgeoisie don't really face _those_ problems. So we tilt at windmills.
- vogt 5y agoThe counterpoint here could be, "You've stagnated my wages, gutted my retirement plan, and reduced my benefits. I refuse to budge one inch more."
- rdtwo 5y agoI mean working from the office is a huge pay decrease. You add 10 hours of commute + lunch/break time in an unpleasant environment. Easily 15 hours a week that can be better utilized that’s worth real money. For a jpm employee working 60+ hours that’s the difference between leasure time and just work/sleep
- closeparen 5y agoIn some ways it’s very radical that people are trying to overturn such a fundamental part of being an adult as you have to go to work. On the other hand the housing and transportation planning in this country are extremely dysfunctional. People live far from where they work and the commutes are brutal. I was hoping for a revolt against car-centric suburban planning orthodoxy, but I guess a revolt against ever having to go places also works.
- PraetorianGourd 5y agoI think we've seen the opposite of the desired impact. People are moving _out_ of dense urban neighborhoods to suburban and exurban enclaves as the primary motivator for living close-in (it reduces commute/offers public transit) is becoming a non-issue.
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