Sadly, I am the department rebel/loudmouth. Everyone else is docile to the point of obsequiousness and asking Boss and Supervisors what can they do to help. People asked to start working remotely before we had to. A few will gripe privately, but actually putting up a protest? No, no, despite the fact that we are unionized and short of first degree murder are really hard to fire.
Higher Admin's prime directive is that they hate paying us not to work, for very odd values of work. Snow days? We don't get them. The database has to be taken down for a week? Everyone come in and clean their cubicles for five days. My unit has actually been insanely efficient while we've been working remotely, even if we can't do our primary tasks -- we've all been doing the secondary stuff that none of us have time for in the office. That's why Higher would have been fine with us staying out -- they can look at the stats and see progress. But other units cannot do this and they are the ones driving the "so when is everyone coming back?" questions and my boss lacks the leadership capacity to say "we're fine where we are and here are the numbers to back it up."
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Date: 2020-07-25 16:41 (UTC)Higher Admin's prime directive is that they hate paying us not to work, for very odd values of work. Snow days? We don't get them. The database has to be taken down for a week? Everyone come in and clean their cubicles for five days. My unit has actually been insanely efficient while we've been working remotely, even if we can't do our primary tasks -- we've all been doing the secondary stuff that none of us have time for in the office. That's why Higher would have been fine with us staying out -- they can look at the stats and see progress. But other units cannot do this and they are the ones driving the "so when is everyone coming back?" questions and my boss lacks the leadership capacity to say "we're fine where we are and here are the numbers to back it up."