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Jauwn
@Jauwnio
youtube.com/@jauwn
playing some of the worst games so you don't have to
steamcommunity.com/id/JAUWN/
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Joined November 2022
Time to become unsponsorable VPNs are useless for 99.9% of people and streaming services are starting to not allow you to use them. They do not make your connection more "secure", they only mask the IP address you're connecting from. And many of them keep logs anyway,- How can Windows default search feature be so incompetent, but a random freeware program made by one person in their free time can find a file hidden 25 folders deep in an external drive in 4 seconds?
- Replying to @JauwnioNo more YouTube, no more side hustles, nothing. Your life is about working for a company who will eliminate your role the second you start making too much money. Fuck that, I've only got one life, and this is NOT how I want to spend it.
- Replying to @JauwnioThe response? Essentially, kick rocks. "This is the new rule. No exceptions." Of course, followed by the typical spread of corporate buzzwords. "We can collaborate and innovate better in office!" Important to note; I love my job.
- Replying to @Jauwnio"Everyone else on my team is located hundreds of miles away from an office, with half of them being located in India. It makes no sense for us to come in, in fact, it would only make me work less as I'd now be commuting during the only overlap I have with my offshore team"
- Replying to @JauwnioMy entire team is fully remote, and the nearest office to me is an hour and a half drive. This didn't make sense to me.
- Replying to @Jauwnio"Please let me know when my last day will be so I can inform my team" That wasn't what they wanted to hear. Within an hour, the message had been passed up the chain. Leadership was not happy. "What an asshole. This guy really thinks he's that special?"
- Replying to @JauwnioThe entire company has been working remote for years now. We even won an award for "sustainability" thanks to our efforts to take thousands of commuters off the road, and we sold our high rise offices in expensive cities. We're a tech company, why not?
- Replying to @JauwnioApparently, the company determined which employees were to come back to office based on a circle drawn around each of our 10 offices. My new apartment is right on the edge of one circle, meaning I must now go into the office. Confused, I sent a message to HR.
- Replying to @JauwnioThis sudden change is a patchwork fix to an overarching problem with the company. Bad decisions, clueless leadership, and acquisition after acquisition has left us reporting losses quarterly. In turn, the stock price has plummeted.
- Replying to @Jauwnio... and failure to comply will result in termination." Fine. I'm not going to drive an hour and a half each way, sit in mind-numbing traffic, contribute to pollution, and pay more in taxes. So like the smart-ass I am, I responded with a succinct message.
- Replying to @JauwnioHR actually never responded to my original message, and I had only heard about the fallout of my snarky reply through the grapevine. As I would soon learn, I was far from the only person refusing to return (or in my case, begin).
- Replying to @JauwnioI've been working with a small team that I've enjoyed leading through some very interesting situations in my time here. We're the underfunded, underpaid, middle children of the corporate conglomerate, but we get our jobs done and our clients are happy.