re: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, is done with work from home and lazy employees

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This is an even sadder attempt at some keyboard dominance

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And you are a drama queen. No wonder you are a wfh type

Good. Go back to work, bums.

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And you are a drama queen. No wonder you are a wfh type

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Name calling doesn’t warrant any more authority. It exposes who the child in the argument is faster.

Speak to the point of the discussion instead alluding to the running narrative.

He hit the nail on the head. Private companies are becoming just like the government. Bloated, inefficient and populated with employees who think they don’t have to give a full days work. WFH should be earned and something you can aspire to. There are great employees who can do it and do it well. Too many take advantage of it though.

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He hit the nail on the head. Private companies are becoming just like the government. Bloated, inefficient and populated with employees who are entitled.

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And that’s a reflection of leadership. Many in the C-suite are directly responsible through initiatives like DEI and continuous improvement, where their bonus was contingent on certain quotas. I have seen it first hand, to hit those quotas and demonstrate those improvements you have to pay relatively useless people to manage and maintain the bureaucracy that measures and supports it, with very little added back to the company’s actual performance. In short they bloated the middle manager class to be able to say they themselves achieved their performance goals.

We totally fricked this up. This should’ve been the generational opportunity to redefine the term “office”.

Instead, people acted like they were getting paid for free. Covid was a shite show at my office. People weren’t meeting deadlines. People wouldn’t answer the phone when you needed something. If I needed someone to come in to support my group for something they had to physically be there for, I had to “schedule” it. And my group ended up doing other peoples work because we were onsite and they “didn’t want to put other people at risk unnecessarily.”

Leadership working “remotely” at a condo in Destin. Engineering joking about buying mouse wigglers so they wouldn’t set off alarms with their computers being dormant (although that’s a shitty way of measuring productivity.” And then having to listen to group after group bitch about how unfair it was that they had to return to the office.

What id hoped we would learn is something like if I have an employee that has a sick kid, take your laptop and work from home for a day or two. We all put in a ton of hours, I don’t care if you stay home every once in a while because of family of personal stuff and don’t have to burn a personal day. No one’s ever telling me “Prez you’ve been here for 60 hrs this week, you need to go home.”

There are certain people that are able and equipped to work remotely. But the vast majority are not nearly as productive as they seem to believe. There are certain groups where I work that still work remotely two days a week. And when they aren’t onsite they don’t communicate. Call any of them on a remote day and the cell phone goes to voicemail. No return calls. And no one seems to care.

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We fired a long time employee last year because we found out he was spending most of the work day in his pool.

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How in the world did you discover this?

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In my experience the laziest employees are generally the ones sitting in their office at work or in a cube who enjoy dealing with office politics and commuting and water cooler bs.. usually they dont have much of a life outside of work .

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In my experience unsupervised employees for the most part, will do as little as possible. Yes, there are exceptions - outside salesman should never be in the office for example, they should be out selling and there livelihood should be based on what their production - bottom line.

But in my business I can tell you the guys I have to deal with that are working remotely, they take full advantage of being unsupervised.

You mean the generation that works circles around this one? Great argument, today’s generation is entitled and has a pathetic work ethic. I see it every day with young nurses and support staff