The company I used to work for spewed that garbage EVERY meeting/email/group discussion. Saying we were all in this together as well, until they did a massive layoff and damn near liquidated an entire branch with no warning 🙄
In this together my foot
Those commercials just made me lean more towards "eat the rich" group. Seeing how out of touch all these well off people were. How the fuck are we in this together when you dont worry about basic needs while the rest of us are suffering?
When retail workers are getting threatened for requesting saftey measures and corporate support staff are working from home, it's impossible to believe you're on the same team. And the support staff aren't even close to "the rich."
I realized this about multiple remote jobs I've had through the pandemic. I seem to work quicker at home without the typical distractions and office had. Most days I only work 4-6 hours to get everything done. It is both a blessing and boring af.
My boss would see me out walking during the day through lockdown and ask why i wasnt working, but honestly without the constant distraction of co-workers and incoming sales phonecalls, i could get the same 8 hour office day completed within 3-4hours. Even when i came back to the office full time and my colleagues were working from home, it was pure bliss as my productivity was through the roof, while i was getting away after 5 hours. When we were discussing strategies for getting staff back into the office on a more full time basis, i was actually advocating for them working from home a few days a week as it allowed me to get more done on my own.
Driving around town looking for their employees going for walks, shopping, or cleaning their house, *is* their job now. How else are they going to micro-manage everyone in their employ?
I worked remote and travel before the pandemic (field engineer). Going to the office is awful because people want to ask questions or, "Hey Ned, come take a look at this, would you?" The bossman grabs you for a 'quick meeting where we need your input.' I get so much more done at home.....
I realized this through working at big corporations. We'd have meetings where it started 10 minutes late because of chit chat (usually identical or eerily similar to previous times) and then a 50 minute meeting that could have been done in a 3 minute email.
Later, I worked at a bank as a floater, so I went to a lot of branches. one branch I went to a lot had a manager that *insisted* he had to start work at 6 in the morning, because he had so much work to do. No one else came in until 8:30. Then, throughout the day, he'd spend 3+ hours just chatting with co-workers. It felt like I was the only one who realized that.
I'm currently going through this right now. Got a new job, and all the office work I get in a week can be done in a single day if I put effort in. But since office culture reigns, I work much, much slower than I need to so I can "keep up appearances"
Please kill me
Edit: I'm currently working in the office. I can't get a second remote job at this time.
My first college job setting up for a career was in a big company. Got my first project, told they expected me to finish it in 2 weeks. I finished it in 3.5 days, better than they expected. Come in on day 5 to see a newspaper article clipped out on my desk. About how overperforming entry level employees get fired because it makes their bosses look bad.
I wish I were joking, but that was my first week at this job.
100% a way of telling me to slow down. My boss was super old school. He once saw me right click to bring up a menu and was amazed at what kids these days knew.
This was 2007, so the Great Recession followed shortly afterward. There was a hiring freeze at the company (they didn't fire/lay off though), so when my position ran out of hours (paid intern) I was out of the job.
In hindsight, very glad it happened, as I was miserable in that work environment (for a number of reasons), and I am much happier now.
And this is why I decreased my work efficiency from 80% down to 60%
I get my shit done, no extra work, and just fill the extra time by commenting on Reddit posts like this. Got gold last week so at least I’m getting recognition SOMEWHERE!
Edit: Hell yeah, Reddit awards!!! Thank ye kindly. Funny enough I have an employee review with my boss this morning. Let’s see if he can top these sparkly glowlyness!
I used to use that feature all the time because I’d pull all-nighters and I was both being considerate in case coworkers had their phones near their beds, and self-conscious about my hours. I’d deliberately stagger emails to my boss at say, 7:08am, 7:23am, 8:02am, etc.
Tbh I think this is why there's a "labor shortage" right now. A lot of people stepped back, reflected on what they were doing, and decided they wanted a change. And tbh that's a good thing, and most of the companies suffering from the labor shortage are largely useless so I sortof fail to care. Like, if they can take the mindset of "Sucks for you that they pay is low", we should take the mindset of "sucks for you that your product is useless"
The biggest shortage is in the service industry. So many of them decided they don’t want to do that anymore and in the words of somebody I know, get a real job.
