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I've found the WFH debate to be a great proxy for finding people I definitely don't want to work with. Everyone has a preference. But in my experience, the peo

by midev 5y ago

I've found the WFH debate to be a great proxy for finding people I definitely don't want to work with. Everyone has a preference. But in my experience, the people that whine the most about having to go to an office are generally the people everyone wishes would stay home anyway.

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savant_penguin 5y ago
Or that's someone that spends 3h/day commuting
- midev 5y ago
  Like I said, it's ok to have a preference. People that whine about it are toxic.
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  - neolog 5y ago
    The next step after having a preference is expressing that preference.
    - midev 5y ago
      Expressing preferences is great! Why do you equate that to whining, though?
      - neolog 5y ago
        are your peers "whining" about being forced to move to office? or are you whining about your peers?
      - rixed 5y ago
        The distance from whining to expressing preferences does not sound larger than that from whining to being toxic.
  - jwilber 5y ago
    Ironically this is the most needlessly toxic phrasing of an opinion I’ve seen in this thread. Hypocritically, it’s whining about the very topic it claims it’s toxic to whine about.
  - siva7 5y ago
    but how is that different what you are doing now?
- TheGigaChad 5y ago
  I like how the commuting constantly grows and grows in these threads. We'd probably get to 1 day commute if the topic goes to 1000 comments.
xiphias2 5y ago
I loved going to office at Google when we had teams of 5 in separate rooms. It was really easy to do team work, talk whenever we wanted. But the walls in the buildings were torn down while the company was growing, and we couldn’t talk without disturbing other teams, while they were disturbing me, and at some point I had to wait 20 minutes after lunch every day when I wanted to go to toilet. I’m happy that I don’t have to deal with that anymore.
neolog 5y ago
That applies to "the people that whine the most about" anything.

by midev 5y ago

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savant_penguin 5y ago

Or that's someone that spends 3h/day commuting

midev 5y ago
Like I said, it's ok to have a preference. People that whine about it are toxic.
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- neolog 5y ago
  The next step after having a preference is expressing that preference.
  - midev 5y ago
    Expressing preferences is great! Why do you equate that to whining, though?
    - neolog 5y ago
      are your peers "whining" about being forced to move to office? or are you whining about your peers?
    - rixed 5y ago
      The distance from whining to expressing preferences does not sound larger than that from whining to being toxic.
- jwilber 5y ago
  Ironically this is the most needlessly toxic phrasing of an opinion I’ve seen in this thread. Hypocritically, it’s whining about the very topic it claims it’s toxic to whine about.
- siva7 5y ago
  but how is that different what you are doing now?
TheGigaChad 5y ago
I like how the commuting constantly grows and grows in these threads. We'd probably get to 1 day commute if the topic goes to 1000 comments.

xiphias2 5y ago

I loved going to office at Google when we had teams of 5 in separate rooms. It was really easy to do team work, talk whenever we wanted. But the walls in the buildings were torn down while the company was growing, and we couldn’t talk without disturbing other teams, while they were disturbing me, and at some point I had to wait 20 minutes after lunch every day when I wanted to go to toilet. I’m happy that I don’t have to deal with that anymore.

neolog 5y ago

That applies to "the people that whine the most about" anything.