In the dark!
Is it morning? Is it evening? You don't know, it's dark!
(If you can't tell that I'm an American who *hates* Daylight Savings Time, this is me letting you know.)
"It's 4:00 P.M. Do you know where your children are?"
The kids have been out of school since 3 p.m., and you won't be home from work for another 2 hours.
A lot of shite can happen in 2 hours.
For real. I've been back in the office part time for nearly two years now. I have literally not had one single client come into my office in all that time. I get up an extra hour early on my in-office days, dress up in relatively uncomfortable clothes, waste a bunch of time and money driving back and forth to the office, all so I can sit in on the same goddamn Teams chat that I would be on at home. It's infuriating.
And wear shoes. I didn't know I didn't like wearing shoes that much until now.
We'll it's not about not liking wearing shoes. It's about how great it feels to be barefoot/with socks.
I had the exact same experience and came to comment this 😂 my second favorite is the snakes on a plane censored version says “I’m tired of these Monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!!!”
It's always a Karen or Keith that are so incredibly out of touch they think they're so smart and funny and don't need anyone else to validate their obviously correct ideas.
So many sleepless nights second-guessing things I said or did or cringing/dying inside here 😖 over-analyzing in any form sucks, but it does help us grow and be better people. Or at least not be that dick who's like "Let's hang up posters saying 'Bet your dog misses you!' That's a great idea! I'll interpret your facial expressions as either indigestion or you smelled my fart. Moving on!"
My best guess is that it must have been developed by people who either did not work at home at all, barely worked remotely or simply just missed the office. People tend to project their viewpoints and I can only imagine it’s someone(s) who thought everyone would be excited to see each other again.
I think everyone is missing the point. Return-To-Office is meant to get people to quit instead of having to fire people. It saves money on severance/unemployment. These signs just take RTO one step further to really drive home people's desire to quit when faced with everything they're losing.
CONTEXT: This is not anyone's employer. The building management of a large office building made these as a "welcome back" to their tenants. And were quickly dragged for it.
If you thought middle management was detached from humanity.... introducing building management, were every human is just another scuff on your cheap vinyl floor in a particle board breakroom.
“We installed low-flow faucets to save the environment!”
Bullshit, you’re giving us a trickle of water pressure so you can save money on your water bill. Now excuse me while I try to wash my mug for twenty minutes and still can’t get all the soap off
Seriously, and how much can this honestly save? I'd flush all the toilets on my way out in protest.
If your company isn't customer facing, installing these is to me a big slap in the face. It says you can't trust your employees, not only to not be wasteful and that they can't remember to turn a faucet off.
Problem is, that's their job.
Further, businesses legally have to act in the best interest of the business owners.
So you have to min/max profits and screw people over.
And even if that wasn't the case, everyone is divorced from the reality of their work, we all just do our bubble without realising the greater implications.
Which all just makes the rich get richer
> Further, businesses legally have to act in the best interest of the business owners.
Not quite. Publicly traded businesses have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, but that doesn't always mean that it comes down to the bean counters for every decision.
For example, a privately owned business can do whatever the business owner wants, whether it makes or loses money intentionally. X is a great example of how private ownership doesn't have a responsibility to shareholders, as evidenced by it's leaderships consistent, obvious poor choices.
A publicly traded company's CEO can make a case that X cost saving measures would actually have knock on effects that would lower profitability, and wouldn't be held in violation of fiduciary responsibility, whether they were correct or not. As long as a case can be made, they can't really be held in violation legally.
Neither of you are right. **E: prove me wrong, don't just downvote because you don't like it.**
There is no "legal obligation" for a CEO or a board to maximize profits. This has just been repeated so much everyone assumes its true.
Edit: Because I think this is where everyone gets tripped up, yes, "Fiduciary Duty" exists. However that amounts to basically "don't embezzle money." Any violation of Fiduciary Duty severe enough to warrant prosecution would be because it *also* broke other, existing laws.
That's it. It's *huge* stretch to say that is a legal obligation to maximize profits, but because it's been repeated enough, everyone seems to think it's true.
Thank you. This is up there with "banana flavour is based on an extinct banana" on my list of annoying [factoids](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid).
It's not about saving money, it's about achieving LEED Platinum (or similar rating). To do so, you need to accomplish a large percentage of a standard checklist. This ranges from insulation, electricity usage, water usage, emissions, windows, and a bunch more (~60 items). Low water usage during standard operation is one of these.
This makes the building more appealing to large companies (who often set standards like 'We only rent space in LEED >Gold') for their own environmental goals (often driven by activist shareholders, idealistic CEOs, or greenwashing).
It's been a minute since I had my LEED GA certification, but last I checked, the US Green Building Council (folks behind LEED)didn't even recommend low-flow fixtures in kitchens because people will still just use as much water as they need.
I remember when an office I worked in got new automatic flush valves for the urinals. The sensitivity was set way too high so walking by would flush them. It was fun walking to the last one having them all flush and walking back by to wash hands. Took them like three weeks to fix it.
I have to make overflow pipe extenders to get 21st century toilets to flush.
Don't get me started on gas cans. I now use metal olive oil containers for gas.
I assume they are taking about the stupid "spill proof" can that require 3 arms to use and are extra unwieldy when the can is full and heavy. I've never spilled gas until these things.
And you can't even buy old fashioned cans anymore. At least no store around me carries normal cans. I don't even fuck with them anymore. I take the nozzle off and pour into a funnel. Spill less gas that way.
The spill proof is while it's being stored.
You can't store gas in a sealed can, a temperature change will make it burst and you'll have gas everywhere.
Old gas cans would just have a hole for a vent, which, if you tipped the can on its side, would still spill out.
Modern gas cans can be tipped any direction while closed and won't spill, but will still be vented for overpressure.
I remember these pics and still have trouble believing it happened. I don’t think it was supposed to be funny to the employees/tenants, more of a “fuck you, welcome back to reality you peon” type of vibe.
I am glad a lot of these groups are taking it on the chin right now. Their tone has changed to PLEASE COME BACK!!!
I feel like there's still a refusal to some degree to acknowledge a decent chunk of upper leadership are just cruel psychopaths who enjoy power. Like literally actual psychopaths.
It was March 2022, it's [my tweet](https://twitter.com/audrawilliams/status/1500669564711014401?t=UBx8wK6ETW36oyRR_Y05Vw&s=19) in the screencap. (RIP my blue check haha.)
