Why is slacking now cool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because with a college degree I’m getting paid almost the exact same amount my dad was getting paid in 1995 as a laborer. And he was able to support our family and stay at home mom in a small but nice house on it, while I will be lucky to own a home before I’m 40.

It used to be that working hard easily led to a comfortable life. It’s not the case anymore.

So much this. There’s zero reason for workers to show any loyalty to a company, much less overproduce and provide free labor when employers do not properly compensate the producers. That federal workers in this area cannot afford a nice home is a crime.
Your “slackers”, OP, are smart people who simply won’t play in a system designed to oppress them.

[Anonymous]

In my office, the brown nosers get all the special projects and promotions while anyone actually there to work gets to absorb those people's work on top of their regular workload, without any acknowledgement or anything. Gets old quickly.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

Work from home is better for the well-being of everyone, singles and people with children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

Work from home is better for the well-being of everyone, singles and people with children.

I don’t like it. I enjoy having the mental space between my private self and my professional self. Work out of the home helps me, BUT I’m Gen X so the internet happened after I was an adult and that may change things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

Work from home is better for the well-being of everyone, singles and people with children.

I don’t like it. I enjoy having the mental space between my private self and my professional self. Work out of the home helps me, BUT I’m Gen X so the internet happened after I was an adult and that may change things.

If it works for you, go in! That’s great! For the majority of us though WFH is a boon to our personal and family lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

Work from home is better for the well-being of everyone, singles and people with children.

I don’t like it. I enjoy having the mental space between my private self and my professional self. Work out of the home helps me, BUT I’m Gen X so the internet happened after I was an adult and that may change things.

If it works for you, go in! That’s great! For the majority of us though WFH is a boon to our personal and family lives.

+1. My spouse has irregular hours plus travel and I basically can't work unless it's a remote job. I had to turn down a 100k job earlier this year because work+commute didn't work with daycare hours and me being the only available one to do dropoff and pickup. Now I would have been able to swing a 5 min drive to daycare to make it work instead of an hour commute each way but they could not accommodate WFH more than once a week. I don't know how single moms do it honestly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

Work from home is better for the well-being of everyone, singles and people with children.

I don’t like it. I enjoy having the mental space between my private self and my professional self. Work out of the home helps me, BUT I’m Gen X so the internet happened after I was an adult and that may change things.

If it works for you, go in! That’s great! For the majority of us though WFH is a boon to our personal and family lives.

+1 Please!
And if you feel the need to do an in-person session, just plan it out. Make it worth everyone's time. Have an objective. Order lunch. This is the facetime that matters, if it is necessary. Not for the heck of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why it’s cool for young, single people but it’s cool for me because I had young children during covid and then all of the daycare closures because of covid. I don’t feel like I owe my workplace any more oft mental health than I’ve already given them.

Work from home is better for the well-being of everyone, singles and people with children.

I don’t like it. I enjoy having the mental space between my private self and my professional self. Work out of the home helps me, BUT I’m Gen X so the internet happened after I was an adult and that may change things.

If it works for you, go in! That’s great! For the majority of us though WFH is a boon to our personal and family lives.

+100