What remote workers are really doing all day

So what? When everyone worked in office every day, countless articles were published about how workers wasted their time in the office drinking coffee, gossiping, and taking shits and whatnot. The truth is, no job requires 8 hours of attention every day of the week.

Thanks for sharing, OP?

I love this article.

It's hilarious how everyone is exposing the lazy WFH idiots.

I can't wait until Work From Home is completely abolished.

I'm sick of these lazy pricks getting paid for doing squat at home.

R3 Your envy is hilarious

How many deaths must this subject be beat to?

When was the last time you worked R3? Just the decade will be fine.

I'm sorry no one wants to come to your office potluck, OP.

I have never understood the types like R3, and ever since my first student worker job it has always bothered me how so many people automatically equate strict punctuality, being tied to a desk/workstation like a barnacle, or rushing around like Edith Bunker, crying "I'm sooooo BUSY! SO VERY BUSY!" with competence.

"I noticed you came in 15 minutes late yesterday morning." And they don't want to hear "Did you also notice I stayed 90 minutes after quitting time?" "Did you also notice I came in on Saturday, not because I was behind in my work, but to help clear the backlog that's been sitting there since before I came to this department?"

My sister was an HR executive with 2 Fortune 100 companies, and when I'd ask her the questions I posted above, she'd shrug and say "Because it's easier for the supervisors/Management to just look at punctuality and connect it to quality of work."

Fuck.

[quote]Sleeping on the job? It happens more than you might think. One in 5 remote workers confessed to taking a nap.

Don't know about you, but it did not require WFH for me to do this.

[Quote] I love this article.

Yes we know r3, that’s why you posted it.

I have an 80% WFH job (1 day a week onsite) and sometimes I do all those things! Love it. But I get the work done and sometimes they see me logging in from 6am-8am or on a Sunday afternoon.

Right r11. And meanwhile OP/r3 hates WFH as being unproductive but Miss Thing sits at work all day posting about the BRF on datalounge. Lol!

The elephant 🐘 in the room

R3 (who is also the OP according to ignoredar) hasn't worked in decades and is completely out of touch with the modern workplace and workforce.

Over the past few years - study after study after internal employee survey after internal employee survey after study after study have all come back with the facts backed by evidence that workers are more productive, more flexible, happier, healthier, more dedicated to their jobs, have less to no interpersonal issues at work, are more engaged and loyal to their employers because they can work at home. Employers also have found their financial overheads have been dramatically reduced. WFH has been a resounding success for both employers and employees. Any workplace which doesn't offer WFH doesn't get top of the line workers because they won't work there. WFH is part of the modern workplace and it's never going away. Logically, it will be expanded.

The people who hate this like OP/R3 are the extroverts who desperately depend on other people to constantly validate them and listen to their garbage like attention vampires, the workers who talk the talk but can't do the work and have been found out, the billionaire property investment owners whose buildings are empty and the city "working grind" support eateries and shops who now need to reassess their business models because their customer base is no longer there.

Working from home has been a massive social and financial success and is here to stay. End of story.

Boxing the one eyed champion

People do that in the office too R15. Much more than you know.

r15 funny you mention that! Just yesterday I was loving the fact that I can rub one out whenever I feel like it when I WFH.

Jesus Christ I just checked out OP's posting history and it has dozens and dozens of posts. I guess she thinks this place is hers and she think she gets to set the tone around here. Ha!

OP is not an extrovert, he's just some miserable hall monitor who wants to make everyone miserable like him. Extroverts are able to socialize outside of the work place and don't need to be around coworkers to find people to socialize with.

You don't have to be a hall monitor to want people to be miserable. It's more like the op is bitter that they had to put in their time and make their sacrifices. The world has improved, but OP wants us to go back to the office and I bet his grandma would love it if we would all wash our own clothes by hand again.

OP and his “article” TOTALLY miss the underlying differences between a time-based workplace vs. an outcomes-based workplace.

If the work/tasks get accomplished by the date/time specified, WHO CARES if someone unloads the dishwasher or takes a refreshing nap?

I don't think there's a lot of things that compute for OP.

OP believes in indentured servitude: “We OWN you!”

[Quote] [R15] funny you mention that! Just yesterday I was loving the fact that I can rub one out whenever I feel like it when I WFH.

I know right???

Thread fails make me laugh. Thanks, OP!

Thank you r1. So true

And guess what executives are doing? Hardly fucking nothing

r26 " Hardly fucking nothing"

Oh, dear. That would be "hardly fucking anything"

[Quote] Working from home has been a massive social and financial success and is here to stay.

I agree with the first part, but not necessarily with the second. Companies keep creeping closer and closer back to the old standard of 100% office time.

I've masturbated, cooked and cleaned, watched entire movies, even took trips while working remotely. I love it but I miss the social aspects of going to an office. I think hybrid is the way to go.

Kneading the dough

jacking the pud

anxiously greeting the milkman

"Over the past few years - study after study after internal employee survey after internal employee survey after study after study have all come back with the facts backed by evidence that workers are more productive, more flexible, happier, healthier, more dedicated to their jobs..."

Any actual list of such authoritative studies, R14. I will concede the employees are probably happier working at home.

lazy cunts

I've worked from home since April 2020 when the shelter in place orders were issued. The company I work sent as many employees home as possible, broke lease contracts for some buildings and sold others. At least 2/3 of the staff are permanently WFH now because we have no place to go back to.

I do household chores and web surf during work hours. Additionally, I have met / exceeded all production goals.

Suck it, OP

I'm retired, so it doesn't matter one way or the other to me.

But if I owned a company, it would be either 100% work from home or 100% on site.

This nonsense of letting some people in the same company WFH (usually IT workers) while front-line workers (nurses, assembly line workers, lab techs) must be on site 100% of their working hours is total bullshit. It's completely unfair to those professions that don't lend themselves to WFH.

What an idiotic opposition to WFH.

Punching the Munchkin

Banging the Bishop

R36, it’s not bullshit, it’s reality. You’re retired now and I’ll charitably suggest that maybe you don’t quite get how the working world has changed since Covid.

I’ve hired probably 50 to 60 professionals over the past few decades. I can tell you right now, for jobs that can/could be remote, the available talent pool willing to work at “no remote allowed!” organizations is a hell of a lot smaller today than the talent pool willing to work at remote/hybrid-culture organizations.

So, sure, if you were in charge you could demand All Onsite, No Remote from the top down. Yay, you! But the quality and talent of staff you’d be able to attract and retain would be inferior to what a remote/hybrid-culture org can attract and retain.

100% of all Jeffrey Tobins have admitted to jacking off during a work related Zoom call. Multiple times. Daily.

releasing the hostages after intense negotiations

If yo nu have serious writing to do, it's well known in journalism that you have to go home to do it without distractions. Working in an office is hard for neuroatypicals who need to take walks to focus and may hyperfocus on a project, viewing everything else as a distraction.

People learn differently. People work differently. It's the product that matters, not the process unless you're a micro-manager.

Make that "If you have"

Most of the ones at my job are lazy and somehow they miss more work even though they don’t have to leave their homes. You have to be a really motivated person to work at home and do a good job

Micromanaging the product

[quote] I have an 80% WFH job (1 day a week onsite) and sometimes I do all those things! Love it. But I get the work done and sometimes they see me logging in from 6am-8am or on a Sunday afternoon.

Sure, Jan.

"Logging in" at 6am and on a Sunday, does not equal working. All it requires is logging in to pretend that you're working. Just another WFH trick.

