Thread regarding PNC layoffs

Time for a Sit Out! Tech All Hands was the final straw!

Part of the American dream is to get a job and earn an income. In reality this job is costing me more than the income can provide because of a RTO policy that the executives can’t even bother to acknowledge a single question about. (Remember the Q&A admin was removing them during our town hall) .

3 months in to this ridiculous RTO and I have spent so much money just to make ends meet. Daycare costs, a second vehicle just to get to daycare, gas, additional insurance, and time away from family have put me in the red week after week since mid May. Retirement contributions will probably stop soon. I have about 4 vacation days remaining because I had to use so many just to handle personal life. I never had to do that while remote. I can’t remember the last time I sat down and had a home cooked dinner with my family. Not a single executive is struggling from RTO side-effects. Regardless if their position is in-person only. They get the chauffeur and a security detail, if not they get a fat paycheck that makes up the difference. We are struggling. We are burning out. We are in debt. We are on the brink of collapse. Town hall was circlej3rk session about stock performance and a 5 minute q&a where we learned about one of bills favorite books. Recent tech all hands avoided questions like the plague. If you can’t provide us answers and solutions to your own policy then why should we comply? We will sit out RTO and become more productive doing what we were doing in our remote lives. We must band together and sit out as a whole.

Side note — stock price doesn’t reflect workplace morale/efficiency/product quality.


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Post ID: @OP+1m081p7h4

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@bn Spoken like someone who knows they can’t get employed anywhere else.

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Post ID: @c6+1m081p7h4

Just don't go in then. Does your manager actually track where you are? Have they asked where you work?

Most managers have already started to stop caring in tech.

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Post ID: @bw+1m081p7h4

@a3 Spoken like a true manager.
"...leave and get a different job"
I would like to live in your world where I can strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into Jobland where jobs grow on jobbies

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Post ID: @bn+1m081p7h4

@am

Maybe I misinterpreted your post. I took it as:

(just stop complaining and) Work for your day. We’re all adults here (so start acting like it).

Apologies if that wasn't the intent.

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Post ID: @b6+1m081p7h4

It all seems like bs. Most arent in, nothing is happening. I only hope they notice how bad things are now. Rto and new Snow, its been ugly very recently.

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Post ID: @az+1m081p7h4

@ae so let me get this straight you are calling me a bootlicker because I am looking out for myself first and foremost instead of complying with HR and coming in 5 days a week? Is this some new spin where actual bootlickers call everyone who isn’t a bootlicker a bootlicker?

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Post ID: @am+1m081p7h4

@a7

Nope, bootlicker. I'm following enterprise priorities that value seat-warming over productivity. I will give what's required and not a bit more...find a way to live with it. It's not changing any time soon.

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Post ID: @ae+1m081p7h4

@a8 scare tactic email? like the one that went out in Jan or did a more recent one come out regarding those who don’t comply? I am in mostly 5x a week all day; unless i have a legit reason to WFH, but my floor is empty so i am sitting alone

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Post ID: @ac+1m081p7h4

@a3 probably because the market is terrible and OP would lose even more money without a job. Op is in a tough situation

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Post ID: @a9+1m081p7h4

The floor is half empty most days. It's up to you if the scare tactic email compels you to come in.

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Post ID: @a8+1m081p7h4

Work for your day. We’re all adults here.

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Post ID: @a7+1m081p7h4

@a3 but you don’t have to leave. If you work in tech and want to leave because RTO doesn’t work for you leadership told managers to let those people wfh so they don’t leave. I personally cannot come in 5 days per week because of family commitments so I just wfh on this days, get more work done than I would in office and go in on days where we have more team ceremonies. There is zero reason to upend your life because of RTO. Take care of yourself first because trust me no one else is going to do that for you.

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Post ID: @a4+1m081p7h4

We all have a choice. None of us may like RTO and the easiest way to show dissatisfaction is to leave and get a different job. @OP - what stops you from leaving? You’re clearly not happy.

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