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Wages are stagnant and cost of living is ridiculous. Are we headed for a crash?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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And I just found out I need a new job as we are being ordered into the office after they moved it 50 miles away.
Things are not looking good. I think they will hit us with another round of redundancies after some people leave too.
That's scary. How are you holding up?
Scrolling through indeed right now, its not great. Maybe just give up trying to find anything I have skills for and find something unskilled?
But I think my contract states once a month in the office so if I can argue that its probably worth staying and just going through a shit commute once a month. Still not great but probably slightly better than taking a local retail job.
All we gotta do is ~~trick~~ convince some company to hire us as CEO. Get paid millions more than the employees and do nothing! Sounds like my kind of gig.
Yes it's rough mate, I hope it picks up soon
other jobs weve been hearing 3-5 days mandatory a week.
3-5 days and I would look to quit without even working my notice period.
If they force your hand, file for UI.
I've been WFH since Covid forced it, but then a year ago the promised us WFH full time was here to stay and only those that needed or wanted to be in the office could. They downsized buildings and everything. Nice!
They just told us we all had to be back in the office in a month. There isn't enough offices, not enough parking, we've blown away all the productivity metrics at home, half the company is out of state. But, uh, REASONS! We must have butts in THIS specific chair or work doesn't count.
There is literally no valid reason to force it. I think it's all about control and power. They really don't care about productivity or employee satisfaction at all, they just want to force everyone to comply. If they wanted either of those other things we've proved what works.
I hate it. It feels like the dumb "open office" fad all over again. Let's cram 200 people into a single giant open noisy room. Employees HATED it. Managers all gloated how innovative they were. Then it faded away again as they all slowly accepted that no one gets anything done in that chaotic environment.
So too with office vs home. We live in a digital age. The computer age. The internet age. Long gone is the age of work being done by shaking hands and looking at a binder of papers. It's an email, zoom call and a pdf now. Accept it.
In a weird way I'm actually looking forward to my company all going back with 0 coherent plan and not enough parking or desks and then I'll giggle as productivity and morale absolutely tanks.
It's also very likely they know a certain % will quit over it and do it on purpose to lay off without having to. The only problem is that all the most experienced and qualified people leave first.
Companies have had 5 years to accept reality, sell off the MASSIVELY expensive offices and stay fully remote where possible, but no, I think they want control over profits. They want to FEEL like they are managing instead of actually managing.
Oh I absolutely expect morale to tank. We barely have parking at all, the office is large enough for about 25% of the company, the parking is enough for 5% of the seats in the office.
I am hoping I can get it down to once a month, at that point its no worse than commuting into town for retail every day as far as total commuting time each month. The pay I get is barely over minimum wage so that is hardly a benefit compared to retail. Full WFH is pretty much the only benefit that is worth anything.
Then at once a month hopefully avoid coming in for a few of them. Plan holiday for the days we were going to be in, that kind of thing.
Yeah, honestly once a month isn't that bad. Annoying because you MUST do it, but like you said, not so bad. I've done once a week and it feels ok ish. Like, I can't get ANYTHING done in the office anymore. It's too distracting, too many meetings, and as opposed to being at home, I now have to commute, get lunch, etc. And when in meetings in person you can't really keep working, but a zoom call, yeah I can get half my work done while sitting through all the meetings all day, but not now and I'm not about to go into unpaid overtime to make up their awful decision. And I'm not going to log on early or stay late either. Done with all that. You get your 8 hours, no more now. So I'm sorta looking forward to sitting around in meetings all day discussing all the things we could be working on.
That would be hilarious if you took PTO that 1 day every month. Amazing. Come in like, one time per year just to make a point that you didn't skip them ALL. Hahaha.
Honestly though, if your pay isn't that great keep looking and bail asap.
constructive dismissial, create a situation where it becomes untenable to stay at your job, eg far away location limit office space, so people resign. seems like it has been ogoing since '23. one of my bros was in tech, they just got impatient and straight up laid people off at the mid size tech company, gotta gid rid of people who are earning 200-400k/year to record profits. he hasnt found another job yet, and i detect a distinct hint of a late 30s life crisis too.
its called constructive dismissal learn that when they were doing the very first round of layoffs in '23, from reddit.