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by wordofx 605 days ago
No one is making the working conditions unpleasant. The company which pays you to do work wants its employees to be in the office. If you don’t like it. Don’t work there.

Looks like all the employees about to lose their work from home jobs are upset and downvoting.

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If your work contract and agreement has remote office, guess what? That's a breach of contract.
That’s a contract. The vast majority of people currently working from home do not have a contract explicitly stating it’s a work from home position permanently.

Those people who went from office to home during covid will have to go back to the office or they will be fired and receive nothing because they did not fill their role.

This is an extremely pro-business perspective. Just because they can do it doesn't mean they're correct, and we should just bend over and spread our cheeks for them. Certainly, we shouldn't beg for them to fuck us, but apparently some of us are really craving it.
No. This is reality. Business’s provide a service or product. They pay people to perform tasks to deliver the service or product.

Just because you want to work from home doesn’t mean you get to. Blue collar jobs don’t get the luxury of working from home. But apparently people like you feel like you’re above everyone else because you have a white collar job so you’re entitled to work from home.

Get a grip. You don’t get to dictate every aspect of your job. Start your own business if you want to do things your way.

> Get a grip

Au Contraire, you should get a grip because you're being very pathetic.

It's one thing to be contempt with actions that harm you. That's just sad. But actively begging for it is nothing short of pathetic.

Call me entitled, I don't care. The reality is people like me end up happy and people like you ensure your own misery. It's so unbelievable that people don't even need to make you miserable - in the event you ever find yourself happy, you will do anything possible to make yourself miserable.

We DO have some control over our jobs, and we CAN demand better. The only reason you have the life you have is because a lot of people before you demanded better. Just for you to be a weak coward who lays on his knees begging for his throat to get used. If that's what you want to be, fine.

Objectively, you do yourself no favors. That's not my opinion, that's what it is. Nobody, and I do literally mean nobody, cares if you work hard or purposefully work at a business you do not like. Blue collar people don't give even half a fuck that you want to have as much, or as little, luxury as them. WFH people will not call you brave because you commute to the office. Instead, what happens is they continue their life MUCH happier than you, and you remain miserable by your own devices, and not a soul on Earth looks your way - not even for pity.

Lol so now anyone who works in the office is “miserable”. You’re clutching at straws mate.
I suspect Amazon know that and their contracts are worded accordingly.
Does Amazon even do contracts?