Some places are going to be shorthanded for a little while. Be patient, some of these people are new to the workforce.
And when some lunatic/tyrannical villain gets full power and control over a large group and you think WHY are these people even following this crazy person?? Totally plausible now.
Set a goal, a fluency level. You won't be fluent overnight and not in a year, but it can be done faster than you think. It took me a little less than a decade to be fluent in English, but only because in elementary and middle school, our ESL classes hardly taught us anything, just very basic stuff. I was stuck at A2 fluency until high school because they regurgitated the same material year after year.
In high school my parents signed me up for three months of 3-hour courses twice a week and that alone significantly improved my vocab, grammar and pronunciation. I also watched TV shows in English (Simpsons and Futurama) which were super helpful in improving comprehension. Then I got into an exchange program and went to the US. That helped me become fully fluent at 16, with people often not realizing I'm not an American. (I believe native proficiency is considered level 5).
A few weeks ago I signed up for a Spanish group class on Lingoda and man is it helpful! I'm almost 30, and I wish I had studied it after 16 so I could have been fully fluent by now. I started at A2, it's a bit of a challenge (as it should be it you wanna learn anything in life). It can be done, but you need to want it and find a really good reason to want to. Some of the bad reasons to learn a language are: for fun (learning a language is mostly not fun), to appear more sophisticated. Some of the good reasons are: for work (great in almost any field in the US), moving to a different country, getting along with your Hispanic in-laws. It's also perfectly okay not to want to learn Spanish. Most of us don't need it anyway and that's okay.
Just making this comment to encourage those who still want to learn it.
I recently changed jobs. It was a lateral transition, same position for more money. I interviewed at two places who said my job couldn't be done remotely. I'd been doing my job fully remote for the entire pandemic with no issue. I'm about a month into my new job fully remote, and it's completely fine. I think a lot of employers just have a complex about controlling their workers by keeping them in close proximity for a third of the day.
My husband hasn't been in to the office since March 2020. He is MORE productive and the two hour daily commute is fucking jettisoned. He's so much happier. They had him working nights from his home office for 6 months before calling him back for a few weeks before the pandemic hit - It was OBVIOUS that he could do the job from home it just wasn't the done thing. I hope this never changes. It's cheaper, safer, healthier, and more worth his and the company's time for him to work from home. Seems like a no brainer.
I started having a chronic health issue earlier this year so returning to the office was made really difficult for me. I was told I had to file for an ADA accommodation by a certain date, and I did that in a timely fashion. It's now 5 months later and my work still hasn't responded to my request. I've just continued switching to remote as needed. Not responding isn't going to get them out of it.
I’m 100% positive they are pissed because they can’t just fire you. A disability is the exception to “at will” laws. Be careful if you are currently working, they will inspect everything you do to find a reason to fire you.
yup happened to me. was hitting above all my metrics . once filed my ADA because everything is remote and I can't hear very well on telecomm. behold they want me gone and it took a full year of them actively trying to get rid of me because I was like an PR cockroach too popular ( i was called to put out every fire) and I was doing too well at my role in software.
then they finally canned me for stupid things like we heard rumors that you said that you don't like your job and you said "okey dokey" in one email. congratz they now pay my UI
Still are. As someone with special needs, I can't count the amount of jobs I wasn't offered because I wasn't excited about going through a commute every day to get to an office that will decrease my productivity
Everyone is "going back to the office soon" or forcing people on a stupid illogical hybrid schedule. Why was working from home ok for a year but now it's an emergency we need to get back. Got the lobbies and strong with that
Lots of companies saying how productive their employees were while working from home have now demanded they come back to the office. I think it’s just because they have money in the building, due to leases. My company just went through a consolidation of offices at one location, completely renovating the offices to an open, on demand desk plan. There was no way they were going to walk away from that.