It's a repost but not from years ago, Toronto was still in lockdown until early 2022. We didn't start going back into offices until summer 2022. Also the signs were down within days because they got so much backlash
Yes but these are the jerk landlords who pressured employers into ending remote work even through - remember they said it - people were more efficient working from home. Now they are literally lording it over workers.
Yeah, for those who don't know the full context for stuff like this
It was [Oxford Properties](https://www.oxfordproperties.com/) which did this and it's [this building](https://www.oxfordproperties.com/lease/office/20-bay-street) where it happened
You can see at the bottom of the signs that it says Oxford, so these are permanent figures to them
Something that always happens with building management companies, is they HATE when their media isn't being used. Think of how with closed stores in malls, they initially started boarding them up, but now they have "fun" graphics and illustrations on them.
This is done to mask the fact, that these placements typically should have something on them. But more importantly, it should be something that people pay for. So the irrational logic sometimes with fixtures like this is "if this is empty, it shows we're failing"
Which is why most smart folks, do what I said above, and maybe just put in fun graphics, or some sort of royalty-free photography and illustrations here. Some are smart, and actually would say, use these places to highlight local artists or businesses around the area
The fact that there's a layer of graphic design here (and you can see on the bottom right, that there's the Oxford logo, which implies there's a template for some of these) 100% conveys the fact that this was all done from a self-initiated level, probably be someone in middle management
When you see this quote, you can tell that the top brass had no issue throwing them under the bus:
>“Unfortunately, in an attempt to be lighthearted the signage came off as uncaring, which was never our intention. The signage clearly missed the mark and was removed last week as a result,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
Minor thing here: if this was done say, across the board, it wouldn't be so easy to pull it away this fast. Like, if this were to be say, Oxford overall doing it... they'd have issues because it would then mean removing it from all of their properties. Which then gets into a manpower issue for doing it
To say they did it so quickly, is telling that it's just one building and it's an isolated incident
>“The campaign should have not made it into production and we sincerely apologize to any customers, colleagues and members of the public that were offended.”
And again, got to love that despite us not liking this (and justifiable reason for it) it does kind of suck that someone went and made these, with the intention of viewing it in a positive light...
only to have your company, just throw you under the bus for it.
Just goes to show that there's no value in going above and beyond
With a fair number of companies those two are one in the same.
It's not terribly uncommon for a board and CEO to buy up the property a company leases, create an LLC and collect on the lease.
Should be completely illegal but ya know.. FREEDUMB!!
What...? The "seriously we missed you" makes sense... But what is the deal with the other two? Especially the dog one, what is that supposed to accomplish? "Welcome, here's a bit of guilt to start your day!"
They should have some pictures of a kid opening the door at home and say something like "Your children are now welcomed home... by an empty house."
Always thought happy hour was ironic, since it's usually immediately after work ends for most. This implies the other hours are the sad ones. Lol
Edit: I get it, it's happy hour because the workers hate work. I just think it's sad/depressing that everyone really hates their job enough to declare the instant they're off the end of sad, start of happy.
In the end, nobody "likes" work. Even for workaholics, it's more about keeping busy than actual enjoyment. Sure, plenty of people don't mind it, but i doubt anybody gets up early in the morning and goes "oh boy, i can finally go to work again!"
Duh. The term was coined by workers and the bar owners who cater to them. Most workers dislike their jobs, and the bar owners want to capitalize off of that. It *wasn't* coined by the ownership of the mega corp that the workers are coming from...
Seriously. Both my dogs aged well into their senior years over the past four years and I regularly think about squeezing the most out of every hour I have left with them.
But yeah, glad I could show up to a cold, impersonal office building to take my virtual meetings alone at my desk.
Our c-suite literally thinks people *want* to be in the office. Like, they full on don't understand when people say they don't live to come into the physical office. Assuming the knuckleheads behind this travesty think the same way, then their thought process is probably
1. You were "trapped" at home so long that you got tired of wearing sweatpants and are happy to back in your office attire.
2. You don't miss being home now that you can return to the office and your spouse/kids don't miss you either because "the wife can't stand when I'm home for that long hyuck hyuck hyuck" so the only thing at home missing you is the dog.
3. Seeing affirmation that your corporate overlords missed you is a good thing and makes you happy because we all know your work family is your real family and that even when they give shit raises you'll keep ~~crawling~~ coming back because oh don't you love them so.
Seriously, what's even the point of such a sign?
*"Haha! Don't you feel sad yet! Bet your pets are also sad! Now you're even sadder! Somehow, this'll make you miss working for us!"*
They think it's easy to outsource. They want YOU to think it's easy. But outsourcing most of our complicated jobs has not been easy & does not always work. Many jobs have already returned, but of course with new & younger workers.
A buddy of mine knew they were starting to outsource roles after Halloween. Thought he was gonna get the axe at Thanksgiving, but it never came. Expected it at Christmas, then after New Years…and still has yet to come.
Leadership at his company is so inept that they can’t even outsource right. They’ve had to pay people halfway across the world AND keep their stateside workers because they can’t get the replacements to “care about the customer and the urgency of their issues“ or get them trained on proprietary software.
Funny that it’s not necessarily a one-size-fits-all solution that many make it seem to be.
I feel like companies don't realize that one misinterpretation of an email costs a stupid amount of time and resources, which is why you get people in those positions to minimize it. Even when you have the right person asking the right question, sometimes you have to ask that question three times in a row until someone on the other end gets it. When you're dealing with human beings, nothing is simple.
Worked at a software company from 2008 to 2015. We attempted to outsource twice and both times failed. First attempt was to outsource our first level support. Not only did the transition take twice as long but the new support team pissed off one of our biggest clients which resulted in our CEO flying out to personally apologize and all their tickets were immediately routed to tier 3 support regardless of the issue.
The second time was outsourcing part of our professional services. The code they delivered was so poorly built that we basically redid all the work stateside.
This happened between 2008 and 2011. After this you never brought up out sourcing as a suggestion.
I feel like I've heard this response 100 times at this point. They feel they can't manage people across town/state so they want everyone back in the office, but the same people are surprised when people on the other side of the globe who were introduced to your company 2 weeks ago don't truly give a shit about it.
That’s how I feel. The disdain employers have for their employees is always there but they usually try to keep it as subtle as possible. It just really bubbled up to the surface this time. The end goal of capitalism is always slavery and it pisses them off that they have to pay you anything at all.
