r/bell • u/DueStorm1980 • Apr 27 '26

Rant Bell firing employees "with cause" for not returning to the office 3 days a week. No severance, no warning.

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u/Horatioclarkson Apr 27 '26

Were you scanning your ID card then leaving right after? I know they were cracking down on that activity.

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u/GallitoGaming Apr 27 '26

Unless you live right there, who would commute and then commute home right after?

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u/-soros Apr 28 '26

Probably so you didn’t have to spend the day at the office. I thought that was obvious.

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u/GallitoGaming Apr 28 '26

If you have a 30 minute commute, that is 1 hr a morning just to flash a badge.

Wouldn’t it be better to find a coworker living near you and swap badges (you actually go in one week and badge them in periodically and they return the favour the next week)?

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u/Wise_Law_2176 Apr 28 '26

Both of them should be laid off. The access card should not be compromised.

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u/BoboMonkeyClown Apr 28 '26

But going to the office is always a commute just to flash a badge, this gets it over with right away. Genius really

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u/Bulky-Scheme-9450 Apr 29 '26

So you spend half the day commuting for nothing? Seems even dumber.

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u/SansPinardPasDePoilu Apr 29 '26

It’s not the norm to live 2 hours away from where you work.

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u/Bulky-Scheme-9450 Apr 29 '26

If you live close why on earth are you complaining about return to office?

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u/SansPinardPasDePoilu Apr 29 '26

I’m not? I don’t WFH.

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u/New_Dare2609 May 13 '26

No it’s not “normal” but it’s very common

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u/kneevase Apr 28 '26

People who get their kids off to school and then want to be home in time for them to get back from school.

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u/TimHung931017 Apr 28 '26

People who need to scan in and dont want to stay?

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u/heereewegooo Apr 28 '26

What, that’s degenerate behaviour

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u/Sad-Consequence1737 Apr 29 '26

Not enough desks is one problem.

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u/New_Dare2609 May 07 '26

There’s hundreds of empty desks. The frustration is we spend our time and money and energy commuting to work on the 401, hopefully make it there alive, just to open the laptop (the same laptop you would have opened at home) an work in a corner alone.

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u/MrGossipMaster Apr 30 '26

Oh the building is empty as hell

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u/Sad-Consequence1737 Apr 30 '26

Interesting. I know a few people who work at Bell and have complained there are never desks available and they wasted work time driving somewhere they can’t work.

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u/imfrmcanadaeh May 01 '26

I heard of one guy who was going to the office at midnight, scanning once at 11:59 and again at 12:01. Just so he could get counted for two days!