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Like I get that it’s a dick move if it’s not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you’re a massive fucking pussy.

It’s more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a “pussy” for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn’t been fired or “laid off”. Now he’s got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader. Because there’s people who think “this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it’s good enough for me and you, and let’s have no more talk of this change nonsense”.

This is why there’s talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who’ve come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model coming. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

The whole year proved that people still get enough work done without going in person and we know all that commuting is hell on the environment. There actually ought to be a push to “ban” physical office work; absolutely no business should be able to force you to go somewhere if your work can be done from anywhere at all.

I say this as someone who has never had an office/cubicle job myself, but holy shit the notes are an absolute trainwreck of people thinking office workers have “cushy” jobs they should appreciate better. No, no they do not, office workers have a high suicide rate for a reason. More to the point, you shouldn’t be making any worker’s rights into a “who has it worse” race.

In a world with internet, going to the office is never a daily necessity.

Sure, the occasional staff meeting might need to happen, occasional 1-on-1 meetups or going to a space for shared equipment.

But really the internet has made commuting and sitting at a desk obsolete. And if people don’t need to commute, people don’t need to drive as much, and if they don’t need to drive as much, they’re not as dependent on petroleum products.

It’s all interconnected

I feel like this is a better criticism of how bad some offices are designed and how bad some managers are than a valorization of remote work.

Idk like to me the idea we’ll live in a future where the majority of the time no one gets face to face to face contact and is just alone and stuck in a digital bubble sounds pretty dystopian.

That assumes people are only working, every second of their life, and don’t have any social life outside their job at all. Which would be pretty dystopian, but not because the job is done from home.

that assumes that actively creating a social life from scratch is equivalent to having a built-in, mandatory social outlet, which is. just kinda obviously false

No, it assumes that there are options for human contact, beyond that which is forced on you, since the person I was responding to made it sound like if you’re not forced to see people, then you never see anyone in person again. But damn right it’s not equivalent - choosing to spend time with loved ones is obviously better than something else forcing you to spend time with ppl whether you love or hate them. If you like and want to see your coworkers, there’s no reason you can’t spend time with them without holding them hostage at an office.

Ok, gonna slap down my ‘autistic + driving and social anxiety’ credentials to say that I absolutely would not have significant social contact if it weren’t forced on me. Creating social opportunities from scratch (initiating friendly conversation, making invitations, making plans, following through with plans) is incredibly spoon-heavy, and it’s actually hella ableist to act like those energy expenses don’t exist.

So it’s not an option for you - but talking about the existence of the other option isn’t the same as acting like other circumstances don’t exist at all. The world still does not become a cold isolated dystopia just bc some ND people (not even all) struggle with making plans that aren’t motivated by the threat of being fired.

And I have ADHD and post-traumatic social anxiety. I am wildly aware of how difficult making plans is, and how scary meeting new people is. There is almost nothing in my life that doesn’t exhaust me and take immense mental effort just for me to go through with it at all - everything costs spoons, that’s the whole point of spoon theory. So for everything I want, including social contact, it’s up to me to work with the spoons I have and find the solution that works for me. For you, your social solution currently is to socialize with people you meet anyway at work. But if that was to be taken away - which nobody on this thread has actually advocated for, just for people to have freedom to save their own spoons when going to work would be more stressful - then I hope you’ll look for another solution. Because options still exist even if we choose not to take them, or are presently unable to take them. Figuring out which steps we can take to make ourselves happy is part of being a human, disabled or not.

I will genuinely thank you not to patronize me about what options I have, bruh

I was just sharing my thoughts on the topic, not trying to patronize you.

Like I get that it’s a dick move if it’s not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you’re a massive fucking pussy.

It’s more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a “pussy” for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn’t been fired or “laid off”. Now he’s got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader. Because there’s people who think “this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it’s good enough for me and you, and let’s have no more talk of this change nonsense”.

This is why there’s talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who’ve come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model coming. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

The whole year proved that people still get enough work done without going in person and we know all that commuting is hell on the environment. There actually ought to be a push to “ban” physical office work; absolutely no business should be able to force you to go somewhere if your work can be done from anywhere at all.

I say this as someone who has never had an office/cubicle job myself, but holy shit the notes are an absolute trainwreck of people thinking office workers have “cushy” jobs they should appreciate better. No, no they do not, office workers have a high suicide rate for a reason. More to the point, you shouldn’t be making any worker’s rights into a “who has it worse” race.

In a world with internet, going to the office is never a daily necessity.

Sure, the occasional staff meeting might need to happen, occasional 1-on-1 meetups or going to a space for shared equipment.

But really the internet has made commuting and sitting at a desk obsolete. And if people don’t need to commute, people don’t need to drive as much, and if they don’t need to drive as much, they’re not as dependent on petroleum products.

It’s all interconnected

I feel like this is a better criticism of how bad some offices are designed and how bad some managers are than a valorization of remote work.

