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Anonymous wrote:Why does the one poster, or maybe there are more, generalize that because they aren’t productive at home no one else is? Some of us are disciplined enough to work. In the office it is constant chatting, grabbing lunch, and interruptions. Face time doesn’t equal productivity.

There are a handful of trolls who believe (or pretend to) that nobody works unless they're physically flipping burgers or moving boxes. They aren't interested in hearing otherwise, and mostly want to stir people up.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why work location matters. Our neighbors are a mix of in person, hybrid, WFH. We are mostly WFH but go in sometimes. We socialize with the neighbors we are friends with but it’s still evenings or weekends because during the day we are all…working?

When we WFH we are working and not out and about nor are the neighbors. There are some SAHMs of young children and I’ve seen them out on walks during the day but not with any WFH neighbors.

When I work from home, I work much less often because of the distractions, the comfort of home, and access to things. I will resume a home project, bike ride, shop, watch tv.
You do too.

That’s a you problem. Most of us have the ability to pay attention to the meeting we’re in or the document we’re writing instead of being distracted by the television like a dog who can’t resist chasing a ball.

Once that meeting is over, you’re out.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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

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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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

Anonymous wrote:Friends and family have always implied it's weird that I don't socialize with my neighbors since I WFH. The thing is, I don't understand the logistics of it? We have a new next door neighbor who's a SAHM, so she's also home, but between her being busy and me, you know, working all day, I don't understand how hanging out would work. Do I just show up with two cups of coffee one day then bail after 15 minutes when I need to get back to work? Am I missing something?

Anonymous wrote:Why does the one poster, or maybe there are more, generalize that because they aren’t productive at home no one else is? Some of us are disciplined enough to work. In the office it is constant chatting, grabbing lunch, and interruptions. Face time doesn’t equal productivity.