In the almost 20 years I've worked here management has always likes to blow it own ho-n about work life balance. On my immediate manager level over the years they have always been very accommodating and have been very grateful for that. Now we have a CEO who is insisting we return to the office during Covid-19. Where is the work life balance if I'm dead and who is going to take care of my invalid spouse, or I bring it home but survive and my spouse dies? What life do I have left after over 30 years of being together? Breakthrough cases rare? It doesn't matter if I lose that lottery and frankly I don't trust what the CDC says about this. Too many reports in N.E. Florida of vaccinated passing away from Covid-19 and additional nasty variants coming.
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They balanced employee health concerns about an airborne deadly virus pandemic against their only official reason given for return (spontaneous water cooler conversations), and they found that hallway chit-chat was the more important of the two. Considering how they run the operations areas (Less conversation and walking around! Get back to work!) it's amazing that this company can make a single dollar in profit with this kind of logic steering the ship. (But we know the real truth is to get people to quit on their own. No payouts. Operating expenses going down makes the boss excited.)
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OMG as a new hire, I'm sooooooooooo regretful that I chose this company among a few other offers.