Amazon to employees: Get your asses back in the office!

Work from home forever, bitches!

I was recruited from my prior employer by my current employer during the earliest days of the pandemic, and even though everyone was working remotely at that time, not everyone was classified as a remote employee. Our CEO was talking a bunch of shit at the time about how "remote work is here to stay" and all this, so I thank god I had the foresight to get an explicit agreement that I would be classified as remote regardless of what happened after the pandemic. Because my company is basically doing what Amazon is doing, starting the slow march back to five days a week. I will never fucking go back. I am good enough at what I do to go into business for myself and the second I get even a whiff that they are trying to force me back to the office, I am out. I'm glad I played my cards right in my career that that is even option. I won't hesitate to pull that lever.

My company has moved to 3 days minimum, with indications that this will go back to every day sometime in the next year.

I work in a lab, so I basically can't do remote very much. I think I was technically remote for about a week and a half at the start of the pandemic, but getting yanked back into the office.

As far as I'm concerned, people who can work remotely can do it forever. Less contention for parking, bathrooms, etc for those of us who have to go in.

Millennials won't work in an enclosed space with people they would ordinarily ghost and delete.

They'll have to import more Haitian workers.

I just finished reading a bio on the early history of Amazon and Bezos. Let's just say, I now use Amazon as a back-up, if I can't get it first from online Target or Wal-Mart website