Malicious Compliance

Here they're pushing the "must be within 60 miles from the office" trope; I bet they'd say to drive in if it's after hours.

Veronica!...is that you?!

We went back to the office, I don't care because my commute is immaterial BUT now I leave my laptop there, I disassembled the workstation at home and packed it away, I will not work at home now. Teams is on my phone because I don't put the work email on my phone and needed a way to tell my team if I will be unexpectedly delayed. I don't open it ever though, and now we have a group text might take it off too.

ETA: I did also delete MS Teams, we have each other's phone numbers now.

Me who likes working in a office:

I don't think it's this "all rich jerks own commercial real estate" thing that everyone going on about. I get the feeling it's more about the managerial/director types. The ones who are maybe well off but maybe not quite rich. My director owns a 150,000 tesla, but I don't think he's near well off enough to own an office building.

Anyway, at a certain level and upwards, all you do is meet and talk to people all day. They value face to face communication because that's a more effective meeting, and builds more rapport with the members.

Good way to get fired and have nothing for it. Pyrrhic victory. You better have an escape plan when you get fired.

Good for you. I refuse to put work related stuff on my phone. Especially since they want permission to remotely wipe my device if it's lost. I paid for this phone, it is mine, not theirs. Bye.