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I miss the simple things, like finding a new restaurant and trying it with coworkers. It sounds cliche, but I liked "getting out of the house" and having more o
by icedchai 4y ago
I miss the simple things, like finding a new restaurant and trying it with coworkers. It sounds cliche, but I liked "getting out of the house" and having more of a work-life separation. I have kinda accepted that that era is gone and is not coming back. The last time I worked out of an office was March, 2020.
- spywaregorilla 4y agohave you considered finding a new restaurant and trying it without coworkers
- quartesixte 4y agoHave you considered that not everyone finds their coworkers insufferable, actually finds the camaraderie enjoyable, and do make friends at the office?
- catchnear4321 4y agoWhat gave you the impression that the individual you are responding to would find their coworkers insufferable, or any of the rest?
- welshwelsh 4y agoActually no, I'm highly skeptical that happens outside of sitcoms
- EddieDante 4y agoI'm the insufferable coworker. I do it on purpose so that people leave me alone and let me work.
- catchnear4321 4y agoIt lacks the social component. That being said, and to your point, taking oneself out to a restaurant, especially a new one, is worth trying for anyone that hasn’t. And I’m showing my age. Not like dining alone means things like SMS stop working. Or whatever people use these days. It can be social.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoim puzzled by people assuming its either with coworkers or alone
- catchnear4321 4y ago“Going with coworkers” - Typically means going with predominantly coworkers with perhaps some plus ones showing up. So going without coworkers, at least in context, sounds much more like the decision to go alone than to find other, non-work-colleagues to go with. Assuming the word choice was deliberate, which, no reason to not, if it were about coworkers vs not coworkers a more typical phrasing would have been “with friends from outside of work instead,” or even “with other people you know instead.” It doesn’t have to be an assumption that those are the only two choices. Enumerating all choices wouldn’t be helpful, as there’s more than three. Replacing group A with group B is less interesting, more obvious, and potentially not an option, or at least not an easy one. If it were, said lamented would likely be eating at a new restaurant with friends rather than lamenting. Or their friends aren’t brave and hate new restaurants, which functionally is the same as not having a group in that case. If they are all at McDonalds because “going to that little place on the side street that looks dingy and smells amazing” is scary, well… Going out alone is less universally accepted, some find it weird, some find it uncomfortable. But a lot of us enjoy it. (Literally dozens of us). So sharing that idea will likely lead to more interesting conversation.
- icedchai 4y agoI do that all the time. The point is to socialize with coworkers.
- samcheng 4y agoIt's amazing - the weekday lunch date with the wife while the kids are at school was never possible when I worked an hour from home.
- rektide 4y agoI miss a lot about in office life. The parent talking about the newcomers i think really nails it the most/worst, not just because work is now 100% work, but because most people are totally isolated, heads down on their tickets, and dont see so much of whats going on. There's no serendipitous learning: few random exchanges, little chance to see someome beaming & hear them brag/explain, rarely chance to see someone struggling & have somone step in. Anyhow. On food in specific, for the last decades I've dreamed of trying to get people trying & exploring new things. But wow, it felt like folks were absurdly attached to their staples. That said, in my 20's, I was crazy dollar-conscious. I still ate out for lunch a lot, but the thought of paying $2 or $4 more than any of the abundant quality high-value local shops for something more upscale or just more elaborate was super hard to swallow. $13 buffet at Majer House Kabob was like the pinnacle of richness. So I get some of it. But also, it was still disappointing feeling unable to rally for a good exploration.
- EddieDante 4y ago> There's no serendipitous learning: few random exchanges, little chance to see someome beaming & hear them brag/explain, rarely chance to see someone struggling & have somone step in. That shit never happened to me when I worked onsite.
- samcheng 4y agoUnless you moved to Boise or wherever when the pandemic started, it's still perfectly reasonable to meet your coworkers for lunch. Try it!
- icedchai 4y agoI changed jobs a couple times during the pandemic. Most of them are remote in a different state, 100's of miles away.