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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    #10

    Sigh.

    Sorry to hear. Retire as soon as possible. You really won't regret it. I went part time at age 64. It was great until I fully retired at 65.

    That was great-er.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • taiwan_girlT Offline
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      #11

      I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

      (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

      I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

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      • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

        I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

        (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

        I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

        Aqua LetiferA Offline
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        Aqua Letifer
        wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
        #12

        @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

        I think you do lose mentorship,

        If I wanted to tank my career—I mean not just plateau but make my expertise completely atrophy—the best and fastest way to do that would be to take my employer up on mentorship opportunities. What. A. Fucking. Joke.

        I've been working completely remote for about three years now. In that time, I have:

        • Saved 1.74 months of my life and about $5,320 not sitting in traffic
        • Dropped my blood pressure by 17/8 and my pulse by 20 bpm by exercising more
        • Lost 18 lbs
        • Spent about 460 more hours with my daughter
        • Worked 186 more hours

        If people want to work in an office or on a hybrid schedule, more power to 'em. But everyone who'd like to tell me what's best for me or tell me how lazy I've been can suck donkey dicks.

        Please love yourself.

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        • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

          I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

          (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

          I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

          HoraceH Offline
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          Horace
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          #13

          @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

          I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

          (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

          I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

          Not sure what it is about those who find great value in the office interactions, always assuming that same value exists for everybody else, if only everybody else would just realize and admit it.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • HoraceH Horace

            @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

            I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

            (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

            I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

            Not sure what it is about those who find great value in the office interactions, always assuming that same value exists for everybody else, if only everybody else would just realize and admit it.

            Aqua LetiferA Offline
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            Aqua Letifer
            wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
            #14

            @Horace said in 5 days a week....:

            @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

            I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

            (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

            I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

            Not sure what it is about those who find great value in the office interactions, always assuming that same value exists for everybody else, if only everybody else would just realize and admit it.

            You know what it is? We just haven't thought about as much as they have. We really should do that.

            Please love yourself.

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            • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

              @Horace said in 5 days a week....:

              @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

              I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

              (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

              I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

              Not sure what it is about those who find great value in the office interactions, always assuming that same value exists for everybody else, if only everybody else would just realize and admit it.

              You know what it is? We just haven't thought about as much as they have. We really should do that.

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              Horace
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              @Aqua-Letifer said in 5 days a week....:

              @Horace said in 5 days a week....:

              @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

              I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

              (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

              I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

              Not sure what it is about those who find great value in the office interactions, always assuming that same value exists for everybody else, if only everybody else would just realize and admit it.

              You know what it is? We just haven't thought about as much as they have. We really should do that.

              Lol

              Education is extremely important.

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              • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

                (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

                I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

                Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on last edited by
                #16

                @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

                I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

                (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

                I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

                There is definitely a value to in-person reaction. I don't mind going in 2-3 days a week in the slightest. I've been told to go in 5 days to manage a team of 7, 6 of them work from home on Mondays and Fridays, and the other one works in the UK, so I see him in person maybe twice a year.

                I'm sure we're not the only company doing this.

                I was only joking

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                • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                  @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

                  I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

                  (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

                  I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

                  There is definitely a value to in-person reaction. I don't mind going in 2-3 days a week in the slightest. I've been told to go in 5 days to manage a team of 7, 6 of them work from home on Mondays and Fridays, and the other one works in the UK, so I see him in person maybe twice a year.

                  I'm sure we're not the only company doing this.

                  Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                  Aqua Letifer
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #17

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in 5 days a week....:

                  @taiwan_girl said in 5 days a week....:

                  I may be in the minority here, but I do think that in person work is better than remote. Of course, that may not mean 5 days a week, but I also think that 100% remote is bad.

                  (Yes, yes, I know different job functions are different, but people are social creatures. I think you do lose mentorship, etc. or just connection if you are remote all the time.)

                  I have done a lot of flying and many times, the travel times was more than the time spent at location. But I think the in person connection was worth it.

                  There is definitely a value to in-person reaction. I don't mind going in 2-3 days a week in the slightest. I've been told to go in 5 days to manage a team of 7, 6 of them work from home on Mondays and Fridays, and the other one works in the UK, so I see him in person maybe twice a year.

                  I'm sure we're not the only company doing this.

                  My team is very much like the 18 others under the same department: most of the workers are in different timezones. When they made it mandatory to go back into the office for those who lived near the office (about 13% of those 18 teams), they said it was because in-person communication was important and "nobody likes to talk to 2D people."

                  Which, nice, motherfucker.

                  Please love yourself.

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                    #18

                    I'm looking forward to the next employee survey.

                    Because they really make a difference.

                    I was only joking

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                    • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                      I'm looking forward to the next employee survey.

                      Because they really make a difference.

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                      Aqua Letifer
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                      #19

                      @Doctor-Phibes said in 5 days a week....:

                      I'm looking forward to the next employee survey.

                      Because they really make a difference.

                      If you'd like to post some fecal deposits to an address via an unattached intermediary, I may know a guy.

                      I'm serious. He wouldn't even charge.

                      Please love yourself.

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                        #20

                        "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’ "

                        https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-the-remote-work-experiment-was-a-mistake-and-it-s-over/ar-AA1aNwDc

                        "He isn’t alone in his assessment. Many CEOs have been demanding that remote employees spend more time in the office, among them Bob Iger at Disney, Howard Schultz at Starbucks, and Robert Thomson at News Corp. During the pandemic, remote work or a hybrid work schedule was the only option for many office workers—and many grew to prefer it to being in the office every workday."

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                          We are still trying to figure out how to work remotely in the hospital biz...

                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                          • JollyJ Jolly

                            We are still trying to figure out how to work remotely in the hospital biz...

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                            @Jolly said in 5 days a week....:

                            We are still trying to figure out how to work remotely in the hospital biz...

                            Sure, but it still makes more sense for some industries.

                            Please love yourself.

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