I think I just tanked an interview

[Aqua Letifer]

Well, it's real now.

We're having an all-staff meeting tomorrow to discuss, on a personal level, how working remotely has been working out for everyone so that management can learn, and listen, and better accommodate everyone's needs moving forward.

I know my company. We'll be forced to return to work very soon. Which means I'll be out of work very soon. It's not because I'm stubborn, it's because I work in an office with very small, open cubicles, full of people with absolutely no common sense. Three of them still think this whole thing is a democrat hoax. I have to have regular meetings with some of these people. So, I'm going to opt out.

I also spoke with my old boss today. He's anxious to get something started. And it sounds like they'd pay me monthly, which would help keep them honest. It won't pay all the bills, not even close, but it would help me extend my savings. Any port in a storm.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in I think I just tanked an interview:

urn to work very soon. Which means I'll be out of work very soon. It's not because I'm stubborn, it's because I work in an office with very small, open cubicles, full of people with absolutely no common sense. Three of them still think this whole thing is a democrat hoax. I have to have regular meetings with some of these people. So, I'm going to opt out.
I also spoke with my old

Never heard back from the last company?

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in I think I just tanked an interview:

@Aqua-Letifer said in I think I just tanked an interview:

urn to work very soon. Which means I'll be out of work very soon. It's not because I'm stubborn, it's because I work in an office with very small, open cubicles, full of people with absolutely no common sense. Three of them still think this whole thing is a democrat hoax. I have to have regular meetings with some of these people. So, I'm going to opt out.
I also spoke with my old

Never heard back from the last company?

Nope, ghosted me. Expected.

[LuFins Dad]

Get a haircut and some real clothes and come work for me.

[Mik]

Not necessarily. Your company could be using this as a face saving device to allow work from home. Especially if you organize the troops to rebel. You know they don’t want to go back. You guys are the product. If they don’t have you they are out of business.

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in I think I just tanked an interview:

Get a haircut and some real clothes and come work for me.

Ask me again in a month, man! Things are about to slide in all directions.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in I think I just tanked an interview:

Not necessarily. Your company could be using this as a face saving device to allow work from home. Especially if you organize the troops to rebel. You know they don’t want to go back. You guys are the product. If they don’t have you they are out of business.

Maybe, but highly doubtful. Our dept. head fired my co-worker for saying he would have to work remotely until June. This was apparently unacceptable. Even though, y'know, it's fucking August and we're still working remotely. But the point is, mentioning it got him fired.

My old boss mentioned in our team meeting today that because of her loss of child care, she wouldn't be able to return quickly if asked to. Our dept. head was visibly pissed about this. If management had it their way, they'd absolutely force us all to go back tomorrow.

The problem is the number of hoaxers and sheeple working there. I don't know if we have the clout required to be taken seriously. Things don't look good.

[Mik]

No matter what they think, surely they don’t want to start commuting again.

[Doctor Phibes]

They're going to have to change the way they think or they'll end up on the scrapheap. There's no way things are going back to the way they were. Covid is going to be to home-offices what the world wars were to women in the workplace.

[Mik]

Truth.