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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

One pro about working with the rest of your coworkers in flesh is socialization. You get to talk with people during the day.

At home it's you, alone (if you live alone).

Of corse, some folks has it better working alone. I wouldn't have.

And, all work cannot be done from home.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you live alone and get lonely, go to the office and make friends. I don't care. Just don't drag me away from my wife and cat so I can feign interest in yet another surface level talk with my coworker pretending to care about what they do.

Modern corporations heavily disincentivize making any sort of real connection with your coworkers because most of them will be gone in a couple of years, or laid off, or they might use the info they have on you from your personal life to throw you under the bus.

I'm perfectly happy spending my downtime from work with my family and my off time with my real friends instead of putting on a performance everyday assuring my boss that I'd definitely rather talk about nothing and spend 1/3 of my life making useless small talk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

or they might use the info they have on you from your personal life to throw you under the bus.

Jesus christ what dystopian hellscape do you hail from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’ve never heard of people reporting others taking bad about their company on social media? Even if it’s under a broad context and no name drops people have gotten fired.

Most people don’t realize just how much of their life is shared on social media and are fine with accepting any and all friend/follow requests from coworkers who are friendly enough and not weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't use social media so never had that issue and never heard of anyone else having that problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't experienced that much negativity among coworkers or corporations in my work life.

But you do you - it's fine as long as nobody gets hurt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, working remotely made me realize that I'm actually an extrovert. But, fuck working from office. I don't want to waste 4 hours every day on the commute just to talk to my coworkers. I usually use Slack huddle on my team channel so we can still have a semblance of drop in collaboration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah - long traveling distances between work and home sucks and takes away from well-being in other aspects of life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is, when you sit there with headphones all day, you won't do much socializing. Often all it takes, is just one colleague who can't make it to the office or who works at a different office...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. In that case.

There are many different cases, and stuff feels and works out differently accordingly.