Coworkers that love RTO

Obvious throwaway and vent. My company had a hybrid model ever since COVID some days in the office, some days at home, all depending on whoever your manager is. Pretty standard stuff. What comes as a bit of a surprise to me is how different people are when it comes to office presence. There is this boomer manager on my floor who just loves the office and makes sure to let everyone know how big/nice of a family we are.
He is one of the loudest person around, micromanages most of his staff (except his hand picked favorites), and always gives backhand insults like “Oh, going home already? It’s only 5:30PM, haha!” or “Haven’t seen you for a while in the office how many remote days do you have? Oh, only two? Wow, I come in every day.” It feels like a clown show everytime I see him honestly. What’s worse is that his entire team has now adopted this same attitude, and they’re all on board with coming in daily, sitting at these flex desks (that we need to book each day and leave spotless, so no personality there) in a cramped open plan office.

The part that is irritating me is that none of them seem to care about the (many) downsides of our workplace: the end year reviews feel like a scam, there’s a high turnover rate, and the only workers that stick around are closet to retirement. Not to mention the soul sucking meeting culture that apparently requires us to be seated at +0 minutes past the hour, only for nothing of value to be discussed. It’s honestly one of the most toxic workplaces I’ve ever been in, and yet everyone on this manager’s team acts like they’re wearing rose-tinted glasses. They don’t even acknowledge how bad it is.

How can people tolerate this stuff and also not voice anything about this when e.g. going for lunch or coffee or similar? There probably is no hope left here, so I will just keep my head down until I find something better. Anyway, thanks for reading my rant.