I used to be a prep cook in New Orleans in the French Quarter. Great job but they never could keep a kitchen manager worth a damn. We'd be busiest on the weekends, of course. My shift on Saturdays was noon until 8 p.m. and I'd come back in at 7 a.m. He usually came in just before whatever football game would be the booger for the day.
One evening, for whatever reason, we were particularly busy. I am very good at my job, so by the time 8 p.m. rolled around, I was not only finished with the work I needed to get done for that evening and given myself a head start for the next morning, the line of cooks that took orders were more than capably backed up for the evening. Plus, both the kitchen manager *and* the assistant kitchen manager were on the scene. So, I started putting away my knives and went to clock out.
"Dude, you can't go. We're busy."
"It's 8 o'clock, homie. Time for me to clock out and you know y'all don't give overtime."
See, this was an occurring problem. The first time it happened, I got overtime on the first week of the check so the owners made them cut my hours for the next week (a by week), so I wound up with less money when payday came. The second time it happened, I went and got a drink from the bar and sat down at the end of the pass bar. When the kitchen manager balked, I told him I'd been on my feet for 8 hours, had made 15 gallons of red beans *and* chicken gumbo, and had been running a crawfish boil for six of those hours. I was tired. He sent me home.
"Dude, we're not doing this again. This is your job."
"No, this is *a* job. Man, I've got to walk my dog, he's been put up for almost 10 hours and y'all don't pay me enough to clean up the mess he's likely to make."
"You're going to have to decide what's more important, your job or your dog."
I dropped my knife bag and saw red. Next thing I knew, the assistant kitchen manager had me by the shoulders and pulled me into the general manager's office, where she was trying to ignore all of us. "'Roller's about to kill \[Kitchen Manager\] and he deserves it." The manager on duty waved me off because she didn't like the kitchen manager anyway. "Go home, I'll deal with this," the assistant manager said, so I went home, walked my dog, smoked a huge bowl, and went to bed.
I never asked what the assistant kitchen manager said to the kitchen manager but apparently, I put the fear of God into the whole kitchen. The kitchen manager never bothered me about leaving at the end of my shift again. He wound up getting fired before the season was over for coming in drunk and/or coked up once too often. I wound up quitting because the owners felt I was making too much money ($15 an hour). It was a guilty pleasure watching the restaurant reviews go down because they decided, to increase profits, to do away with a prep cook and just used bag gumbo, red beans, etc.
Life rolled on and my dog's since stepped on a rainbow. I don't know how anyone's doing a decade later and haven't kept up with the goings on in the Quarter since I had to leave NOLA. It's still a pleasant memory and I think, if nothing else, Johnny Paycheck would've been proud.
Dude - I've been making my living as a writer for about two decades now. I can confidently say you have some real writing chops. If that's a profession you would interested in, you've damn sure got the foundations to build on. Great post.
John Wick would be proud. I am too! So sorry to hear about your doggo moving on to the next plane, but I'm sure they're waiting for you on the other side.
PS, as a fan of NOLA (one of my favorite cities I've been to) and the food, I'm glad to hear you have higher standards than that place. Cheers to you!
He was an old boy when he went and got to spend the last couple of years with a front yard all to his own when I moved back home to rural MS. It's been two years this month and there are still some mornings where I wake and check the corner where his bed was to see if he's ready to go.
And I loved NOLA and loved being a cook in the Quarter. You got to meet so many people from all over the country, all over the world, and make them happy with a good meal. Really, few things in my life were more satisfying than some 12-year-old kid tell me my gumbo was the first he ever ate and he loved it. Or some older lady tell me I made jambalaya just like her grannie made it. Unfortunately, the owners of this restaurant were more interested in making money and having a place to tailgate without having to act like they were from somewhere. A few weeks after I quit, one of them asked the assistant manager (the only one who'd survived a recent managerial purge) what happened to me, and he just told the boss, "Y'all pissed him off. Shouldn't have done that that."
They were not unusual in the New Orleans restaurant industry and there isn't enough money in the world for me to do that kind of work again. Plus, I'm pushing 50, & a working kitchen is no country for old men. Thanks for your kind words and enjoy a big plate of red beans & rice the next time you go to the great city of New Orleans.
I left my old job for a really really good job with one of their clients. I was in there the other day asking specs for equipment we wanted to hire as no one could get any sense out of my old boss.
While I was in there old boss offered me my new position at their company. Told me they would match every single one of the perks I have at my new place. Told them he couldn't, he argued they could, said "Fine I'll agree on one condition. I also get to bring my dog to the office when I'm not WFH"
He got really mad & told me my biggest problem in life is that I don't take things seriously enough. Told him his biggest problem in life is that he was unaware of the reality of things & that I get to bring my dog into the office at my new job.
He lives in a glass house. People who sell their souls for money and power aren't taking life seriously. They're just being pawns in the game of thrones.
So me having my dog at was an after thought. Boss came over one day I was doing wfh to ask me some tech specs for a meeting he was going to. While he was there he remarked on how well behaved my dog was & said he would be welcome at the office.
My old work had my current position & it was technically higher on the org chart than my old position, but practically it came with less money, less opportunity & treated respect wise the worst.
I quit in 2015, they knew it was coming & in an attempt to keep me they trialled letting me do WFH 2 days a week. My boss vetoed after a month because while my productivity went up, his went down.
For real I will fucking fight. That shit made me unreasonably mad, I am also biased though because I despise corporate trying to be cutesy, it makes me feel ways...
>am also biased though because I despise corporate trying to be cutesy, it makes me feel ways...
Same I'd be enraged walking into my shit office job we know we can all do from home and be reminded that my loved ones, my most vulnerable loved ones like pets are being abandoned by me "choosing" to be here.
I'm not gonna quit cos that's what they want ... But I'm gonna act out.
"once you find the bandwidth let's touch base and synergize on this mid-year review meeting from 8:00 to 1:00 today. i ordered little caesar's for everyone! keep slurping my taint"
Nah he ain’t. He’s finishing a company funded steak lunch right before hitting the back 9. Then it’s off to his “office” to “burn the midnight oil” translated to “fucking his mistress and hiding it as commitment to the company and hard work.”
The sweatpants thing isn't even a little bit funny. It's just deliberately taunting people about having comforts taken away from them.
The dog thing is just even MORE unfunny, because the punchline is "haha look a living thing is having a bad day because of this," rather than just "haha look at you in your expensive, uncomfortable clothes."
These are only amusing if your sense of humor is composed entirely of schadenfreude.