Speaking of, the WFH people seem quite pressed and very angry when you suggest they go back in to the office.

I wonder why that is? Oh, I know. Because they might actually have to WORK for a living, instead of slacking off and getting paid to do personal business on company time.

That's the real reason this topic makes them so angry.

Remote customer service or remote tech support jobs don't really allow people to slack off. I worked remote customer service from 2017-2019 and metrics were reviewed daily by team leads/managers and if you were late clocking back in after a break or lunch you were dinged right away by management. Not all remote jobs allow people to slack off or multi-task while on the clock.

R47 doesn’t seem at all pressed or angry .. or resentful.

[quote] So what? When everyone worked in office every day, countless articles were published about how workers wasted their time in the office drinking coffee, gossiping, and taking shits and whatnot. The truth is, no job requires 8 hours of attention every day of the week.

14 years ago, when I joined my current employer, my assigned administrative assistant spent all her time online shopping, and then gave me backtalk and attitude when I asked her for the most basic things. She was let go but it took about 3 years.

Slapping the chickens

It's time to find another use for all of that cold, ugly, vacant commercial real estate!

R8 agree completely. 5 day a week in office work used to be fueled with petty bullshit like clock watching and tattle taking in staff for an assortment of stupid issues.

I think going into office 1 or 2 days a week is helpful, especially for younger workers who need to build connections to advance their career. But any additional office time is a waste and unhealthy. I was just thinking of the time spent with gossip and political backbiting that just isn’t much of a factor when remote. And you don’t put nearly the emotional energy into work relationships but rather keep them as professional relationships.

If my cursor is moving I'm working.

Shaking hands with the milkman.

Kranking the shank.

r53, when i hear things Like this, I wonder why most of you are even employed at all. I'm a teacher, and there is literally not one single moment of my work day for "gossip' or "backbiting". what the fuck! get a fucking real job

In the years before Covid, many companies were cutting corners by creating open concept work spaces that made concentration nearly impossible. In the push to get people back to the office, I wonder if anyone has seen the open concept work spaces remodeled to allow for more privacy? My company has struggled with this. We are back in the office three days a week, but Zoom calls are here to stay. Open concept didn’t anticipate the proliferation of Zooms calls and presentations, which are a nightmare for everyone stuck elbow to elbow in an open work space.

During Covid, many workers were spared the daily commute but also able to create healthier home offices.

Making stomach pancakes

[Quote] I wonder why that is? Oh, I know. Because they might actually have to WORK for a living, instead of slacking off and getting paid to do personal business on company time.

Like posting three hundred replies on the DL a day?

Zapping my zippity.

I go into the office two or three days a week. The rest of the time, I'm at home. I prefer to work from home since my office is about 45 minutes away, but I don't hate being in the office. What I really hate is having to listen to other people's loud, obnoxious conversations or Teams meetings, in which they feel the need to scream into their microphones.

Working from home sometimes gets boring, though. And staying in my house all day can feel a little isolating and depressing. But if I had to choose between that and fighting traffic for almost an hour, it's no contest.

Let people work whichever location they are most productive.

As long as they are meeting or surpassing their established goals, why does it matter?

Productivity & Profit wins over Bitter Preferences

R57 frau for brains

In that case r63, 99% of them will stay home and just unload the dishwasher all day because they are LAZY BUMS!!!

It's the little things, and there are a dozen of them a day. Like, right now I'm running a report that takes 5 minutes to complete. So I answered a couple emails, went to the kitchen and boiled water for some pasta, and I'm posting this. Wheee!

And the work does all get done.

My ex works from home. I found out that he was mostly meeting guys from hookup apps while I was at work.

[quote] The people who hate this like OP/[R3] are the extroverts who desperately depend on other people to constantly validate them and listen to their garbage like attention vampires

IMO, it's managers who enjoy sycophantic (kiss-ass) behavior that want people back in the office. They want the ass-kissing done in person,

r64, just someone who works a full day's work. I don't work in "an office' so basically as soon as school starts it is work the whole time

I'm tempted to find a WFH job - I did this maybe 30% of the time during the height of the pandemic and liked it. Certain company programs were harder to use, but they still worked. I did find that my pets and family sort of expected me to be available for their needs when I was working, which I don't think would be good if I WFH full time. You have to focus. My desk setup was in the kitchen and we don't have a spare room for an office. If I did WFH full time I'd have to find a different solution. She shed?

[quote] My ex works from home. I found out that he was mostly meeting guys from hookup apps while I was at work.

Bottoms shouldn't be allowed to work from home.

So what? And if their managers are seeing that work isn't getting done, then they should act - just like they would if they were in the office.

Who cares if someone is loading/unloading a washing machine? How long does that take - 2 minutes?

I saw SO many people in other people's offices just chatting away and wasting time. Many execs are guilty of this as well.

If you're getting your work done, then leave it alone. These articles seem like 'plants' and purposeful studies to show that people aren't really working.

Reality is - a lot of WFH people ALSO work outside of scheduled hours - but nobody wants to write about that.

[quote]So I answered a couple emails, went to the kitchen and boiled water for some pasta, and I'm posting this.

R66 - Don’t even THINK about draining that pasta!

OP got ratioed badly.

Personally, I think the only jobs that make sense for working from home are IT-related jobs ( that do not require a high level of security). I think everyone should come into the office every day, but as a compromise, I would accept working three days a week in the office and two from home, but only certain positions. If you choose to work from home, there will be salary adjustments. A WFH job will offer a lower salary than an in-office job.

R47 But for real, why are you seething with jealousy so intensely ?

R67 nailed it.

Now THAT is the WFH reality.

[quote] I think everyone should come into the office every day

You neglect to tell us What The Fuck For.

[quote]A WFH job will offer a lower salary than an in-office job.

Despite the fact that the employer saves a shitload of overhead costs for WFH employees?

just shows you don't do jack shit at work

If you don’t need to come into the office every day, then maybe your job needs to be changed to part time or folded into another job.

I totally agree

Who the fuck cares? The only question should be, is the work getting done in a timely manner and done correctly?

I work from home and yup, I have significantly more free time because I am not dealing with distractions and when I need a break I don't just power through because I don't want to see my coworkers if I wander around a bit.

I can't stand people standing in hallways talking, people walking by and feeling like they have to pop their head in and say hi.

My work gets done faster and probably with fewer mistakes from home. I hate working less and my better attitude must contribute to productivity.

If you have mainly a desk job and there are benchmarks to meet with your job, I don't see why WFH is a bad thing if the work is getting done. If you're meeting targets or benchmarks, who cares where you do the work? People call us on cell phones and ping in the office; they can just as easily do that at home. I find working in the office distracting and it's way easier for people to dump their work on you in an office setting.

The bottom line is are they producing and are they doing so at a higher or lower rate compared to a traditional office. Not hard to figure out.

If my workplace was at a reasonable distance (requiring no more than 30/35 minute commute) and I had a nice work enviroment with cool co workers, AND I got paid a little extra for the 2/3 times a week I might buy lunch, I might actually prefer a fully onsite job over a fully remote one. I just don't have too many other opportunities to socialize regularly and am old enough to have made some pretty great memories with friends I've made from past onsite jobs. Best case scenario though it would be a hybrid.

