Commuting is the fucking worst,I hate it so much and you should be paid for it.
when covid/work from home hit i realized i was now saving ~10 hours a week. commuting for sure ($ involved with it as well) but also a bunch of minor things that add up: getting ready/dressed/presentable every AM, extra laundry, packing a lunch, etc.
Honest to god if you offered me like a 30% pay increase but I have to come into the office and do a 40 minute commute everyday…I don’t think I would actually take that deal. Speaking as a formerly single parent: work from home has been the greatest thing for my mental health and personal satisfaction I can honestly remember. Being able to clock in and out not only to get kiddo from school doesn’t just save a fortune on childcare and grief in logistics management but also as a guy who does programming its easy to go knock out a load of laundry or prep some stuff for dinner and let my mind kind of ruminate on the problem I’m dealing with. That means when its finally time to clock out for the day I was able to actually handle my household responsibilities and still get a little ACTUAL goddamn leisure time.
Time is precious non renewable commodity. that’s why we here at fuckyoucorp are dedicated to squeezing every last bit of time from our employees down to the last drop until they return to the earth
Workers: somehow too indispensable to ever go on vacation but also so disposable that no one is in any rush to hire anyone after someone quits.
Me remembering all the time working at a place where an employee would give managlement MONTHS of warning that they were moving on and manglement waiting until like, three days before they walked off into the sunset to get a new hire to start training.
Hey, they were hiring at all, that’s almost unheard of
Most porks salivate over people quitting. That means a smaller workforce where they just have everyone do more work for free! Why would porky ever hire when the work just does itself?
We know, the misery is the point!I wonder how much of that is just less time wasted commuting. Worst part of my day by far, I literally have dreams about the jobs I used to have that had a very short one.
That’s a huge part of it for me. I don’t have kids, though, and don’t mind my coworkers.
Yeah no fucking shit. I hate working and like being in my house where all of my stuff is
Well, we can’t have that now, can we?
tinfoil hat ass take
i feel like headlines that take the form of “study: obvious thing everyone knows” are a kind of psy-op to get people to disregard the importance of science and think of it as a waste of money/resources
there are enough time vampires, watercooler freaks, extroverts, and micromanaging petty tyrants that we probably do actually need this research.
When I was studying torture at Mossad University as a part of my dream of working at Langley, I remember reading scientific articles and their critiques. A common thread was things like “you should use more than 1 cell line to see that it isn’t a quirk of that particular line.” So you’d get these articles that are like Hormone Promoter AFHKJLSJHDKJ-1 Upregulation Due to AOSIDJA-234Benzyne-1-S Not Significantly Different in OIUREWYIUWBVW Cell Line and AOSIDJ-324 Cell Line that no sane person would ever read for entertainment. If you were, in particular, a grad student/PhD hopeful/actively researching that field you would need that as a reference that you dissect for methods, hypothesis formation, etc.
Which is to say that it was pretty safe to assume that the OIUREWYIUWBVW Cell Line was representative, but a scientific inquiry is an endeavor to isolate variables and rid your work of assumptions, so sometimes you do have to do the painstaking work of retracing your steps with more study into teasing apart variables you didn’t think of previously. So when your work is something salacious and attention grabbing you’ll find that obvious thing in that test that isolates it so that it can be used as a citation. Not because the work was trying to be groundbreaking, but because in peer review, if your abstract says “it’s common knowledge that AFHKJLSJHDKJ-1 Upregulation Due to AOSIDJA-234Benzyne-1-S is common throughout humans.” you’re going to get lit up with everyone saying “well, you don’t know that…” But if you can cite PhD Student et. al. 2025 and the exacting method of asserting the obvious, it becomes more rigorous.
Consider the lengths you have to go to in order to create a proof that 2 + 2 = 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pL2J0ZB8g
So if you want to do the immortal science of Sociology, the study of Socialism I assume, they’re going to want you to apply the same rigorous standard to how your studies are presented.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I have seen arguments from all stripes argue that work is imperative for socializing but have personally done most of my socializing outside of societal-mandated tasks? I met people and talked to them occasionally at school for example, but most of my relationship-building was outside of that and I was always pretty mentally unavailable for socializing during school. I only socialize during work if what I am doing is rote work, otherwise, I have way too much of my mental stack actually dedicated to doing the task at hand.
I dunno, maybe it’s the ADHD speaking.
Outside of social needs though I don’t really see why someone would prefer working outside of a remote environment if they aren’t doing something manual-labor related. I guess there is also wanting to get away from home but that also tends to be due to social needs balancing from most variations I hear.
People complaining about how hard it is to work from home are soft dipshits on YouTube et al. who are massively skewing the perception of working form home.
but most of my relationship-building was outside of that
how? completely unrelatable
Eh, most people I met in school I just didn’t talk to unless I ended up meeting them somewhere else so didn’t really build up relationships there. Others are DnD groups, friends of friends, people I met gaming etc. Not to say buds were not planted in school, but I generally mostly spoke to my friends outside of school and they knew I was socially checked out most the time in school. Several of my friends are people I met in school but didn’t start talking to much until I essentially cold-called them on a social or messaging app outside of school. Some of it is also just I have a decent amount of hobbies that are pro-socialization: I study a language and studied abroad for a bit, most people willing to do that are really social and even if you aren’t interacting with people in classes you’ll probably run into someone willing to drag you to do something if you just exist in common areas. For when I’m at home, as mentioned I play DnD, I play magic occasionally too and you can just ask people to join them if you have an LGS nearby and you’ll usually be able to. I used to play basketball (sucked dick) and do martial arts (sucked dick at striking, grappling was pretty average) those two didn’t lead to friends but was helped with bonding and conversation comprehension when they were being discussed.
I will note though while I can be a bit awkward due missing some social cues I have for most purposes very little social anxiety which helps a lot. I’m also willing to dedicate a nearly unreasonable amount of resources for friendships I have that I find enjoyable (during periods where I am not socially-burnt out) which has created long-term friendships from fairly tenuous connections. I am fairly open and inquisitive as well, and have openly been told by more reflective friends that they’re surprised they found it enjoyable as on paper it would be somewhat off-putting but its worked for deepening bonds in my case (this I would not recommend though, I have seen other people crash and burn doing the same, just being forthright as I have had friends point to it being part of what they found appealing about me which helped the relationship survive a bit of disrepair or was a spark in the first place).
I found a combination of pro-social hobbies and ironically a bit of intentional lean-in for social deficiencies I previously struggled with that are likely caused by neurodiversity lead to thinks mostly working out. The latter I do want to reiterate I kinda lack the understanding as to why it works besides it coming off a bit absurd and probably entertaining cuz of it but I don’t particularly mind that as a lot of my personality is me trying to amuse myself as well.
Maybe if you live in a nice place. My apartment is a shit hole and I’d rather be at work most days. I’d probably sleep under my desk George Constanza style if that was possible.
: “Good? For…the POORS?!?!?! That’s it, RTO now and fire anyone who seems miserable over it! How DARE the poors not have utmost loyalty to ol’ uncle porky!”
