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Work in the office or not at all (lemmy.world)

submitted 16 hours ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 56 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

i really do prefer working in an office but i need a reason. if you don't need me there, why should i be there?

granted, i work with hardware which i need access to in order to do my work, but that's a reason right there. if i'm having an algorithm day, why be in office?

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I hate when people say “I’m a plumber and I have to go to work, why do you office people get to work from home”.

Don’t you remember how good traffic was 4 years ago? Do you drive to clients houses to invoice them or do it from the home office?

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

This is like people who work on overhead electrical cabling saying, "why do you people get to work on the ground?"

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago

I have to work in person and I'm jealous of people who have jobs that they can work from home, but I despise traffic and the less people on the road the better for the environment and the less stressful for everyone who is on the road, so I'm all for everyone who can and wants to WFH being able to WFH. Everyone has different circumstances, and we shouldn't all have to share the same misery just because.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

i spent all of 2020 and 2021 stuck in traffic since my boss thought we "needed a presence on the worksite". not that we didn't, mind, because i needed to troubleshoot actual physical devices that could not be connected to the internet. still do.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What an asshole.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 15 hours ago

there's a reason i don't work there anymore.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Working in the office is more about control than anything. I've been WFH for 12 years now and it's amazing because I can still do my work without some unnecessary middle manager breathing down my neck

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

sure that's nice but i usually work with an actual team where fast changes to hardware is needed. can't really do that through github issues.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Those are fair points, but not my points. I'm working with people from all over the world and being in an office would bring zero benefit for me. aside from being on the road for two to three hours a day.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 14 hours ago

yeah that's not useful. there are eobvious upsides to wfh in some areas so it should be used there. it would benefit everyone.