I dont think remote workers work any less, in my experience of remote working, when there is work to be done you have to do it and you have people behind you pestering you if you don't. There is no real difference except in the things you CAN do when there isn't alot of work to be done. In an office setting you might browse the internet, watch some videos, talk to co workers...at home you can actually do more things around the house. But you don't have any more or less free time with one or the other.

If the job is getting done, who cares?

I'm long retired. But back when I worked in an office, one of my most productive mornings ever was spent looking out the window. I had to shut my office door. But I was able to think through a problem, check online for information, then go back to thinking or maybe write some notes. Supervisors, managers, snooping co-workers might think they know what to look for. Had my boss seen me staring out the window, he would have given me grief. But I got so much done that morning.

Have you ever had someone freak out because you looked away while you were talking? My ex did that. Sometimes it's easier for me to concentrate on the words if I look away, but because he interpreted that as indifference, I couldn't do what really worked. And bosses have things they think they're supposed to watch out for, but some of it is b.s. I could have worked from home, walked to the laundry room to move a wash load to the dryer, and been thinking about work as I was doing it. My job would still have gotten done. It might not have looked as though I were working, but it might have been more productive in the end.

I suspect that some of the defenders of WFH on this thread, don’t want to end the easy times.

I don’t think my work place is as productive as it was pre-WFH. It’s nothing dramatic, maybe things move about 20% more slowly now. I think that’s actually a good thing, the work gets done and the environment is less stressful.

Everything I did in an office, 5 days a week, was made accessible to do virtually in March 2020. Granted, some people may HAVE to work in an office due to customers, etc. My position does not fit that scenario, so I will continue to get up when I want, log in when I want, shower when I wany, and perform the daily tasks required of me. Thank you.

Traffic, parking, dry cleaning, car maintenance, carryout lunches...I save my sanity and cash on all of that working a hybrid schedule (2 days in office 3 WFH). I agree that not all jobs are the right ones for hybrid/working from home (no shit!) but the slow growing stigma of it being just for slackers, time wasters and chronic masturbators is just stupid.

[quote] the slow growing stigma of it being just for slackers, time wasters and chronic masturbators is just stupid.

But ya are, Blanche.

Ya ARE all of those things.

The flip of working at home: there are no set hours. Here's the work, get it done by this deadline. For Example: Companies save so much money ditching the brick & mortar model (no need for custodians or a fleet of support staff) The main problem with office-less companies is the taxes the city can't collect. More money in their pocket.

I have a schedule and have to be logged in and working constantly during my shift. The only real benefit is that I get to use a clean bathroom where I know people (me) are washing hands after using it like a decent human being and I have on-demand access to my coffee maker.

…and I can shower during my lunch break.

I got Covid for the first time in July because some anti-vaxer in my office felt the need to bring her funk in with her. I was pissed and still want to rip her face off. I also can't stand all the junk food laying around the kitchen area. I don't keep that crap in my house and hate being tempted by it.

Nothing riles up Les Eldergays like a thread on working from home.

OP, you're a fine one to talk. You're wasting precious time by posting to a gay gossip forum.

Why are you somehow exempt from the same criticism?

Farting.

[quote] Nothing riles up Les Eldergays like a thread on working from home.

God forbid anyone do something more efficiently than they've done it before.

It's been done the same way for a hundred years, they had to do it the hard way and therefore everyone else must too!!!! HISSSSSSS!!!!!!

Bringing my talents to South Beach

One thing remote workers do not do is wear jeans like in that stock photo

[quote] So what? And if their managers are seeing that work isn't getting done, then they should act - just like they would if they were in the office.

When I worked in remote customer service, people were shitcanned quickly for slacking off because managers noticed things right away through CRM platforms and other systems.

I left customer service after I finished a degree in data science. I was able to get a remote job with financial management company. Everything is monitored and a dumb fuck woman who was hired for accounting got fired three days after starting because she was logging in and barely doing anything.

I don't even wear pants. if I know I have a meeting I just throw a nice blouse on (no bra), brush my hair and put my eyebrows on. god forbid if a fire alarm went off.

My sister gets 8 hours of work done in 4 hours at home, without her micromanaging boss and gossipy coworkers interrupting her. If she wants to nap or multitask while doing extra projects that she'd normally go to the office on Sunday to do, her boss doesn't care. He said he pays her for the same amount of work either way, and he sneaks out half days to golf a lot, so he sees it as the same thing.

It really is quite odd the level of envy here - or maybe it's the same poster over and over. I work from home, meet all my targets, get great reviews, and most certainly give 40 hours a week. I also go get my haircut when needed, dentist visit, work from the library sometimes, etc. Without question, I am highly productive, and deliver what my job needs.

OP I'm sorry you're so envious of this setup. You sound quite bitter. Do you not have the discipline to work from home?

Yeah, I like using my own bathroom and kitchen.

I WFH 2 days per week.

[quote]The flip of working at home: there are no set hours.

Not true for many remote workers, including my supervisor. There is software installed on her laptop that keeps track of her productivity and she has to log in for the same hours that she'd be expected to work at the agency.

Lol, r57, I need to transfer to your campus. There has been plenty of gossip and backbiting on most school campuses I've worked at, and I work at several every year. I've observed some incredibly petty spats during my 36 years working with educators.

[quote]This nonsense of letting some people in the same company WFH (usually IT workers) while front-line workers (nurses, assembly line workers, lab techs) must be on site 100% of their working hours is total bullshit.

We were considered frontline workers and had to work in-home cases during the pandemic (prevaxx). Many of my coworkers got COVID19 and one of them died from it. I wouldn't have wanted our supervisors and admins to also put themselves at risk unneccesarily. We have different duties, so why should we all have to work at the same location?

Quite frankly, I would like to see less of my bosses, for whatever reason.

Sounds like OP got fired from/didn't get hired for a remote opportunity or found out that someone she *hates* works remote and she's kicking her little heels.

Which is it, OP? Passed over, dumped for a better candidate, or bitter because someone else has an opportunity,?

I work remotely one day a week - some weeks I am very productive and others I get absolutely nothing done.

R3 is a bitter bitch who hates animals.

I work from home and I love it! Never going back to a commute.

One thing I glean from this thread is that the AHWers piping up here are not people I would want as helpful, productive coworkers. They are probably better off at home.

When everyone at your company works from home you can’t:

Sexually harass easily

Physically abuse in areas with no security cameras

Coerce people into doing things for you that you should be doing yourself

Maybe OP misses that? If he’s retired then he really has no say and needs to shut his mouth and watch his true crime for seniors.

r113 So much jealousy

When you WFH you also don't have to worry about a shithead bringing an entire department COVID (happened to my dept, three times) or the flu (twice) and having to use vacation time or get penalties for being off sick. You don't have to worry about chipping in for baby showers/birthdays/potlucks/weddings, which saves money. You don't have to worry about workplace violence (RUN-HIDE-FIGHT). Your car lasts longer, tires on your car last longer.

I really want to a WFH job. Where do people find these positions?

R113. You are an entitled, ignorant dumb fuck, who I can only IMAGINE is "put up with with" at your current workplace. How dare you think that people whose jobs are in their homes cannot be "helpful" or "productive." What about a company that is COMPLETELY remote?! Is EVERYONE at that company I refer to not people who meet your "coworker" criteria.

Tell you what Deb. You go back to planning the monthly birthday celebrations in the west conference room. No one wants to work with your fat, judgmental ass.

All very white-collar here, myself included. But I think of a few close friends who could never have the option of working at home. One has worked in hotel management for about 20 years. She has to be on the spot all the time.

