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My office wants us all to work in person but made all IT support mostly remote across the entire company.

I like my job, what I do, and for the most part even the company I work for, but getting any tech help is basically like calling customer service. Except it's the for equipment the company has given us to do the job. When I'm in the office, and I have a tech issue that involves physical equipment, I have the equivalent of a chat line staffed by bots that google things for you. Sometimes they don't even google the right thing. I've even had IT people just tell me they couldn't help if the issue is something you really need to be in person for, like troubleshooting the printer. They also don't stock key equipment like replacement laptops, extra chargers, etc. at the office, so if you are in person and have a pressing hardware issue you are just as SOL as if you were at home. If it's…


I like my job, what I do, and for the most part even the company I work for, but getting any tech help is basically like calling customer service. Except it's the for equipment the company has given us to do the job. When I'm in the office, and I have a tech issue that involves physical equipment, I have the equivalent of a chat line staffed by bots that google things for you. Sometimes they don't even google the right thing. I've even had IT people just tell me they couldn't help if the issue is something you really need to be in person for, like troubleshooting the printer. They also don't stock key equipment like replacement laptops, extra chargers, etc. at the office, so if you are in person and have a pressing hardware issue you are just as SOL as if you were at home.

If it's cheaper and more efficient for the IT people to be permanently remote and decline to do the parts of their jobs that need to happen in the office… why am I still coming here?

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