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How cold this world is to cut out communal spaces and force us to spend 40h/w in solitude.
by thorncorona 3y ago
How cold this world is to cut out communal spaces and force us to spend 40h/w in solitude.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoHow cold the world is to make the primary form of communal spaces be working in the rigid hierarchy, abuse, and discomfort of the modern American workplace.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoI don’t live in America. How cold the world is that you lot resign yourselves to the expectation that you’ll resent your coworkers and employer.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoI recommend the 1999 American film “Office Space” or the 2003 British television series “The Office” if you somehow think this is a novel sentiment. Or “Bartelby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville from 1856.
- temende 3y agoNot everyone is a single tech employee who lives alone. Some (in fact, many) people have a social life outside the office where not going to an office doesn't result in eternal solitude.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoI don't believe you.
- thorncorona 3y agodo i need to add the /s
- blooalien 3y ago> "do i need to add the /s" Sadly, probably yes. This is the "age of outrage" after all.
- jabradoodle 3y agoIf you scroll to the top of the thread, it's a person mentioning their wife finds remote work isolating. This weird grandstanding about having a social life every time remote works comes up on HN is sad.
- temende 3y agoIt's not grandstanding, I only brought up social life because someone mentioned social isolation from remote work. That is a real problem and I can empathize with it, but the solution isn't forcing RTO on co-workers to force them to hang out with you.
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