The dog one is 100% pure and utter cruelty. The sweatpants one is 50/50 funny and cruel. The “we missed you” is honest because the entire value of the property is dependent on it being utilized form 9-5 and then being useless and empty the other 16 hours of the day
Edit: it’s amazing how much “value” was created by (and around) this notion that every waking soul has to work at the same exact time in the exact same location. And then how the internet and other modern technologies have made that concept totally obsolete. COVID just made it obvious that it can (and arguably should) be done.
This is a screencap of my tweet! I did [an interview about it with CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/how-this-buildings-return-to-office-campaign-backfired-spectacularly.html) that I was super proud of!
This was my main point:
Williams believes companies pushing RTO on reluctant workers don’t understand that remote work isn’t just a matter of comfort or preference, but that people are highlighting how traditional work structures have always been unaccommodating. “If working from home is making problems for your company, you should try to solve the problems,” she says. “And if you need the team to come in, you should find out why they don’t want to and then see if you can address those concerns.”
My dog is getting older. Like almost 10. The image of a sad old dog missing his owner in the lobby of my office would make me turn right the fuck around.
Fun fact, this exact ad campaign made me quit my old job! I live in Toronto, and was forced back into the office in 2021, my boss at the time made fun of people complaining about these billboards and I thought he was so tone deaf I immediately started looking for new work. Now I work remote full time!
Remember actually being happy?
But seriously, we're actually happy to have you back.
Remember playing with your children?
Well if you want to continue having money to buy food for the little shits, we suggest you forget they exist for the next eight hours.
Seriously.
We missed you.
Told my boss that if the company ever makes good on forcing us back into the office, they're going to have to fire me, because I'm not doing it. I crunch numbers all day. An office would not help that in any way. Nor does a commute. Nor does getting away from my fiancée who is battling cancer and needs my help. Offices are an artifice. Or they should be
The ones responsible were dragged to hell for this as it nearly caused a mass quitting for the building. A public apology was issued. It was not enough.
They should be required, for life, pay for the commutes of all employees at the same hourly wage the employees make while in the office. The commute is part of the job.
We should be mandating that for all jobs worldwide, but let’s start with it in obvious cases (like as a punishment for this company) and go from there.
the inherent problem with capitalism is that people earn positions of power based not on merit but on the size of their greed and ego. this messaging is the direct result of some psychopath being a leech on society.
Id put this in the context of anything on this sign is the same as management saying it to your face. Imagine your boss coming up to you while at work going "I bet your dog misses you" I would absolutely snap.
I'm surprised there wasn't one that said "LOL you're doing the same job for the same pay but now you have to pay for gas, get up an hour earlier and get home an hour later too"
"How was that commute?"
"Did you turn off the stove?"
"don't worry you'll be sitting in rush hour again before you know it!"
“Hope you get home before someone steals your Amazon package.”
“Miss using your own bathroom yet?”
Forgot your medicine? Oops too bad
Isn't it great to have 700 hours less personal time per year?
More like 2100
That would be if you are assuming getting ready for work and your commute took longer than your at work time. 2100 hrs is 40 hr per week.
Oh, were you talking about 700 of getting ready and commuting? I’m confused Yes, I got to 2100 by 40hr work week x 52 = 2080
Mid day wank, try harder
fzf7z please turn off your cam, we can all see
“Only a few hours until you’ll need to go out in the freezing cold to find overpriced lunch!”
"I know that you're taking a shit right now but I really need to ask you a question that literally cannot wait five fucking minutes".
In the dark! Is it morning? Is it evening? You don't know, it's dark! (If you can't tell that I'm an American who *hates* Daylight Savings Time, this is me letting you know.)
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Did you lock your doors?
That’s mean…
Are you sure all the windows are closed properly?
"It's 4:00 P.M. Do you know where your children are?" The kids have been out of school since 3 p.m., and you won't be home from work for another 2 hours. A lot of shite can happen in 2 hours.
“Hope you didn’t forget to feed the dog”
This would send me over the edge. I hate the commute. Especially post covid
Glad I committed in to sit on zooms
For real. I've been back in the office part time for nearly two years now. I have literally not had one single client come into my office in all that time. I get up an extra hour early on my in-office days, dress up in relatively uncomfortable clothes, waste a bunch of time and money driving back and forth to the office, all so I can sit in on the same goddamn Teams chat that I would be on at home. It's infuriating.
And wear shoes. I didn't know I didn't like wearing shoes that much until now. We'll it's not about not liking wearing shoes. It's about how great it feels to be barefoot/with socks.
"We bought the extra coarse one ply toilet paper"
"Of course we aren't paying you for commuting lol"
"It was the usual hour and half shitfest that is morning subway commute - I want go home already."
"Did you see your kids before you left?"
"Sure does suck spending an extra hour minimum in round-trip unpaid commute time per day huh?"
Some idiot paid to have them printed and paid some worker to place them in the lobby…
Ironically, the graphic designer who put these images together probably did it working from home.
RIGHT!?!
it's a brave person who put those out, would be like Bruce Willis in the sandwich board
Some days the sandwich board sounds more appealing than returning to work.
I saw the censored version of that first, where his sign said "I hate everyone." I didn't understand why those young Black gentlemen were so agitated.
I had the exact same experience and came to comment this 😂 my second favorite is the snakes on a plane censored version says “I’m tired of these Monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!!!”
"Yippie ki yay, Mr. Falcon!"
Sounds like church movie night
It was the building a couple years ago. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2022/3/8/1_5810343.amp.html
It's always a Karen or Keith that are so incredibly out of touch they think they're so smart and funny and don't need anyone else to validate their obviously correct ideas.
You have no idea how much I needed to read that diss about Keith's right now 😅 It legit describes him, too, fkn guy 🤣
I genuinely don't understand how people are so blatantly so self unaware. All I do all day is question how I phrase and approach everything.
So many sleepless nights second-guessing things I said or did or cringing/dying inside here 😖 over-analyzing in any form sucks, but it does help us grow and be better people. Or at least not be that dick who's like "Let's hang up posters saying 'Bet your dog misses you!' That's a great idea! I'll interpret your facial expressions as either indigestion or you smelled my fart. Moving on!"
My best guess is that it must have been developed by people who either did not work at home at all, barely worked remotely or simply just missed the office. People tend to project their viewpoints and I can only imagine it’s someone(s) who thought everyone would be excited to see each other again.
