JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon delivers a stern warning to remote workers::undefined

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world
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    “I will not allow you to wreck my portfolio by causing a massive drop in demand for office space in the cities which will devalue my real estate assets and cause landlords to default en masse on the loans I made them.”

    Why doesn’t he just say what he means ?

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    “I completely understand why someone doesn’t want to commute an hour and a half every day. Totally get it… Doesn’t mean they have to have a job here either.”

    Then why hire people living 90 minutes away?

    Sure limit yourself to workers living close by. But don’t give me any of that labor shortage bullshit then.

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      There is a shortage of people willing to work for the wage you’re offering at the terms you’re offering. There are millions of people choosing not to work for many, many employers right now. It will only get larger.

      Depending on how old you are, understand, for the rest of your life, there will always be more jobs than employees, act like it and be brutal with your employers about it. The boomers were accelerating into retirement and then COVID exploded lots of employment norms, for good reasons.

      Employers have been used to, for decades, lobbying to hire, fire and treat you disposable on a whim. Demand a lot, there are far fewer of you than there are of their boring companies to burn your life hours.

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    Jamie Dimon is a dipshit who brings practically nothing to the table. He shows up to the building, terrifies the people around him, pisses people off, shits in a waste basket and hires college interns to provide fresh blood infusions to treat his wrinkles.

    Executives rarely bring genuine, functional value to a company, and that definitely includes Dimon. What a notorious fuckwit. JPMC is one example where the head could be cut off and the company would actually benefit from it.

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        I worked at JP Morgan and DB

        The people who run these companies are completely horrible assholes.

        They also make sure every layer of superfluous management below them consists of immense, puckering assholes.

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    You can put a turd in an expensive suit, but in the end it’s still just Jamie Dimon.

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    “Old guy still doesn’t understand how anyone could be working if he can’t physically see them working”

    Fully remote is the way of the future, in tech anyway. Use the money you saved on not renting office space to fly teams to the same area for a week or so a few times a year, there’s definite value in meeting, working together in person and going out for a beer afterwards. For short stints.

    Otherwise, the lack of commute and the ability to focus uninterrupted for longer periods is massive advantage for remote work

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      Fully remote is the way of the future, in tech anyway. Use the money you saved on not renting office space to fly teams to the same area for a week or so a few times a year, there’s definite value in meeting, working together in person and going out for a beer afterwards

      But make it optional and don’t penalize folks for not showing up. The last thing I want to do is meet up with my coworkers and go for drinks especially given the fact that I do not drink alcohol nor enjoy social outings in general.

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    Sounds like he is looking for a flimsy pretext to lay people off.

    Eat the rich.

  • LurkNoMore@lemmy.world
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    I’m probably the only one. I do not think WFH is the future.

    It takes a minute to turn around, tap PM on shoulder and ask “what about this or that?” And get an answer.

    Instead if ping in company channel. Provide all possible points of relating data. Link to all related content. And then ask my question. And hope I get an answer within an hour.

    In almost any possible professional situation it’s faster and more efficient to be in office.

    The conversation we should all be having is what compensation we will demand for the return to the office. Paided travel. Paid child care. All those things that WFH revealed to be the scam our employers pulled on us.

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      We’ve worked in some totally different offices. Half the time I couldn’t find the people I needed to talk to. That being said, yes, anyone being forced to go back to the office should be able to demand better terms.

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      I think it depends on your industry and specialty. In my line of work my coworkers are all over the world and can’t really be centralized. There may be clusters in different regions, but it’s hard to justify (in my opinion) coming into the office to see two colleagues you may not even need to talk to that week. It is especially more difficult when meetings are regularly outside of normal work hours.

      My company is still trying to force people back in where there are clusters, but I feel like they’re spending more on bullshit events to make it seem like it’s worth it than they could possibly gain in productivity. It really feels like a bunch of people trying to justify their jobs than anything else.

      • LurkNoMore@lemmy.world
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        Outside of regular work hours?? Screw that noise.

        I do agree there are many situations where it doesn’t make sense to return to the office.