Another is a Maitre D in an upscale restaurant. He loves his job and is paid well but was climbing the walls with boredom during Covid when he couldn't work.

The blue collars never have the choice either.

Be thankful for what you have.

R118, you have proven the point.

Arguing with the fat nellie prisspots who want to judge WFH employees is about as useful as arguing with the fat nellie prisspots who lift their hooves to their necks to clutch their pearls if someone has an uncut dick or *gasp* a tattoo. Let them stew and suffer in their own sadness.

[quote] I work from home and I love it! Never going back to a commute.

I hope your position gets outsourced to India, and never find another job again.

Lazy WFH LOSER!

R122. Bahahaha! Thanks for the laugh!

I write checks at the grocery store!

The anti-WFH troll/queen is amusing

R120. Thank you! I'm glad you agree.

Tickling the pickle.

R116, that's a good point. I work hybrid and only go into the office as needed, which is a day or two every other week on average. I've only had one cold and no other illnesses in the past three years. It's so much better than dealing with multiple bouts of colds and whatnot every year usually brought in by breeders with kids.

Also, I am so lazy and unreliable that I have TWO wfh jobs. All this laziness is frankly exhausting.

[quote] Also, I am so lazy and unreliable that I have TWO wfh jobs. All this laziness is frankly exhausting.

Are you seriously "buck naked" on your Zoom calls????

I admit, I'm old school. I think most people should be in an office. However, my two biggest problems with WFH are that it comes from privilege, and not everyone can do it, and it's destroying downtown and business districts. I know that you will all swarm and tell me why I'm wrong and stupid and fat and a bottom, but that's how I feel.

Amateurs…I sleep with our boss while working from home!!

R131. No. There's a difference. You aren't attacking and making global assumptions about groups of people. You shouldn't be attacked for your thoughful, measured response. Thank you for adding your thoughts!

Burping the worm.

I love WFH. I’m super productive. OP, I really don’t mean this bitchy, but are you sad about other aspects of your life as well? Or just that you can’t wfh while others do?

Slapping the salami.

I love WFH and have been doing it off and on for 15 years, however the best (I.e. worst but funny) WFH stories are a colleague who WFH but outsourced his work, which was largely manipulating data, to a student in India. This was years before outsourcing offshore started, so I guess he was a trendsetter. The Indian guy was paid well, for India, my colleague spent a little time each day checking emails and the offshore work, taking a pay cut but getting great quality of life in return and his boss was happy with the quality of “his” work. Everybody happy until he got rumbled in a tax audit.

The other was a colleague who WFH full time - we were at one of the big 4 retail banks here. She got a little cocky and was found to have taken a full time working in the office job for one of the other big 4 retail banks - a direct competitor. She did well for a while, doubling her salary, hired two nannies for the SIX kids, doing her WFH work at night, but was eventually found out when her profile was posted on Bank # 2’s website which was seen by someone from Bank #1.

She was sacked by both banks and hilariously was in high dudgeon as she reasoned that what she was doing was just taking a second job, like being a waitress or something.

Proof that all WFH people are GRIFTERS, R137.

[quote]my two biggest problems with WFH are that it comes from privilege, and not everyone can do it, and it's destroying downtown and business districts

Privilege? What privilege? The privilege of having an internet connection? All jobs have requirements. Much easier having an internet connection than an “ivy league education”

If a business is failing then it isn’t offering what people need. They have to adapt like all businesses have since the dawn of time.

If I had to go back to the office everyday, there is a good chance I would promptly take up smoking again (or just fake it), so I could piss away at least 2 hours a day.

[quote]Nearly half of remote workers multitask on work calls or complete household chores like unloading the dishwasher or doing a load of laundry, according to the SurveyMonkey poll of 3,117 full-time workers in the US

Did SurveyMonkey ask in office employees how much time they watsted on a daily basis? Cause it is A LOT.

Coffee breaks, smoke breaks (even if you don't smoke - I had a co-worker that would come for me on every break for years just to stretch his legs), long bathroom breaks where you scroll through TikTok, chit-chat/gossip, etc.

I would guess I pissed away at least 3 of an 8 hour day in the office away, and I'm not alone. Sure, it wasn't every day, and there are some days I worked very minute, and then some, but it is no different now that I am at home.

Some days I work all day, some days I don't. This would not change if I went into the office.

OP/r138 Lol you poor thing. Your life sounds miserable.

Finally the facts are being backed by science. Anybody paying attention know these WFH motherfuckers will bring the whole country down if they can, not just the companies they're "working" for. Quiet quitters anyone??

r142 lol oh sweetie, keep spiraling

OP why did they deny your request to work from home, sweetie?

I work blended - 3 days in office, 3 days at home. I do exactly the same work from home or in the office. Everything is received and sent out by email from 25 different offices.

I have exactly the same work load at home as I do in the office. We have to keep a database documenting our daily jobs, so there's a record.

At the office I have three mid-60's boomers in my face. who a. work roughly 15 minutes per day; b. spread toxic gossip about everybody and everything; c. spend the entire day yakking on the phone. Noise-cancelling headphones have been a blessing.

I don't see how any of these companies expect their staff to stick around if they demand 5 days a week in office. Too many other options available at this point.

If you're getting your work done, and people can see you're getting your work done, I don't see the problem.

Fondle the flagpole.

(whoops, 3 days in office, 2 at home)

And can we talk about just how insanely [bold]TOXIC[/bold] office culture is???

Until they figure out how to fix that fuck them.

Thre's a reason they have to pay you to work.

Couldn't pass the background check, eh OP?

Depends on the job but the majority of jobs do not need to be 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. The only reason the 40 hour week day is seen as the norm is because that was the standard that Ford Motor factories set nearly 100 years ago.

Technology has advanced so much since then that we should have a better work-life balance.

With that said, working from home is a better option for a lot of people. I personally like it because I get so much done without unnecessary distractions. I would prefer a hybrid situation because I do enjoy interacting with people sometimes.

Academic-adjacent, executive job at a university here. Before March 2020, my staff and I put everything my department does on the web because people gave incorrect ID numbers, email addresses, etc. when they emailed or called. Through secure login, this information is captured and auto-filled and there are no more errors that we had to fix by looking up people. It was an incredibly easy transition to full time work from home. The only difference was that students, faculty, and staff who used to come by in person could no longer do that. The upside of this is that there was a written record of what they asked for and what we did for them. This eliminated the "bad memories" that many seemed to suffer from (that's not what I asked you for; why didn't you do XYZ in a timely manner?)

I got a bit stir crazy and started going into the office in August 2021, but I was the only person in my building. It was delightful! Then the university mandated full-time staff to set at least 60% in the office, so two days WFH per week, maximum, and they implied that they wanted everybody in the office every day. I gave my staff a choice with one caveat: we all have to be there a half-day every other week for an in-person, where we can discuss issues and problems that I don't necessarily want a written record of. (E.g., speculation about our new dean, why the old one suddenly resigned; Troublesome colleagues and how to deal with them). Since then (over two years now), everybody chooses which day(s) they want to WFH and on those days, WFH are responsible for dealing with the dozens-to-hundreds of emails to our department every day. Eight of my team work from home two days a week, one does one day per week, and I stay home every other Friday.

As a manager/supervisor/director/dean, I do not care who is working where as long as no balls are dropped. The amount of disputes from advisors, faculty and, more commonly, students has dropped to virtually none since we handle everything electronically, with a record to go back to. We are essentially a paperless school since 2016, so there is absolutely no need to get a signature on any form.

