You tech guys have reading comprehension issues. I said the prima-donnas are the ones who threaten to quit if “forced” to work from the office a couple times a week. Think their skills are so unique, rare and irreplaceable that they can get any job they want. I see a lot of this attitude lately and it reminds me of the late 90s when engineers were hopping between multiple startups every few months chasing higher salary and stock options. Until the shit hit the fan.
Sure most employees would prefer to work at home in their pijamas all day, save gas, avoid rush hour traffic, jerk off during lunch break, etc. But the fact is corporate management is not in favor of that because they know it is not the most productive situation. That’s why they are calling their employees back to the office now that Covid is over. You guys can whine about it all you want, but it isn’t going to change the fact that fully remote work is going to be the exception, not the norm, going forward.[/quote]
Dz, there are lot of non-tech people on this thread responding to you about your assertions and generalizations being incorrect. But yet, you decided to collectively lump all these people all as tech workers. Besides generalizing wrong, it also does yet again suggest you have a ax to grind with tech workers, no different than previous BearishGurl having an ax to grind with college degreed people who bought homes in far flung North County with lizards and walls. Just saying…
And again, you are arguing with yourself. No one ever said remote work is going to be the norm for everyone and every company. Almost everyone said that some (NOT ALL) companies are going to adopt remote a remote option of varying degree, and that’s no longer going to be a trivial amount. The work environment has changed enough for enough companies to make a material difference to give some people options. Remote work is not without drawbacks, and individuals have to weigh the pros and cons like anything else. But even the adoption of a hybrid work environment makes a big difference because unlike before, that gives people that further away to obtain a job. Before, driving 2+hrs one way every day to a job might not be possible for some. But now with a hybrid model, that’s more obtainable for people that only have to do it for part of the week or part of the month. Real families with real commitments to kids for instance, with more job mobility further way, that opens the door to greater career and earning prospects. For instance, if an company in OC is offering 25% above comps at the inconvenience of making someone work 5-6 days out of the month, that might be worth it for a family at various stages and earnings in their life. If I was in my late 20ies or early 30ies, I wouldn’t mind doing it. I wouldn’t do it for now because I’d rather spend the extra time with my family and I don’t need the extra 25% pay bump if it means more hours of commute per month. But for others, it might be worth it. That also applies to all sorts of jobs. For instance lower paying clerical work. If someone currently makes $20/hrs and has to spend 1 hr each way each day commuting, but another company now offers those clerical jobs remotely for roughly the same pay, it makes sense for that person to switch jobs since an hourly making $20/hr, commute costs is a significant impact on their household income so why wouldn’t they take the remote job with the same pay. And companies that have a hard time finding in-person clerical workers, well they’ll have to pay more, say $25/hr, which is probably fair considering those people coming in have to commute. That’s solves a lot of problems with companies being in a expensive area like Sorrento Valley where people paid $20-25/hour probably can’t otherwise afford to live comfortably near it and the company can’t easily find people who are willing to drive longer distances for those jobs.
Beyond that, locally there appears to be a pretty good growth in new higher paying jobs in biotech and life sciences too.
I’m sorry if you feel like you’re getting left behind and feel a need to wish people who have a decent career prospects to lose their jobs in order for you to get ahead. Reality is that life most of the time isn’t a zero sum game, and most likely one is one’s worst enemy more than anyone else.
