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Taking my bitterness and sarcasm out of it for a moment, in our case it feels much more like a way to deflect blame from senior leadership onto employees for co
by wcunning 3y ago
Taking my bitterness and sarcasm out of it for a moment, in our case it feels much more like a way to deflect blame from senior leadership onto employees for company culture and product choice issues that are affecting the bottom line, along with prep for an ugly round of layoffs to make up some of the cost of conceding to so many of the UAW's demands. Not necessarily that those demands were unreasonable, but it's interesting that "badge swipes will be tracked" came pretty much at the same time that managers were ordered to stack rank like in the bad old MS days under Balmer. We haven't officially received word of the firing of those bottom 10% with "needs improvement" performance reviews, but I think that's mostly a function of performance reviews being communicated now-ish. History says that it'll probably be mid-March. Either way, we've reached updating the old resume time. The unfortunate thing is that I have zero interest in relocating to the Bay, and all the really high paying jobs have also mandated some RTO, so I doubt I'm going to be special enough to get a fully remote role at any of the FAANG companies.
Oh, and also ironically, we just hired a bunch of Silicon Valley people who get to be 100% remote, along with some execs in HR, DEI and the like that are weirdly all in Denver. These announcements came roughly in the same time frame as the new RTO mandate, which is especially insulting because a number of people hired in 2021 and 2022 were hired as fully remote, but if they live within 50 miles of a major office center (not counting assembly plants) they were all redesignated as hybrid or in office, without their consent. This means that some of my coworkers now have 40 mile commutes and needed to figure out much more complicated child care, since they get to spend hours on the road that could have been used to pick kids up at reasonable times. Gotta love the double standard.