My university paid each employee $75/month from March 2020 to August 2021 to cover home high speed internet. When the subvention stopped in September 2021, you'd think the ardent WFH people had been robbed. Occasionally somebody still brings up at a business office meeting that they want to reimbursed for their home internet, at which I always roll my eyes.

tl;dr: If the work can be completed competently and in a timely manner, work from home is fine. Some people prefer it. If you don't, well, you do you and leave others alone.

[quote]but that's how I feel.

How you feel is irrelevent to how well others do or don't do as remote workers. If you have a preference for in-person work, that's perfectly understandable, but others don't feel the same way.

R142. You're a moron. "Quiet quitters" do the absolute minimum required. Your unhinged arguments in this whole thread claim that WFH employees don't do any work, are grifters, bringing America down!

So, which is it, Fucktard? And no, we realize you can't WFH and keep your KFC fryer job.

Whooosh! R138. You’re an idiot. But you knew that.

I don't see how people can slack off an entire day at home - if anything I'm more busy. Between conference calls, constant IM's, quick video calls with people, emails, project work.

There is no slacking for me at home - it feels more intense. But I'm also allowed time to think and not get distracted - which was all the time in the office.

Also I'm not fond of the birthday, work anniversary, baby cards to sign, cakes to cut, blah, blah.

On the flip side - it does get lonely working from home - but I'd rather have that than have to deal with office drama and politics.

I really don’t see the problem with multitasking during boring remote meetings or throwing a load of laundry in between reports or whatever.

As long as you do what’s needed for the job, what’s the problem? I am a type B personality so I guess I don’t grasp why people get their underwear so bunched up over such things.

The WFH revolution has had significant political repercussions, exacerbating the divide between blue collar, on-site, workers & the more privileged, educated remote class.

[quote]I've masturbated, cooked and cleaned, watched entire movies, even took trips while working remotely. I love it but I miss the social aspects of going to an office. I think hybrid is the way to go.

And others have friends for their social lives.

OP, I’m going to tell you something that you won’t want to hear. I’m good with that.

I’ve been working in IT for over 20 years, a lot of it remotely - e.g. my boss was often in Europe or USA and I was based in APJ. I’ve worked in the office, in hotels, on planes, in airline clubs, in WeWork, on the train, on the ferry, in Ubers, at the beach and at home.

I have always delivered on my KPIs and in addition have always just gotten shit done. Never been negatively called out on my performance.

In those times I have also done my laundry, paid my bills, met friends for coffee, gone to funerals, fucked guys, watched the midday news, painted my bedroom, gone to the gym, gone for a surf, met with the plumber, phoned my mother and ordered my groceries online.

My bosses have trusted me because I have never let them down. Ever.

I get paid by the year, not by the hour. YMMV.

[quote] My bosses have trusted me because I have never let them down. Ever.

MARY.

Sorry, R122. My job will never be outsourced to India, I can promise you that.

“MARY”, says R161, who has been a CVS cashier since graduating from community college.

What does it matter what they do, OP, so long as they produce the amount of work their employer [reasonably] expects to see?

I'd have thought loading and hanging out washing would actually be the kind of short breaks from sitting at a computer than an ergonomist would recommend. When you're in an office you just have to wander aimlessly during these breaks, because there's nothing useful to do.

Sincere apologies, R161 - I hit the Post button too soon. I didn’t mean to call you a “gut”.

I meant to call you a hopeless cunt who will still be scanning and bagging in his sixties.

R160 is the douchiest douche who ever douched!

[quote] I don't see how people can slack off an entire day at home - if anything I'm more busy. Between conference calls, constant IM's, quick video calls with people, emails, project work.

Sure, Jan.

YOU'RE LYING.

Why can't WFH assholes just admit that they work for one hour, and do personal business for the other seven?

They don't do shit while they're at home, and they know it!!!!

[quote]What does it matter what they do, OP, so long as they produce the amount of work their employer [reasonably] expects to see?

Exactly that, R164. Increasingly work is measured by output of product rather than by input of hours. That's certainly true of many people who were among the early people who paved the way in WFH. Personal qualities of responsibility and time management and communication skills were important, but also the concept of delivering work product in a timely and predictable/reliable schedule. "Punching in" had fuck all to fi with it other being reasonably available at hours that reasonably matched those of the main office.

As the practice gained some respect and later with the intervention of COVID, it was possible to hire people in different parts of the country who were never expected to punch in or even show up at an office, ever. Of course there product was measured bu output, not by hours of work per day, per week.

Exactly R168. When I first started WFH I was working for one of the first companies that did development under the “follow the sun” concept. Teams would work on software development in their - for example - UK time zone, hand off to developers in East Coast USA at the end of their day, then West Coast USA, then NZ/Australia/Japan then India then UK. Radical concept in the early nineties but it mostly worked.

I had a boss based in the Netherlands and I was based in Sydney - we had no timezone overlap but we’d catch up with a check-in every week and I traveled to work on site with him for a week every quarter and he did the same in the opposite direction. It worked because, as he said in my final interview, he needed me to produce output but didn’t care about when I did it as he’d be asleep most of my working hours anyway.

This whole trust thing is so retro - I’m a short term contractor now and if a prospective employer didn’t trust me to do the work unless I was on site then that employer is not for me.

Tapping into their higher potential

r167 You seem UNWELL

I work for one of the largest insurance companies in the country. I’m in the office two days a week, wfh the rest.

I work in the creative department so there are a ton of projects going on at any given moment. And if any of us didn’t deliver, our asses would be out the door. End of story.

People who have the luxury to fuck around working from home would be doing the same exact thing if they were in the office.

This whole debate is utterly stupid.

Choking out the Pillsbury Doughboy

I don't see R3

r174 Same - that's weird.

R3 is checking in with his parole officer which is why he can't WFH.and is jealous of those who do.

R273 If you haven’t already tickled him to death

R173 *

Who are these WFH employees who don’t have deadlines and deliverables?

Either we have one or more dedicated anti WFH hater trolls, or we have several prisspots with short memories.

You all must already work at home or are retired eldergays, since you seem to be forgetting the office / sows at the trough threads.

A good third of any in person workforce (if not more) never worked more than 90 minutes a day. It didn't matter what the industry was, or who managed the office, it was the same. Their schedule was always the same.

8:30 Drop off coat/purse/knapsack, etc. Log in, and then go grab breakfast.

8:30 - 9:15 Eat breakfast

9:15 - 9:45 Shuffle papers on desk, check email for a few minutes

9:45 - 10 Lengthy bathroom break

10 - 10:45 Walk around and talk to everyone on the entire floor about what might be good to order for lunch

10:45 Second lengthy bathroom break

11 - Leaves for lunch or orders lunch for delivery - if in office, no work is done while waiting 30-45 minutes for food, must chat with coworkers and stare at phone so we don't miss that all important front desk call!

12:30 Returns from extra long lunch or finishes in-office lunch

12:30-1:00 Walks around entire office to ask every person what they ate, was it good, etc.

1:00 Time for the quick after lunch fart walk!

1:15 Time for another 15 minutes of looking at and getting reacquainted with work in case boss stops by. Things are just SO backed up, can't quite catch up!

