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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live on a cul de sac and during the solar eclipse the Fed Ex guy happened to show up while 13 adults were standing around in our paper glasses at 3pm on a weekday. Of 9 houses with 16 adults, 2 people work in person regularly and 12 of us work in person 1-3 days a week. The other 4 are fully remote but  travel to their company HQ a few times a year.

We all socialize regularly in the evening and on weekends. We pick each others’ kids up from school and help ourselves to herbs from each other’s gardens. But we almost never see each other between school drop off and pick-up unless there is a reason to go outside like the solstice or when a utility truck is messing with the street. The beauty of working from home is that I try to clock my 8 hours of actual work as close to 9 hours of elapsed time as possible - so that I have free time to actually socialize.

Maybe these people who wonder why you don’t socialize during the day are people who had retail or other jobs where you stand around and chat between customers or phone calls and wonder if you are lonely. I “socialize” when I make small talk in the 1-3 minutes at the beginning and end of meetings when I ask about my colleagues’ weekend, their kids, etc. [/quote]

I was in a building working during the eclipse and so were a lot of people. 
You just cemented that wfh is not work. [/quote]

I'm sorry your job is low social class. My office's workers went outside. [/quote]

Seriously. Any salaried person who cared was outside. [/quote]

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