Seeing you reply made me click the link, where is my beloved! At least the new owners want to keep it Zombo.

I value WFH pretty highly myself, so honestly I’d consider it passed to me as well if it meant not having to RTO.

I think it’s a variety of factors and a lot of decision makers failing to view the picture holistically (optimistic view) or just being malicious (pessimistic).

1. A lot of top level decision makes are very aware of the costs of things. Knowing exactly how much money a large office space costs and constantly coming in only to see it very empty makes them want to see it used more.
2. Face to face communication is better than the alternative. Full stop. That said, you can get like ~75% of that by just turning the camera on. I think a lot of places should just consider encouraging people to use their cameras more.
3. The executive mindset is probably that people goof off less in the office.
4. If you want to lay people off, forcing RTO is a good way to get people to leave voluntarily.
5. There’s likely a sense of “the way things have always been done” being inherently better in the minds of some executives pushing RTO.

I think ultimately it’s short sighted. I think companies that actually are facing problems with WFH (and not just being malicious) should try to address them in different ways instead of just killing it off.

For a small company they might be the only person who has on-call duties. I don’t think the “common clay” of the company envies being on-call 24/7.

I don’t think people engaging in things like this are necessarily “gullible.” Things for “good luck” (sort of lumping a lot of stuff there since some might view a blessing and luck differently) are a lot about the tradition and ceremony of it. Sometimes it’s just fun to do things. Like breaking a bottle on the side of a new ship.

Are they at least tracking less? (Not that I think that makes it okay.)

Misread the headline as removing instead of adding. Was very confused.

Yeah baby, wakka wakka my apt, pacman, I didn’t even read the news file, I like to live dangerously!

So turns out Mom is a furry.

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I disagree, but only in that it’s not potentially SA, it’s always SA. Checking genitals for entry into a shared restroom or changing area is SA always.

• Don’t discuss advertisements with friends like people did in the past

This one is big and I never noticed it until a few years ago. My wife and I never got cable when we moved into our own place. One time my mother in law was talking to my wife about some commercial and my wife just said she hadn’t seen it. My mother in law got really weirdly upset or something, like my wife was trying to be condescending or something. But she was talking about it the same way people might talk about a funny skit from a show. It wasn’t until being away from it for years that I realized how odd it is.

Wait, that sentence has been said before? 🫪

I suppose while doing weird things is a wonderful time to notice it’s a pattern for your family.

It’s the logical conclusion of trying to prevent trans people into the rest rooms and changing areas that match their gender.

Which part do you think is incorrect though?

Nah to which part?

I feel he’s comparing streaming to white collar jobs, not blue collar jobs. I often refer to my white collar job as my first “real job” because it was the first job I got involving my degree. Prior to that my blue collar jobs where I worked as a “janitor” or in a deli were just part time work to get some spending money.

Ironically, or perhaps not depending on your perspective, having every statement you make over analyzed because your profession is just constantly making statements live can certainly be soul sucking. I think this post is evidence of that. You have to constantly make sure you don’t say things that can get clipped in a way that will make you look bad.

Judging by his other statements, I find it hard to believe he’s saying that hard manual labor is easy work that isn’t soul sucking.

Life is like a hurricane, you know, twisty.

Yeah, I think if Space X sent a crew to the moon then the reaction would’ve mostly been the same.