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Enter WFH

by FredPret 2y ago

Enter WFH

trzy 2y ago
Why would I want to work from home in a terrible location?
- jwally 2y ago
  Pay off debt?
- bialpio 2y ago
  To save more money and retire early?
- FredPret 2y ago
  There's a vast amount of non-terrible space that used to be uninhabitable due to zero economic activity
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago
  If you're one of the people who keeps complaining about how you can't afford a home, maybe you'd prefer it to renting for the rest of your life. And, if you consider everywhere that you can remote work from to be "a terrible location", then I suspect your definition needs adjusted...
- happytoexplain 2y ago
  This comment only makes sense if you are assuming a significant majority of these places are "terrible", which is baffling to me, unless you are silently using your personal preferences to define "terrible" in the context of the larger conversation.
micromacrofoot 2y ago
the people able to work from home are often incredibly well paid and are eating up real estate in expensive areas there's no significant work from home initiative at the lower end of the pay scale if anything wfh has exacerbated the problem, wealthier tech employees are living in desirable cities while people making less and have to go to the office don't have access to local-to-work real estate
- CyberDildonics 2y ago
  Incredibly well paid and eating up real estate in expensive areas? "How much does a Work From Home make? As of Oct 11, 2024, the average annual pay for a Work From Home in the United States is $61,178 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $29.41 an hour." https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Work-From-Home-Salary https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Work-From-Home-Salary
  - micromacrofoot 2y ago
    if you choose to believe ziprecruiter that's fine with me
    - CyberDildonics 2y ago
      Of course I would, you made a claim without any evidence, data or numbers to back it up and zip recruiter is a site dedicated to hiring.
      - micromacrofoot 2y ago
        at least I'm not financially incentivized to lie to you
        CyberDildonics 2y ago
        You need to establish that it's a lie first, and to do that you need evidence.
        micromacrofoot 2y ago
        conveniently zip recruiter's data is proprietary again, believe who you want... but it's a little funny to blindly believe a company incentivized to lie to you more than any other random anecdote we're on equal footing in terms of evidence (I can build a fake chart based on my own data if you'd be more likely to believe that) and I have less of a financial incentive to lie to you

Enter WFH

trzy 2y ago

Why would I want to work from home in a terrible location?

jwally 2y ago
Pay off debt?
bialpio 2y ago
To save more money and retire early?
FredPret 2y ago
There's a vast amount of non-terrible space that used to be uninhabitable due to zero economic activity
AnimalMuppet 2y ago
If you're one of the people who keeps complaining about how you can't afford a home, maybe you'd prefer it to renting for the rest of your life. And, if you consider everywhere that you can remote work from to be "a terrible location", then I suspect your definition needs adjusted...
happytoexplain 2y ago
This comment only makes sense if you are assuming a significant majority of these places are "terrible", which is baffling to me, unless you are silently using your personal preferences to define "terrible" in the context of the larger conversation.

micromacrofoot 2y ago

the people able to work from home are often incredibly well paid and are eating up real estate in expensive areas there's no significant work from home initiative at the lower end of the pay scale if anything wfh has exacerbated the problem, wealthier tech employees are living in desirable cities while people making less and have to go to the office don't have access to local-to-work real estate

CyberDildonics 2y ago
Incredibly well paid and eating up real estate in expensive areas? "How much does a Work From Home make? As of Oct 11, 2024, the average annual pay for a Work From Home in the United States is $61,178 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $29.41 an hour." https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Work-From-Home-Salary https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Work-From-Home-Salary
- micromacrofoot 2y ago
  if you choose to believe ziprecruiter that's fine with me
  - CyberDildonics 2y ago
    Of course I would, you made a claim without any evidence, data or numbers to back it up and zip recruiter is a site dedicated to hiring.
    - micromacrofoot 2y ago
      at least I'm not financially incentivized to lie to you
      - CyberDildonics 2y ago
        You need to establish that it's a lie first, and to do that you need evidence.
        micromacrofoot 2y ago
        conveniently zip recruiter's data is proprietary again, believe who you want... but it's a little funny to blindly believe a company incentivized to lie to you more than any other random anecdote we're on equal footing in terms of evidence (I can build a fake chart based on my own data if you'd be more likely to believe that) and I have less of a financial incentive to lie to you