Idk like to me the idea we’ll live in a future where the majority of the time no one gets face to face to face contact and is just alone and stuck in a digital bubble sounds pretty dystopian.

That assumes people are only working, every second of their life, and don’t have any social life outside their job at all. Which would be pretty dystopian, but not because the job is done from home.

that assumes that actively creating a social life from scratch is equivalent to having a built-in, mandatory social outlet, which is. just kinda obviously false

No, it assumes that there are options for human contact, beyond that which is forced on you, since the person I was responding to made it sound like if you’re not forced to see people, then you never see anyone in person again. But damn right it’s not equivalent - choosing to spend time with loved ones is obviously better than something else forcing you to spend time with ppl whether you love or hate them. If you like and want to see your coworkers, there’s no reason you can’t spend time with them without holding them hostage at an office.

Ok, gonna slap down my ‘autistic + driving and social anxiety’ credentials to say that I absolutely would not have significant social contact if it weren’t forced on me. Creating social opportunities from scratch (initiating friendly conversation, making invitations, making plans, following through with plans) is incredibly spoon-heavy, and it’s actually hella ableist to act like those energy expenses don’t exist.

#Sorry about the late replies btw i check this app like once a week #long post

So it's not an option for you - but talking about the existence of the other option isn't the same as acting like other circumstances don't exist at all. The world still does not become a cold isolated dystopia just bc some ND people (not even all) struggle with making plans that aren't motivated by the threat of being fired.

And I have ADHD and post-traumatic social anxiety. I am wildly aware of how difficult making plans is, and how scary meeting new people is. There is almost nothing in my life that doesn't exhaust me and take immense mental effort just for me to go through with it at all - everything costs spoons, that's the whole point of spoon theory. So for everything I want, including social contact, it's up to me to work with the spoons I have and find the solution that works for me. For you, your social solution currently is to socialize with people you meet anyway at work. But if that was to be taken away - which nobody on this thread has actually advocated for, just for people to have freedom to save their own spoons when going to work would be more stressful - then I hope you'll look for another solution. Because options still exist even if we choose not to take them, or are presently unable to take them. Figuring out which steps we can take to make ourselves happy is part of being a human, disabled or not.

kindofamy

Oh suuuuure, when Wanda essentially births her whole family it’s fiiine but when Loki wants to hold hands with the pretty far removed variant of himself it’s ‘PrObLeMaTiC’. Geez let this man live a little.

Wanda is also a very effed up character and you know what? I still think her romance with Vision is beautiful. I think the relationships that make you question everything you know about life are the best kinds to ship. They’re not ‘all bad’ or ‘all good’ and there’s something so human about that. There’s so much potential and self reflection in them. They’re painful, but holy moly they are beautiful.

roguespaceships

Anyways, Im a bisexual nonbinary person who ships Sylki and loves the metaphor for self love it is when society (as represented by the TVA) tells you its sick and wrong.

If youre Bi and/or Enby and ship Sylki reblog this to see we arent just a "small minority" who arent offended by it.

Like I get that it’s a dick move if it’s not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you’re a massive fucking pussy.

It’s more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a “pussy” for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn’t been fired or “laid off”. Now he’s got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader. Because there’s people who think “this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it’s good enough for me and you, and let’s have no more talk of this change nonsense”.

This is why there’s talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who’ve come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model coming. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

The whole year proved that people still get enough work done without going in person and we know all that commuting is hell on the environment. There actually ought to be a push to “ban” physical office work; absolutely no business should be able to force you to go somewhere if your work can be done from anywhere at all.

I say this as someone who has never had an office/cubicle job myself, but holy shit the notes are an absolute trainwreck of people thinking office workers have “cushy” jobs they should appreciate better. No, no they do not, office workers have a high suicide rate for a reason. More to the point, you shouldn’t be making any worker’s rights into a “who has it worse” race.

In a world with internet, going to the office is never a daily necessity.

Sure, the occasional staff meeting might need to happen, occasional 1-on-1 meetups or going to a space for shared equipment.

But really the internet has made commuting and sitting at a desk obsolete. And if people don’t need to commute, people don’t need to drive as much, and if they don’t need to drive as much, they’re not as dependent on petroleum products.

It’s all interconnected

I feel like this is a better criticism of how bad some offices are designed and how bad some managers are than a valorization of remote work.

Idk like to me the idea we’ll live in a future where the majority of the time no one gets face to face to face contact and is just alone and stuck in a digital bubble sounds pretty dystopian.

That assumes people are only working, every second of their life, and don’t have any social life outside their job at all. Which would be pretty dystopian, but not because the job is done from home.

that assumes that actively creating a social life from scratch is equivalent to having a built-in, mandatory social outlet, which is. just kinda obviously false

No, it assumes that there are options for human contact, beyond that which is forced on you, since the person I was responding to made it sound like if you're not forced to see people, then you never see anyone in person again. But damn right it's not equivalent - choosing to spend time with loved ones is obviously better than something else forcing you to spend time with ppl whether you love or hate them. If you like and want to see your coworkers, there's no reason you can't spend time with them without holding them hostage at an office.

