“They're just stressing people to come up with lists of who to fire if they don't quit first’: Company forces employees back to an unworkable office with missing equipment, non-functional workspaces, and zero effort to support them

After years of record-breaking success achieved by working from home, employees of a very successful company were herded back to the office this week under the banner of "face-to-face collaboration" because, apparently, the one thing holding humanity back is the inability to bond over broken office equipment and shared misery. What management failed to mention was that the office they were returning to wasn't exactly functional—or even recognizable.

Imagine convincing someone they should ditch their cozy couch and TV for a night at the theater, only to arrive and find there's no stage, no seats, and the "show" is just two people arguing in the dark. Or insisting someone dine at a fancy restaurant instead of grabbing takeout, only to walk in and discover the place has no tables, no staff, and the only food available is a beat-up box of donuts with a half-eaten one inside. Now you understand the vibe of this RTO rollout.

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Employees weren’t greeted with fanfare, welcome-back speeches, or even basic functionality. Instead, managers staked their claim to random cubicle clusters like pirates fighting over island treasure. Desks were barren, monitors scavenged from unoccupied workstations, and cables were non-existent—unless you felt like digging through a community box of tangled wires, broken dreams, and what appeared to be a phone charger from 2006. Meanwhile, the single trash can on the floor overflowed by noon, standing proudly as the official mascot of workplace decay.
"Here's how forced RTO went this week."

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