I work from home and never want to go back, but I don’t use the time I used to commute to work. I usually sleep until my dog gets me up and roll into my first meeting
Sleeping for an extra 60-90 minutes is using the time.
All I see is collaboration!
In misery.
But the shareholders already reinvested so much in the shitty office spaces for their excessive tax write-offs! /j
…joke?
I assumed that’s what /j meant, was I wrong? I assume way too much
No, it does. My reply is questioning how it’s a joke, and not just an accurate retelling of recent events.
I start a new remote job on Monday. It’s been a while since I was laid off. Just about 7 months. But I was lucky to find a firm looking specifically for a remote engineer in the specific support territory. Bingo!
I get to be in sweats all day and look like holy hell. I can get up and wander the house on a whim. Drink coffee, snack.
I’m way more motivated to do actual work than if I was forced out of bed at an ungodly hour just so I can sit and traffic and go somewhere terrible for eight hours then do it all again the next day until I die…
My commute is 20 minutes of curvy back roads. No traffic. Some farms and livestock, some forest. The roads get too much heavy truck use to be safe for cycling, but it’s a really nice drive.
They know this. They don’t care, they want your asses in their office buildings that they’re using as passive assets. Those assets lose value if there’s no demand for office buildings. Simple as
I would go to the office if they provided office cocaine like they did back in the day. I would be hella productive then.
Had a breakdown today because, after being on sick leave for a week, I came back to school and realised I need to prepare three therapies for tomorrow in between classes and barely any time to thoroughly prepare even one of them. But nooooo, working from home for those days where we just have school wouldn’t work because we have a contract that obligates us to be physically present. Plus, we’re just not as productive. Sure. Fuck my 2h of commuting everyday
You post a half full metro car as an example of misery? LMAO
Then firstworlders ask why people from the rest of the world make fun of them.
People are not allowed to dislike their station in life because someone else has it ‘worse’ somewhere else?
I mean, it’s rather gauche. Plenty here are happy to make fun of, say, rich people’s problems with social relationships, white people’s problems feeling comfortable talking about race, or men’s dating problems. And yet the disparity in privilege between these people and the average lemming is trounced by the disparity between a peasant farmer in a developing nation and the average lemming.
It seems the problems of the privileged are only reasonable to talk about when those problems relate to being a potentially-remote office worker in a developed nation. Strange that this is a disproportionately represented population here on Lemmy…
Because is a privilege, and you should at least aknowledge or respect that it is.
No no, you don’t understand. They are being forced at gunpoint to commute to air conditioned office jobs where they fuck off for hours every day by complaining about their jobs on Lemmy. It truly is the worst existance. If only they could escape that farm potatos in Kamchatka!
Guys I have this theory that a level of discomfort below “currently getting guts eaten by bird” exists, not sure on the specifics yet.
I’ll get downvoted to hell but I’m more productive at the office than at home. When you work at the office you need to dress up, take proper care of yourself, walk around and step by a cafe. All this starts the day positively and more prone to be mentally active.
Instead at home I personally feel more sluggish: I am with my pajamas on, wake up 10 minutes before clock in and stay alone the whole time.
No one’s stopping you. It’s only a problem when this is forced on people. Some of us don’t need to go to work for any of that.
Yeah never said it should be forced on people 👍 I just like how it is for me
I wake up earlier take a long shit/shower and get ready for the day before working at home in a clean environemnt, feels great
Get extra sleep, longer shower, more time to use the bathroom (usually dont have to go til im awake for a bit)
I should start blasting music tho, edm on my drive wakes me up and gives me hella dopamine, just don’t feel like I need it as much if I’m not traveling
Yeah I know that each one has their own. I’d hate to go to work sitting in a traffic jam for example
I wake up every morning, shower, shave, trim my beard, put on clean clothes… I look good. Then I park my ass in my home office. I don’t feel right starting my day in pyjamas, never have… even on weekends.
When you work at the office you need to dress up, take proper care of yourself, walk around and step by a cafe.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a job that paid well enough for me to do any of that tho
Same for me, having to go outside, touch some grass and get some vitamine D on the way to work makes wonders both for my mental health and for my productivity.
I bet 80% of people who always cry about this commutes by car into an office in an office park in the middle of nowhere.
I bet 80% of people who always cry about this commutes by car into an office in an office park in the middle of nowhere.
It was that or work at a gas station for 1/3 the pay. I’m just asking for a choice.
It’s that the complaints come out on Lemmy, or on Reddit, or elsewhere that’s extremely online.
I found lockdown quite enjoyable. My partner had grinding depression due to not having the stimulation and connection and support of being physically present with people, including at work.
That experience is common, but not amongst the vocal online lot!
