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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/badr3plicant on 2025-12-12 19:04:03+00:00.
We know that remote work is the largest single improvement in quality of life white collar workers have seen over the last few decades, but we never meant for that to happen.
You're burning less fuel, putting fewer miles on your cars, saving thousands of dollars, easing road congestion for everyone else, and getting hundreds of hours of your life back every year. We know you're just as productive; we have the data. But we don't get to look over your shoulder. More importantly, by suffering less for your pay, you're taking advantage of us. The most important thing is that you, working class peon, never, under any circumstances, get to feel like you won anything, especially not at our expense. That's why we'll nitpick every expense report, buy you the cheapest laptop we can, and make sure that you can't have so much as a single houseplant in the office. Honestly it's not even about money, it's about the principle of the thing.
Circumstances beyond our control conspired to give you, you fucking peasant, privileges that are normally reserved for us, and this will not stand.
Who do you think you are anyway? You got a university degree and now you think you're better than anyone? Your job is to run the administrative state for our benefit. We hate you. You and your liberal politics and your whining about "rights" and "work-life balance" and "living wage" and "wealth inequality" and "fascism." Do you know how tiresome it is to listen to you? The whole lot of you make my skin crawl. But don't worry, we're working hard on AI so that we can replace 75% of you and pay the other 25% Walmart wages. We can't wait to watch you claw each others' eyes out for a chance at the few jobs an Nvidia GPU can't do.
So it's time to get back into your car, back into the overstuffed under-capacity subway to stand for 90 minutes, so that you can be in the office at 8am. And smile while you do it, you goddamned ingrate.