The Death Of The Office, At Last
Never has such an instrument of torture been so wholly embraced by the workforce out of pure habit alone.
Progressive engineers working in the Grand Game of Software Engineering will rightly take every opportunity to detail the dysfunctional management hierarchy they have to endure, the bizarre, unproductive, and frankly useless software development methodologies that they’re forced to use, and the utter inhumanity of programs presented (with a straight face) as “wellbeing” by Human Resources.
Most of these exercises in worker punishment are easier to enforce in person and therefore in an office environment, something that with the gradual and inevitable move to remote working over the past few years has thankfully become less easy to inflict on long suffering employees.
Unfortunately some of our Grand Tribe do have to occasionally traverse traffic, buses, trains, and worst of all other people (Sartre FTW) and venture in on our own time and with our own dime to the dreadful and anachronistic construction known as the corporate office.
Whether they’d agreed to a “hybrid” solution or are attending to placate some middle manager or other who can’t handle the technical details of in-person customer interaction on their own, from time to time they will be dropped into the situation where they have to go to a…
