It can't happen fast enough...

[Leumas]

My wife is a stay at home mom to our 5 and 3 year olds. I might get murdered if I told her she isn't working.

 

[Lungo]

I told my wife that Steve said she needs to get her lazy ass back into the office. She told me he needs to STFU and go wait in space #6 and she’ll get back to him on that.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

Steve? Are you on speed? Thread after thread......hmmmmmm

 

[TheX]

we might just get inflation under control, including driving the demand for fuel down.

So making them all commute daily is going to reduce gas usage?

 

[efstop]

Where did al the service workers go in a tight labor market? Did they all get better jobs? The unemployment rate was about 3.5% in Dec 2022, about the same as Dec 2019.

 

[rcole_sooner]

Traffic was insane today. I saw three or four other carts on the beach this morning.

 

[prs97]

Probably 50 hours per month for my wife.
And 100 miles per day that don’t get driven.
We spend much less on gasoline.

I work in midtown Manhattan so I would walk from my house to the local train station, spend an hour on the train, and then walk to the office. Reverse that for the ride home and there's 3 hours spent.

Not much of a gas consumption budget consideration on my end but the monthly train ticket was $300+/month so there's a nice cost savings there. But the time back in my calendar is THE big thing.

And time being nearly equal to productivity. It's difficult to work & take calls on the train so being home has made that area vastly more productive. Keeping my ass at home is getting the company an more than one extra pound of flesh from my hide so all of this talk of "office culture" is 100% BS.

My hermity ass typically leaves the house about an hour a week to go to the grocery store, Home Depot, or the local liquor store. Goofing off for a 3 hour lunch in town is the last thing on my list, before this pandemic, during, and after.

 

[SFK]

Steve? Are you on speed? Thread after thread......hmmmmmm

Idle hands...

 

[TXOldRedRocker]

I need to get off MLP. I'm supposed to go to the office today. Should get there about noon.

 

[Howard2k]

I worked from home even before COVID. The generalizations are stupid.

 

[Shred Astaire]

I worked from home even before COVID. The generalizations are stupid.

Its how people are now. F'n Steve.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

how does more people driving to work drive fuel costs down?

 

[SteveGangi]

I told my wife that Steve said she needs to get her lazy ass back into the office. She told me he needs to STFU and go wait in space #6 and she’ll get back to him on that.

 

[VictorB]

how does more people driving to work drive fuel costs down?

Fuzzy math.

 

[SteveC]

Wait.. You're saying all the people working from home are driving fuel prices up?

Everyone I know that works from home hardly touches their car, barely gets driven

Because they are *NOT* really working from home; they are out driving around - from the whole foods, to the coffee shops, to the gym, to the malls, to the beach, to the parks, to the juice bars, to almost anyplace -- except to the office, where they would park their car and work all day.

Fuel demand has skyrocketed since the end of the plague - to pre-plague levels. Because people don't go to the office. And, they really don't work a full day from home either.

 

[SteveGangi]

Where did al the service workers go in a tight labor market? Did they all get better jobs? The unemployment rate was about 3.5% in Dec 2022, about the same as Dec 2019.

Actually, many DID. They moved on to other better jobs. Especially in the "service" industry - waiters at restaurants/diners. For years it was "if you don't like it get out. Take it or leave it". So now they did - they left for greener pastures. All it took was a "little" push. Now their former bosses are crying about "lazy fucks who just don't want to work". No, they just no longer want to work for THAT guy. Workers have finally figured it out. It's all about pay, benefits, security, and enough hours to support a decent life... and "loyalty to a company" is bull shit.

Whatever the market will bear. It applies to wages and benefits TOO.

Funny how the "invisible hand of the market' and the "any price the market will bear" loses its luster when it is applied evenly - starts to favor the workers and does not favor the guy on top so much anymore.

 

[mdubya]

Remote 'til I die.

Or until they threaten to fire me.

I was told the director of our department of our Gubmint Agency is building a house about an hour away from the office (by distance, drive time will be double that, at best) in our region with the 2nd worst traffic in the country. Unless you live here, then it is the worst.

That is all we need in this age of global warming and pollution is more traffic on the roads. That will solve everything.

Millennials are already middle age. All but the very youngest boomers have retired. This fight is a lost cause.

Cities are already turning empty office space into living spaces, people are buying homes further and further out to escape sprawl and extreme housing costs. No one wants to use public transportation. Sure, the pandemic is over, until you get sick.

Welcome to the Brand New Age.

 

[SteveC]

I got 60 hours/month of my life back from not commuting. That's not a typo.

You can pry remote work from my cold dead hands.

Wait for it.

 

[mdubya]

Idle hands...

Steve needs a job.

 

[mdubya]

Spotted Steve relaxing at the Philly Car Show....