Comment by sorenjan
I'm all for workers right, unionizing, and not letting companies take advantage of you. If remote work is something important for you, you should make that clear for companies that wants to hire you.
But I'm sure there's plenty of people who would gladly trade their tyranny for a well paid office job in a safe part of the world. I'd also like to add that American tech workers are pretty uniquely well off, working in an office for a fifth of an Amazon paycheck is the norm for a lot of us. Nobody likes to commute, I'm not defending unnecessary mandatory back to office policies, just adding some perspective.
While all this is true I only get to live my own life and my experience is mine. Someone else having a worse one doesn’t mean I have to put up with petty micromanagement simply because others do. But my point doesn’t stop with me and it extends to everyone who puts up with petty tyranny of management in every situation. It’s always petty and it’s always tyrannical and it should stop. It doesn’t help the employee or the company. It’s just about petty exertion of power in all its forms across all classes and professions.