#'y'know what would make this call center job better? 1hr+ commute each way and having to hear everyone else's calls too'-

[mayra-quijotescx]

[Image description: a flyer-style post titled STOP DOING OFFICES with the following bullet points: "WORK WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE 90 MINUTES BY CAR TO GET TO," "YEARS OF URBANIZATION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going to a different building to use the SAME INTERNET," "Wanted to do that anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that, it was called COFFEE SHOPS," "'Can you wrap up your call, we have this room booked' 'how do we get office parking reimbursed' - Statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged." The flyer continues: "LOOK at what corporations have been demanding your Respect for all this time with all the labor we have given them. (These are REAL FURNISHINGS found in REAL OFFICES.)" There are pictures of, in order, fluorescent light fixtures, workers in an 'open concept' office, and uneven office flooring. Each picture has an increasing amount of red question marks under it. "'Hello I would like to hear [image of headset] half of your Zoom call' They have played us for absolute fools." End description.]

Anyway, with apologies to Doc Wolverine on Twitter for more or less stealing his explanation, the reason is that corporations are trying to maintain office value because the properties were mortgaged for additional liquidity, and if the property value falls (because, for example, no one fucking needs it for the stated purpose anymore), bank liability, and thus mortgage payments, go up.

They want employees to pay for their batshit foolish financial decisions with their time and health.

by @spavel.bsky.social