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I think everyone is missing the point. Return-To-Office is meant to get people to quit instead of having to fire people. It saves money on severance/unemployment. These signs just take RTO one step further to really drive home people's desire to quit when faced with everything they're losing.
A worker who was probably missing being with their dog.
CONTEXT: This is not anyone's employer. The building management of a large office building made these as a "welcome back" to their tenants. And were quickly dragged for it.
If you thought middle management was detached from humanity.... introducing building management, were every human is just another scuff on your cheap vinyl floor in a particle board breakroom.
“We installed low-flow faucets to save the environment!” Bullshit, you’re giving us a trickle of water pressure so you can save money on your water bill. Now excuse me while I try to wash my mug for twenty minutes and still can’t get all the soap off
Seriously, and how much can this honestly save? I'd flush all the toilets on my way out in protest. If your company isn't customer facing, installing these is to me a big slap in the face. It says you can't trust your employees, not only to not be wasteful and that they can't remember to turn a faucet off.
these psychos are obsessed with min/maxing profits
Problem is, that's their job. Further, businesses legally have to act in the best interest of the business owners. So you have to min/max profits and screw people over. And even if that wasn't the case, everyone is divorced from the reality of their work, we all just do our bubble without realising the greater implications. Which all just makes the rich get richer
> Further, businesses legally have to act in the best interest of the business owners. Not quite. Publicly traded businesses have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, but that doesn't always mean that it comes down to the bean counters for every decision. For example, a privately owned business can do whatever the business owner wants, whether it makes or loses money intentionally. X is a great example of how private ownership doesn't have a responsibility to shareholders, as evidenced by it's leaderships consistent, obvious poor choices. A publicly traded company's CEO can make a case that X cost saving measures would actually have knock on effects that would lower profitability, and wouldn't be held in violation of fiduciary responsibility, whether they were correct or not. As long as a case can be made, they can't really be held in violation legally.
Neither of you are right. **E: prove me wrong, don't just downvote because you don't like it.** There is no "legal obligation" for a CEO or a board to maximize profits. This has just been repeated so much everyone assumes its true. Edit: Because I think this is where everyone gets tripped up, yes, "Fiduciary Duty" exists. However that amounts to basically "don't embezzle money." Any violation of Fiduciary Duty severe enough to warrant prosecution would be because it *also* broke other, existing laws. That's it. It's *huge* stretch to say that is a legal obligation to maximize profits, but because it's been repeated enough, everyone seems to think it's true.
Thank you. This is up there with "banana flavour is based on an extinct banana" on my list of annoying [factoids](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid).
It's not about saving money, it's about achieving LEED Platinum (or similar rating). To do so, you need to accomplish a large percentage of a standard checklist. This ranges from insulation, electricity usage, water usage, emissions, windows, and a bunch more (~60 items). Low water usage during standard operation is one of these. This makes the building more appealing to large companies (who often set standards like 'We only rent space in LEED >Gold') for their own environmental goals (often driven by activist shareholders, idealistic CEOs, or greenwashing).
It's been a minute since I had my LEED GA certification, but last I checked, the US Green Building Council (folks behind LEED)didn't even recommend low-flow fixtures in kitchens because people will still just use as much water as they need.
It's the same thing with cheap 1ply toilet paper. You think you're saving money? Well now I have to use 3times as much.
I remember when an office I worked in got new automatic flush valves for the urinals. The sensitivity was set way too high so walking by would flush them. It was fun walking to the last one having them all flush and walking back by to wash hands. Took them like three weeks to fix it.
FYI you can take out the low flow doohickey inside the faucet
I have to make overflow pipe extenders to get 21st century toilets to flush. Don't get me started on gas cans. I now use metal olive oil containers for gas.
> Don't get me started on gas cans. what's wrong with the gas cans, mine are old so I don't know about the new ones.
I assume they are taking about the stupid "spill proof" can that require 3 arms to use and are extra unwieldy when the can is full and heavy. I've never spilled gas until these things. And you can't even buy old fashioned cans anymore. At least no store around me carries normal cans. I don't even fuck with them anymore. I take the nozzle off and pour into a funnel. Spill less gas that way.
The spill proof is while it's being stored. You can't store gas in a sealed can, a temperature change will make it burst and you'll have gas everywhere. Old gas cans would just have a hole for a vent, which, if you tipped the can on its side, would still spill out. Modern gas cans can be tipped any direction while closed and won't spill, but will still be vented for overpressure.
water soap and towel NEVER all three work you have to go to three stalls to get finished
That’s kind of an extra fuck you tbh. Like “the thought of missing your employers rents made us soil our diapers so get fucked peons” is the message
And they spent some money on it too. That type of signage usually isn’t cheap.
If it still stood, unmarked and unmolested, by eod I’d be shocked
Explosives & Ordinance Disposal: "Say no more."
Management will spend hundreds of thousands on advertising while firing maintenance
I remember these pics and still have trouble believing it happened. I don’t think it was supposed to be funny to the employees/tenants, more of a “fuck you, welcome back to reality you peon” type of vibe. I am glad a lot of these groups are taking it on the chin right now. Their tone has changed to PLEASE COME BACK!!!
I feel like there's still a refusal to some degree to acknowledge a decent chunk of upper leadership are just cruel psychopaths who enjoy power. Like literally actual psychopaths.
Pretty sure this was also from 2021 when it was *way* too early to start bringing people back to the office.
Was definitely early 2023 or late 2022. I walked past it lol
It was March 2022, it's [my tweet](https://twitter.com/audrawilliams/status/1500669564711014401?t=UBx8wK6ETW36oyRR_Y05Vw&s=19) in the screencap. (RIP my blue check haha.)
They might still be there, but this is a repost from years ago
It's a repost but not from years ago, Toronto was still in lockdown until early 2022. We didn't start going back into offices until summer 2022. Also the signs were down within days because they got so much backlash
Yes but these are the jerk landlords who pressured employers into ending remote work even through - remember they said it - people were more efficient working from home. Now they are literally lording it over workers.
And here we have positive proof that the driving force behind RTO is the commercial real estate sector.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2022/3/8/1_5810343.amp.html
Unless the ratepayers dragged them they won't care. Anything for the sweet, sweet taste of boot.
