72% of office workers have left Manhattan

Don Surber Blog ^ | 11/12/2021

[firebrand]

it depends on what interests a person.

You should have stopped right there. Anyone not excited by what goes on in New York might as well stay where they are.

[firebrand]

Curiously there is still a lot of construction going on around us.

Contracts signed before covid began. The whole Hudson Yards area, for instance.

[firebrand]

You’re definitely not New York material. I get anxious when things are too boring. Traveling to New Jersey on the bus when I used to do that to see family was like being lost in space.

Even in high school I was like this. We used to come to the city to see the films and go to the music clubs.

Starting in 1963, bliss.

[Caipirabob]

What I will be interested in seeing is if/WHEN the first person who catches the “sniffles” where it turns for the worse how big the lawsuits will be for creating a “toxic health environment”. Imagine if they go to work, catch COVID after someone had reported having it and they still permitted workers into the office? They may not prove it was an office based transmission, but what would be the true burden of proof in a civil lawsuit? I expect larger businesses with matching office capacity will bleed dollars.

[ealgeone]

Anyone not excited about being able to see the Milky Way, hear the birds sing, breathe clean air, not worry about the crazies might as stay in NY.

[paulcissa]

This describes my circumstances. My commute to NYC included 1 bus ride to Port Authority Terminal and two subway trains to downtown, dropping me one block from my office.

There’s no way I’m going into NYC for anything, including my employer and “an office”. I can do my job from anywhere and be as effective as I was “on-site”. In fact, when return-to-office becomes required, color me retired. Full stop.

[paulcissa]

This describes my circumstances. My commute to NYC included 1 bus ride to Port Authority Terminal and two subway trains to downtown, dropping me one block from my office.

There’s no way I’m going into NYC for anything, including my employer and “an office”. I can do my job from anywhere and be as effective as I was “on-site”. In fact, when return-to-office becomes required, color me retired. Full stop.

[metmom]

Robberies?

Rapes?

Murder?

Rats?

Pollution?

High cost of living?

Getting pushed onto subway tracks by a disgruntled victim class demographic?

No thanks.

[metmom]

Really….

[Keyhopper]

If you can zoom from Florida, you can zoom from India.
Companies could outsource the jobs and keep down labor cost as well.

[firebrand]

You actually CAN prove it, scientifically. They can trace and see exactly who gave it to you. But it’s impractical. The person who caught it in the office doesn’t have the power to enforce such an expensive and time-consuming task.

Maybe someday it will be easier, but that seems a bit intrusive.

It’s best to just continue the testing of the unvaccinated and continue encouraging and rewarding the vaccine.

[firebrand]

I got birdies up the wazoo outside my windows, and usually too much fresh wind off the ocean from the Hudson which is footsteps away.

The Milky Way would be nice, though. You can see it when you’re not far from the city.

[firebrand]

There’s a guy committing crimes right now who started immediately after he’d been out of jail two days.

We need to get the state legislature to stop making laws that make life in the city more difficult. They get to feel nice and woke about themselves and then go home to their districts up near Canada.