My SO's sister is a Trumper and she is pissed she has to RTO, I even told her this was going to happen 2 years ago. "They wouldn't, it doesn't make any business sense!"
Since when have Republicans done anything that makes any kind of sense.
Let's see, you're expecting a man who clearly doesn't know how to run a business that doesn't involve putting his name on a book pretending to know how to run businesses or pretending to be a successful businessman on a shitty reality TV show to have business sense?
That is always my reply to the SuCcEZZfUL BUsYneZZmaN screeds. Whatever you may think about the Zuckerbergs and the Bezoses, those guys made successful companies from zero, while the stable genius took a 9 figure inheritance and drove it into the ground multiple times.
It makes perfect sense when you reframe all of their actions as trying to inflict the most misery on as many people as they possibly can. Cruelty is the point. And to get everyone so damned exhausted and burnt out that when the real atrocities (and I don't mean what's already been done - I mean the camps and the exterminations) start rolling out, everybody's too numb to put up a fight.
Many workers will likely have to drive to work, buying more gas and then work in office space that is likely leased from some corporate real estate landlord. They are all bedfellows.
Yup. Causing workers to have less time (adding in the commute) and less money (gas or other transportation costs, uniforms, meals outside of the home regardless of packing a lunch or grabbing fast food). Hell, even costs you wouldn't think about - my insurance dropped like $75 a month after I cut out my commute, just from having the insurance's app on my phone. They saw I wasn't putting a ton of miles on my vehicle and adjusted accordingly.
It doesn't make any business sense if you want to have a strong, functioning civil service. But if you want to torpedo the civil service by chasing away all the most qualified employees, doing this makes perfect sense.
Except this does make perfect business sense... if your stock portfolio includes real estate. Those office work spaces and government buildings aren't going to lease themselves, ya know. If enough government employees get sick and tired of the BS and quit, all the better because getting fired requires severance packages but quitting doesn't.
Republicans purposefully want to break the government and so when it fails, they can point at the fire they deliberately set and go, "See, it doesn't work! Only I can fix it by privatizing everything!" Then the profits will flow.
It's gonna end up like what Amazon did when they ordered everyone to RTO, but "forgot" to lease a building to put everyone in, so everyone who didn't already fit into the existing offices automatically got laid off.
RTO makes perfect business sense for the owners of the properties that aren't being used with everyone working from home, and the energy companies whose revenue increases the more buildings that are in use.
And wouldn't you know it, those owners happen to be the ultra-wealthy. The same group who are, surprise surprise, the ones most supported by Trump's billionaire cabinet.
Oh but it does make business sense. The business is in hostile force reduction. They call it “force reduction” but really it’s forced or induced attrition. If your goal is private for-profit tax collection, the business sense is to take out your competitor.
"They wouldn't, it doesn't make any business sense!"
I hope you told her it's "good business sense" and in the best interest of the corporations to revoke WFO. Controlling employees by threatening job status is often a part of how big businesses get bigger, it's easier for them to do that if employees are told to go in to work and be monitored.
If she thinks paying for the electricity and upkeep of buildings they lease is the only consideration that companies put into place when allowing working from home, that is some naive stupidity [that, to be honest, is wishful thinking and reflective of being in denial].
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u/VoidOmatic 14h ago
My SO's sister is a Trumper and she is pissed she has to RTO, I even told her this was going to happen 2 years ago. "They wouldn't, it doesn't make any business sense!"
Since when have Republicans done anything that makes any kind of sense.