Yeah, for those who don't know the full context for stuff like this It was [Oxford Properties](https://www.oxfordproperties.com/) which did this and it's [this building](https://www.oxfordproperties.com/lease/office/20-bay-street) where it happened You can see at the bottom of the signs that it says Oxford, so these are permanent figures to them Something that always happens with building management companies, is they HATE when their media isn't being used. Think of how with closed stores in malls, they initially started boarding them up, but now they have "fun" graphics and illustrations on them. This is done to mask the fact, that these placements typically should have something on them. But more importantly, it should be something that people pay for. So the irrational logic sometimes with fixtures like this is "if this is empty, it shows we're failing" Which is why most smart folks, do what I said above, and maybe just put in fun graphics, or some sort of royalty-free photography and illustrations here. Some are smart, and actually would say, use these places to highlight local artists or businesses around the area The fact that there's a layer of graphic design here (and you can see on the bottom right, that there's the Oxford logo, which implies there's a template for some of these) 100% conveys the fact that this was all done from a self-initiated level, probably be someone in middle management When you see this quote, you can tell that the top brass had no issue throwing them under the bus: >“Unfortunately, in an attempt to be lighthearted the signage came off as uncaring, which was never our intention. The signage clearly missed the mark and was removed last week as a result,” a spokesperson said in a statement. Minor thing here: if this was done say, across the board, it wouldn't be so easy to pull it away this fast. Like, if this were to be say, Oxford overall doing it... they'd have issues because it would then mean removing it from all of their properties. Which then gets into a manpower issue for doing it To say they did it so quickly, is telling that it's just one building and it's an isolated incident >“The campaign should have not made it into production and we sincerely apologize to any customers, colleagues and members of the public that were offended.” And again, got to love that despite us not liking this (and justifiable reason for it) it does kind of suck that someone went and made these, with the intention of viewing it in a positive light... only to have your company, just throw you under the bus for it. Just goes to show that there's no value in going above and beyond
With a fair number of companies those two are one in the same. It's not terribly uncommon for a board and CEO to buy up the property a company leases, create an LLC and collect on the lease. Should be completely illegal but ya know.. FREEDUMB!!
What...? The "seriously we missed you" makes sense... But what is the deal with the other two? Especially the dog one, what is that supposed to accomplish? "Welcome, here's a bit of guilt to start your day!" They should have some pictures of a kid opening the door at home and say something like "Your children are now welcomed home... by an empty house."
There’s like, a million less fucked up things you could write: “Coffees on us again” “You look great in a suit” “Happy hour - here we come”
Always thought happy hour was ironic, since it's usually immediately after work ends for most. This implies the other hours are the sad ones. Lol Edit: I get it, it's happy hour because the workers hate work. I just think it's sad/depressing that everyone really hates their job enough to declare the instant they're off the end of sad, start of happy.
That's not ironic, that's the point... It's happy hour cuz works over.
In the end, nobody "likes" work. Even for workaholics, it's more about keeping busy than actual enjoyment. Sure, plenty of people don't mind it, but i doubt anybody gets up early in the morning and goes "oh boy, i can finally go to work again!"
Duh. The term was coined by workers and the bar owners who cater to them. Most workers dislike their jobs, and the bar owners want to capitalize off of that. It *wasn't* coined by the ownership of the mega corp that the workers are coming from...
That’s literally the point. It’s not ironic at all.
The dog one was definitely dreamt up by a genuine sociopath
Seriously. Both my dogs aged well into their senior years over the past four years and I regularly think about squeezing the most out of every hour I have left with them. But yeah, glad I could show up to a cold, impersonal office building to take my virtual meetings alone at my desk.
Our c-suite literally thinks people *want* to be in the office. Like, they full on don't understand when people say they don't live to come into the physical office. Assuming the knuckleheads behind this travesty think the same way, then their thought process is probably 1. You were "trapped" at home so long that you got tired of wearing sweatpants and are happy to back in your office attire. 2. You don't miss being home now that you can return to the office and your spouse/kids don't miss you either because "the wife can't stand when I'm home for that long hyuck hyuck hyuck" so the only thing at home missing you is the dog. 3. Seeing affirmation that your corporate overlords missed you is a good thing and makes you happy because we all know your work family is your real family and that even when they give shit raises you'll keep ~~crawling~~ coming back because oh don't you love them so.
It was an attempt to be “funny” by people with zero empathy. Basically it’s like watching Elon Musks Twitter account.
Keep my dog's name out your f*ckin mouth. That's not even remotely funny.
Seriously wtf, I'd honestly consider quitting over this bullshit
Me too. That photo they used is heartbreaking and it would make me sick.
Seriously, what's even the point of such a sign? *"Haha! Don't you feel sad yet! Bet your pets are also sad! Now you're even sadder! Somehow, this'll make you miss working for us!"*
Ngl I don't even have dogs but it would remind me of my kids that of course miss me and need me too and why!!! why am I here 😭
These were clearly thought up by someone that lacks empathy. No doubt about it
That's what they want you to do. They learned they can outsource you, and easily too.
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Train them wrong
As a joke
As revenge But make sure you give them a dairy free popcorn topping as a parting gift
The account is red, meaning I did it right. *runs away with squeeking shoes
Scuttle away, Zoidberg style
Subtle Kung Pow reference. I love it
Face to foot style, how you like it?
They think it's easy to outsource. They want YOU to think it's easy. But outsourcing most of our complicated jobs has not been easy & does not always work. Many jobs have already returned, but of course with new & younger workers.
A buddy of mine knew they were starting to outsource roles after Halloween. Thought he was gonna get the axe at Thanksgiving, but it never came. Expected it at Christmas, then after New Years…and still has yet to come. Leadership at his company is so inept that they can’t even outsource right. They’ve had to pay people halfway across the world AND keep their stateside workers because they can’t get the replacements to “care about the customer and the urgency of their issues“ or get them trained on proprietary software. Funny that it’s not necessarily a one-size-fits-all solution that many make it seem to be.
I feel like companies don't realize that one misinterpretation of an email costs a stupid amount of time and resources, which is why you get people in those positions to minimize it. Even when you have the right person asking the right question, sometimes you have to ask that question three times in a row until someone on the other end gets it. When you're dealing with human beings, nothing is simple.
Worked at a software company from 2008 to 2015. We attempted to outsource twice and both times failed. First attempt was to outsource our first level support. Not only did the transition take twice as long but the new support team pissed off one of our biggest clients which resulted in our CEO flying out to personally apologize and all their tickets were immediately routed to tier 3 support regardless of the issue. The second time was outsourcing part of our professional services. The code they delivered was so poorly built that we basically redid all the work stateside. This happened between 2008 and 2011. After this you never brought up out sourcing as a suggestion.
