Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

[Zoo_View]

I can only assume that the people who have their asses so chapped about people being able to work remotely are simply jealous losers. I can’t think of any other reasonable explanation to give a shit about where and how someone else does their job. Come to think of it, the people who give a shit about how and where other people do their jobs, are the exact same people who give a shit about other people’s genitals or sexual interests. Weird ass motherfuckers who need to get a life.

CFord,

How many days a week are you on the road?

Somehow, aside from meeting with clients and/or colleagues while on the road, you’re expected to get your job done.

 

[nycfan]

 

[CFordUNC]

I know nothing should shock me anymore, but I am genuinely shocked how depraved so many people are in our country that they would openly cheer job loss for people whom they do not know, people who have families and dependents who are fully reliant upon them, people who just wake up every day and go to work and try to do their best. You have to be an enormous twat of a human being to celebrate this kind of stuff.

 

[nycfan]

The authors of Project 2025

 

[CFordUNC]

CFord,

How many days a week are you on the road?

Somehow, aside from meeting with clients and/or colleagues while on the road, you’re expected to get your job done.

Great question. I’m on the road pretty much every week, anywhere from one to three days depending on the week. Occasionally it is four or five days but I would say most often it works out to be two full days on the road with a travel day mixed in. I do a ton of my non-client facing work in airport lounges, on the planes, in coffee shops between client meetings, and in my hotel room at night.

 

[ZenMode]

So, an article that (1) proves that the most popular model at the moment is a hybrid work model (not the 5-day, in-office mandate that Musk is championing), and (2) doesn't say anything about a full-time RTW mandate increasing productivity.

I said more and more companies are returning to work. That appears to be true. They are moving from full remote to hybrid or full time in the office.

 

[aGDevil2k]

Well, the company I work for gradually went back to working almost entirely in-office and turned working from home as a reward for top performers.

I have friends that work at two local companies, both of which are nationally known, that I've talked to about how they were approaching getting back into the office.

The building I work in has two floors leased by Amazon. A noticeable portion of their employees are back in the office, and several of our clients have expressed a desire to get their employees at least partially back in the office.

I had someone reach out to me this week for a job on linkedin. Beyond the salary being about a 30% paycut, the other perk was "after 3 years of employment, we offer options to occasionally work from home!"

I was polite when I rejected the outreach. But I added that I have worked for remote only or remote first companies for 10 years, now, and in the last decade of my career, it would have to be the most groundbreaking job to ever make me go back to an office.

And I am talking I get to just watch TV all day, zero responsibility, and get paid what I make now. Even that would be challenging to accept

 

[korgguy1971]

These are the "kitchen table issues that matter," of course. That oughtta bring down those grocery/egg prices. MAGA winning, as always.

 

[aGDevil2k]

I said more and more companies are returning to work. That appears to be true. They are moving from full remote to hybrid or full time in the office.

It's just the big names that are doing it....and it's big tech and FiServ that's doing it...

It's all propaganda to make it seem like it's the norm. Those are the companies that pay the ads for the media reporting on it.

 

[Unc12003]

I know nothing should shock me anymore, but I am genuinely shocked how depraved so many people are in our country that they would openly cheer job loss for people whom they do not know, people who have families and dependents who are fully reliant upon them, people who just wake up every day and go to work and try to do their best. You have to be an enormous twat of a human being to celebrate this kind of stuff.

The other thing about this whole thing for federal workers is a ton of federal jobs were already remote long before Covid. So now you’re gonna tell those people to go to an office that likely doesn’t even exist. So how does that work? You’re just firing them for working the way they have for a long time and people are cheering for it

 

[rodoheel]

I said more and more companies are returning to work. That appears to be true. They are moving from full remote to hybrid or full time in the office.

No, what you specifically said is "More and more companies are going back to working in office because of a lack of production." No one here is disputing that some employers are forcing return to work. What we are disputing is that (1) the decision is actually driven by a drop in production from remote work, or (2) in general, there is any legitimate support for the idea that in-person work is more productive.

 

[Zoo_View]

Great question. I’m on the road pretty much every week, anywhere from one to three days depending on the week. Occasionally it is four or five days but I would say most often it works out to be two full days on the road with a travel day mixed in. I do a ton of my non-client facing work in airport lounges, on the planes, in coffee shops between client meetings, and in my hotel room at night.

Somehow, you are productive while not in the office. It’s a miracle!

