Seems that unless exceptions are somehow made at the last minute, the week of sept 9 is back in office week.  2 days out out 3 days in.  We get to share desks. Or sit on the floor, or something. i donno. we dont have the room.  Tho with the staff that we will lose from them quitting, who knows.  

So i lose ~2 hours a day, and a pay cut of at least 2k a year, due to travel expenses ( gas, oil, tires, wear and tear on the jeep, etc )

"Remote work request denied. "

Time to take as much V time as i can, and i'm out come January.  F- these people.  Im sick and tired of going the extra mile, just to be peed on. ( and not just over this, just the last straw. )  I'd leave today, but i need the insurance and $ so have to have a place to go..  and i dont want to to lose some $70k in vacation time.  Gotta try to get rid of as much as i can.

Some of us think that is part of the long term plan. Piss us off and get people to quit ( with luck before they are vested ) and replace their positions with contractors.  While its true upfront costs of contractors are higher, when you factor in benefits, including retirement funds, and the overhead of having actual employees it comes out as a 'savings' as far as they are concerned.  "just throw money at it"

Just like moving IT resources to 'the cloud', they want to move staff there too, in effect.   Already contact out most of the road construction work from what i hear.  And a number of other areas are mostly contract now.  

Tue Aug 13 2024 09:05:42 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Ooooh. They're gonna lose a ton of people that way. It is the current year.

Heard yet again today:      "I really wish the users would quit calling and bothering me i'm trying to get work done. They just need to go away"

"um dude, you do realize without them you don't have any work to do, or a job at all, right"

• "Im getting a login error, says xyz "
• "ok its fixed, try again "
• "i still get the same thing"
• "well, actually it now says abc, not "login error xyz, and that is now fixed too, try again"
• *crickets for days*
• "hello, just checking in from last week" ( and sent daily reminders.. )
• "ok i got in just now, does that mean its working now?"

I will not miss doing this level of admin support when i move on to only managing AI and reports ( well i do reports now.. but still i will be out of the general admin scene.. )

Could be wrong on motive but i think due to cost we are puling java off everything everywhere unless you can justify a need.  ( and of course our oracle people are freaking out )

And seems 2 more of our BUs are starting the move out of our data-center and to Azure, under their own control.   The exodus has begun. We suck. Everyone knows it.

For us, money is not a concern. We need more, we will just take more. its not like we have to compete or something.  And if we hire more contractors, they dont 'count' as 'headcount' the same way on the books.

But for our BUs if they can move it to cloud and get away from us, its a procedural win.

Thu Aug 29 2024 09:29:11 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Cloud never saves money, complexity, or head count,