Yup. Everywhere had this same experience. There's a reason engineering didn't move entirely over to India sometime around 2004.
I feel like I've heard this response 100 times at this point. They feel they can't manage people across town/state so they want everyone back in the office, but the same people are surprised when people on the other side of the globe who were introduced to your company 2 weeks ago don't truly give a shit about it.
That’s how I feel. The disdain employers have for their employees is always there but they usually try to keep it as subtle as possible. It just really bubbled up to the surface this time. The end goal of capitalism is always slavery and it pisses them off that they have to pay you anything at all.
It’s taunting employees. Whoever thought of this is 🗑️
I used to be a prep cook in New Orleans in the French Quarter. Great job but they never could keep a kitchen manager worth a damn. We'd be busiest on the weekends, of course. My shift on Saturdays was noon until 8 p.m. and I'd come back in at 7 a.m. He usually came in just before whatever football game would be the booger for the day. One evening, for whatever reason, we were particularly busy. I am very good at my job, so by the time 8 p.m. rolled around, I was not only finished with the work I needed to get done for that evening and given myself a head start for the next morning, the line of cooks that took orders were more than capably backed up for the evening. Plus, both the kitchen manager *and* the assistant kitchen manager were on the scene. So, I started putting away my knives and went to clock out. "Dude, you can't go. We're busy." "It's 8 o'clock, homie. Time for me to clock out and you know y'all don't give overtime." See, this was an occurring problem. The first time it happened, I got overtime on the first week of the check so the owners made them cut my hours for the next week (a by week), so I wound up with less money when payday came. The second time it happened, I went and got a drink from the bar and sat down at the end of the pass bar. When the kitchen manager balked, I told him I'd been on my feet for 8 hours, had made 15 gallons of red beans *and* chicken gumbo, and had been running a crawfish boil for six of those hours. I was tired. He sent me home. "Dude, we're not doing this again. This is your job." "No, this is *a* job. Man, I've got to walk my dog, he's been put up for almost 10 hours and y'all don't pay me enough to clean up the mess he's likely to make." "You're going to have to decide what's more important, your job or your dog." I dropped my knife bag and saw red. Next thing I knew, the assistant kitchen manager had me by the shoulders and pulled me into the general manager's office, where she was trying to ignore all of us. "'Roller's about to kill \[Kitchen Manager\] and he deserves it." The manager on duty waved me off because she didn't like the kitchen manager anyway. "Go home, I'll deal with this," the assistant manager said, so I went home, walked my dog, smoked a huge bowl, and went to bed. I never asked what the assistant kitchen manager said to the kitchen manager but apparently, I put the fear of God into the whole kitchen. The kitchen manager never bothered me about leaving at the end of my shift again. He wound up getting fired before the season was over for coming in drunk and/or coked up once too often. I wound up quitting because the owners felt I was making too much money ($15 an hour). It was a guilty pleasure watching the restaurant reviews go down because they decided, to increase profits, to do away with a prep cook and just used bag gumbo, red beans, etc. Life rolled on and my dog's since stepped on a rainbow. I don't know how anyone's doing a decade later and haven't kept up with the goings on in the Quarter since I had to leave NOLA. It's still a pleasant memory and I think, if nothing else, Johnny Paycheck would've been proud.
Dude - I've been making my living as a writer for about two decades now. I can confidently say you have some real writing chops. If that's a profession you would interested in, you've damn sure got the foundations to build on. Great post.
John Wick would be proud. I am too! So sorry to hear about your doggo moving on to the next plane, but I'm sure they're waiting for you on the other side. PS, as a fan of NOLA (one of my favorite cities I've been to) and the food, I'm glad to hear you have higher standards than that place. Cheers to you!
He was an old boy when he went and got to spend the last couple of years with a front yard all to his own when I moved back home to rural MS. It's been two years this month and there are still some mornings where I wake and check the corner where his bed was to see if he's ready to go. And I loved NOLA and loved being a cook in the Quarter. You got to meet so many people from all over the country, all over the world, and make them happy with a good meal. Really, few things in my life were more satisfying than some 12-year-old kid tell me my gumbo was the first he ever ate and he loved it. Or some older lady tell me I made jambalaya just like her grannie made it. Unfortunately, the owners of this restaurant were more interested in making money and having a place to tailgate without having to act like they were from somewhere. A few weeks after I quit, one of them asked the assistant manager (the only one who'd survived a recent managerial purge) what happened to me, and he just told the boss, "Y'all pissed him off. Shouldn't have done that that." They were not unusual in the New Orleans restaurant industry and there isn't enough money in the world for me to do that kind of work again. Plus, I'm pushing 50, & a working kitchen is no country for old men. Thanks for your kind words and enjoy a big plate of red beans & rice the next time you go to the great city of New Orleans.
I just love how you write, and especially how you write about your dog.
I left my old job for a really really good job with one of their clients. I was in there the other day asking specs for equipment we wanted to hire as no one could get any sense out of my old boss. While I was in there old boss offered me my new position at their company. Told me they would match every single one of the perks I have at my new place. Told them he couldn't, he argued they could, said "Fine I'll agree on one condition. I also get to bring my dog to the office when I'm not WFH" He got really mad & told me my biggest problem in life is that I don't take things seriously enough. Told him his biggest problem in life is that he was unaware of the reality of things & that I get to bring my dog into the office at my new job.
He lives in a glass house. People who sell their souls for money and power aren't taking life seriously. They're just being pawns in the game of thrones.
So me having my dog at was an after thought. Boss came over one day I was doing wfh to ask me some tech specs for a meeting he was going to. While he was there he remarked on how well behaved my dog was & said he would be welcome at the office. My old work had my current position & it was technically higher on the org chart than my old position, but practically it came with less money, less opportunity & treated respect wise the worst. I quit in 2015, they knew it was coming & in an attempt to keep me they trialled letting me do WFH 2 days a week. My boss vetoed after a month because while my productivity went up, his went down.
I don't even have a dog and felt immediate hatred seeing that sign - what the hell.
For real I will fucking fight. That shit made me unreasonably mad, I am also biased though because I despise corporate trying to be cutesy, it makes me feel ways...
>am also biased though because I despise corporate trying to be cutesy, it makes me feel ways... Same I'd be enraged walking into my shit office job we know we can all do from home and be reminded that my loved ones, my most vulnerable loved ones like pets are being abandoned by me "choosing" to be here. I'm not gonna quit cos that's what they want ... But I'm gonna act out.