1:30 Third lengthy bathroom break, combined with mid afternoon refill of the 72 oz soda or Starbucks run

1:45 Must take daily lengthy phone call from child/spouse/family member in prison

2:00 Department meeting, at which s/he sighs loudly about the stack of work on their desk

2:30 Walks around entire office to disperse office and/or personal gossip as gleaned in department meeting

3:00 Fourth lengthy bathroom break

3:15 Walks into team leader's cube/manager's office to act confused about something that's been on their desk for two weeks or more. After explanations/suggestions are given, team lead/manager gives up and just takes the case from them to work on themselves.

3:30 Feeling sleepy! Must get afternoon sugar rush.

4:00 After stopping in hallway for chat time, returns to desk and does another 20-30 minutes of work, making sure all the stuff everyone else has been waiting on all day gets done.

4:30 Chats with departing coworkers

4:47 End time is 5 but they really really have to leave now to make that bus/train or pick up little Brayden/Caden/Hakeem at daycare/school/juvie. Byeeee! Seeeee you tomorrow!

(And if you think only WFH's are slapping the salami, you should go into any office men's room in the afternoon......)

Lol at R180.

I love that schedule!

But you didn't factor in "dozing off at your desk for 10 minutes."

It gives you the energy to keep going the rest of the day.

R181 True. And I didn't put the 8 other quick bathroom breaks in there either, or the have to refill my coffee/soda breaks, or the oooh let's go look at the vending machine breaks.....it's a full schedule, I guess.

I’ll have a delicious WFH blowjob.

I love all the dead beat WFH queens screaming, they knew this would happen, give them an inch...

I'm the endless wasted in-office hours from "What are you doing this weekend?" and "What did you do this weekend?"

R184. I wouldn't touch your "inch" (and I'm being kind) if you paid me. I'm too busy working 8 hours a day from home.

R184 can't pay you R186, unless you take SNAP.

R187. I think he also has WIC.

It's coming to the end deadbeats, back on the grind like everybody else bitches, it gets you out of that 403 sq ft apartment that you pay 3k each month, how is that bad, it's coming

R189. Hooked on Phonics will work wonders, sweetie.

Should we tell poor R189 that remote work started long before COVID?

When we were in the office, I remember walking past a coworker's cube; she had Vineyard Vines on one monitor and Amazon on the other. Later that month, she was busy planning a birthday party and using the company color printer to print invitations to the party as well as posters. She's now a manager. Just because we are in office doesn't mean we are working 100% of the time.

I work from home 3 days a week. We have to go in on Thursdays for our weekly team meeting but I also go in on Wednesdays to get bigger projects done/print documents. I get so much work done on Wednesdays when it's me and 1 or 2 or others in the office.

Thursdays are a wasted day. First of all, our manager doesn't get in until 9:30 or 10 am. We have our meeting at 11 but we usually spend the 60-90 minutes prior deciding where to order lunch from. After the meeting (anywhere from 60-90 minutes), we sit in our office kitchen and eat lunch. That lasts about an hour. By now, it's 1:30 pm and those who live far away, leave the office between 2 and 3 pm. I get more work done working from home. Yes, I go food shopping on Fridays, or the dentist (within walking distance of my house), do laundry, etc. The TV is on more for noise than for content as I live alone (except for Cos, but he sleeps most of the time).

Prior to COVID, we were already 2 days WFH and 3 days in office so the biggest adjustment was WFH 5 days a week during COVID.

I never understand why people care one way or another about how other people work.

I only care about my working situation.

And guess what everyone at the very top? You're getting PAID 3 to 5x as much (or more!) than a manager or lower level - and you either have a SAH spouse or in-home help - not to mention admins at work to do your small stuff. It's NOT the same.

Can I also monitor how many phone calls my boss gets each day from his wife and kids? How much time they spend shopping on Amazon or planning their vacations, etc?

Lastly, what some of the assholes on this thread also don't seem to know is that there is an 'active' status for most slack/messaging software. If you're away a long time, it will show everyone and it usually shows how long you've been gone from your laptop.

The idea that you can just idly sit at home is fucking nonsense.

R194. Dude. Seriously, this anger is usually a red flag for workplace violence. I'd beg you to get some help.

Typical office nonsense. Sounds like most of you are incapable of doing any job, let along in an office or at home

R195 - that's a rich comment coming from you and your many posts on the thread - example below:

R142. You're a moron. "Quiet quitters" do the absolute minimum required. Your unhinged arguments in this whole thread claim that WFH employees don't do any work, are grifters, bringing America down!

So, which is it, Fucktard? And no, we realize you can't WFH and keep your KFC fryer job.

Having some friends over to take in a Rams game

Curing the ham

R197. You are absolutely right. I did post multiple times in this thread. Many times it was addressing your unfair and uneducated "feelings," which often were discriminatory against a class of employees. And, next time, capitalize "that's."

smoking the bacon

R200 types unemployed and poor.

[quote]I love all the dead beat WFH queens screaming, they knew this would happen, give them an inch...

We’re deadbeats because we actually have jobs. Makes a lot of sense.

R202 types like Jen Shah from prison.

R194 is totally unhinged.

Probably from the guilt, knowing that he sits at home doing personal business on company time, and that it's coming to an end for him, very soon.

I guess I'd be angry and hostile too, if I knew that my gravy train has dried up.

But do his co-workers really want this mentally unstable person back in the workplace?

If I hear the expression "remote work" again I will shoot myself. Get your lazy asses back to the office and earn your paychecks. Pretend it's 2019.

[quote]If I hear the expression "remote work" again I will shoot myself.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE DO SHOOT YOURSELF R206.

Dear datalounge, this thread doesn't disappoint with the nuttiness

r196 " let along"

Oh, dear!

What a bunch of lazy shits.

What do you do for a living, R210?

I don't care what they're doing since I'm not paying them.

To those who resent those of us who WFH: well, you’re special, too! Someone has to mop the pee droplets from the corporate bathrooms and re-stock the paper towel dispensers when we do have to come in— like once a week in my case. And remember, they are watching you! So chop, chop — you have 10 floors of bathrooms to do. Stop dawdling!

I have observed my sister-in-law "working from home" (in this instance we were all at the family cabin). She is about 90% at home and 10% at the office since COVID.

Her workday included: watching TV, taking a nap, doing a jigsaw puzzle, going for a boatride, taking a long walk and talking to her mom on the phone for an hour.

She makes mid-six figures.

Scolding the Pope..

I get an hour break at work and it’s so refreshing to take a sweet short nap on my comfortable bed. Or a nice leisurely walk in the park for fresh air. Then I’m re-charged to work and finish my day.

No annoying cunts around me who do more gossiping than actual work. No egomaniacs prancing about, creating silly dramas, anything to avoid doing their work.

I will never go back to that 5 days a week shit. The losers on this thread can go on proudly bagging groceries and taking empty abandoned shopping carts from parking lots back to the store. Keeps you busy! And productive! What a work ethic!

AI will be taking all our jobs anyway, so WHATEVER.

Correction: 5 days a week in the office shit

r206 How embarrassing for you

So funny that there is ONE poster in this post - whose "work from home" request was denied., that it spiraling.

Yeah, right. Everyone knows remote learning was a disaster for children's education. But let's go back to that since teachers also deserve to work from home like the lazy office workers.

I am definitely, DEFINITELY a WFH guy. But I do not disparage those who feel the need to work in an office. It is a more structured, social environment that many people prefer.

As an avowed introvert, I do not.

Enjoy your gossip and pot-lucks! Feel free to send me pics.

R213 is precisely why everyone hates WFH people.

