fukk a boomer and their love for being in person
People return to offices, productivity plunges
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Tribal Outkast
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They have to fill up them buildings 
There was a company that started building a joint in Charlotte but decided to suspend operations because so many folks work from home. Now there’s this big ass building that they’re hoping somebody will buy smh. Big brand new ass building.
There was a company that started building a joint in Charlotte but decided to suspend operations because so many folks work from home. Now there’s this big ass building that they’re hoping somebody will buy smh. Big brand new ass building.
I'm on a IT job right now that I started a week ago and already losing my mind cause all I see is hundreds of cubicles everyday.
No more corporate buildings and shyt for me after I finish with this job. It's soul crushing.
No more corporate buildings and shyt for me after I finish with this job. It's soul crushing.
I started going back a week ago cuz my company is forcing us. Pretty much everyone hates it because it’s 3x a week. Productivity has gone down because people are not happy and they’re more tired from the commute. Just let people wfh permanently.’
Baby boomers hold humanity back
Laidbackman
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You must be talking about those White boomers, because only two or three Black boomers had an office job. And they got fired if they didn't go get everybodies lunch. @Wild self
Tbh, most of the Black men that were boomers aren't even here anymore. And a lot of the ones who had those office jobs back then were more suicidal.
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where's the breh that said he'd rather get eaten alive by wild animals than return to the office 
these business parks are definitely hurtin... idk about anybody else but the one i'm in has been throwing 'party' type shyts a lot lately.
they down bad
these business parks are definitely hurtin... idk about anybody else but the one i'm in has been throwing 'party' type shyts a lot lately.
- yesterday they had a costume competition, brought out a DJ/photo booth and served breakfast
- last week they had a family movie screening
- a few weeks before they catered lunch and free games
- the muhfukkas came out with a app and digital survey
they down bad
I’ll say this.
There’s gonna have to be an end game for all these companies, bc A LOT of my associates in various industries complain about people dropping left & right. And the pressure it puts on them.
I’m seeing as we type a real shortage in the logistics chain, especially the transpo side.
People are done with the bullshyt & these scumbag companies are not only greedy $$$ but they want to be nosey & power trip. Doing a good job and being productive isnt good enough anymore, they want your life inside & out.
There’s gonna have to be an end game for all these companies, bc A LOT of my associates in various industries complain about people dropping left & right. And the pressure it puts on them.
I’m seeing as we type a real shortage in the logistics chain, especially the transpo side.
People are done with the bullshyt & these scumbag companies are not only greedy $$$ but they want to be nosey & power trip. Doing a good job and being productive isnt good enough anymore, they want your life inside & out.
Companies make no sense.
They scream about bottom line and profits. Then COVID hits and they realize you can save $$$ with telecommuting plus increased productivity. Now all of a sudden profits/efficiency don't matter
Basically....profits/productivity etc., only matter if the employees hate the process.
Still about profit cause they got buildings they leasing and space. Often times the building and space (plus whatever equipment they have at the office or building) cost more than the employees based on the labor rates.
Yeah, them old CACs be on some fascist-lite with their employees.
Laidbackman
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Here's a little history that they were always able to hide from us, about how it felt to be a Black boomer working in a high paying office job around mostly Whites, especially if you were a Black man, and especially if you were a no nonsense brother. We didn't find out about how common this was until more of us started getting degrees, and working these office jobs. And you still didn't find out until you actually got one of these jobs. Below, I want to share this real big story that happened at IBM in Bethesda, MD, back when I was still going from security guard job to security guard job, with no job security, when we were all wishing we could land an office job with a company like IBM, even after this major incident below happened.
Get a chance, google 38 year-old Edward T Mann who worked at IBM. He was a no nonsense brother that snapped and ran his car into an IBM building in 82' after being fired, killing three people. He hung himself in jail four years later, after they gave him 108 years. He wanted the death penalty. This was before IBM gained the reputation of making people snap. But it started with Edward Mann. Then as more and more Black people started working at IBM, they started giving them more and more work.
Like I was saying in the opening paragraph, most of us had no ideal what working an office job was really like, and we assumed it was like working with a bunch of Brady's and a fair amount of Huxtables, or like the fun image they portrayed on tv shows. Even the Edward Mann story didn't wake us up about how Black people were being treated on office jobs. And all those brothers I went to U of MD with, that graduated on time, never shared with me the hell they were catching on these office jobs, including one of my very best friends, which was wrong. I thought as long as they had degrees, wore a sports coat, a tie, and slacks, they had it made, meanwhile I was going from one security guard job to the other, until I got a security guard job in the government, and joined the union. But I felt more job security as a guard, than I did working all those 11 years in IT, where they could destroy my career so easily.
I wrote this because Black boomers lived a whole different life, including the ones that went to college, or got lucky, and got one of these high paid office jobs. But their stories were never heard, even after Edward Mann. I can only imagine the hell he was catching, then losing his job, while living in Mitchellville, MD, the most upper class area in PG at the time, which was, and still mostly Black.
Get a chance, google 38 year-old Edward T Mann who worked at IBM. He was a no nonsense brother that snapped and ran his car into an IBM building in 82' after being fired, killing three people. He hung himself in jail four years later, after they gave him 108 years. He wanted the death penalty. This was before IBM gained the reputation of making people snap. But it started with Edward Mann. Then as more and more Black people started working at IBM, they started giving them more and more work.
Like I was saying in the opening paragraph, most of us had no ideal what working an office job was really like, and we assumed it was like working with a bunch of Brady's and a fair amount of Huxtables, or like the fun image they portrayed on tv shows. Even the Edward Mann story didn't wake us up about how Black people were being treated on office jobs. And all those brothers I went to U of MD with, that graduated on time, never shared with me the hell they were catching on these office jobs, including one of my very best friends, which was wrong. I thought as long as they had degrees, wore a sports coat, a tie, and slacks, they had it made, meanwhile I was going from one security guard job to the other, until I got a security guard job in the government, and joined the union. But I felt more job security as a guard, than I did working all those 11 years in IT, where they could destroy my career so easily.
I wrote this because Black boomers lived a whole different life, including the ones that went to college, or got lucky, and got one of these high paid office jobs. But their stories were never heard, even after Edward Mann. I can only imagine the hell he was catching, then losing his job, while living in Mitchellville, MD, the most upper class area in PG at the time, which was, and still mostly Black.
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Hijo de luna
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I'm back in the office 4 days, wfh on Fridays. I'm a silently quitter.