Exactly! And the city my office is in, is bougie as fuck. There are no sandwiches under $12. These dudes were going out for executive lunches @$50+ per person. They would invite me and I’d say the same thing, “what? No. You know how much you pay me”… and they would laugh every time, walk across the parking lot, and drink themselves silly.
I had an old boss that said RTO was because the service business’ were loosing money. Thing is, only upper management could afford to live near work. I lived 4 cities away and had an hour commute each way. Who was taking care of my community?
…all while I watched every service business price themselves out of existence while still taking advantage of their staff’s wages.
We recently had to buy out a director that kept all the technical knowledge to themselves for the last 20 years. They were almost always available 24x7 for outage calls and it became clear his teams didn’t know shit about anything, especially when said director was sick or on vacation. He was labeled a danger to the infrastructure and settled for a multimillion dollar buyout with a full knowledge transfer. Retirement age, fat 401k, company stock and other investments… yeah, he took that deal immediately, like no hesitation.
It doesn’t even seem like satire anymore. Even the official “propaganda” coming out of the US State department is comically bad in the funniest sad sort of way.