re: What work from home has ruined?

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biggest gripe was the long commute,

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HP did a study before COVID that the biggest predictor of if an employee was going to quit was whether their commute was over 40 minutes each way.

Yet, HPE insisted I needed to commute 45 minutes each way, each day, to their empty (and I mean, the parking garage was 10% or under full) Spring campus to work with two people, and hold conference calls with people in other places as a product manager.

Whole Foods did the same thing, when I insisted I could get to their downtown location in Austin from West Houston faster than I could than if I lived in Round Rock or San Marcos. I offered to drive up multiple times a week, "you need to relocate," was the answer, and this was probably 2021.

I hated the office commute shite, especially in Houston, as I was dropping close to $20 a day on parking to waste time going into an office downtown where nobody was there. Boss in SF. Hold a lunch and learn for 30 people, and only the office managing partner shows up? Yeah, take the cookies home to your kids.

Cabin fever probably just accelerated divorces that were going to happen anyway.