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I work in a metal shop and have to do my work in the factory. its so annoying knowing how many people can work from there home but insist on clogging up the streets. I'd love to be able to work from the comfort of my home, and don't understand how anyone could complain about having to stay at home. its where I want to be 100% of the time.
zubax
NEVER! What about the 30 minute drive that takes an hour, just to see the same asshole coworkers I have seen for the past 5 years?
ProbablyCrazier
My office just downsized from 40,000sqft to 15000, everyone is working from home now. Our productivity increased!
AccountCreatedToUpvoteDogs
I go in once a week to see coworkers and stay home 4x a week to be productive.
itsjustplaid
Well, I miss getting the fuck out of the house, but not having to pay $5/gal gas every 2-3 days is nice too, I guess.
alternatereality543
I work in IT and have a 1hr commute to work with gas at $6/gallon. WFH please.
suckstoyourauntie
My husband and I are both working from home now...that's two fewer cars commuting, and 140 kms or 87 miles in gas not used, 5 days a week.
Clymenus000
I loved working from home. I can do everything I do in the office at home, but better because I am happy. My boss is making me go back in.
Belthuzar0
Boston is once again 1 hour away from Boston
weirdcalculator
15 minutes sounds like a dream. My commute is 40, best case. I make any excuse I can to work from home. I do like alone time in the car tho.
datangryperson78
I cleared out my desk just last week. I’m at home from now on. Both hate it and love it.
Travelcedric
Definitely not enjoying the increased traffic and management presence
RottedOnion
It's good for the environment to work from home too.
thespaceneedle
I’m being recruited rn and they’re like “2-3 days in the office is best we can do” and I’m like…nnnnoooo, I don’t think so
afatrollofmyown
Good for you, stand your ground.
beaubrent
I completely forget the office and now have five pairs of slippers and two milk frothers (in case one breaks.)
ScubaGirlTX
I WFH 3 days a week. Best of both worlds cause I go stir crazy at home after 5 straight days!
GorillaPowers
I miss driving to work with empty roads
toolzgalore2
Hopefully this anti-work from home trend will die with the geriatrics currently in charge of such places
SpringStaple
Not quick enough unfortunately
Foxsayy
We must hasten the deaths of the geriatrics
GhostBear3067
Working in EMS I never got to stay at home, but the reduced traffic did wonders for our response times.
ColdCast
I don't want to be driving to work, my boss requires us to be on-site. It wouldn't be this way if we lived in a country with labor rights.
Zzap1
I do both. I can wfh just fine, but I like my colleagues and enjoy their company. Being home ALL the time just depresses me
IamNoOneToBeTrifledWith
I get it. But if im honest, if I had a “work at home” job. I wouldn’t be very productive. But I can only speak for myself.
riplikash
A big thing a LOT of people realize when they transition is that...they weren't spending much of that work day being productive either.
Clymenus000
I thought the same about myself but was proven wrong when I was made to work from home. Now I wish I could stay. But it's not for everyone!
ShanghaisFamousLittleDublinDistrict
But then how would the oil companies make any money?!
terraMarbleSmuggler
fuck em they dont need it
inshadowz
I had the train car practically to myself. With an hour's commute each way, I caught up on SO much sleep!
Dasnekones
The good businesses will massively downscale their offices and have most of their employees work from home. Massive savings.
GBMaker
The future is electric.
Wolfire0769
Oh it's in full swing now for development. Ironically it's a clusterfuck where I work due to WFH engineers fucking up so much.
razark
It'll happen in 5 years. I'm pretty sure, because they've been telling me so for the last 30 years.
GBMaker
I didn't think I'd live long enough to see production electric cars, but here we are. Solid state lighting, green energy. It's happening!
pizzapartyhard
DukeDarkwood
If the job can still be done completely and properly, go for it. (If it literally requires physical presence, like construction or stocking,
DukeDarkwood
or any of a hundred other things, you should probably not do it from home.) But yeah, office/cubicle work? We have this glorious thing
DukeDarkwood
called telecommunications, and the Internet, and paperless paperwork. It can ALL be done from home.
chicharrone
Truth is- All those people sitting in traffic have different circumstances that may necessitate them traveling just like you.
SomeDetroitGuy
And a lot of them are doing it because they are required by an employer
davethebiker
Been working from home for 2.5 years, it sucks. No decompression from home to work or work to home. No separation. Interrupted by wife and
Vallete
Everybody is different, as a stopgap maybe a gym membership that you go to after 'work' to help you separate work and home time?
davethebiker
Kids often all day. Breaks become time to do household stuff vs a break. I want to go back. Depression hit hard because I'm always home.
davethebiker
I never leave, and while it sounds great, it isnt.
Clymenus000
Can you either ask to work in office or find another job? It sounds like it would really help your mental health. I wish you well.
razark
I can understand that. I avoid my at-home work area during off hours unless I need to be in there. Setting boundaries can be hard, but it is
razark
vital. I live alone now, but the ex used to be a problem during the times I was working at home. I changed jobs to a permanent work from
razark
home job last month, and it did factor into the decision.
turkeydonkey
There are many people who would and could work from home, but their shitty bosses insist on them coming in.
