It can't happen fast enough...

[Cinegoat]

As a person who has to brave LA county week in and week out, driving to set early in the morning, let them stay home. These fuckin people don't know how to drive anymore and have turned my morning commute into a three hour slog of death I'm barely lucky to survive most mornings. Let them stay all home, give them no reason to ever leave, and I'll be happy.

 

[LtDave32]

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

I think he's talking about "Digital Nomads" who spend their life on the road, hopping from city to city, working from their laptop.

Yeah, it's a thing.

 

[rxbandit]

I think he's talking about "Digital Nomads" who spend their life on the road, hopping from city to city, working from their laptop.

Yeah, it's a thing.

I think that's a pretty small portion of anyone who is WFH.

Sounds like an awesome time though, sign me up!

 

[Cinegoat]

I think he's talking about "Digital Nomads" who spend their life on the road, hopping from city to city, working from their laptop.

Yeah, it's a thing.

Yes, also, the Gas man has to make his buck. Less people use, they still want to make the same. They withheld gas during the pandemic because they couldn't make enough. Less people use, the more they charge. Reverse economics. As more people go electric it will also continue to go up. This is the modus operandi of increase shareholder profits no matter what.

 

[LtDave32]

For a guy that constantly claims to not give any fucks, you sure give a lot of fucks about stuff...

It's becoming quite clear that this is not merely a case of "Steve doesn't give a fuck anymore" for whatever noble journey, above-it-all, high-road thinking, as Steve would like us to believe..

No. No it is not.

This is a case of Steve squandering his fucks like a sailor in Manilla with a month's pay in his pocket.

He's going to be drunk, fucked and over-spent in about 90 minutes.

He doesn't have any fucks to give, because he gave all his fucks to small, piddly-ass everyday shit, like right-of-way traffic shit and long lines at the supermarket.

Now look at him.

Squawking, grousing, grumping... And no one will toss him even half a used fuck.

 

[LtDave32]

I think that's a pretty small portion of anyone who is WFH.

Sounds like an awesome time though, sign me up!

Hey, I WFH every day. And have most of my materials shipped. I don't even factor in..

 

[dc007]

It's becoming quite clear that this is not merely a case of "Steve doesn't give a fuck anymore" for whatever noble journey, above-it-all, high-road thinking, as Steve would like us to believe..

No. No it is not.

This is a case of Steve squandering his fucks like a sailor in Manilla with a month's pay in his pocket.

He's going to be drunk, fucked and over-spent in about 90 minutes.

He doesn't have any fucks to give, because he gave all his fucks to small, piddly-ass everyday shit, like right-of-way traffic shit and long lines at the supermarket.

Now look at him.

Squawking, grousing, grumping... And no one will toss him even half a used fuck.

I knew you felt sorry for him

 

[Freddy G]

Who, in their right mind, would want human contact anyway?!

humans

 

[Freddy G]

Hey, I WFH every day. And have most of my materials shipped. I don't even factor in..

haha...that's different! You are working for the benefit of your own business. Like me. that's the greatest motivation there is.

 

[OldBenKenobi]

Who, in their right mind, would want human contact anyway?!

I could go the rest of my fuckin life without obligatory human contact - that being, cashiers, waiters, and anyone else I have to interact with in the course of daily life.

At home, alone, in the middle of nowhere, logging enough work over a computer to "earn" a paycheck, everything I need delivered to my doorstep, nice piece of ass coming over from time to time, seeing the family twice a year.... paradise.

 

[MikeyTheCat]

I had dinner a few weeks ago with an EVP at one of my former customers who is local to me. We were discussing the labor demands for better pay. I suggested that the cost savings from WFH could help fund increases for those who are deserving.

He said (quote).... "You have been out of the game too long. We still pay rent, mortgage, taxes, maintenance, utilities, and other costs. It doesn't matter if occupancy is 100% or 10%."

He went on to say that their metrics show that their productivity was down overall when WFH was prominent. Now that they are back to 60% in-office, productivity is up by a large amount. And, he was thrilled to have culled the herd of deadwood who wouldn't come back.

His take was that, when any further reductions come, they will almost exclusively come from WFH. His goal is 95% in-office by Q3.

If anyone thinks that employers do not have the upper hand, they are going find out the hard way. Cutting staff shows that the do. They no longer need to keep underperformers, or thsoe that don't play by the rules.

Employers make the rules.

Employers do make the rules but employees have more options these days, and companies are still having a hard time getting the people that they want/need. The catch 22 of reducing head count is that sooner or later you need to pay the people who actually do the work more, but that makes hiring new people even more costly. If you play the money game of not paying your staff what they're worth, they'll often walk unless they're staying for reasons other than pay. The other problem is once there is a large amount of layoffs trust in the employer erodes, especially if there are no pay cuts for executives or layoffs, which results in some of the non-deadwood packing up and going elsewhere, leaving the B team. This I've seen twice as a consultant to save projects with my favorite being a VP who made life hard on his staff to get rid of the deadwood only to see his top tier people leave. I quipped that deadwood floats which got me a glare.

