I am ok with the general sentiment here. But the author thinks making 200k, taking selfies, paid internships and a bunch of other normal stuff for some reason

I am ok with the general sentiment here. But the author thinks making 200k, taking selfies, paid internships and a bunch of other normal stuff for some reason is things only rich people do? Reads very us vs them classist bullshit. The people that own enough office real estate to care make 8+ figures a year not six. WFH was a thing in certain jobs long before the pandemic and even today a lot of jobs can't be done from home. I feel like the author doesn't get why the bullshit at office jobs exist. It's almost as if they were very used to hourly low paying jobs (same here) and recently started doing salaried office jobs. When you are paid salary (like the $200k bosses mentioned), you don't get paid by the hour, you don't even get paid for working the hours you have to be in the office, you get paid for results. You show up in the office to be available and visible for "bullshit" your manager or coworkers need in addition to results on assigned tasks. Furthermore, no one, doing any job at all in the world gets paid for the value of their work or their hard work, everyone (including salaried people) get paid for the perceived cost and difficulty of replacing them and to keep them happy enough to not look for other jobs. That's why unions are effective, because they change the variable and now replacing everyone us what the company is facing instead of individuals. The reality for me is, I get to deal with less in-person bullshit but also I get to be more productive when doing WFH, but the again you have slack/teams/zoom bullshit and interruptions. Whereas before you could at least look busy, now you have to do enough things that show result where bosses won't think you are a slacker. The main reason you have to look busy in the office is not because managers don't know you are not actually being busy, it is because others who see you slacking will think you never do anything and they stop being productive. But when you are a manager or even working in very small teams, nobody cares about slacking off so long as you are showing results.