Never going back to the office
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shakahislop
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It goes without saying I guess, but the cunty stupidity is the point obviously. Like everything that berk does its about appealing to a senile strata of the electorate
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Waved at the office today driving past in a cab
Still an alien/off-world head state I still haven’t adjusted to
Still an alien/off-world head state I still haven’t adjusted to
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I think what's happened is that, in the absence of Brexit bringing any concrete benefits whatsoever to anyone who isn't already filthy rich, the Tories have basically run out of ideology other than the culture war, so whatever annoys Them - liberals, progressives, educated people, young people, civil servants, the public sector generally, etc. etc. - is what flies.
Same as the Republicans. They've abandoned policy and are just saying and doing whatever they can to trigger the libs, because that's all they've got left.
shakahislop
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yep. the backlash is part of the communications obviously. you know you're going to get some stories about pissed off civil servants, which is expected and is part of the reason you do it in the first place. coz there are voters who want civil servants / 'the public sector' to be pissed off.
shakahislop
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its pretty fascinating that one of the key areas where a fairly large number of people still came together to do something in person (ie, offices) now looks like it might be a thing of the past. the offices i work in are nothing like what they used to be, just a totally different environment now, pretty much just a more comfortable place to do the work you need to do on a screen, rather than the social (in all senses of the word) and often power-based environments they were before.
reminds me a bit of the transition from exercise being mostly done in groups, football and so on, to the current situation where most people are exercising through solo activities, like going to the gym to lift weights, running, climbing, yoga (though those last two are debatable, they are still mostly a solo experience I would say)
one interesting thing with regards to offices is that even if people do say that they like the social aspects of being forced to be in the same place, once people are given the choice they tend to choose to work alone. the same can be said for living in houseshares vs living alone / with a partner, people almost all go for the latter if they can afford it. people take the atomized option. its an interesting trend.
shakahislop
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i'm talking about people in the anglo world that i'm familiar with. i definitely don't see the same tendency in south asia (to talk about the only other bit of the world that i can say anything about), though perhaps people just don't have much of a choice.
It’s a pretty key component of the Tory mindset, though. That nagging suspicion that somebody, somewhere has bagged a perk – no matter how small or inconsequential, compared to the privileges you possess. You could be sitting in a £900k house, mortgage paid off, and if someone on the dole wins a bottle in a raffle, well…why are the unemployed allowed to enter raffles?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Meanwhile the same cunts will claim expenses for their mistress's pedicure and a fucking Twix.
The odd thing is, there's a woman at our place who's been vociferous about us all returning (she's not even in management!) since late 2020... and even now, she keeps banging on about how it'll benefit everyone to return, and how it's impossible to get a day's work done at home because of 'distractions'.
But whenever I went past her desk, pre-Covid, she was always on Facebook or shopping online, and she'd have a panic attack when anyone asked her to do anything. Don't care what she does, natch...but then why insist on everyone going back into the office? People are fucking weird.
But whenever I went past her desk, pre-Covid, she was always on Facebook or shopping online, and she'd have a panic attack when anyone asked her to do anything. Don't care what she does, natch...but then why insist on everyone going back into the office? People are fucking weird.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Maybe she enjoyed the frisson of being caught Facebooking at work?
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
john eden
male pale and stale
My parents ask me if I’m back in the office yet each time I speak to them. I suspect in my Dad’s case it’s so he can then ask me if the trains are alright. I keep telling them it’s not going to happen again but I think they just can’t get their heads around it after a lifetime of “going to work”.
“The show is over. The audience get up to leave their seats. Time to collect their coats and go home. They turn around. No more coats and no more home.”
I still have to go 2 days a week but it's like being in detention, like the breakfast club except no uplifting pop indie song and no yearning for anything apart from to go home. You can't do anything creative like shake your dandruff onto your drawing to make a snow scene, cos you have to pretend you are working. Total waste of time, it can't last.
william_kent
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since November I've been going into a, mainly empty, open plan office for two or three days each week. At its peak, there has maybe been up to 10% occupancy of the space. It seems like a lot of people where I work just can't handle coming back and would prefer to do nothing at home. I can't blame them.