Like I get that it’s a dick move if it’s not necessary. But if you break down in tears because you have to actually go to work you’re a massive fucking pussy.

It’s more like they were given a brief, happier, healthier alternative to being stuck inside a small space for 8 hours a day for a year and a half and going back to that is realizing how awful it really is.

Calling someone a “pussy” for breaking down in tears over being subjected to fresh, unreasonable misery is contributing to the problem of letting corporations dictate our lives and sounds a lot like deep throating the boot. (Aside from the casual misogyny of saying tears, Feeling Things, and apparently not wanting to go to work are feminine and not something a manly man would do).

Dude literally had a year of freedom. He could go outside, go to the park, stay home, just generally go where he pleased. Like a fucking adult who understood he had work to do, and obviously still got it all done because he hasn’t been fired or “laid off”. Now he’s got a collar back on his neck and a chain keeping him at a desk between a set of beige walls and an equally boring ceiling, which was there before, but now he sees it for what it is. And why is it there? Because his boss has a deep insecurity about letting people work without oversight. Because his manager starts to look a little redundant if people can do their jobs without touching base, attending meetings, and generally doing stuff that makes said manager look like a Leader. Because there’s people who think “this is the way my parents did it, and their parents did it, and presumably (but actually not) how their parents did it, so it’s good enough for me and you, and let’s have no more talk of this change nonsense”.

This is why there’s talk of a literal Great Resignation coming, as people who’ve come to appreciate their freedom give the bird to unreasonable bosses who want them back in an office. And other people who actually preferred the structure and routine of the desk look for another one when their own bosses decide to keep the work-from-home model coming. Covid has caused a cultural shift, and ridiculing our fellow man for wanting something better is the stupidest thing you can do.

The whole year proved that people still get enough work done without going in person and we know all that commuting is hell on the environment. There actually ought to be a push to “ban” physical office work; absolutely no business should be able to force you to go somewhere if your work can be done from anywhere at all.

I say this as someone who has never had an office/cubicle job myself, but holy shit the notes are an absolute trainwreck of people thinking office workers have “cushy” jobs they should appreciate better. No, no they do not, office workers have a high suicide rate for a reason. More to the point, you shouldn’t be making any worker’s rights into a “who has it worse” race.

In a world with internet, going to the office is never a daily necessity.

Sure, the occasional staff meeting might need to happen, occasional 1-on-1 meetups or going to a space for shared equipment.

But really the internet has made commuting and sitting at a desk obsolete. And if people don’t need to commute, people don’t need to drive as much, and if they don’t need to drive as much, they’re not as dependent on petroleum products.

It’s all interconnected

I feel like this is a better criticism of how bad some offices are designed and how bad some managers are than a valorization of remote work.

Idk like to me the idea we’ll live in a future where the majority of the time no one gets face to face to face contact and is just alone and stuck in a digital bubble sounds pretty dystopian.

jokeboy-deactivated20260221

That assumes people are only working, every second of their life, and don't have any social life outside their job at all. Which would be pretty dystopian, but not because the job is done from home.

fancyson

i spent an hour on this

adulthoodisokay

thank god you did because this is fucking hilarious.

zetrystan

Technically true.

zetrystan

He got the job.

zetrystan

He takes his job seriously.

cursed-kat-images

Small guy

Does not know ABC’s

catasters

haya-haya-haya

it all belongs to her

nohomo-mrfrodo

guerrillatech

I'm so sick of scrolling and then boom. spike trap. spike trap. spike trap. well guess what post below me

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dongboss

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fuck you

jokeboy-deactivated20260221

sandwiched yourself. idiot

boss asked me if i knew what a brony was today but he pronounced it like “brownie” then started explaining, but somehow I’M THE WEIRD ONE FOR INTERRUPTING WITH “Oh, you mean BRONYS, yeah, they do want to fuck horses!”

boss today asked me if I knew what a bear was and it took the incredible effort of forcing every bone in my body to solidify into one giant Super Bone and in the process fusing my jaw shut for me to stop myself from saying “uh, yeah dude, you but gay.”

boss texted me today about all the business we’ve been getting and i texted back “haha yup our dance card is getting pretty full!” followed immediately by two minutes of debilitating panic about whether that was an actual saying or just some nonsense I’d made up.

boss came to my office today strictly to tell me he got hamilton tickets and had the nerve to be insulted when i referred to him as “the biggest copycat there ever was.”

boss today texted me the most unorthodox elipsis i’ve ever seen

my boss’s parents and my parents each have vacation homes in the same retirement community, which is widely rumored to be a hotbed of sexual depravity, so sometimes i deliberately antagonize him by implying - very innocently and with plausible deniability - that our parents swing with each other