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sure, obnoxious coworkers suck, but the 'oh noes, my concentration/flow' argument has been done to death imo. thanks to hybrid work, ppl can hide at home all t

• raducu 5y ago
  > sure, obnoxious coworkers suck, but the 'oh noes, my concentration/flow' argument has been done to death imo. But why do such people say such silly things if it's not true? Do I think it's 100% true? No, but it feels that way for them. I f*king hate useless meetings where my time is wasted. I had a coleague express the same thing about a topic. Business replied "well, we only had 4 meetings and at least 2 were really required so it was not excessive". So who was right? Everybody was right, business did not feel it was excessivez the developers felt it was excessive. WFH works, 2 years of pandemic proved it does. Some people like it and some people don't, it's not about arguments but about preferences.
  • Melchizedek 5y ago
    But it just so happens that one preference is highly correlated with doing useful work, and the other to chatting, butt-in-seat mentality, and having others do your job (asking for "help").