Gryphonosiris
At the moment my office hasn't asked anyone to come back in. I've gone in a few times to see people, but it isn't mandatory.
pettingmycatwhileipoo
Some of us cant work from home because we would go insane. IT Guy here. I have to be moving around and talking to people.
cabalin
These are poor managers. Assessment of performance should be based on delivery of objectives not time a a specific location
Niddhoger
*cough* Elon Musk *cough*
SkycladNightStroller
It makes bosses feel like a boss sadly
mastertmo
This is where I am. Could (and did) work 100% from home. I'm moving, so now my job has an end date.
glasshouseinarockstorm
I think small businesses that have been hit are probably driving some of the pressure from governments.
TheUseriestName
For me it's the fucking school traffic. One parent and one kid in a huge SUV, times a hundred. Please just use the buses ?
ImpossibleAgenda
Gotta justify having the buildings.
Jopler420
those shit bosses have to justify theier meaniless , useless existence some how
SpringStaple
My company was doing that until last week. Now the mask mandate is back so they sent everyone home again.
DorkJedi
Mine did. Started my new work from home guaranteed job a couple weeks ago.
FalafeLlama
My boss said it looks bad when they give a tour and the office is empty when I asked if I can work from home.
shyriath
Government agencies, too. Not that I'M BITTER ABOUT IT OR ANYTHING, YOU PRICKS
Foxsayy
My current job is still good, but it's 100% doable from a computer...I spend $300/month gas and 5+ hours a week to sit in a fucking office.
afatrollofmyown
Ooof. Do you get paid a lot/fairly?
Foxsayy
It's the best job I've ever had. I get to study for school pretty much the whole day, and the pay is good.
SomeDetroitGuy
It's incompetent leadership who don't understand how to actually be leaders and instead are petty little tyrants.
AgnosticPaladin
But the other .1% are great, right?
Maggiesperson
Re: Elon Musk
stayingalive4life
We all know he’s using that as an excuse to lay people off.
MatrimBloodyCauthon
So quit after finding someone who IS offering wfh
Foxsayy
My job us still awesome for where I'm at right now (I can study all day while I'm in school) so I just bitch about it.
hadtodownvote1
MatrimBloodyCauthon
The point is to be looking now to change, not that it's easy.
senseicombs
I don't understand the logic here. If I didn't have to pay all that overhead I wouldn't. I am a builder so almost everything is onsite.
suckstoyourauntie
I think it's about the real estate. Many companies sign long leases. It will take time for it to change, and transition could be bumpy.
senseicombs
I have signed many years of leases and they are not impenetrable. Most of the time you can work with the owner or pay a fee.
Niddhoger
It's dumber than that. "This is how it's always been done, so this is how we'll always do it" inertia gets in the way. Just look at 1/2
Niddhoger
how long Daylight Savings Time has been in effect or how highschools refuse to change their start times despite all the research 2/2
suckstoyourauntie
Both me and my husband work for a big company, and now both work from home...it is changing. My job didn't exist before the pandemic.
suckstoyourauntie
I think the time changes will chang stop soon. It looks like we will be on permanent Daylight Savings time as of November 2023 West Coast.
enheru
It'd be nice if people were allowed to work from home. People could live somewhere affordable instead of expensive shitty cities then.
1CheekyMF
My old company would adjust your pay of you moved to a cheaper state
NKato
A lot of office jobs don't actually produce meaningful economic worth.
PimpinKen
While I agree with you, housing prices have to go down.. especially in the shitty shities.
ThioSuxTube
I think you have that all backwards...
SomeDetroitGuy
The cities would get cheaper because the office space could be converted to apartments.
nekekami
What The F
nekekami
High five for the the above, there isn't a housing shortage though, thre are more empty homes than homeless people, I think
TresusIbor
win/win
xXxSTEVOxXx
People should organize and demand it old school style. Show up at the bosses' homes and make em feel unsafe til they give in
AnathemaNoreh
Difficult to do in this world of mega corporations. I like my direct manager, and her manager, they do what they can for us*. It's the 4 /
AnathemaNoreh
tiers of manager above them that are my problem. I'm not out to hurt the middle man who is just as screwed as I am
AnathemaNoreh
*yes that sounds naive, but my mom is also a manager at the same office, so I know when my manager has to just pass things along the line
Rubblebubble
i will always support making bosses/ceos/politicians feel EXTREMELY unsafe until they give workers/the public what they want.
xXxSTEVOxXx
Exactly. People need to realize existential fear is literally the only thing that has ever motivated America's ruling elite to change.
Rubblebubble
true, though i feel like that's not limited to US elite. Even the "good ones" were mostly trying to prevent an existential threat to them
xXxSTEVOxXx
Lol yeah i mean i kinda figure. But i only really know stuff about america and am trying to cut down on talking out of my neck yknow? Heheh