Colleagues ignored WFH advice now stranded in heatwave - karma.

[Loveaghost]

I work in a big office in central London. Everyone lives in lots of different places obviously, but almost everyone is a significant train/ tube ride away.

Due to the heatwave our work told us to WFH where possible. But my most senior manager loves a bit of presenteeism. Hence a number of people (ie all the suck arses) came in. And, then proceeded to post/ message incessantly on internal comms demonstrating that they were in the office. Highly tiresome presenteeism considering ALL our calls were moved to Teams on our clients’ insistence.

Fast forward a few hours and ALL the tubes are fucked. As are almost all the trains. No-one can get home and they’re panicking at facing down 2-3hr bus journeys in 39 degree heat.

Serves them right for travelling against the advice of the health agency, government, TFL and the company. There was a do not travel unless essential instruction.

Of course, senior boss is alright. He got a company cab home…

First bit is true. But I’m retired from teaching now. Couldn’t handle the hypocrisy of people sucking up to useless Senior Management any longer!

It’s a strange thing to be happy about is other people’s misfortunes.
You don’t know the reasons that those that went to the office did that.
Your post is really mean spirited.

Edited to add that a Senior Director referring to colleagues as suck ups is really quite childish.

A committed Christian and regular church goer and your response to this thread is to salivate with glee?

Depressing but not particularly surprising

I love to see arse kickers get their just desserts.

very Christian

I don't know whats wrong with these people
Obvously there are some jobs where you literally have others relying on you but in most industry the world won't collapse if people need to get home safely a few hours early

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.

Going in at all to collaborate with a team abroad is madness regardless of the weather but that's a rant for another day!!

Much better thank you 🤩

Lovely to see that you’re still keeping everyone in check, what on earth would we all do without your kind service ❤️

Although now there's a red warning for tomorrow in London and the SE too, though I think it's overblown looking at the forecast. But it means that there's only one train an hour tomorrow, too.

I arranged to visit a relative yesterday, meaning two long train journeys across London. Taking 3 hours door to door, and the same back again.
I had no problems outward; return journey OK back to London, then 30 mins delay at major London Station, due to some cancellations. Otherwise all OK.
I had two bottles of water (one for each journey), in which I had included those narrow ice cubes.
The main thing is knowing it is hot and being prepared.

All it said was that OPs thread had clearly touched a nerve with those who had circumstantially come in, as well as annoying the actual suck ups as well!!! Literally that's all!!

“Suck ups”

has the thread been infiltrated by a year 7 student with the day off?

I don’t think you understand what “circumstantially” means. It really isn’t the right word for the point you are trying to make

Schadenfreude!!!

She made her point, however her point was entirely subjective and with no evidence that her assumptions rgds bothers being ' performative' had any basis. Immature and snipey- wouldn't want to work with her, she'd stomp on you faster than breathe given the chance.

Oh this kind of op @Loveaghost will be at the very bottom of the food chain and wouldn’t ever age the chance at work to stomp on anyone!

What a horrible, nasty attitude you have there @Loveaghost

I hope they all got home OK and have taken the opportunity to WFH today
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I think in the current situation where jobs are not so easy to come by, if there is a senior manager with this view point, people don’t want to do anything to get into their bad books (or at least want to show that they are the person who goes ‘over and above’ ) in case any redundancies are needed. Horrible with a manager like that, that people felt they had to put themselves through that difficulty.

That’s not karma

karma would he something nasty happening to someone with no empathy. Such as you OP

I think people forget too that the weather temp measurement is temp in the shade, so it's not even how it truly feels in the full sun or with the full sun beating down on train windows heating things up.

Awww...bless

The post was made at 17:45 - possibly finishes work at 17:00?

It was entirely predictable that the heat would cause a public transport meltdown so the sensible choice was to work from home.

To me anyone who decided to still come into the office just showed poor judgement and a complete lack of common sense, especially management who should have set the example and worked from home so no one felt any pressure to come in.

The OP did not cause these people's misfortune of getting caught in public transport issues, they did this to themselves.

It was perfectly avoidable but they chose performative presenteeism.

I don't blame the OP for pointing out how silly that is...

A special breed of suck-ups. Really doubling down there aren't you how unpleasant you sound

I went to office for the air con (don’t have it at home).

Central line was fine home (well hot and unpleasant, but it was running), and I didn’t hear anyone panicking about their journeys home on other lines. That said, quite a few of my colleagues decided to go for sunshine beers after work so perhaps hasn’t checked their routes.

They sound unbearable!

Did they all go in today OP? Or did they learn their lesson.....