 

[mpaer]

I remember back in one of the "what do Professors do attacks"........Thad Beyle (RIP) was quoted as saying
" Some of my best ideas came while I was staring out the window "

 

[nycfan]

Trump fires two Democratic commissioners of agency that enforces civil rights laws​

Trump fires two Democratic commissioners of agency that enforces civil rights laws

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission terms are meant to overlap presidential terms to help ensure the agency's independence.

journalnow.com

"President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace, an unprecedented move aimed at implementing his crackdown on certain diversity and gender rights policies.

The two commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels, confirmed in statements Tuesday that they were fired late Monday. Both said they were exploring options to challenge their dismissals, calling their removal before the expiration of their five-year terms an unprecedented decision that undermines the agency's independence.

In a similar move, National Labor Relations Board member Gynne A. Wilcox and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo also were fired late Monday, the agency confirmed. Wilcox was the first Black woman to serve on that board since its inception in 1935, according to the NLRB website.

... The EEOC was created by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a bipartisan five-member panel to protect workers from discrimination on the basis of race, gender, disability and other protected characteristics. The U.S. president appoints the commissioners and the Senate confirms them, but their terms are staggered and are meant to overlap presidential terms to help ensure the agency's independence.

The two firings leave the agency with one Republican commissioner, Andrea Lucas, who Trump appointed acting EEOC chair last week, one Democratic commissioner, Kalpana Kotagal, and three vacancies that Trump can fill. Another Republican commissioner, Keith Sonderling, resigned after Trump appointed him deputy secretary of labor.

The EEOC panel investigates and imposes penalties on employers found to have violated laws that protect workers from racial, gender, disability and other forms of discrimination. The agency also writes influential rules and guidelines for how anti-discrimination laws should be implemented, and conducts workplace outreach and training...."

 

[ZenMode]

It's just the big names that are doing it....and it's big tech and FiServ that's doing it...

It's all propaganda to make it seem like it's the norm. Those are the companies that pay the ads for the media reporting on it.

The chart from rodoheel's link shows, at least as recently as 2022, that every industry tracked had a decrease in remote work from the previous year:

The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about dramatic changes in the work environment. Although 6.5 percent of workers in the private business sector worked primarily from home in 2019, the pandemic was the start of a massive experiment in full-time remote work for most workers and firms. People often...

www.bls.gov

 

[ZenMode]

No, what you specifically said is "More and more companies are going back to working in office because of a lack of production." No one here is disputing that some employers are forcing return to work. What we are disputing is that (1) the decision is actually driven by a drop in production from remote work, or (2) in general, there is any legitimate support for the idea that in-person work is more productive.

I mentioned above that your link showed a decrease in remote work from 2021 to 2022 in every industry tracked. I'm sure there are some exceptions for the reasons why companies are going back to in-office work but, unless companies simply enjoy paying for unnecessary infrastructure, what could it be besides production?

 

[lawtig02]

I know nothing should shock me anymore, but I am genuinely shocked how depraved so many people are in our country that they would openly cheer job loss for people whom they do not know, people who have families and dependents who are fully reliant upon them, people who just wake up every day and go to work and try to do their best. You have to be an enormous twat of a human being to celebrate this kind of stuff.

Right? I literally can’t believe the celebration we’re seeing over the idea that millions of people might be forced out of their jobs. The cancer in the GOP has fully metastasized now.

 

[CFordUNC]

Somehow, you are productive while not in the office. It’s a miracle!

AND I manage to shoot the shit with you fine folks all the while!

 

[CFordUNC]

Right? I literally can’t believe the celebration we’re seeing over the idea that millions of people might be forced out of their jobs. The cancer in the GOP has fully metastasized now.

It's stunning, man. I don't even know any other word for that kind of gleeful callousness.

 

[DiehardHeelFan]

The chart from rodoheel's link shows, at least as recently as 2022, that every industry tracked had a decrease in remote work from the previous year:

The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about dramatic changes in the work environment. Although 6.5 percent of workers in the private business sector worked primarily from home in 2019, the pandemic was the start of a massive experiment in full-time remote work for most workers and firms. People often...

www.bls.gov

Again, are many companies moving employees back to either hybrid or 5 day in office? Yes. Is the reason due to productivity? Majority of situations, no, it isn’t. Do they try to dress it up as that? Maybe. But studies show that’s a false narrative.