Posted on 02/16/2021 6:13:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
San Francisco has become a “desolate” city over the past year, as the coronavirus pandemic forced people to work from home — and companies learned to embrace it.
A few years ago, as Breitbart News reported in 2016, San Francisco was so crowded with workers, and so expensive to live in, that people would commute from hours away each day to reach the city.
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It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been working from home - my company has said that they found it to be more productive and the employees love it. So why not? A lot of our business can’t be WFH, though.
Plus I’m 30 weeks pregnant and the flexibility this allows me is tremendous, and I’ll be working from home indefinitely.. between my husband and I we won’t have to fork over all that $$$ for daycare.
Looks like they taxed their way out of it...
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/unexpected-surplus-gives-city-budget-a-boost/
Property taxes and a real estate transfer tax.
That won’t work for long.
I'm not sure that high commission sales reps {as I was} function in today's world.
I'm sure there still are some fields where this model works, but having been away for quite a few years, I can't name them.
I never gave a fat rat's ass what my boss thought of me as and individual, only as a producer.
Whether he or she like me or hated me, didn't bother me a bit.
I was only there to generate numbers, profits for the business and high commissions for me.
I sold for 17 different companies in my 40 plus year sales career, was fired twice, walked twice and never cared about my boss's opinion, only his/her review of my productivity.
As a sales guy, it was easy to track and we all knew where we were.
My first commission was $27 and I was so proud of it that I've kept the commission statement {1966}. My biggest was six high figures in the late 90s.
But, I never cared about the opinion of a middle manager that I could out sell {almost all of them, there were a couple that were better than me} in a drunken stupor {not quite drunk, maybe high}.
Good managers do not rely on “reports” from their workers.
They create systems that give them the correct answers without relying on their employees telling them the truth.
That is why strong organizations have much fewer middle managers than weak ones.
“my husband and I we won’t have to fork over all that $$$ for daycare.”
Absolutely and not to mention the commute expenses, time involved back and forth, lunches, clothing expenses etc.
And to top it all off you and your husband have all that time together....every minute of every hour of every day...together...so much togetherness...never being apart...ever. What could go wrong?
I have read that the state has a budget surplus. Tax $$$$$$
They aren’t prosecuting most of the criminals.
The funny thing is 2 years later one went through my back yard and knocked some trees down. There was not even supposed to be storms that day. I heard my weather alert radio go off. I listened to the warning and looked out my west window said oh shit and ran a few rooms over.
Field Service Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry- remote worker based in OKC - until I fire up the truck and head out to a customer pipeline.
So your guys, if in charge, aren’t mostly remote, correct?
Maybe your admin or project managers might goof off, but the real workers are in the field?
The admin and other support personnel back at the home office are not responding to email mostly. Expenses and per diem payments are slowed way,way down
Sounds about right. Admin are usually less intelligent and possess a weaker sense of duty and motivation.
I do electrical distribution design, and myself and the lineman are self motivated and work hard.
Have you considered relocating to earthquake territory?
All that poop can be used as fertilizer, too
I like working from home.
The bathroom is a lot closer and cleaner...
Cook food for breakfast before work instead being stuck in a car. Also cook food at lunch time or take a nap : )
Los Angeles dos not look much better....
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TD46pqN-nq4/W3DZbKevb-I/AAAAAAAAEEk/NQh9zDNRim0JCaXCHg0Q0dwmVNu3kTLRACLcBGAs/s1600/Chinese-EscapeFromLA-1.JPG
I work from home and I don't do any of those things, though I wish I could. But, my job is judged by metrics of a sort and I work on a team. I am always motivated to be at the top so hopefully the one to keep my job when they need to let one of us go.
LOL you have a point.. but right now, I will take too much togetherness over another deployment, that’s for sure!
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