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Yeah, this has been tested every which way by now, the entire point of in-person work is to monitor employees. My manager told me outright that the only reason I can stay remote is, unlike most of the team, I didn't seem to "disappear" during 2020.



There's a unfortunate conflation of completing useful work with appearing to be present. The appearance of presence is the new 37 pieces of flair.


The other new 37 pieces of flair is creating a lot of Java files with large loc and many layers of object inheritance.




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