[msgodel]

The ugly thing is that you're most likely to get laid off when the market is down. I've argued this with people so many times and I think some of them are finally starting to see what I was saying.

btw I don't think getting rid of at will employment will change that. These cycles are so long they'll certainly find a way to get rid of you during a down cycle if they want to.

[bravetraveler]

Thank you, absolutely. Contrivances abound. I was wrong to stop with at-will employment; RTO policies are a notable miss.

Say I buy somewhere affordable and am now officially remote. No longer conveniently in the same city as the office, but at home... truly elsewhere. The calculus has changed!

Then we get into fuzzier topics like AI use. It's absolutely not just about productivity. The non-minded gap between my peers and I shows that to be irrelevant. I sandbag, they grind. It's a wash. In the end, a weird litmus/loyalty test that I can't quite articulate.