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Postby nocera » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:16 pm

I’m in the office two days a week. It’s completely pointless but at least it’s not full time.

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Postby faftorial » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:18 pm

I’m in the office two days a week. It’s completely pointless but at least it’s not full time.
My son is too. Gets on Zoom for meetings when there still because the other people aren't in the office. So dumb.

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Postby nocera » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:23 pm

I’m in the office two days a week. It’s completely pointless but at least it’s not full time.
My son is too. Gets on Zoom for meetings when there still because the other people aren't in the office. So dumb.
Same. The majority of our team is either remote or in another office in an entirely different state. I really don’t understand why we need to be there but it’s hard to complain too much when other teams are in 5 days a week.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:27 pm

My mom has been trying to get her leadership to allow their office to continue to work from home 2 days per week, like they had all throughout covid. Hell, for a few months they were full time remote. They finally agreed to it last week, so she now only has to go in 3 times per week. They don’t know how close she was to just retiring, and they’re already short staffed as it is.

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:28 pm

My mother in law is in a... weird situation. And now her weird situation is affecting me so I am trying to help her out of it :lol:

Nearly 13 years ago, she suffered a work injury. She did manual labor at a local steel mill. She had surgery to repair her Achilles/ankle area..then another when that failed..and another..and again, for a total of 4 times, between then and March of 2022.

She is now 70 years old, has a full steel worker pension, and obviously is collecting social security as well.

And tomorrow she is going back to work for the first time in nearly 3 calendar years, because the workman's comp attorneys she has still have not come to a settlement with the company. She tells me that this means that she cannot retire. She will be on light duty, obviously.

I don't understand comp much but someone's making a pile of money off this case no? She's concerned she will lose benefits (specific to the injury). She's going to lose benefits when she drops dead at work in my opinion.

So I don't know if it's a "I literally need to work for the money" and she's too afraid to tell us, or what. But she's been there nearly 30 years and has a pension.

It baffles me. And now I need daycare Tuesdays and Thursdays for baby mac :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:30 pm

That doesn’t sound right to me, but I’m also not a lawyer.

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:32 pm

She says that there are attorneys that no longer even represent her garnishing money from comp checks. Again I really don't know workman's comp much at all. But like wouldn't the company rather she retire? Maybe the comp checks are less than the pension checks? Or maybe they're more and the attorneys are dragging it out to profit also. It's just a weird situation all around.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:32 pm

I’d be talking to another attorney asap, personally.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:37 pm

I also recommend talking to another WC attorney asap.

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:39 pm

I made that suggestion to her. I think she's being too trustworthy of both sides in this situation and neither have her best interests in mind.

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Postby King Colby » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:40 pm

Yeah you should probably get another attorney involved and be there for the meeting

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Postby Shyster » Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:43 pm

As a lawyer, my advice is to not trust anyone.

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Postby Morkle » Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:04 am

Full time WFH, never going back. **** that noise and every ass backwards company that doesn’t embrace the 21st century.
Only time I'll ever go back to full-time work in the office is if I'm executive level and paid mega bucks, that ain't happening, so....WFH is basically gold to me.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:27 am

I had a recruiter contact me last week about a position that was listed as hybrid. lol, GTFO with that nonsense. 90% of the jobs I see come through in LinkedIn are 100% remote.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:28 am

The position I'm going to be interviewing for shortly is 100% remote, and in fact the entire team is split across the country. If you want to move to anywhere in the world, there are no issues so long as you can work during US working hours (doesn't matter which time zone). I think they mean EST through PST, because if they would allow me to work in HST, that changes everything.

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Postby skullman80 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:36 am

First day back after vacation. Only about 350 emails. Not as bad as expected. Lots of them are nonsense like normal.

Also someone sent me an 8:30am meeting invite while I was on vacation and then wondered why I didn't show up? First off meetings before 9 AM can F off unless its an emergency, and secondly I was on vacation. I didn't look at my email (they got an out of office reply from me), or slack, or teams one single time . My PC was shut down and I was taking the last bit of me time this morning before I logged back on.

Normally I am on early, but coming back from vacation I was in no hurry to do much of anything.

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Postby Morkle » Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:04 am

lol I had the meeting thing happen to me too. They escalated to my boss and my boss hit them with the "did you not see they were out of office?"

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:38 am

Our university is doing a telecommuting pilot plan this fall. Up to 10% of staff/faculty can be a part of it during the pilot, but have to be approved by your supervisor, then your supervisor's supervisor, then the Dean/Provost.

Again, this would have been helpful from March - late June when I was renting a local place and driving home on weekends with high gas prices. I could do 100% of my job remotely, although I do like interacting with people (strange for an introvert), so I'm not sure what I'll do.

I just realized my wife will be up at 5:15 in order to get to her new school just before 7 am. Both of us are light sleepers, so that means my ass will be up that **** early. She blames me, of course, for taking the new job (with a wink, sort of). But again - all studies show kids learn better with later starts, but here we are starting school at 7:30 or whatever. FFS.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Tue Aug 02, 2022 11:56 am

Both my boss and I are out on vacation until Thursday. Ish has hit the fan apparently and only my boss or I could answer the questions. Oh well, guess that’s what happens when you pride yourself on being lean

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 11:57 am

Lean, agile... I'm having flashbacks of the war now.

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Postby Kane » Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:03 pm

Over Macho Grande?
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Postby nocera » Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:14 pm

Word is the company will force mandatory 3 days in office starting in September. This will not go over well.

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Postby skullman80 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:51 pm

We've been one day in office for a while now. I still haven't gone in other than one day where there was free lunch. My boss hasn't said a word to me about coming in.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:18 pm

My wife's large employer has been three days since April and no one gives a ****, including most of the managers and directors.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Aug 03, 2022 11:42 am

Hiring Manager - This is a really high priority position, we need candidates!

Also Hiring Manager - I don't like this perfectly qualified candidate because she is coming off of maternity leave and will probably need more time to "mom". Not interested.

I basically told her that was dumb (not to mention illegal) and to interview her.

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