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I actually prefer going to work. Being out of the house for 5 days a week really helps to reduce the utility bill. Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever

I actually prefer going to work. Being out of the house for 5 days a week really helps to reduce the utility bill. Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there.

mulletbum 3y ago
Interesting, I and all of my neighbors disagree. Thankfully the whole conversation has nothing to do with one person.
- jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
  I just think it's important to remember that not everyone is rich enough to have a home environment that's as good or better than the one at work. And also consider that the company bears a lot of expenses by having people work on-site and I rarely see discussions of who is going to be paying those bills or how that's supposed to work.
  - pessimizer 3y ago
    I don't think anyone is proposing forcing you to work from home.
    - ktkoffroth 3y ago
      No, but if many people are working from home (and socializing the costs of office space), then the company has less incentive to keep an office around at all, leaving people who prefer working from an office out of luck.
      - l33t233372 3y ago
        > socializing the costs of office space Aren’t we talking about private businesses here?
        ktkoffroth 3y ago
        I don't mean "socializing the costs" in the sense that the public sector is paying for it, but the employees are. It's a common strategy to spread your externalities and costs among your customers, employees, and the general public (see: large multi-national banks and automakers getting bought out by governments).
  - robryan 3y ago
    To look at it another way, if the money saved from commuting is put into home office setup everyone should eventually have something decent.
  - ryoshu 3y ago
    Have people not work on-site and the company can lower their bills.
j-bos 3y ago
I think the general tone is, feel free to go, but don't drag us along.
- jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
  Who was talking about you, specifically?
  - yulker 3y ago
    Ask yourself the same
majormajor 3y ago
I want to be in the office some. Three years of trying to work on complex systems/problems/concepts purely over video calls is quite enough of that. But it doesn't need to be every day, and I also have non-work obligations that are often far easier to accomplish during the week if there's some flexible time.
plagiarist 3y ago
I feel the same, but I am still not going to do the commute ever again. It is much easier to do meals and start automated tasks (like a load of laundry) during a break. It is nice to have time in the evening to do things so I can actually use the weekends for myself.
CrazyPyroLinux 3y ago
> I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there. I'm truly sorry to hear that. :-\
dougmwne 3y ago
The people who say this usually have a quick walk around the block to the office or a pleasant bike ride through a city park, not a 2 hour slog.
- assimpleaspossi 3y ago
  The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work. In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    This probably depends on where you live. I don't currently work in a large city, but the last time I did, I lived 5 miles as the crow flies from my workplace. The commute time averaged 90 minutes one-way if I drove, and 2 hours one-way if I took mass transit. On bad days, both of those travel times would double.
    - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
      Of course it depends on where you live and I'm saying most people don't need 90 minutes to two hours to travel five miles to work as you claim.
  - the_af 3y ago
    > The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work The majority of people where, exactly? Your comment doesn't seem context-aware.
    - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
      On planet Earth.
      - the_af 3y ago
        Ok, I'll bite. Where are the statistics supporting that? In my case (Buenos Aires, IT work) it used to be the case that people all over the city and surrounding areas had to commute to the city's "microcenter" (what we call the financial/historical district), resulting in typical commute times of 1 to 2 hours. Dreadful. So your statement doesn't ring true for us in Buenos Aires.
manuelabeledo 3y ago
> Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there. It seems that you have some issues going on, no need to drag your colleagues into that.

I actually prefer going to work. Being out of the house for 5 days a week really helps to reduce the utility bill. Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there.

mulletbum 3y ago

Interesting, I and all of my neighbors disagree. Thankfully the whole conversation has nothing to do with one person.

jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
I just think it's important to remember that not everyone is rich enough to have a home environment that's as good or better than the one at work. And also consider that the company bears a lot of expenses by having people work on-site and I rarely see discussions of who is going to be paying those bills or how that's supposed to work.
- pessimizer 3y ago
  I don't think anyone is proposing forcing you to work from home.
  - ktkoffroth 3y ago
    No, but if many people are working from home (and socializing the costs of office space), then the company has less incentive to keep an office around at all, leaving people who prefer working from an office out of luck.
    - l33t233372 3y ago
      > socializing the costs of office space Aren’t we talking about private businesses here?
      - ktkoffroth 3y ago
        I don't mean "socializing the costs" in the sense that the public sector is paying for it, but the employees are. It's a common strategy to spread your externalities and costs among your customers, employees, and the general public (see: large multi-national banks and automakers getting bought out by governments).
- robryan 3y ago
  To look at it another way, if the money saved from commuting is put into home office setup everyone should eventually have something decent.
- ryoshu 3y ago
  Have people not work on-site and the company can lower their bills.

j-bos 3y ago

I think the general tone is, feel free to go, but don't drag us along.

jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
Who was talking about you, specifically?
- yulker 3y ago
  Ask yourself the same

majormajor 3y ago

I want to be in the office some. Three years of trying to work on complex systems/problems/concepts purely over video calls is quite enough of that. But it doesn't need to be every day, and I also have non-work obligations that are often far easier to accomplish during the week if there's some flexible time.

plagiarist 3y ago

I feel the same, but I am still not going to do the commute ever again. It is much easier to do meals and start automated tasks (like a load of laundry) during a break. It is nice to have time in the evening to do things so I can actually use the weekends for myself.

CrazyPyroLinux 3y ago

> I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there. I'm truly sorry to hear that. :-\

dougmwne 3y ago

The people who say this usually have a quick walk around the block to the office or a pleasant bike ride through a city park, not a 2 hour slog.

assimpleaspossi 3y ago
The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work. In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  This probably depends on where you live. I don't currently work in a large city, but the last time I did, I lived 5 miles as the crow flies from my workplace. The commute time averaged 90 minutes one-way if I drove, and 2 hours one-way if I took mass transit. On bad days, both of those travel times would double.
  - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
    Of course it depends on where you live and I'm saying most people don't need 90 minutes to two hours to travel five miles to work as you claim.
- the_af 3y ago
  > The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work The majority of people where, exactly? Your comment doesn't seem context-aware.
  - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
    On planet Earth.
    - the_af 3y ago
      Ok, I'll bite. Where are the statistics supporting that? In my case (Buenos Aires, IT work) it used to be the case that people all over the city and surrounding areas had to commute to the city's "microcenter" (what we call the financial/historical district), resulting in typical commute times of 1 to 2 hours. Dreadful. So your statement doesn't ring true for us in Buenos Aires.

manuelabeledo 3y ago

> Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there. It seems that you have some issues going on, no need to drag your colleagues into that.