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(that is Dick Clark of "American Bandstand", by the way)
Posted on 06/07/2022 6:22:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
More than two years into a pandemic that has no clear end,
Please! What a drama queen. The nope-demic, faux-demic. Morons all of them. I faced down this stupidity and never missed a day at work, not even an hour. Didn’t wear a mask and shook people’s hand. In this case it wasn’t a pandemic if you refused to participate. I am in close contact with around 10 strangers a week and around 50 employees.
On their dime BTW.
Cost of being able to work from home.
They can deduct it on their taxes.
I would have been fine with traveling back to Silver Spring, MD on occasion, but they wanted me back there every week day I had a shift. I could not do that, so I will find another job.
With all remote work, if somebody asks me occasionally to go to the site, wherever it is, I am willing to go to the site, even if it is in Crookifornia, or, in some remote jobs, even in London or Berlin.
Other than a brief period when where I worked was shut down (thanks Governor a-hole) I always went to the office. Fortunately it was a 500 acre ranch/shooting range. Usually spent less than 20 minutes a day in a building.
It’s government. They’re probably better off staying home.
If they worked for me they would be at the office every working day. There is no substitute for eye-to-eye contact.
I agree. With some jobs, you have to go to the site. I accept that, as I look for another job.
Start firing all these lazy people.
Well I live 65 miles from work one way and when I started this job gas was $1.60 ish and now $4.40 plus the datacenter I was tending was decommissioned as we moved everything to the Cloud so I frankly told them there was no point in driving in...They said ok.
I think mine is perfectly feasible remote. Unfortunately, the government people in charge of my contract disagree. So I will find another job.
I agree with that. Gas is almost 5 bucks.
Believe me, with my telework, I don’t bang on the drum. However, it’s nice to be able to do such things as doing the dishes during a lull in the action. But I get my work done, and my company liked me enough to try to get my contract to go remote. But the government disagreed, so I will find another job.
Off Topic: I never understood why that Todd Rundgren song was so popular. Todd had so much other music of a far higher magnitude. To each his own, right?
Productivity is way up, long overdue standardization is in place, and more than half of the daily work while I was in the office was with others at different firms anyway.
No one comes by the desk with asinine requests. People have learned to write full sentences and put together real packages instead of half-assing it and wasting time with in-person meetings.
One huge positive is being able to avoid all the minefields in the office. I don't have to worry about triggering some snowflake who should have never been hired to begin with. I can share things in a web meeting that I'd never say publicly in the office (hence productivity being way up) - nothing offensive - just cold business truths that you can't share publicly.
You have to laugh at those who are seething with jealousy toward those who can work from home.
It shows up every time there is one of these threads.
DC sucks.
I paid for my own internet working from home, and I didn’t even consider deducting some fraction from my taxes. The only time I didn’t was when I was doing the work seamlessly from two different AirBNBs between moving to Florida and closing on my house down here.
Well, that’s kind of a cool job to do on-site.
Hope you can find a good job with coworkers you like. For me I just like having someone working around me, even if it’s not on the same job.
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