I hear about these things almost daily with two immediate family members in HR positions, one being in compensation for a large game developer that knows where people in the field are going and how much they make.

The funny thing about executives, when the company gets to a certain size they really have little idea to what makes the employees productive. Half the time they don't even know what makes themselves productive (often being lucky to have underlings that get things done). It's not much fun to have a fancy office and a prime parking spot if the lot is empty.

The funny part is that before COVID working at home one day a week would have had employees doing handstands. Now people laugh at it. I think the world of work has changed for non-manual labor where executives are somewhat stuck in outdated ways and employees are looking for more. I'm not sure what will happen, I just know what I see and hear that's happening now.

Workers Are Less Productive Working Remotely (At Least That’s What Their Bosses Think)

Workers with full schedule flexibility report 29% higher productivity and 53% greater ability to focus than workers with no ability to shift their schedule, according to a just-announced report from Future Forum. So why do bosses not trust employees to be productive when working out of the office?

www.forbes.com

 

[Lineosight]

I think that's a pretty small portion of anyone who is WFH.

Sounds like an awesome time though, sign me up!

Nothing is as cool as it says in the brochure ...

Crap... modern age...

Let me guess kid, you've never seen a brochure?

Try working through 5 time zones in a week. You don't know what time it is. The customers don't care what time it is (or you think it is). And your employer measures your day in billable hours. Road work ain't work from home. It's work from everywhere. And it doesn't come with work life balance... you just work, and you live.

My manager asked a woman I worked with (during her annual review) "is there anything I can get you to make the job better". She responded, "A wife." She said in all seriousness. No she isn't lesbian. She continued, "I keep throwing out my clothes and buying new because I haven't seen my house in 6 months, and I don't stay in a hotel long enough to get housekeeping to clean my clothes". She was in her late 40's at the time. Ended up marrying the guy from the office who did the same global circuit she did (hence they were the only 2 consistent people in their lives anyway)

If you're single, and prepared to remain so, with no other attachments... the road is awesome. At 9 months old my son pointed to mommy's cell phone, and called it Dad. I changed jobs shortly afterward.

 

[Leee]

I could go the rest of my fuckin life without obligatory human contact - that being, cashiers, waiters, and anyone else I have to interact with in the course of daily life.

At home, alone, in the middle of nowhere, logging enough work over a computer to "earn" a paycheck, everything I need delivered to my doorstep, nice piece of ass coming over from time to time, seeing the family twice a year.... paradise.

Kinda like Ted Kaczynski?

Seriously, I’m not that far from you.

It’s ironic that my wife - the social butterfly - is now working from home.
And home is on 20 acres, several miles from a small town in west Texas ranch country.

I love it.
The gas plant I operate is literally in the middle of nowhere.
One other guy on my crew, no one else around on nights or weekends.
On my days off, I relish being able to just stay home.

I get plenty of human interaction without going to Walmart or the grocery store - like my wife is so eager to do.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

And yet I'm reading this on a computer at my desk. In the office. At work. I guess it would be different if I were at home? It's somehow more productive for me to be fucking off all day on MLP if I'm actually in the office rather than at home? Oddly, I mostly post whore here from work. Way less when I'm at home.

I think some people don't understand browsers support multiple tabs now.

 

[Zungle]

We used to make things, build things! Who is doing that anymore? Is everyone just sitting at a desk punching on a keyboard? I'll take 1 good plumber over 100 coders.

I'll be 58 tomorrow......still working with my hands.....won't ever make me rich......but its what I'm good at....not really sure how I feel about it anymore....kinda late in life to switch it up.....

Installed this Saturday w/3 vanity mirrors.....

Installed this Sunday w/1-beveled vanity mirror.....

 

[PeteK]

I didn't even realize until new years when our CEO put out an email about it that we had a bunch of people working from home still Shows how valuable they are. They've been gone for 2 years and I didn't even notice.

 

[SteveC]

It's becoming quite clear that this is not merely a case of "Steve doesn't give a fuck anymore" for whatever noble journey, above-it-all, high-road thinking, as Steve would like us to believe..

No. No it is not.

This is a case of Steve squandering his fucks like a sailor in Manilla with a month's pay in his pocket.

He's going to be drunk, fucked and over-spent in about 90 minutes.

He doesn't have any fucks to give, because he gave all his fucks to small, piddly-ass everyday shit, like right-of-way traffic shit and long lines at the supermarket.

Now look at him.

Squawking, grousing, grumping... And no one will toss him even half a used fuck.

Can somebody loan me a fuck?

 

[LtDave32]

Can somebody loan me a fuck?

I suppose I'll be led to believe you would return it in serviceable condition?

 

[SteveC]

I suppose I'll be led to believe you would return it in serviceable condition?

Probably not. You know me... I'll just waste it on something that will piss off a lot of people on the internet.

 

[DeafDumbBlind Kid]

Probably not. You know me... I'll just waste it on something that will piss off a lot of people on the internet.

isn't that what fucks are for?