It’s not personal, it’s not stupidity it’s just business and there are hundreds of thousands of developers who are willing and capable of replacing any of us.
I agree that it's just business, and that ultimately what employees at most large companies are paid for -- is to smile, and eat boneheaded apparently blatantly hypocritical directives from upper management (in the latter sense, referring specifically to the attempt to drag mid-level employees back to the office, while top lieutenants are apparently exempt).
But I don't see why we're not allowed to call it "stupid" (or to apply even stronger words) when that's plainly what it is.
The alternative is to start your own business.
Or join a company with more manageable levels of cognitive dissonance.
I agree that it's just business, and that ultimately what employees at most large companies are paid for -- is to smile, and eat boneheaded apparently blatantly hypocritical directives from upper management (in the latter sense, referring specifically to the attempt to drag mid-level employees back to the office, while top lieutenants are apparently exempt).
But I don't see why we're not allowed to call it "stupid" (or to apply even stronger words) when that's plainly what it is.
The alternative is to start your own business.
Or join a company with more manageable levels of cognitive dissonance.