# remote working bs > "remote work is morally wrong" > ~ elon 'did naz1 that coming' roman tech oligarch coup organizer muskyboy > "goldman does not want to hire people for whom the most important thing is how many days they have to spend in the office" > ~ financial times people are overwhelmingly against being forced to come in to offices yet if one doesn't the lizard baskets will sack you but that's precisely the point - 'rto or else' is really newspeak for 'increasing layoffs of enhanced shareholder value' in fact it's really about real estate my poor partner had to get up at five today slog through a drawn out commute and unreliable public transport just to turn up on the corporate factory floor and attend a cosmically unnecessary meeting - missing half the people who couldn't attend because they lived too far away anyway they need to be here safe with me not over a hundred miles away in a miserable office in some dangerous city if as ir boss is suggesting they'll end up having to do this bs 'a mere three times a week' that'll be roughly mean over eighteen hours spent commuting every month what a cosmically pointless waste of time - work per se that is one main thing to understand is the very term 'return to office' is a misnomer because nobody never damn well left - rather 'the office' and toxic office culture invaded people's homes and lives 'homes' that most people unironically rent from landlords - gee wonder what the link is with that fact and long term office space leasing both wfh 'work from home' and rtf 'return to office' express a singular poverty - that of the innate misery useless tedium and terminal boredom of work itself it's merely form of blackmail and merely the latest class war attack on the 99%; 'back to normal' only ever means 'because i said so - ie it makes me even more money' awful corporate notions like rto are only ever really about power greed and the insanity of control and nothing whatsoever to do with 'face time' resulting in increased morale productivity 'positive engagement' or whatever bosses just need another excuse to avoid labor costs and 'allow staff to fire themselves' silently and invisibly without compensation - justify the ideological existence of (inherently redundant) management and increase worker surveillance while improving commercial real estate vacancy lease rates of rented offices as empty and devoid of life as the souls of big business owners themselves consider the useful antiwork phrase concerning rto blackmail aka 'rot-hell': return offices to hell note the acute existential absurdity of the situation: if they quit due to the *added* pressures of commuting - because they're already overworking from home as it is - with the fact ir already meager salary deliberately not be increased to cover travel costs - than the next bunch of manager holes they try finding a mainly-wfh job with will berate them for 'quitting a previously perfectly fine job' you see it's all perfectly rigged so that the only creatures that win are rich and utterly inhuman the forced return-to-office blackmail mandate is bs because the very notion of work itself is bs as for to 'the irreplaceable value of in-person collaboration for fostering creativity and innovation strengthening team dynamics and company culture' it only makes the exact kind of insane corporate bs-bingo sense spewed from the mouths of dead eyed management lizards and inherently evil bosses / owners see for fellow working wage slaves the office isn't merely a workplace but a destination of innate happiness - of freely complying with 'company culture' - feeling full to bursting with increased productivity camaraderie and opportunities for endless fruitful collaboration remember an open office layout packed with employees busy serving smiles means personal freedom like an soaring eagle // republic of bob