Someone wants to lay people off without the headline “Grand Theft Auto Dev Lays Off 200 Employees”
Return to office is the modern day silent layoff
I’ve been remote for close to 10 years. In that time, I’ve had more personal and professional growth than I ever did the 10 before. There’s no conditions that would compel me back to an office with any regularity. These line goes up sociopaths are a lot more bearable over zoom and I’d like to keep it that way.
All of a sudden I’m a little less interested in giving Rockstar my money…
You know, I really thought that the pandemic might have been the beginning of a paradigm shift. It was a terrible time, but I think a good majority of people were beginning to realize just how insane our world was and we all slowed down for a second and realized that we don’t need to be in the office 5 days a week. Welp, I guess I shouldn’t have been so damn naive. Employers decided that they couldn’t micromanage as efficiently as they wanted and those millions of dollars of real estate weren’t going to pay for themselves. Now it’s amazing how much our “cOmPaNy CuLtUrE” needs improvement or how collaboration just “iSnT aS gOoD” as face to face. Fuck you all, it’s money and control, plain and simple.
What I find very disconcerting is that some companies don’t own real state, they rent it. A commercial space in NY size of a garage costs like 70K per month! So these companies had the golden opportunity to pocket this money, to make their employees happy, help the environment, improve the traffic in the city and get talent from anywhere in the country, but said “nah thanks, I prefer to spend my time micromanaging my employees”.
What is wrong with these people? Our generation needs to create better, smarter companies and make these dinosaurs irrelevant.
Oh God. The humanity…
