Eternal Cat War: also now London, a city notorious for affordable housing 🫠

Dell gave employees an ultimatum to return to office some of the week or accept they were never eligible for a promotion ever again. Half the employees shrugged and stayed remote. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”arstechnica.com Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

promotions now are like 60% more work and responsibility for an extra 10k a year no thanks

Whoa, whoa, WHOA!! Hold da phone, hooool da PHONE!!! At 10% (insanely good) that's 100k base salary! Where are YOU working that you get 10k raise, I'll take that job so fast I'll leave a dust devil in my wake!

Before you pack my housing costs $6k/month

Holy crap. $6k would take care of EVERYTHING for me... ...if I could work remotely. But that's 6k *after* housing?

The whole point is you don't get to work remotely, otherwise no promotion.

I'm 55, I don't give a darn about promotions, I want income. If this person is clearing 6k AFTER housing costs, and I can still work remote? I will sign a 20 year contract, crawl into a barrel on Wednesdays, and wear a shirt that says, "Boss's Bitch" on Zoom calls.

I think they said their housing COSTS that much per month--not that they were getting that much. But, maybe I misread it.

No you got it

Brutal cost of housing. Honestly, at 6K a month, working remote is the way to go because it lets you enjoy what you're paying so much for.

My field’s in-person only and has a real footprint in the most expensive cities in the country

can, uh, confirm, lol

also now London, a city notorious for affordable housing 🫠

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