Cry harder, loser.
Posted on 02/08/2024 9:19:11 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
During an address on Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took a jab at remote work while praising the benefits of downtown Minneapolis.
While speaking at the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s annual meeting, Mayor Frey, a Democrat, joked that remote work ultimately turns you into “a loser.”
“I don’t know if you saw this study the other day, what this study clearly showed… is that when people who have the ability to come downtown but don’t,” Frey explained.
“When they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket, diddlin’ on their laptop. If they do that for a few months, you become a loser. It’s a study. We’re not losers, are we?”
Frey’s comments were met with laughter from the crowd.
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What a maroon.
He’s not wrong
Cry harder, loser.
He is absolutely wrong
So that requires people to drive cars to work, doesn’t that contribute to Climate Change?
His comment is odd. But when I had to work remote I almost lost my mind after a year of that. Some of my staff loved it. Fewer didn’t. And a slightly smaller number really just took advantage of it.
It is good for you to come downtown and get mugged—it builds character!
Lol.
The “benefits” of downtown Minneapolis. Having lived there for 2 years, what are those benefits?
Let’s see, they have elevated walkways so you can walk from place to place without busting your ass on the frozen sidewalks while being out in the bitter cold.
Can’t do much about the rampant crime though.
Oh, and you still have to live in Minneapolis where we had multiple weeks each winter as in 2 and 3 week stretches when it never got above 0. No, not freezing. Never above ZERO degrees. Have I mentioned there is about a 4 month stretch when it doesn’t get light til 9, gets dark at 4 and even for those 7 hours its like dusk? You can look up in the sky and not even know where the sun is. The blanket of gray is that thick.
Who wouldn’t want to live in that? That just beats the hell out of living somewhere fit for human habitation and paying much less to do so.
yes he is.
Btw—for those who don’t know—the Minneapolis “subway” is actually above ground in downtown—which means that anyone who uses it gets to experience the wonderful winter weather—up close and personal.
The Somalis traveling alongside you add a little extra charm.
:-)
What ever happened to “Minnesota nice”?
Mayor Frey is toast. Gen Z will be upset
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I was thinking the same thing. The younger generations love the remote work thing.
I think the guy is partially correct though. It depends how and why remote workers are doing it. You’ve got different kinds. You got the losers (or the ones that metastasize into losers) who sit around watching TV and playing xBox, get almost no human interaction (unless you count discord), and turn into out-of-shape, malcontents with anxiety spectrum disorders. They may be nice people, but they suffer because of their seclusion. But then you have the self-motivators. People who actually become more productive at home, don’t isolate, and use some of the extra time they make for social, competitive/sports, or productive activities.
Remote work IS STARVING liberal cities of a major source of revenue and power.
I want everyone to work remotely, wherever possible.
This is a major benefit from COVID days, and we must not let it go back to the prior “normal.”
If Mary Tyler Moore tried throwing her purse in the air these days it would never touch the ground—it would be stolen by the natives first.
I pretty much work 7AM to 6PM. I work those extra hours, because I don’t have to spend the 2+ hours every day commuting to the office, so they get more work out of me, by me working from home.
What’s his excuse then? Loser!!!
He's making a joke here. He's not actually talking about remote workers.
That was me as well before I retired.
Commuting is an insane time waster if there is any way to avoid it.
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