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The concept of "working from home" forced by the pandemic is harming the "remote working" community by extensive invigilation and moving harmful office behavior
by hericium 5y ago
The concept of "working from home" forced by the pandemic is harming the "remote working" community by extensive invigilation and moving harmful office behaviors to private space.
I talked to an Intel HR person (informal chat, I never applied there nor planned to) 2-3 months ago and after I stated that after a decade of remote work, I see pandemic-driven introduction of harmful concepts like spying on previously trustworthy contractors by control-freaking managers that have no idea how to prove themselves in new reality, I was given a look which would usually be reserved for a psychotic person believing that they're being watched 24/7. Quite an unique experience, contrasting with how HR folks are trained to do sect-like "love bombing".
You want me to work for you and deliver results? My pleasure - that's what I do.
You want me to hang a company logo in my place and sit in front of camera multiple times a day, log every minute of my time and creep on me in other ways? I never worked in "Office Space"-like environment and I'm not planning to. Go fuck yourself, I'm out.
- ciphol 5y agoThis reminds me of how adblocking software worked great when only a handful of nerds used it. Then when adblocking became more mainstream, sites bothered to develop workarounds to make ads show up anyway. Adblockers now try to develop workarounds to the workarounds, but it's a constant battle. Was it great when I was the only one with adblocking software? Yeah, for me. But it was worse for society as a whole, most of whose members had no adblocking whatsoever.
- sbarre 5y agoAnd now we have the majority-share browser vendor Google moving to cripple ad blockers with ManifestV3. So I guess we're winning?
- hutzlibu 5y agoWe as in tech nerds, or we as in whole society?
- realusername 5y agoWe just need some proper laws to remove the possibility of interfering with adblocking software
- horacio_colbert 5y ago> sect-like "love bombing" So poetic.