It’s pretty dope, especially when you get to work from home. I’m usually in my pajamas snuggled under a blanket. Much comfier than dress pants in a cubicle.
It’s not even the dress pants in cubicle. For 8 years I was working in factories on the production floor. This included heavy industry, night shifts, dust, noise, blinding lights, near freezing temperatures and a real threat of loosing an appendage. Now I’m working from home, sterling at an Excell sheet in my pajamas, under a blanket.
I never got why people love working from home so much. Home has so many distractions like my PC, my phone, my fridge, etc.
It also helps to just physically seperate my work from my free time. My home is my fortress where no work shall ever be done, a place for resting and wanking.
Also, work was like 90% of my social interaction and the pandemic really did a number on me.
In a cruel twist of fate, I now work almost exclusively from home, a dream for others, a dread for me.
I waste just as much time on my phone at work that I do at home, but at home I’m able to freely seek out a distraction when I need a break, and devote my attention to it until I’ve got some motivation again, then get back to work. In the office I have to try taking a break covertly when I need one, which doesn’t lower my stress very much, and leads to me taking even longer breaks trying to regain my motivation.
As for separating work and free time, I have no issue stepping away at the end of my shift; I only work for money - I don’t give a shit about the company itself - so, as soon as I’m no longer counting the time toward my paycheck, any and all motivation to continue working immediately evaporates.
A lot of people seem to really need social interaction, which definitely seems to be the biggest reason they might not enjoy long-term work from home. I seem to be the exception to that. During the height of the pandemic even my most extroverted friends eventually started craving social interactions, but I would stock up at Costco and go literal months without ever once leaving my house, and I loved it.
Have you tried walking to and from work every day? It can help you pretend they are different places.
You wake up and do your morning routine, then you walk around the block and start your working day when you reach your home office. Then at the end of the day walk around the block and home to mark the end of your work day.
Today I received a meeting invitation from the CTO (this doesn’t usually happen, I am getting dragged into a mud trap), the agenda for the meeting is “Plan to prepare for the preparation…” and my contribution to that meeting is to come prepared with a timeline of the plan. I am not even kidding.
15 Years later… no worthy raises (but plenty of employees of the month…) New employees start at my same pay… Plus suicidal depression…
Fuck America’s capitalism game.
I spent 15 years at the job and people were still getting put on as new employees for my wage while I was also getting employee of the week.
That type of bullshit and abuse is worth war. And one day the abusers will get what they deserve working blindly for evil. It’s no better than gang work.
And fuck unions… That’s still some bullshit on the cuff fix. We need more. War.
Hard sell, but also outspending isn’t in corporates interests either so I don’t know what you’re getting at
If you have the threat of a losing, uphill and costly legal battle, the company is gonna be on the side of… having it not happen
It’s always the bottom line
Unless you’re being harassed by the chairmen of the board, the company likely won’t risk a big scandal and legal expense to protect your local middle management diddler
I’m talking about outspending on defense and offering settlements. It doesn’t take much to exhaust a wage slave’s capacity to keep a suit going, even pretrial.
There’s a reason most cases settle before trial. The judicial system heavily incentivizes settlement and corporations can spend more on lawyers than their employees can.
The employee’s lawyer is also gauging the cost benefit to their own time spent on the case, so the client/employee ends up getting shafted.
Of course, if there is a really egregious case, like you’re envisioning, that can go farther down the road, but it’s still an uphill battle for the plaintiff.
Edit: All this isn’t even taking into account the fatigue plaintiffs go through, waiting for their cases to even get in front of a judge can take some serious time and then a trial can be even lengthier.
Depends, if you’re working for the state anyways. Typically, at least from what I’ve seen, HR people in state departments are usually the ones telling you to join a union.
That being said, I joined the union and I still treat HR like they have the plague.
This is a distinction I had to explain thoroughly when communicating with people in state jobs. It’s genuinely different. Mainly because of the added oversight.
I have spent a lot of time around a lot of IT workers and I am literally the only person I’ve ever seen on a project that has an ad blocker installed in their browser.
Yeah, the biggest delineation is "world without computers and digital electronics" vs. the world after all that proliferated. I'd still consider the 80s and 90s part of the "modern" era, what we used to call the "information age" or "computer revolution".
Pretty much all our modern tech is just more advanced versions of the same shit we already had in the 80s. Even social media (BBSs).
I'm not sure, my Dad is a 50s kid and he always complained that shit went downhill in the 80s. He displayed absolutely no interest in the media of the decade, the culture, music, or whatever, and probably felt very out of place. I don't feel the same way. I am just as comfortable with the world now as I was back then.
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