cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/27615443
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Not to mention being in the thick of office politics.
yes...? of course there are downsides
I think work from home should be the norm and people who oppose it are just your managers who don't want to be obsolete, but I worked from home for 4 years from 2008-2012, before it was more common, and I basically drove myself crazy with loneliness and feeling out of the loop. This was partially due to bad circumstances personally, but after a few months of just your pyjamas you start to feel really sloppy and desperate.
I should add this was long before Zoom or any video meetings so that didn't help.
I am not against working from home I just prefer working with my colleagues in the office
It's not for everyone, and I know what you're saying but "feeling sloppy and desperate" is certainly not a universal experience. As a single anecdotal example, I've been working from home for over 5 years now and personally feel like I get a lot more pros than cons from it. Sure, I'm lazier with my personal hygiene and don't bother to dress up (during the working day when it's only me who can smell me), but I still go outside and go to events and talk to people outside of work, I just have more energy left to do that in my evenings and weekends now 🤷
Don't worry, you'll be spending plenty of time talking to humans through countless pointless meetings. Sure, it won't be physically face-to-face, but it often isn't physically face-to-face even when you have to go to the office anyway.
This meeting could have been not a meeting.
Yes, downsides like drinking better coffee and doing laundry and other chores during the lull of the day.
Good coffee is a major perk. Work from home haters always bring up how important it is to socialise during "coffee breaks" but how enjoyable is it to drink that burnt ass-taste budget watery joe while repeating "nice weather" to random people?
Precisely.
Only done about 8 days in the office in my life as I didn't work in an office role until after the lockdowns started. Not in any rush to do any more tbh, the commute is expensive and takes ages just to get less work done than I would at home and I can't even do anything interesting in my unpaid lunch break as I am still at the office.
At least in my last non office role lunch break was paid time still so I usually just took as long as it took to eat something and then got back on with what ever I was doing. Although there was also more job satisfaction there as customers were normal people rather than faceless corporations.
I’m currently 100% remote, and to be honest I do sometimes miss having to spend 2-3 hours of my day getting ready/up early and going to work, spending the extra gas money, being late. Cause if we don't go to the office, WHO WILL FUND ALL THESE CORPORATE LOANS? /s
Stop uisng creditcards (if you even still use them) and stop buying from mega corps, that will have a way bigger impact than you going to work. Heck generally staff working from home is cheaper if the production is the same.
Also, you can walk bike or take the public transport to work unless you live in a corrupted hellscape.
I moved to where I lived so I could walk to work. 6 months later the pandemic hit and I more or less spent 80-90% of the past 5 years alone in my apartment. I miss working in the office because I miss just being able to talk to close coworkers/friends, no slack, no zoom, just walking over and if they weren't focused chatting or discussing and just having social interaction
Fuck, I miss the walk to work and interacting with people
There was lots of shitty stuff about working in the office but damn I do miss it
Only time in my adult life I managed to be regularly hygenic tbh
I miss just being able to talk to close coworkers/friends, no slack, no zoom, just walking over and if they weren’t focused chatting or discussing and just having social interaction
Have you considered getting a social life?
Have you considered that that might be difficult with antisocial attitudes like the one expressed by OOP becoming the norm?
All social interactions aren't equal. When I go to a shop I avoid people because I am not in that space to socialise. However when I go to a social event I try my best to be outgoing and engage with lots of people.
The OOP reads like all social interactions are equally bad, so I'm not really sure why you're disagreeing with me for disagreeing with the original post. I did not say anything to the contrary of what you are saying.
Nah, it's not about to be the norm: people just vary in their social disposition with some wanting none of it. That's fine & should be accepted. Have you looked at society?
Yeah, I have, and I think being fearful and avoidant of each other is more destructive than it is helpful. Have you looked at the up and coming generations, taken seriously the loneliness they are expressing, and acknowledged how that might affect their views on the world and how they treat others?
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