Twice when I was growing up my father got hit with one of these forced relocation deals. Both times he took it, and both times the company downsized and laid him off within 18 months. That was fun.
COVID should have taught managers the many benefits of letting people work remote. Instead, they're insisting on dragging people back in. "THE SCIENCE," combined with oh-so-typical corporate dithering, has dragged this out interminably, but all the little people are most certainly coming back to their cubes where they can be overseen by their bosses who are almost never in the office themselves.
I was deemed "essential" in my last job, so I had to continue pretending to work onsite - but at night, because social distancing - through the worst of the pandemic while management went home for six months. The reason I finally bailed was that I got pulled out of my private office and "temporarily" assigned to a hot desk in a customer-site fishbowl. I'd been gaslit enough by my manager to know that I wasn't coming back and the promised additional responsibilities wouldn't materialize. That company has had a hilarious amount of turnover in the last 12 months - even the dead weight has had enough - but nobody in leadership is committed to the problem, so there are no fixes offered and no consequences paid. Eventually that whole business unit, which had been a license to print money, will collapse on itself and the people responsible will fail upward.
Corporate life really is modern serfdom. You don't matter unless you're connected.
Kinda makes me glad I’ve been in a county IT position for 29 years this October. I’ve dealt with, and have to deal with people who are not in the least bit qualified to get up in the morning, tie their shoelaces, and take a pee, as one Sheriff Beauford T. Justice so eloquently stated, but it sure beats fearing the 8am Monday morning Email saying that your employment is hereby terminated!
If anyone is waiting to "get promoted" to get the raise you need to live the lifestyle you want, you are wasting your time. Modern corporations have less that zero loyalty to you and your talents. The faster you learn how to control and monetize you own intellectual property - whatever it is - the faster you can obtain your own freedom. You will need to learn the real art of modern survival - the ability to get your own clients. You will be laid off or fired one day anyway - learn how to do this BEFORE you are forced to.
According to LinkedIn, Ms. Peluso is now with CVS, having left IBM in 2021 after five years. Bravo Jack, you called it correctly once again! Or should we instead say “saw it happening for the fiftieth or so time”?
Ha, yeah, I immediately did the same DuckDuckGo search. She spent exactly five years at two companies in a row, joining in February and leaving right before the 5th anniversary. Totally not coupled to executive compensation packages or anything. Very circumstantial. Happenstance.
I don't think I've seen a better example of Unworthy of Command.
It was people like this who destroyed our manufacturing economy, and who should be hunted down, tried & sentenced to live the lives they've imposed on those below them.
There must have been some Gartner study proclaiming the wonders of locating downtown sometime in 2016. The company I work for did something similar around that time. New-Hired-Externally-CEO got together with 2-3 other C-Suite denizens and decided to sell our 500 acre suburban corporate campus (since around 1970) to relocate corporate HQ 30 miles away in downtown Seattle. Conveniently this new building was three blocks from his downtown condo. I'm told he was quite shocked at the overwhelmingly negative employee reaction. Who wouldn't want to add an hour's commute by bus to work two blocks from three different homeless shelters?
Fast forward to the COVID years and a significant percentage of the IT department has no intention of going back to the office. A high enough percentage that the new policy is that you have to live in a state where we have an office.
Twice when I was growing up my father got hit with one of these forced relocation deals. Both times he took it, and both times the company downsized and laid him off within 18 months. That was fun.
COVID should have taught managers the many benefits of letting people work remote. Instead, they're insisting on dragging people back in. "THE SCIENCE," combined with oh-so-typical corporate dithering, has dragged this out interminably, but all the little people are most certainly coming back to their cubes where they can be overseen by their bosses who are almost never in the office themselves.
I was deemed "essential" in my last job, so I had to continue pretending to work onsite - but at night, because social distancing - through the worst of the pandemic while management went home for six months. The reason I finally bailed was that I got pulled out of my private office and "temporarily" assigned to a hot desk in a customer-site fishbowl. I'd been gaslit enough by my manager to know that I wasn't coming back and the promised additional responsibilities wouldn't materialize. That company has had a hilarious amount of turnover in the last 12 months - even the dead weight has had enough - but nobody in leadership is committed to the problem, so there are no fixes offered and no consequences paid. Eventually that whole business unit, which had been a license to print money, will collapse on itself and the people responsible will fail upward.
Corporate life really is modern serfdom. You don't matter unless you're connected.
Kinda makes me glad I’ve been in a county IT position for 29 years this October. I’ve dealt with, and have to deal with people who are not in the least bit qualified to get up in the morning, tie their shoelaces, and take a pee, as one Sheriff Beauford T. Justice so eloquently stated, but it sure beats fearing the 8am Monday morning Email saying that your employment is hereby terminated!
If anyone is waiting to "get promoted" to get the raise you need to live the lifestyle you want, you are wasting your time. Modern corporations have less that zero loyalty to you and your talents. The faster you learn how to control and monetize you own intellectual property - whatever it is - the faster you can obtain your own freedom. You will need to learn the real art of modern survival - the ability to get your own clients. You will be laid off or fired one day anyway - learn how to do this BEFORE you are forced to.
According to LinkedIn, Ms. Peluso is now with CVS, having left IBM in 2021 after five years. Bravo Jack, you called it correctly once again! Or should we instead say “saw it happening for the fiftieth or so time”?
Ha, yeah, I immediately did the same DuckDuckGo search. She spent exactly five years at two companies in a row, joining in February and leaving right before the 5th anniversary. Totally not coupled to executive compensation packages or anything. Very circumstantial. Happenstance.
I don't think I've seen a better example of Unworthy of Command.
It was people like this who destroyed our manufacturing economy, and who should be hunted down, tried & sentenced to live the lives they've imposed on those below them.
5 years later she is at CVS phramacy. And oddly enough CVS pharmacy, at least in my neck of the woods, has become complete and utter trash.
Five years on, Ms. Peluso has moved on to another group of laborers to smile over.
Michelle Peluso
Chief Customer Officer of CVS Health and Co-President of CVS Pharmacy
LULZ!
There must have been some Gartner study proclaiming the wonders of locating downtown sometime in 2016. The company I work for did something similar around that time. New-Hired-Externally-CEO got together with 2-3 other C-Suite denizens and decided to sell our 500 acre suburban corporate campus (since around 1970) to relocate corporate HQ 30 miles away in downtown Seattle. Conveniently this new building was three blocks from his downtown condo. I'm told he was quite shocked at the overwhelmingly negative employee reaction. Who wouldn't want to add an hour's commute by bus to work two blocks from three different homeless shelters?
Fast forward to the COVID years and a significant percentage of the IT department has no intention of going back to the office. A high enough percentage that the new policy is that you have to live in a state where we have an office.
Disappointed you didn’t use “fiscally and physically”