Yeah my company is sniffing around on this for the fourth time in a year. I told them the day they hired me there was zero fucking way I was going to drive 90 minutes across town to sit in a shitty cube with an eye bleeder monitor while users come fuck with me all day. I was going to turn down the gig entirely, before they buckled. And since I hurt my back, I am even less interested in this bullshit. I don't need the stress, so I am actively looking. Good fucking luck finding someone who does what I do fully unsupervised, let alone at the modest pay rate I get. My manager better be really ready to do his fucking job again leading the team, because I am already set to pull the trigger if he pushes this shit again.
And its entirely so he can feel like a big swinging dick when he comes into the office, not for any logistical reason. You want a physical presence at the office with you to gargle your balls, fine you have two year one techs and all the ass kissers you hired to keep stroking your ego who collectively get less done than I do. Leave me the fuck alone to do my job. Austin is doing it because its mostly Cali style millenial shitheels with no work ethic in the tech workforce there, who have to be watched like the children they are. Plus middle managers are getting really nervous and need RTO to obfuscate how worthless they are.
I had played this game of using recruiters I know he uses to send a message to him about this shit, but he won't fucking learn. Inertia and QoL are the only reasons I stay at this gig. I got five interview requests the day I changed my status on Linked In from white recruiters, not pajeets. Fuck it I will jump ship for more pay. Probably less work, too. Then my boss can explain how he ran out the 25+ year IT vet who was doing all the training, workflow, bridge calls, and mentoring because he wanted to see my fucking face daily to his CTO who is already pissed at his inability to keep the place staffed. I bet that convo will go well.