R214's story is precisely why employers are sending their lazy ass WFH employees back to the office.

They cannot be trusted.

R99- Don’t be vulgar.

It’s

Passing COPIOUS amounts of wind 💨

The only reason (as others have pointed out) why the anti-WFH person has posted on this thread over fifty times is because he/she/it has a job where they have to be on-site and there is not WFH option. OR they were denied a request to work from home.

Your bitterness and anger is very funny to watch.

[QUOTE] Probably from the guilt, knowing that he sits at home doing personal business on company time, and that it's coming to an end for him, very soon.

Why do you keep saying it’s going to end soon? It’s very much here to stay, much to your disappointment.

The WFH cohort swarm like hornets. They know they're mostly frauds, and they know their days are numbered, so they panic. One way or another, companies will wise up, whether because of fraud - the theft of paychecks and productivity concerns - or because employers will find it an oh-so-easy lateral shift towards the use of AI. See how organizing a defense from the sofa to save your WFH jobs pans out.

When I worked for a large corporation it was considered a benefit to work from home one day a week, this same company offered a full health club-style gym, a full restaurant-like cafe, a Starbucks on-site and millions of dollars of artwork. It is a multi-building campus. I could disappear for the full day and my boss would never have known. If fact this was my average schedule. I would get in early at 7 a.m. to beat traffic and the rush at the onsite gym. Get in, go work out, shower had change (in the private shower locker room), then text my work best friend and she would come down and we would get Starbucks and BS for an hour. Now it's 9 and I have not even been to my desk. I show up for the daily team meeting, grab my laptop and go find a nice quiet area on the campus to check my email. Attend any meetings I needed to attend then it was lunch time. I would go to my desk to work through lunch so my boss or a random director could see me, then maybe one or two more meetings. At three I would pack up and leave (worked through lunch). Occasionally I would get complaints from other groups that I was not available past three, and I would just respond I am available starting at 7 a.m. but no one would ever get in that early so I was safe. The funny part was one of the directors who hated WFH used me as an example, He would say "I see him here all the time," That would make me laugh because he only trolled the rows at lunchtime. After Covid, my company decided to let everyone work from wherever they wanted. They realized our productivity was the same or went up and they could save millions my getting rid of the things they spent money on to keep up in the buildings. The gyms, the Starbucks, the restaurants.

So you started this mess, R227?

If so, then I can only thank you r227!

I guess it is hard for the anti-society crowd to see the big picture from a BarcaLounger or cafe table, let alone care about it.

R227, honestly, what was the point of recounting your unproductive schedule while working on-site? Was your point that you got more done while WFH?

r231 My point was you can be just as unproductive AT work as AT home. Mind you I consistently got exceeds on my reviews. I got my projects done on time or ahead of time and on or under budget. I'm not an assembly line worker where I have to constantly be doing something and metered on my productivity,

R227 workin' both ends against the middle - his style.

Most WFH jobs, because they are corporate, cubicle-centered positions that include things like filling out spreadsheets, attending team meetings, and participating in group projects (sounds like middle school, right?), are essentially bullshit jobs invented in the last 50 years. We'd be in much better shape as an economy and scoiety if these cubicle drones had been forced to become plumbers, mechanics, or engineers doing real work rather studying Business Administration or Marketing and spending 40 years wasting away in a cubicle.

What do you do for a living R234?

Yeah, it's a new world, huh. r234?

For over 50 years.

R234. Speaking of wasting away in a cubicle, did they ever solve the mystery of the fat Arizona frau who was left to rot in her cube for 4 days since she couldn't WFH?

It would be better for her to rot at home for 4 days?

I'm sure at home, someone would have noticed or given a shit about her. Not in the office where she was shoved down to work alone on an entire giant floor. In the office, "Well she clocked in at 7!" At home, at least they track keystrokes. Her blood is on their hands!!!

Edging. Lots of edging. Sometimes I have to put a tarp underneath the chair.

R240 = Momma's mussy leaking like a sieve

Contractors are typically more rigidly bureaucratic than the corporations of which you speak R234. The penalties for sloppiness are much higher. Paper pusher jobs keep otherwise unemployable people off the streets and in respectable professions.

Wow the cube fraus and drones are triggered.

[Quote] The WFH cohort swarm like hornets. They know they're mostly frauds, and they know their days are numbered, so they panic

OP is melting down at this point

I'm retired with my feet up. No Monday morning blues here.

r244. Not really. The giga worker knows they can do their job anywhere. Being in the office is an old-school mentality for these folks. Programmers, coders, IT folks. If your day is filled with meetings, or sitting at your desk on a computer - you know you can do that job at home, at Starbucks from the beach. No reason for you to occupy a cubicle. The cat is out of the bag so to speak though. I am sure these companies will see a mass migration of people leaving. Plenty of companies have embraced remote workers. Mine is a Fortune 100 who told us after COVID, if you don't want to come back, don't. We don't care where you live or work, just let us know where it is. I cannot tell you how many LinkedIn hits I get from people asking me if we are hiring.

Yes really, because this thread didn’t go for you as you planned.

The snarling Anti-WFH poster in this thread, so eagerly waiting for corporate overlords to punish all the remote workers out of existence, lol. She ranks as one of the most Bitter Bettys on Datalounge… and it’s a crowded field!

The anti-WFH troll reminds me of the “Bav” troll who posts hundreds and hundred of posts mainly containing AI-generated poetry.

He is very unhinged (and unemployed).

AI will eventually replace keyboard drones, then you can sit home and jerk off all day, in your cardboard box home.

You’re unemployed, R250.

I prefer in-person meetings. In-person meetings are better for subtextual communication, which you can't get from Zoom, but I'm flexible and can adjust. My boyfriend has had an increasing number of self-tapes since the pandemic, which he prefers.

R252 I am in Technology Sales and it is very hard to have in-person meetings because most companies are full time WFH.99% of the time they don't even use cameras.

Remote works better if you're multi-national or have branches in different cities or states, as well. You can link up and coordinate so much easier than meeting up and attending conferences, in person (which is a waste of money and time to do more than occasionally).

Going virtual has allowed for our org to get "together" more often than we did, pre-COVID. We could never have afforded all of those "meetings" had they been in person.

Actually r251 I'm quite skinny now, so you'd be so fucking wrong, and I'm retired bitch, so wrong again bitch, did you find out you have to go back and actually fucking work? You know it's coming, get ready.

R255. Well, that was a trigger. Weight an issue?

Showin’ how funky and strong is your fight

It doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right

R234 is one of the sillier people on this site, and that is saying somethin'!

Somebody call the clinic, peepaw's on the Tina again.

What office workers are doing all day

They know you lie and sleep and go shopping, back to the office, lazy cunts, AI will replace you anyway, drones on a keyboard.

AI will replace you taking my big mac and fries order too r261

I can't stop laughing at R260 post. I can't catch my breath lol. It's so true.

Not sorry to inform you, rescueKunt, I don't work at there, go sit in the corner, bad Kunt.

you are cordially invited to eat my kunt r264. cunt kunt kunt. oOOoo00, so very cutting edge.

R264 hasn't worked in decades as he admitted in one of his many unhinged, slobbering posts strewn all through this thread. He has literally no idea what he's talking about and clearly needs to be placed in a padded cell in a straightjacket with no access to the internet. What an embarrassing person.

Not surprised that the whining about WFH comes from the unemployed.

I actually got used to Zoom meetings. They can be productive.

