hahaha I love how ass hat CxOs VPxs still believe that people at a desk in an office means work gets done.... lol. I see people at their desks still achieving diddly squat.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
516 points (98.7% liked)
News
32975 readers
2668 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I mostly work from home ever since Covid. But I live reasonably close to the office and go in every once in a while. Usually it's for something like "team building" or meeting some people deemed "VIPs" (lol) or whatever the fuck. It's not always voluntary.
I have to mentally steel myself for getting very little done on days when I'm in the office. And nearly everyone else I work with does the same thing. It actually adds to the stress because that work load doesn't get any lighter for not being able to get to it.
The reason for all the lack of work? Well, there are longer in-person lunches. There are all the impromptu "pop-ins", the hallway chats, the talk while waiting for some coffee, the extra meetings on the schedule because "in person", etc...all that adds up to very little planned work getting moved forward. You might say there are the benefits of catching up and the occasional serendipity from a random snatch of conversation you eavesdropped on, etc.
While doing this a few times a year might have some benefits (but hard to quantify), I'm quite sure it's not worth doing every day, so I don't. Thankfully I have the option.
CxOs and VPxs have more money that they know what to do with. It isn't about getting work done, it's about making you miserable.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I don't get it. Why would it matter that Teams knows where you are working? If you need to hide from your coworkers or your boss then maybe it's time to change company?
On the other hand: if Teams is using Wifi to correlate your position you could mess with it by exchanging the access point positions, ie exchange your bosses AP with the one in the cellar.
I can see one legitimate application for this, specifically for accountability during an emergency. It's one more thing to tell whomever is checking where to look for people and only if it's actually reliable. I doubt that it would be reliable enough.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Sounds useful? Weird to imply the purpose of this is to expose people not in the office. The people who care about that already know.
load more comments
(7 replies)
Then I guess I'll always be not at work
You not working?
AWS down
Oh ok, don't worry
Good luck with that. I work from home, use the unofficial Linux client for Teams and my status is always offline. 😆
I despise this software so much. The boss seems to be at least a bit open to ditching it, but I haven't fully convinced him yet. 🥹
My boss knows I work from home. Get wrecked Teams
Teams once again continuing to undermine it's own existence by using even more stupid tricks to force people into the office.
If you want me in the office then don't force me to use tools that would allow me to do my job from anywhere.
I'm sure if you really wanted to, you could still somehow spoof your location.
Jokes on you Teams, my boss doesn't care