Plea from a plebe for some RTO perspective

Translation: STFU

I realize I’m going into the belly of beast, as I assume a high percentage of users here work in tech, but ya’ll need to cool it with this RTO hysteria. As an essential worker who has worked in office nearly everyday for the past 5 years, making a salary at a fraction of yours, the level of entitlement the masochist side of me has chosen to read through is galling. I realize that RTO does not benefit me either, I realize your industry is different than mine -that’s fine – but the whining is insufferable.

Let me start with the number one refrain on this sub: Amazon is doing this to force attrition. No love for Amazon from me, but you do realize that this gambit is a two-way street right? The only way this works is if Amazon employees feel so entitled to their WFH lifestyles that they choose to quit. I know, I know, going to the office is some 2019-era barbarism. But I and many other commoners (teachers, EMTs, social workers, bus drivers, etc) have somehow survived (well, those of us who didn’t die before vaccines became available). Is it because your paid so much more than us at your jobs that you’ve started to believe your personal time is also worth more than ours? Tone deaf is the term for it.

Next – you’re concerned about the environmental toll of commuting? You care so much about the environment that you (checks notes) chose to work at Amazon!? Do you think you can fool us with this – do you think we get paid commensurate to our brain function. You DGAF about the environmental toll – you hate spending time commuting – that’s fair, we don’t love it either – just don’t gaslight us and pretend to take some moral high ground about it. Also, generally stop complaining about your commute. You work in one of the most lucrative (overpaid) sectors, one that allows you to live in basically any neighborhood in the city. Your office is well served by transit. If your commute is too long, chances are that was a matter of choice. The worst offenders are those who have shamelessly shared how you moved out of the metro entirely, taking your inflated Seattle salary to a small town contributing to their affordability crisis. Have you no shame? (clearly not).

*intended tone is slightly playful, but mostly angry ranting.