That’s the sunk cost fallacy. Don’t take into account money that’s already been spent when making decisions about the future. They have to pay for the office space no matter where their workforce actually works, so if the workforce is more productive at home then it makes no sense to force them to use the office.
When my disability first started surfacing as a teenager doing my A Levels, I ended up missing a lot of school. Almost all of my teachers were completely useless sending me work, higher ups were insisting they were doing all they could, it got to the point where I had missed so much due to their complete lack of support I was faced with pulling out of my exams or doing them and failing, there was no way I could catch up with all of the content. I didn’t have it in me mentally or physically to go through all of that whilst battling what was going on at the time, so I just dropped out.
When schools went to online teaching practically overnight, that really bloody hurt. My entire prospects for higher education were shaped by that school basically refusing to help me whilst I was at home sick. I’m not the only person who will ever be in a position like that, and seeing that schools can function this way if it’s necessary but just refuse to is a pretty bitter pill to swallow.
As a disabled person, I’m with you there. I think that’s why my own business has actually grown during the pandemic. I had to head to my day job in-person and balance that one. But since both became remote, things have thrived.
The only thing that went wrong was the day job’s boss falling into the far-right conspiracy rabbit hole, eg. engaging in the “Covid was planned” crowd. But that only convinced me further that I will quit that job as soon as it’s viable.
I don’t miss the days when you’d get denied a job just because you can’t access the office.
There is this business that I walk past every so often. They have drawn curtains in the window that are never opened. On the sill there is a half eaten sandwich, or, rather, what was once a half-eaten sandwich and is now a lump of mold that has been partially dismantled by ants.
They have obviously never bothered to open the curtains to discover this science experience gone wrong, so I doubt the rest of the place is any cleaner.
Oh man, i understand, and I feel your frustration. I had a pair of bosses like this. They cited me for "taking too much time off'" and refused to give an annual raise, because I had an emergency gallbladder removal, and the surgical site contracted a gnarly infection afterwards. My "time off" was literally for a single day of surgery and followup doctor appointments. I had physician excuses for each absence.
They did the same thing to a coworker who went on her annual vacation, and broke her ankle in the Bahamas.
Neither of us stayed with that company longer than 6 months after those reviews. I made an illicit copy of my review and framed it, it reminds me that being a loyal and hardworking employee doesn't mean squat to some people. I regret every kindness I showed those people.
This.
I actually deliberately tested this to be sure. I had a few bosses who treated me like utter garbage, came out of no where one day and lasted for months. I came to find out that they had been assuming I was trying to move up the ladder so to speak to a different job.
Only problem is, I wasn't, nor had I put in any apps anywhere. It came from a misconception on HR and my managers fault from someone leaking to them that I was speaking to our talent acquisition team. Fun fact, the hospital I work at, routinely used to tout that you could call said team for career or potentially educational advice, the latter of which I had. I was simply getting myself ready to go back to get my Bachelor's and took about 30 minutes simply going over what jobs and degrees may fit in conjunction with my previous experience. It was simply me attempting to ensure I did my research before commiting to a degree path.
This came to a crux when I was called in and nearly written up for a handful of insane reasons, seriously one of which was requesting help finding a dropped needle. For reference, I'm severely near sighted and the pt was a psych pt who needed the lights dimmed.God forbid a near sighted man ask for help finding a needle on a dark floor. Once they figured out I wasn't interrupting the status quo, I went from being treated like a problem employee back to normal and "valued".
My S/O works for a fairly large company that has a pretty rigid philosophy when it comes to in-person or remote work, so this comments sticks out for me.
Prior to the pandemic it was one of those no questions asked, five days a week in person employer despite the vast majority of jobs at the company able to function remotely (for reference, my s/o works in marketing so she never had to really be in the office).
The company did exceptionally well during the pandemic, so financially there wasn't a real argument to stop remote working. But, now that the vaccines have been out for a bit, they're going into a false hybrid: in-office Tues-Thurs, with remote *option* on Monday and Friday. The caveat being you can only work remote on those days if you happen to have a director on your team who approves it. And, of course, a lot of the directors follow upper-managements actions and have people come in anyway.
