Posted on 06/07/2022 6:22:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I liked “Hello, It’s Me” better.
Especially with Biden’s gas prices.
You betcha. That’s why I’m not going back. The call-back to the buildings by Commerce (where my contract is) will ultimately be one of the biggest mistakes they made WHEN* DC explodes.
*Still hoping that doesn’t happen, but 6-dollar gas and budget-busting groceries won’t help anything.
Web meetings are eye-to-eye. If you mean in-person, you'd get a smaller pool of candidates with lesser skills to choose from.
The "everyone on the factory floor" disappeared in the 1970s. Companies design and build entire aircraft all over the world without meeting face-to-face.
I deal with much more talented people across four states that would never have happened if not for remote work from COVID-1984. Clueless management whined for years about not being able to find local firms for certain work (the most clueless in management insisted on having vendors be able to show up for a meeting in an hour). Now that it's gone remote, they're surprised at how many talented firms are an internet connection away.
Glad your out of there.
I had to work some of the federal buildings on power and it was a nightmare. DIA, Fanny and Freddie etc.
Nah.
Well, this is the Florida panhandle (Lower Alabama), and people seem to have a bit better manners, so that shouldn’t be hard.
Well, I fully agree. DC, NY, MA, IL, CA, WA...wouldn’t step foot in any of them.
The biggest benefit is, of course, no commute. Beyond that, few if any positives exist.
It might be okay if your employees could maintain the same level of productivity and innovation. However, I doubt that is happening (certainly not if my workplace is representative). I think a lot of people are doing other things when they are supposed to be working. It is too easy to slack off when no one is watching you. Ditto for meetings. Too easy to totally disengage. I’ve seen this over and over.
I also think that not interacting with other people F2F changes you in a bad way. You get more out of shape both mentally and physically.
And I’m not paranoid about COVID, BTW. One of the best aspects of Florida is you don’t have to wear a mask anywhere, except to some doctors’ offices, maybe.
A Wizard, A True Star album is embedded with many gemstones the average listener has never heard before.
The musicianship and production are Grade A.
I dislike the present Todd, who has turned into a hard core Liberal scold and Trump Hater (almost as bad as Manilow!), but I’ll always have his early music when I want to hear it.
I do interact with some people outside the job from time to time. And I have kept up my productivity, in fact so much, that my program director tried to renegotiate my contract to allow me to work remotely, along with one other team member in Pennsylvania, but the government disagreed. So I will find another job.
We aren’t all slackers in remote-land.
I need my commute. Even during the lockdown period in 2020, I would leave my house in the morning, get a coffee, and drive the local neighborhoods for an hour and then at end of workday, I would go out and run errands for about an hour
Commuting is one of the best parts of my day. I get to listen to music on the stereo and do some thinking. It also gets you in work mode (in the morning) and decompresses you at the end of the work day.
Job well done.
Keep those hurricanes off of you.
:^)
There is some advantage to a commute. When the traffic is good, I actually enjoy driving. But to move back to Maryland is asking for a horrendous commute. Pensacola can be aggravating, too, but nowhere nearly as bad as Maryland.
Them hurricanes better stay away til I get my impact windows! :-)
I need the human interaction. I hate the isolation I crave being around flesh and blood humans. Pixel people just not the same. But every one is wired differently I suppose.
I suspect any worker who refuses to come back into the office falls into one of two types of people:
1. Those who will never trust their government or company leadership again.
2. Those who took everything they were told at face value … and logically conclude that the only way for them to be 100% safe is to never go back to the office.
Having to commute amounts to an automatic downgrade in salary.
My Grandmother had a beach house in Laguna Beach 60’s-70’s.
Nice times. It was before PCB exploded.
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