re: What work from home has ruined?

I thought they were both GCS

Work from home has ruined the idea that we all have to be chained to our desks 9-5 because "that's the way it's always been" (i.e. no good reason).

I think the real issue with lack of social skills is not working from home, but the "Zoomification" of education during the pandemic for a sizeable portion of students.

Pre-Covid remote worker checking in.

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Nobody has work relationships anymore. When I say relationships, I mean colleagues as you progress through the grind you become ‘friends’ with. I’m not sure who the younger generation will ever use as references in the future.

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I don't need to be friends with my coworkers and I have great work relationships. The coworkers I like I keep up with. Our head admin and I used to have a weekly Zoom meeting just to chat.

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Jobs you stayed at because you liked the people you worked with and it paid off.

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I'm not staying at a job just because I like the people. I'll like people at the next job too because I'm not an a-hole no one likes.

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‘Lunch with the boys’ is dead. No more killing time with the boys while talking about the new hot secretary over lunch.

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So now I just go out to lunch with my other friends. I spent an hour and a half at lunch with a friend yesterday and didn't have to rush back to clock in after some hour lunch break.

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Social life and more importantly social skills are vanishing. No more walking down the hall or having a kitchen conversation with others to collaborate unplanned.

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My job isn't my social life. It's my job. And thank fricking God I don't have to collaborate in the kitchen anymore. I'm trying to get my coffee Karen and take a 5 minute break. I don't need you following me down the hall to talk about work.

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Work/social events. Ping pong tourneys, trivia, potlucks.

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I guess I lucked out here. I see my coworker yearly at a conference in Huntington Beach. Pre-Covid they'd fly me to Salt Lake City just for the Christmas party. I'm going to Mexico in October and someone else from the company will be there. I just don't remember who else signed up for that weekend. We did a zoom family feud game for team building once. I also work for a small family business so that could play into it.

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Lovebirds in the office. Most marriages used to be between people who met at work. Who doesn’t miss figuring out what trendy outfit you were going to wear on casual Friday to look cool in front of ‘ol Lacy?

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I'm good here. I don't need to be with any single person 24/7

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could go on and on, but more important than that is what is happening to people that all of a sudden have zero structure:
-alcoholics
-divorces
-porn addicts
-don’t know how to dress in public
-no social skills
-no real career
-video game addicts
-streaming services

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This was all a problem way before remote work.

I won't ever go back to an office.

*sitting here watching a movie because I'm caught up on work instead of just sitting in an office bored out of my mind because I HAVE to be there.

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print PDF documents

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My first job out of college and older engineer I worked for called me into his office. "Help I don't know how to save this document. It's a PDF not Word. Do you think you can figure it out"

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BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
12205 posts

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You have been over-the-top pro WFH in multiple threads.

I remember a thread you made where you ridiculed people who wanted their workers in the office as antiquated "butts in seats" managers.

Good times.