My company forced us all back into the office three days a week, but my entire team is based in different time zones. I spent $20 on a sad desk salad and an hour in traffic just to sit on Zoom calls in a gray cubicle while my coworkers are in their pajamas in California. The collaboration they promised is literally just me overhearing the sales team argue about their commissions. Is anyone else experiencing this weird, lonely version of RTO?

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Before Covid I had an office. A nice corner office. I was recently given an RTO mandate. My office was gone. Now I was to sit in a cube farm, and make a rezzi for the space each day, competing with other radishes for the best spaces. All of my reports were across the country, working from home as they were deemed not near enough to a major office. My client was 1500 miles away. My manager was 2000 miles away, working from home in his pjs.

Yet I was expected to commute 40 minutes each way to sit in a bullpen and do zoom calls. I didnt show up. I was warned. I didn’t show up. I was laid off. I rejoiced. I retired from this business which has become small, asinine and irrelevant on the cultural stage.

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yeah same. my company is globally dispersed so you don't always see the ppl you work with in person. i try to avoid ppl anyway and go to our 2nd office where most of marketing isn't there. get my badge swipe in, take a call or two and then leave.

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That’s exactly how I feel lol I’m the only one on my team in my city. So I commute to sit on calls with everyone else.

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