Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 09:08     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:My co worker zoomed into a call while pushing a Costco basket! Everything is a follow up with her while the rest of us are looking and sharing real time documents and it’s infuriating! This happens all the time with wfh employees in our office so much so it’s a running joke about the laziness of our managers for accepting this garbage. My adult son is permanent wfh but he travels five days a week. Months on end. In that situation I can understand when an employees is working in overnight hours and such or has extensive travel. But the rest of this bs has to stop. It’s greatly affecting the moral of other employees and ruining the social aspect of our work colleagues. I see this especially among our younger co workers.


Is she your boss? Because that’s nothing new.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 09:08     Subject: Re:For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:Because you are not available and I am (in the office). I do your work and mine. You are playing board games with your kids.


Our kids are in school, daycare, or summer camp. Stop being bitter about your life choices.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 09:01     Subject: Re:For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Because you are not available and I am (in the office). I do your work and mine. You are playing board games with your kids.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 08:57     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
My co worker zoomed into a call while pushing a Costco basket! Everything is a follow up with her while the rest of us are looking and sharing real time documents and it’s infuriating! This happens all the time with wfh employees in our office so much so it’s a running joke about the laziness of our managers for accepting this garbage. My adult son is permanent wfh but he travels five days a week. Months on end. In that situation I can understand when an employees is working in overnight hours and such or has extensive travel. But the rest of this bs has to stop. It’s greatly affecting the moral of other employees and ruining the social aspect of our work colleagues. I see this especially among our younger co workers.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 08:48     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We sadly had someone die at work this week due to WFH.

We have defibrillators at work but office empty and guy had heart attack and no one there to call 911 or use machine.

But hey you got wear PJs while your co-worker died alone


His death is not a consequence of WFH. That heart attack could have just as easily occurred on his commute to the office, from the office or during any other non-working hours.


But it didn't.

I generally WFH but visit our headquarters once a month. Unlike pre-pandemic, I am out the door at 4 pm, sometimes earlier. Why? Because I don't think it's safe for a woman to be in a huge, empty office building alone.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 08:45     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I care because no one ever replies to my emails or calls anymore, which makes it difficult to complete work that depends on them. I guess they're all out walking the dog.


Not my experience at all.


Ok, but it's mine. And that's why I hate it. I've WFH for 15 years, and I've been basically tethered to my phone the entire time. I might do a lunch out with DH, but the it's the hour I would take in the office. I don't run errands, don't walk the (nonexistent) dog. I sit down at 7:30 and walk away at 5.

Post-covid, no one has that reachability.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 22:01     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what most people do but I don’t want to work with people who are 100% WFH. They quickly become out of touch and lack empathy because they never see anyone else in person. It’s not an issue with hybrid people, but pre-pandemic I worked with people who were fully remote for 5-10 years and they got WEIRD.


This.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 00:55     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:We sadly had someone die at work this week due to WFH.

We have defibrillators at work but office empty and guy had heart attack and no one there to call 911 or use machine.

But hey you got wear PJs while your co-worker died alone


He died in the comfort of his own home.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2023 00:40     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't care at all, but I think one should take a paycut. Generally, I think anyone who has a job that requires one to work in person, should be paid considerably more. From the grocery restocker to yard work people to teachers to construction crew to janitors to nurses.


x100000

My boss is totally remote, and does less and less every month.


Depends on a job. If your work in project based and you work with deadlines then you get paid for the work you do and you have to do it within a certain amount of time. If you "luck out" to get a remote job like this you may find yourself working more hours than what you are paid for and you also may start having your work bleed into your life and consume it. I often work nights and late evenings because my work doesn't end when I "leave the office".
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2023 20:56     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I care because no one ever replies to my emails or calls anymore, which makes it difficult to complete work that depends on them. I guess they're all out walking the dog.


Not my experience at all.


DP. Not mine either. You might, on a rare occasion, have to wait a couple of hours to hear back from someone if you’re just hitting them up out of the blue…. But that was always the case. Usually it’s easy to catch up with everyone because we’re actually going spending MORE time at our computers, less time wandering around the office talking, or out at meetings.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2023 19:54     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:We sadly had someone die at work this week due to WFH.

We have defibrillators at work but office empty and guy had heart attack and no one there to call 911 or use machine.

But hey you got wear PJs while your co-worker died alone


His death is not a consequence of WFH. That heart attack could have just as easily occurred on his commute to the office, from the office or during any other non-working hours.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2023 18:59     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:We sadly had someone die at work this week due to WFH.

We have defibrillators at work but office empty and guy had heart attack and no one there to call 911 or use machine.

But hey you got wear PJs while your co-worker died alone


Was that at J3?
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2023 18:55     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
We sadly had someone die at work this week due to WFH.

We have defibrillators at work but office empty and guy had heart attack and no one there to call 911 or use machine.

But hey you got wear PJs while your co-worker died alone
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2023 17:37     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
WFH has led to a huge increase in the employment rates of the disabled. Having the possibility of remote is really great for the disabled community. So many disabled workers are better able to manage their conditions if they can work from home all or part of the time. And it's totally frustrating to hear all you able-bodied people completely ignore this reality. Shameful, really.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2023 17:34     Subject: For those who are anti wfh, curious why you care?
Anonymous wrote:I care because no one ever replies to my emails or calls anymore, which makes it difficult to complete work that depends on them. I guess they're all out walking the dog.


Not my experience at all.