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what does that even mean

Extraverts want introverts in the office and don't care what pain that causes them.

the pain of having to leave your house to go in to work, the thing that pretty much every adult in the world does? such suffering

Re: Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

#82

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Extraverts want introverts in the office and don't care what pain that causes them.

the pain of having to leave your house to go in to work, the thing that pretty much every adult in the world does? such suffering

You said you were burned out from working at home.

If you have experienced that can you also imagine that some people are burned out from being in the office?

So can you understand how it’s bad to be celebrating other people being forced to burn out?

Re: Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the pain of having to leave your house to go in to work, the thing that pretty much every adult in the world does? such suffering

You said you were burned out from working at home. If you have experienced that can you also imagine that some people are burned out from being in the office? So can you understand how it’s bad to be celebrating other people being forced to burn out?

The year is 2021. Showing up to work is now considered oppressive, because it might not be some people's favorite part of the job they get payed for.

Re: Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said you were burned out from working at home. If you have experienced that can you also imagine that some people are burned out from being in the office? So can you understand how it’s bad to be celebrating other people being forced to burn out?

The year is 2021. Showing up to work is now considered oppressive, because it might not be some people's favorite part of the job they get payed for.

It's a bit hyperbolic but... yeah, the general idea is "the pain extroverts have been dealing with in the past year is what introverts have had to deal with all along" and so on but there's no way to really prove that, and I think we are more social creatures as the common baseline.

Re: Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

#88

Amazon seems to be bending over backward to prove they are a place no one should want to work. Not that working in an office is bad, but refusing to entertain a hybrid model, even a mild one, screams "we know best, our way or the highway" to employees.

I’m curious is they have any metrics on worker productivity that are informing this. They certainly seem to be pushing out features and making money still

Re: Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

#89

Another reason not to work at Amazon.

Don’t get it, why is this the response when Google did the same thing and the comments there defended it?

Curious on your response to this story -

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/30/amazon-tw...

Re: Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

#90

Interesting to contrast it with the other big Seattle tech employer's, Microsoft, view on this. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hyb... Disclosure: I'm a current MSFT employee very happy with their approach.

Are you okay taking a pacycut while moving to the Midwest ?
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