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Top 5 Complaints from Your First Week Back at the Office

Companies who still haven’t figured out how to tell if employees are actually producing are calling their employees back to the office to make sure they are. Here are the most common complaints you’re likely to hear. 5. Noisy chitchat is still everyone’s favorite pastime. No matter how many foosball tables are installed, everyone still prefers to gather…

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Top 5 Complaints from Your First Week Back at the Office
Top 5 Complaints from Your First Week Back at the Office
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8 Reasons Your Boss Needs You Back in the Office

Anonymous social media site Blind shows the real reasons CEOs like Tim Cook want workers back in the office post-pandemic — Tim Cook wants Apple workers back at the office. He and many other insecure executives who initially praised remote work now miss the “hum” of activity. He elaborated in a letter to his staff. I’ve paraphrased his message below, with some poetic license.

Technology

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8 Reasons Your Boss Needs You Back in the Office
8 Reasons Your Boss Needs You Back in the Office
Technology

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6 Bizarre Ways Software Developers Get Fired

Whether they’re hacking their own companies or playing League of Legends for 40 hours a week, these developers all have one thing in common — a death wish for their careers. — Coders are the only people who signed up for a career trying to automate itself out of existence. We have a death wish — for our jobs. That’s why there are so many stories on the internet about us getting fired for avoidable and hilarious offenses.

Technology

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6 Bizarre Ways Software Developers Get Fired
6 Bizarre Ways Software Developers Get Fired
Technology

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Anonymous Confessions from Tech Workers Who Average $500k Income a Year

TeamBlind is a professional social network where overpaid technology workers relentlessly post about their inflated TC, or total compensation, which is someone’s base salary plus RSUs and yearly bonus. Sign up with a verified company email address, and your posts appear under an anonymous username tagged with the company where…

Technology

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Anonymous Confessions from Tech Workers Who Average $500k Income a Year
Anonymous Confessions from Tech Workers Who Average $500k Income a Year
Technology

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The True Cost of Your Commute Is Retiring a Millionaire

Companies who don’t allow remote work are saving billions of dollars by costing their employees long-term wealth. — The American commute is the worst it’s been. More of us than ever are commuting at least 90 minutes one-way, and our average commute time as a nation is one hour per day. After the pandemic sent most office workers home, multiple studies have shown that productivity hasn’t suffered.

Work

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The True Cost of Your Commute Is Retiring a Millionaire
The True Cost of Your Commute Is Retiring a Millionaire
Work

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·Oct 13, 2021

How to Get Promoted at Your Meaningless Office Job

Stop reading your email and start drafting your legacy of incompetence. — If you want to crush it at the office, you have to know the rules. Otherwise, you might accidentally accomplish something and get labeled a troublemaker. Troublemakers don’t get promoted — only rule-followers. I’ve worked for The Man for the past ten years. I may not follow the rules, but…

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How to Get Promoted at Your Meaningless Office Job
How to Get Promoted at Your Meaningless Office Job
Humor

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·Aug 21, 2021

No, Working from Home Isn’t Ruining Your Sex Life

Debunking the most common work-from-home myths. — Ancient Germans thought passing an object over a baby’s head caused the baby to stop growing. That’s just an old superstition from an ancient people — good thing modern folks don’t believe crazy shit like that anymore. Just kidding, we totally do. Here’s proof. Modern Superstitions For the last year and a…

Work

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No, Working from Home Isn’t Ruining Your Sex Life
No, Working from Home Isn’t Ruining Your Sex Life
Work

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Aug 9, 2021

I can't say this loudly enough - I really and truly do not care about your office culture.
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Sherry Mayle

Yeah, my employer might care about the culture, but do they know why they care?

Yeah, my employer might care about the culture, but do they know why they care? It's possible that I'm missing some fundamental bonding requirement, but why do we all have to participate in a "culture" in order to work together? Why do we all have to share a core set…

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Aug 4, 2021

You need to stop looking at your job as a paycheck. Your job serves a bigger purpose, and it has a symbolic value. It connects you with the world and exposes you to different people with different backgrounds.

Your Boss Is Not Wrong, Go Back to The Office
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LOL. No. My job is a paycheck, and when you try to convince me it's something more, I wonder about…

LOL. No. My job is a paycheck, and when you try to convince me it's something more, I wonder about your motivations. What's missing in your life that your job provides you with all these things you aren't getting elsewhere?

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LOL. No. My job is a paycheck, and when you try to convince me it's something more, I wonder about your motivations. What's missing in your life that your job provides you with all these things you aren't getting elsewhere?

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Aug 4, 2021

It is hard for new employees to learn the culture of their companies remotely. Moreover, it deprives young employees of interacting and learning from more experienced staff.

Your Boss Is Not Wrong, Go Back to The Office
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Luay Rahil

I can't say this loudly enough - I really and truly do not care about your office culture.

I can't say this loudly enough - I really and truly do not care about your office culture. Please keep it.

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I can't say this loudly enough - I really and truly do not care about your office culture. Please keep it.

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