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Does it make sense to name & shame these bad actors?

The issue is, I know I would be fired, and cannot afford to lose this job. There is no one hiring in the area, and we're geographically locked due to factors around my child that I don't care to get into here.

So, the answer is yes, but there is no way to do that without losing my health insurance, and probably home. So that's neat.

You're not geographically locked from working remotely. Lots of places are hiring remote workers. I'd start applying immediately.

No idea what you do, but a lot of companies are newly open to full-time remote employees, fwiw. Sounds like you work for jerks.

> The issue is, I know I would be fired, and cannot afford to lose this job. There is no one hiring in the area, and we're geographically locked due to factors around my child that I don't care to get into here.

Unionize.

Yes. It's all about PR, and if a company looks bad because it's forcing its employees to return to the office, amid a global pandemic and health concerns, that won't bode well, and they are likely to buckle under the pressure.

In the current climate, we need less not more of this.

There's a world of difference between what some 13 year old said on Twitter in 2011 and how a business actively treats it's employees today.

Fair. But it should be a last resort not the go to response.

Eh any company who engages in marketing imo has entered the thunder dome of public opinion. They can’t have their brand be a one way communication channel

>But it should be a last resort not the go to response.

Private companies have been slinging political / social issues messaging all over social media in the past few weeks. COVID and the decisions made around it are political / social issues, right?

So in the name of not having things be one sided i.e. they get political when it suits their brand, I really feel like the right counterbalance is employee activism via organizing & leaking online.

A company that is proclaiming about lives mattering one week and then pressuring their staff to return to close-quartered open-offices the next week deserves to have their dirty laundry hung high for all to see.

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