Another miserable day working from home. Wearing comfortable clothes. Surrounded by all the things I could possibly need. Little dog sleeping by me. Every day this nightmare. I yearn for the office
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Family, Beth. We’re family. A work family. We’re a nonunion work family. An “At-will” family. With NDAs. And fiduciary conflict of interest policies that always put the family ahead of, well, your family.
I just don't understand how people can use the bathroom at home without coworkers in the stalls next to them and someone talking loudly on the phone walking around the room.
My favorite part of the office was how each huge floor of the building had like two stalls, tops, on either end of the floor, and everyone decided to take a shit at the same time, so that I'm left power walking around the floor, wasting time as a turd crowns.
I think the thing I miss most about the bathrooms is the fleeting instant of eye contact as people walk past your stall and check to see it's actually in us.
imagine instead of getting a deeper connection with my neighborhood and local shops i could instead just walk a circle around the parking lot a few times when i get tired
I drive a lot for work, and I see so many people walking laps around parking lots during lunch. Generally groups of 2 to 4, but there is one place where it's at least twenty. They make five laps and go back inside, every day.
“Collaboration” is just code for: sharing diseases, supporting our cafeteria and neighboring businesses while having more HR issues while also just sitting on Teams because no one you work with wants to walk across a building to talk to anyone.
Yeah, so that's the other thing: we all work in a timed, metered, monitored environment. They log every time you get up or log out of the phone queue. So no one should be collaborating with anyone that isn't RIGHT NEXT to them.
Yup. I hate it. And now I have to buy nicer clothes, drive to the office, and spend more of my personal time preparing and traveling. And the raises didn’t reflect those expenses.
I've kept a running tally of pros / cons to WFH, and there are like 2 pros to the office ... and a whole bunch of pros to WFH. And most of those pros are good for the company, too! Like business continuity and offloading costs to the employee.
My favorite part of Microsoft Teams is how, every couple of weeks, my manager tries to call me, and it will hang up on them within 30 seconds. She calls again ... hangs up again. Just keeps ending the call, and no one knows why.
You mean, "being interrupted randomly and constantly by people who are trying to get you to do their jobs for them and not getting anything meaningful done?"
Well, that happens even while I'm not working in the office. Hell, that's practically PART of my job..
No but seriously, more like, yeah I get more done because I don't get sucked into dumb office gossip, or random dumb shit going on around the building, or having to go waste an hour in a meeting.
I miss sitting in a meeting next to someone who is coughing and sneezing and thinking, uh oh, and then getting sick and my whole family getting sick and my kid missing a week of school. That's the true power of the office. The interconnectedness, the sharing.
got up 5 minutes before work started. had lunch break in my living room hammock. did not have to wade through knee-deep snow before sunrise to commute to work. the coffee was affordable and exactly how i like it. wore yoga pants all day and got a load of laundry done while i was working. just awful.
Not having to be too hot or too cold... Fresh coffee whenever I want it… slippers or sandals... Sleep in and work later... Or start early and end early... Gardening during lunch or a walk with the dog...gosh… then there is life at a corporate office...🤷♀️
And think of the children! Why, with laws preventing them from working they too must exist in an even worse state - unproductive and not contributing to the Holy Economy.
Poor souls, they too yearn; for dangerous and underpaid work, that is. Not the office.
Have you not considered the 2 to 3 hours travelling to and from the flouro lit "open office plan because it's productive but it's actually just loud and distracting" where it's more difficult to focus on your job but at least you're being micromanaged by a pointless middle-manager!
And what about the migraines resulting from the artificial lighting and the artificial white noise makers embedded in the drop tiles? You can't put a price on that kind of value.
Look the most important thing is that your employer who is committing wage theft makes it clear to you that they simply do not trust you to do your job unless you're being needlessly micromanaged by some middle manager in a terrible office setting because you might be stealing from them!
