so happy to work from home, that shit was wild. like no I’m not your husband, I’m literally just a guy who sits near you and would do anything to not be here
Apparently some lady at my husband's work has assigned herself his "work wife"
And now I have to go to the trouble of terrifying her to death in my real form one moonless night and GEEZ lady could you not have been more chill for all our sakes
To be fair, if your husband isn't immediately shutting that shit down and drawing lines about her taking that role, even as a joke, he's a part of the problem.
there are several actual married couples at my work, I once got to hear the office manager shut down that sort of talk with “no, my ‘work husband’ is my actual husband. he sits over there.”
if an employer can't 100% guarantee they will never fire anyone to cut costs, the worker-employer relationship is always adversarial. get the fuck out of here with 'family'
I wish I’d picked up on the massive red flag of my boss when I moved roles saying “we’re like a family here” and then proceeding to gaslight and marginalise me for 18 months.
2 of my best friends came from weird jobs—these are two ppl I prize so deeply and for so long they’re truly like family. That being said—whenever a job/position talks about “we’re like a family” I’m like—nope! Least egregious: after work emails; most egregious: no boundaries no remuneration.
nothing wrong with being real friends with coworkers, as long as you remember that, until you're hanging out on your own time, you're still just coworkers. i probably met more than half my current closest friends at various workplaces over the years
escalators put my work family’s butts next to my face as we all ascend from the quotidian of the domestic to the sublime of Office Tower. How can I not submit?
Emotional labour (labor) is how the employees regulate their feelings and emotions at work in an attempt to make the customers feel relaxed, happy and welcome. Emotional labour can have a significant impact on the success of a business. https://youtu.be/_MfknFhtGU0
the most depressing part of The Office was the finale where they’re like “your coworkers are more family than your actual family and that’s the best thing ever!”
The show's transition from "show about a bunch of people working at a job they hate with a boss who is convinced they're a family" to "hey wow look how fun this is! Don't you want to work at Dunder-Mifflin?" is both depressing and insidious.
Jim's shift to a company man in particular pisses me off.
Like there are still good episodes after that shift (I maintain it's still solidly entertaining until Carrell leaves) but whew talk about a piece of media that missed its own point.
We bleed together, we carve out time from our families to stay here together excessively for hours/ days on end, for no reason other than to produce a profit for somebody else that we’ve never even met/ will never meet, miss out on things that we really want to do, get sick together as a family,&die
Nah—it’s apt. One or two people who genuinely have your back, see you, and will go to bat for you, and the rest who just say they will, but wouldn’t.
And some who are like, “I didn’t even know you’re in this family”
Call me a traditionalist but I think the only work family should have is your second secret family that you have in your capacity as a traveling salesman
I think that it does exist, for me personally, the school work family can be really helpful in achieving things while also doing what’s expected of them.
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Same as my extended family.
And now I have to go to the trouble of terrifying her to death in my real form one moonless night and GEEZ lady could you not have been more chill for all our sakes
Inviting coworkers to my wedding seems absolutely WILD.
Like maybe one or two work besties but the whole office is… Wild
My “regular family” is already exhausting enough. I don’t want a version of that with things like HR and PAs added to it.
Jim's shift to a company man in particular pisses me off.
And some who are like, “I didn’t even know you’re in this family”