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Nobody cares if you like to go in to the office and isn't trying to convince you otherwise that everything should be remote. More power to you. My wife prefers
by 7thaccount 3y ago
Nobody cares if you like to go in to the office and isn't trying to convince you otherwise that everything should be remote. More power to you. My wife prefers a fairly crappy commute as she can't focus at home. That's fine.
However, a lot of us prefer remote and do great in that context and see a lot more ups than downs to working from home. That's also fine, but unlike in-office work, there's a barrage of BS studies and PHB managers and executives that are trying to pull every stunt imaginable to get people to come back to the office. Sure, there is some additional synergy (to use a corporate buzz word) that they've lost, but mainly, they want the control back that they had prior to remote where people couldn't switch jobs as easily for higher pay. They're also freaking out about the corporate real estate losses and it isn't my problem that their investment is now worthless. Claims of people not doing anything from home are kind of worthless as it's the same people in both scenarios. Those that are skating by with the minimum workload were doing the same in their cube.
- mort96 3y agoTo be clear, I responded to this comment: > A couple of zoom calls may suck, but certainly less than commuting to have the same meeting in a stuffy room. Maybe I read too much into the comment. Maybe it was just meant as a way of saying "I personally prefer remote work + video conferences to in-person meetings". But I feel like there's a narrative that developers actually uniformly prefer remote work, and that the comment reflected that narrative.
- Kye 3y agoYou might have clicked the wrong reply link. That's definitely not what you responded to.
- mort96 3y agoMy original comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415864) is a response to the comment I quoted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415793).
- Kye 3y agoThreaded discussions are as old as the internet. They're not some new thing where the social norms are still under negotiation. The whole point is to allow conversations to branch off in different directions. They're not private chat rooms between you and the person you replied to. Your response[0] was to my comment[1]. If you meant to reply to [2], you should have clicked that reply link instead of replying to my comment. I'm not /u/7thaccount. It's an easy and common mistake most people just acknowledge and move on from. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416060 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415924 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415793
- mort96 3y agoI know how threaded discussions work. I thought it was appropriate to quote the comment I originally responded to for context. You seemed to think I was somehow against the idea of remote work, the context from the comment I originally responded to should make it clear that I am just against the idea that everyone finds remote work better in every way. Does that make sense?
- 7thaccount 3y agoGotcha and hope my intent was clear as well and didn't come off as snippy. I'd agree that there is a distribution and some do enjoy going in. I believe most like having the option where they can choose each day. I prefer fully remote, but occasionally I do wish I could go in for the day to socialize a bit more. To each their own.