I think people will begin to regard all of these Zoom meetings the same way we now regard phone calls: too intrusive, too time-restricting. If you have a good group of people working on a project, you should be able to just do everything by text or email. As long as one person doesn't disappear and not contribute.

[quote] I actually got used to Zoom meetings. They can be productive.

Yeah, no.

[quote]I can't stop laughing at R260 post. I can't catch my breath lol. It's so true.

I watched it and it's very true - of a lot of middle-aged and older men who work [bold]in an office building.[/bold].

There's the type who blows in the better part of an hour late every morning, issues his Hal and hearty greetings, sits at his desk a few minutes then strolls to the toilet with a big stupid, "I'm about to take a big stinking dump" grin on his face and disappears in the stalls for a half hour, emerging just in time to wonder what's he going to do for lunch.

There's the asshole with the sports section nealy wuarter-folded, tapping it loudly against his pant legs as he saunters into the shitter and will reappear in about 50 minutes, same fucking satisfied smirking his face, having left his sports section on the grip bar of the handicapped stall - because he likes the extra room. And a wicked stench of which he's rather proud that will hover half the office cubicles for a few hours. He will be back with a follow-up dump before the workday is through at 4.30 -- damned commuter trains, "I have to leave early or it's hours getting home."

R264 is the Klan Grannie Troll (a.k.a KGT) and is usually to be found on the British royal threads, melting down on a meth binge and calling people a CUNT - his fave insult.

He lives on his mom’s sofa bed in the PNW and is unhinged.

That's a lot of assumptions, R272. You wouldn't ever want to be accused of being ... bigoted, would you?

Bad straight woman usually go to hell, or have two headed retarded babies.

we should literally start rounding up the rich and beheading them

Let's start with the OP R275!

R273 the ignore button is very useful. - put R264 and check out its posting history.

Not assumptions. Fact.

[quote] Nearly a third of remote and hybrid workers said they used the bathroom during calls...

Please, please, please use the mute button on your phone/app. I’ve been on a conference call during which a dozen of us got to hear someone take a leak during a conference call.

R273 - R264 has accused me of being bigoted, or in its parlance a “RACIST CUNT”, many times. Which is how I know what I’m dealing with. As I said above - put it on Ignore and check out its posting history.

At least you’ll have a better idea of the person who you are defending.

BTW R273 once you’ve checked out your friend’s posting history, do feel free to report back here. I’d love to know your thoughts.

R272 rolls out that same insult over and over again. New material, pls. TIA

R281 I’ll continue to call out this rancid troll when ever it presents itself. You’re free to ignore, or, maybe, give some consideration as to why you feel the need to defend it.

If you can’t deal with this, do feel free to block me. I’ll cope.

I’m not defending anyone. I’m noting, with disdain, your frequent use of mama’s house in the PNW as some kk d of observational insult 🥱

*kind

I see, R283 - then I suggest that you take it up with R264 who has revealed both its location and situation on other threads.

Along with suggesting that people who it disagrees with are bulimic, have dripping asses from colon cancer, are “fingering their cunts” while posting, are KKK members, should kill themselves etc etc etc.

I’d suggest that my identifying his living in the PNW with his mommie are relatively benign observations. Your mileage may vary.

I work in an office at a huge bank. I work in IT. Here is the work schedule of the large group of people in my team (not me I rarely leave my desk and won't poop in a public toilet). They come in at 8:45 ish, usually all in by 9 and all go to the onsite cafeteria for breakfast. They come back by 10:45, usually attend one meeting and then at 11:30 they argue over who is driving to go to lunch. They go out for lunch every day. They are gone from 11:30 to 1 ish. Then will attend other meetings. At three they all go back down to the cafeteria for an afternoon "break," Usually an hour then come back up at four and sit in their cubes until 5 when they all get up and leave after a hard day's work. It is like clockwork. I amuse myself by keeping a small spreadsheet of their comings and goings. It is remarkably consistent. Their work time is not more than 2 hours out of a 9-hour day. Mind you, this is a group of people who are consistently rated at exceeds performance and get bonuses. My day consists of me getting in at 7:30 and checking all my servers, logs and reports because I have a daily report due at 9 a.m. I attend about 5 meetings a day, perform upgrades, health checks etc. In short my day is filled with actual work. I cannot tell you how many times people have come over to our area looking for one of the "2-hour" crew and asking me if I can do something for them. In short it is not where you work,, it is your work ethic.

Lol R286.

Sounds like fun!

I want to join their friend group.

R268, that's not the workers, that's a MANAGEMENT problem, if people stand around and do nothing, whose fault is that? Shitty management. And if they are allowed to do it in office, what are they doing at home? Shopping and going out to eat, lazy cunt get triggered when slacker time is up.

r287 They are all retained employees from a merger. The director for the group is also retained. I was a new hire eight years ago and therefore an outsider. There are a few of us. We all see what goes on but you cannot complain, the higher ups are all their friends, hence the exceeds reviews and bonuses going to them, I tried it one year, got a new manager who was outside the friend group we worked out a list of things I needed to meet to get an exceeds. I hit every KPI, went the extra mile and then...my manager was reorged a month before the year end, I ended up under a manager who was part of the good old boy network. He gave me a meets, which I refused to sign and called HR. HR got on a call and I explained that my manager of 11 months had set up a list of KPIs I needed to hit to achieve an exceeds and I hit them. Documented everything and told them my "new" manager did not even allow my old manager to give any input in my year end review, despite him being my manager for three weeks. They did not care. They said the review would stand. At that point I stopped caring. I show up, I leave, I do the bare minimum and look for jobs all day long.

I should mention our company has a very liberal work from home policy but most of the slackers won't because it is monitored working. You cannot be in away mode in IM you must have it on all the time, the track mouse and keyboard movement and the internet is severely limited for WFH access. In short they cannot fuck off. I come in the office because I live close, don't mind the office and gives me work life balance. I don't do work at home, I don't do home at work. During covid we all had to work from home. It was easy for me but man the 2-hour crew would constantly complain so much the director got them exemptions from the monitoring because it was too stressful...lol

R289, I understood everything you wrote, even though it was in complete "office speak" language, which many here might not understand.

Sounds like you got the shaft.

I work for a very large organization, and that's usually how it goes.

You get ignored, sidelined, and shafted in favor of others who are less intelligent and do less work, but know the right people.

It creates a toxic work culture of apathy and bitterness.

I know all too well what you're talking about.

American business culture really sucks.

RecueKunt, your snatch hasn't been touched in years, it's smells dear, you know that, give a us break, no one would get neat that old tire.

I never dreamed this thread would be so cuntentious

[quote]I rarely leave my desk and won't poop in a public toilet

Something tells me that a Venn diagram of DLers and another of DLers who 'won´t poop in a public toilet' set might look like a near total eclipse.

R285 you two are more Simmons’s than you are different. Notwithstanding where you live.

*similar

Not Simmons (Jean or JK)

285 must be masturbating pretty steadily to get 11 WW overnight

r294 I have observed too many people use the crapper get up and walk out, no hand washing. I have never had to "go" at work as I am pretty regular. Morning before I shower. Eat pretty light at work. Honestly, some of the people who have delivered room-clearing dumps at work make me never want to use that receptacle.

5% of office workers perform 95% of the actual work.

Same as it ever was.

In space, no can hear you not washing your hands.

[quote] 5% of office workers perform 95% of the actual work.

I've always been a bit more generous and said 25% of the workers do most of the work.