To be honest, I'm increasingly convinced it's nor that, it's that they get huge tax breaks on real-estate, but only if 51% of their employees are there at least 51% of the week. There's a lot of "coincidental reoccurring rules" at all of these different employers.
Haha, suckers.
I get all the office chairs and limited snack options!
And this isn't changing anytime soon. Call me privaliged, but at least I appreciate how good I got it.
Honestly, I don't have room for whiteboards or pacing around thinking at my place, so the more people that are working from home, the more room I've got at the office. #staypositive
so many invaluable moments are lost when you're not around your colleagues. the other day I asked "im gonna make some coffee, anybody want some?", and then one guy said "no" (the rest were wearing headsets, couldn't hear me), and then I said "alrighty". you miss out on that when working from home
A moment I'll never forget is going into the office to find that coworker #1 had changed their day-in-office to thursday and coworker #2 called out that day so I basically had the whole office to myself. These moments of interpersonal connection really drove home how important rto is...apparently.
I'm aware there are many productive people that work from home. As you say, it is easy to see when people aren't being productive, and that's why my company did away with it, they simply weren't getting the production without all their people being supervised. Some people ruined it for the others
You could be in the office right now, wearing uncomfortable clothes, swapping viruses with your colleagues, trying to concentrate while people around you gab, & dreading the hellish commute home instead. But you chose your current misery so I guess you’ll just have to buck up under the strain
I had to go into my office yesterday, it’s such a shame I am not able to come to this empty soulless void of a business park every day instead of just once or twice a week
Nadie entiende el porqué de los ajustes contradictorios que emanan de las mentes humanas. Hay aburrimiento en los trabajos de oficina; luego hay aburrimiento en los trabajos que se realizan en el ambiente hogareño. Finalmente, se descubre que se quiere vivir bien sin aportes de sacrificios.
Been in the office all day and only talked to people on Teams calls. I do have 2 coworkers in the office today, but haven't been able to talk to them, because they've been on Teams calls too. Ironically with each other! 🙄
my favorite part about the office is getting up 2 hours earlier - the 45 minute commute each way ($12 in gas) to sit in my office, speak to no one, use a public bathroom and pay $15 for lunch for no fucking good reason whatsoever. good times.
Good news! Management has heard your pleas and will be improving RTO by increasing in-office days from two to four. This will help us remain competitive in retaining our best colleagues.
an unwashed blanket made disgusting by a cat is what I imagine he was going for but he's a piece of shit 100% owned by slumlords so ultimately who cares
Easy for you to say: my wife also works from home, so all day every day I'm surrounded by those I love most. Just an endless barrage of empathy and companionship. And no office politics, either.
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Which is really funny, because no part of my job performance is graded on how well I ... collaborate, whatever that means.
Teams is absolute dogshit compared to Skype.
Like, I'm here for a paycheck, not a cult, you twat.
No but seriously, more like, yeah I get more done because I don't get sucked into dumb office gossip, or random dumb shit going on around the building, or having to go waste an hour in a meeting.
Just leave me alone and let me fix shit!
I don't care who's dead or alive.
(But also where’s the lil dog pic plz 🥹)
"Dogs. Dogs are nice." After Terry Pratchett.
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*dog in the way
**dog shoulder-checking me to herd me back into the kitchen for snacks
*other people who may live nearby or visit the home office or kitchen
**dog on the loose weaving in and out of "traffic"
YES SHE IS ALWAYS HERE
ALWAYS
Poor souls, they too yearn; for dangerous and underpaid work, that is. Not the office.
My deepest sympathies to you.
I get all the office chairs and limited snack options!
And this isn't changing anytime soon. Call me privaliged, but at least I appreciate how good I got it.
Check the details of the real estate loan bubble that’s about to pop. That’s the real driver here imho. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-20/transcript-where-stress-is-building-in-the-20-trillion-commercial-real-estate-market
My favorite store is London Tea Room out of Missouri.
My home office has a cat door! no where I have worked has even had a cat! All the points for WFH!
Not sure how I've survived this long.