Laptop Class

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Saw an article titled "Amazon tells employees to return to the office five days a week."  Apparently the employees are not happy.  They don't want to go to the office.  They want to work from home, or the coffee shop or the beach.  They claim they're just as productive and make all these arguments against going back to the office - which really boil down to they don't want to go to work.  They want to sit in their pajamas in front of their laptop.  Or pretending to work.  Or whatever they're doing.

I'm someone who doesn't have a choice but to go to work.  I also spend a lot of time on Teams meetings.  And I am offended by the "laptop class" (as Elon Musk calls them) working from their kitchen table, living room, or patio.  Like get your ass in to the office and work.  Telling me what to do from your living room or on your deck with a mountain in the background is bullshit.  Sitting there with your coffee and your dog.  I don't get it.  They talk about class warfare.  How about those that go to work vs those that work from home?!?!?!

Maybe I'm resentful that I haven't reached the level of success that affords me the luxury to work wherever I want.  Are people more productive in the office or outside the office?  Do laptop workers really contribute to the company culture?  Are they really subject matter experts when all they do is work from home?  It's like the nerd that is incredibly book smart but has no real world experience.  They have no idea how anything is done in the field...  yet they're telling us how things should be done in the field?  Do they bring a fresh un-jaded perspective to the working stiffs actually executing your bullshit plan put together by someone who has no operational experience in the last 5 years?  

I do think if the laptop class wants to work from home, their salary should reflect the reduce costs of going to work.  Reduced expenses for fuel burn, wear and tear on your car, etc.  Take that money and give it to the stiff that has to commute in to work.  Wait a minute.  Is that redistribution of wealth?  NO.  It redistribution of pay based on expenses required to get to work.  Seriously.  What a crock.

And all these whiners - STFU and either go back to the office or fucking quit.  The rest of us will be happier either way.  If things don't work out, there will always be another elitist with a laptop that can take your place.

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