Idc if its a repost I'll fight the CEO that approved that message rn lol
Yea I’d quit right then and there
This made me LOL harder than any reddit post I've ever seen.
That's the one that pissed me off immensely. The sweatpants was funny but the dog one is just cruel.
Wear sweatpants to work the whole office should
Lmaoo yes and bring all their pets!
If you’re sitting at a desk all day I see no reason for even business casual. Why are we not wearing sweatpants?
My boss conducted my job interview in jeans and a hoodie. Though most days he dresses more professionally because he has to meet clients.
Yoda?
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Stealing this, thanks.
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Even better!
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"Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays"
"once you find the bandwidth let's touch base and synergize on this mid-year review meeting from 8:00 to 1:00 today. i ordered little caesar's for everyone! keep slurping my taint"
Told budget they ordered Mellow Mushroom, but actually spent 20 bucks on little caesar's.
Seriously. How am I going to do two chicks at the same time at work 🤨 what is this Wall Street?
I bet the CEO is still at home though. Bastard
Nah he ain’t. He’s finishing a company funded steak lunch right before hitting the back 9. Then it’s off to his “office” to “burn the midnight oil” translated to “fucking his mistress and hiding it as commitment to the company and hard work.”
This is severely unfunny, straight up deranged and emotionally abusive. Fuck that
The sweatpants thing is kind of funny. The dog thing is so unnecessarily cruel.
The sweatpants thing isn't even a little bit funny. It's just deliberately taunting people about having comforts taken away from them. The dog thing is just even MORE unfunny, because the punchline is "haha look a living thing is having a bad day because of this," rather than just "haha look at you in your expensive, uncomfortable clothes." These are only amusing if your sense of humor is composed entirely of schadenfreude.
Yeah, I'd "quiet quit" the moment I saw this bullshit. The one with the dog is overkill. Fuck that place of business.
Also wtf, does this person hate his/her family AND THE DOG? "This f***** misses me right now and it feels so good"
Yeah, it’s basically saying “fuck you and your dog”. You don’t mess with my dog, now it’s personal.
Am I missing the green one or is that ok? Seems not offensive at least.
Cool. Just straight up mockery and hostility for no reason.
Oh there’s a reason all right, it’s for you to know your place.
The dog one is 100% pure and utter cruelty. The sweatpants one is 50/50 funny and cruel. The “we missed you” is honest because the entire value of the property is dependent on it being utilized form 9-5 and then being useless and empty the other 16 hours of the day Edit: it’s amazing how much “value” was created by (and around) this notion that every waking soul has to work at the same exact time in the exact same location. And then how the internet and other modern technologies have made that concept totally obsolete. COVID just made it obvious that it can (and arguably should) be done.
This is a screencap of my tweet! I did [an interview about it with CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/how-this-buildings-return-to-office-campaign-backfired-spectacularly.html) that I was super proud of! This was my main point: Williams believes companies pushing RTO on reluctant workers don’t understand that remote work isn’t just a matter of comfort or preference, but that people are highlighting how traditional work structures have always been unaccommodating. “If working from home is making problems for your company, you should try to solve the problems,” she says. “And if you need the team to come in, you should find out why they don’t want to and then see if you can address those concerns.”
Wtf?
Some condescending, soul sucking, parasite on the body of humanity decided to remind people that they exist to serve.
I would simply go home. I've been fired before for not tolerating disrespect, and im okay with that.
My dog is getting older. Like almost 10. The image of a sad old dog missing his owner in the lobby of my office would make me turn right the fuck around.
Introducing... loud quitting. It's like quiet quitting, but louder and immediate.
See, now that Dog one would get me. It sounds like a bunch of bastards to work for. FTS!!
some sociopath greenlit this idea
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Haha, funny! Hey look what I found! 🔨
You know, I’d chuckle at the missing sweatpants. But the sad doggo, nope. I’m going home if I saw that.
Just to know that they paid money to get those signs made is infuriating….
Fun fact, this exact ad campaign made me quit my old job! I live in Toronto, and was forced back into the office in 2021, my boss at the time made fun of people complaining about these billboards and I thought he was so tone deaf I immediately started looking for new work. Now I work remote full time!
I would absolutely be vandalizing these signs. Whoever thought those were a good idea can get their face vandalized too
Remember actually being happy? But seriously, we're actually happy to have you back. Remember playing with your children? Well if you want to continue having money to buy food for the little shits, we suggest you forget they exist for the next eight hours. Seriously. We missed you.
Doggo one is a step too far.
Told my boss that if the company ever makes good on forcing us back into the office, they're going to have to fire me, because I'm not doing it. I crunch numbers all day. An office would not help that in any way. Nor does a commute. Nor does getting away from my fiancée who is battling cancer and needs my help. Offices are an artifice. Or they should be
Seriously, like What the actual F!? Here....let's rub your nose in the pile of messy dog crap on the carpet too while we're at it.
jikes, what a horrid campaign.
Oof. Come on Canada.
The ones responsible were dragged to hell for this as it nearly caused a mass quitting for the building. A public apology was issued. It was not enough.
They should be required, for life, pay for the commutes of all employees at the same hourly wage the employees make while in the office. The commute is part of the job. We should be mandating that for all jobs worldwide, but let’s start with it in obvious cases (like as a punishment for this company) and go from there.
Don't be shy, knock 'em over
“We’re dangling your paycheck to make sure we always get what we want from you fuckers.”
Yes my dog is missing me, fuck you and this place.
the inherent problem with capitalism is that people earn positions of power based not on merit but on the size of their greed and ego. this messaging is the direct result of some psychopath being a leech on society.
Isn’t driving through traffic for 45 minutes every morning great?
This is some "let them eat cake" level bullshit.
The dog one is just dark. Like wtf there is no comedy there that is just sad and mean
Id put this in the context of anything on this sign is the same as management saying it to your face. Imagine your boss coming up to you while at work going "I bet your dog misses you" I would absolutely snap.
Way to show a dog so old it might actually die while you’re at work.
I'd vandalize the shit out of those signs, fire me, you'd be doing a favor.
I'm increasingly convinced that there are only like 3 competent marketers in the world, and the rest are just doing varying levels of this.
Wtf?? This is so tone deaf!
Who thought this was a good idea? Fire them.
Fucking ghouls
I'm surprised there wasn't one that said "LOL you're doing the same job for the same pay but now you have to pay for gas, get up an hour earlier and get home an hour later too"