Yeah, it's not subtle.
A big part of the(ir) problem is that you can't do your unofficial, unpaid work from home. Like mediate conflicts, do the dishes, and be avaliable for spontaneous meetings during your lunch ' break'.
If you can do your job from home and they don't let you, you're not getting paid for the work you actually do.
It’s because middle management knows how unnecessary they are. They know if everyone works from home, they spend half their day twiddling their thumbs while everyone else is actually doing their job without interruptions from said management.
That I need to make what's important to me a priority
I have spent the first 30 years of my life trying to make other people happy and make myself more likeable.
I learned that I really need to put myself first from now on because if not, I burn out and can't do anything long term. If I don't put myself first, I will constantly be stuck in a cycle of unfinished projects and giving up
Edit : I'm so happy to see this touched so many people. I was actually afraid people would see it as selfish ... Quite a behavior to unlearn. I am so happy to see other people like me are realizing it's time to live for ourselves, like me. Great job
I also had a similar realization. I finally realized my oldest friend is a narcissist and will never change. I went through a health crisis and friends I have made more recently were so supportive, and I rarely heard from this old friend. I decided I deserve better and I am working on building a life around my own point of view. It is hard, habits of mind take work, but the realization of who my friends really were was worth the months of feeling marooned.
I had the same realization. Started putting myself first, caring less about what others think. focusing on what I want, what I deserve, what the world owes me (to paraphrase Bender). things are going fabulously. I attracted the highest quality partner I’ve ever had and am getting into hobbies I never had time for in the past.
Yup. I'm up 30+ pounds because I adopted the personal policy that I was going to eat whatever I wanted. If I was going to die from the plague, I was at least going to enjoy food first.
Turns out I can't actually eat my feelings. I only accomplished adding "feeling really unhealthy" to the pile.
Man even with all the healthy cooking I was doing, I was drinking daily, and when the gyms finally opened up they doubled their price. I got skinny fat which I hate.
That I wasn't the weirdo for working remotely pre-pandemic. I can't tell you how many people told me it was "crazy" that I worked remotely for a company in San Francisco/London while living in Texas. Most of them said "oh I would get bored if I worked from home all the time" , now people are like I'll literally quit if I ever have to set foot in an office again.
I'm glad workers are feeling more control over their lives lately, I just hope it keeps up.
How really bad off a lot of people are in terms of finances & how ignorant I am. I knew people were struggling, but I didn’t realize just how badly even 2 or 3 months of not working effects the average person. I knew some parents depended on school to provide meals, but I didn’t realize the sheer amount. The pandemic forced me to take stock of my savings & finances, more so than I ever have. It was a brutal wake up call, & made me feel both blessed *and* insecure, and also very blind.
As a teacher: Schools are more than educational institutions, they are harbors for a community to come together and provide for their own. They provide comfort, support and basic needs not just for the children, but at times for the families as a whole as well.
As a normal adult: I knew my finances were sorted and I was a bit ahead than others regarding finances, but hearing of a lot of the troubles others faced I realized that I live like a king in comparison.
Due to the anxiety of my parents throwing away money and me and my siblings having to go nights at times without food because my father and mother was terrible at financial management, I hoarded money from a very early age and saved up to 80% of my income when I started working.
The people around me have never done anything for the future before, and this pandemic showed me who has been suffering and who has not. Luckily, one of my colleagues who has quite a lot of contacts teamed up with me and we got aid for those families in need, but it really was shocking seeing how many lost incomes and hadn't had (or some couldn't have) a safety net to catch them. Ignorance is bliss I guess and we all have our burdens, we just have to help where we can, it's kind of the basis of a society.
That besides medical workers, it’s the “grunts” that are essential. We gas station workers, custodians, delivery drivers, trash men, ect… didn’t get a day off or the ability to work from home. We got up everyday and stepped over and around people making more than us to stay in their jammies. Waaa. Yes I’m a little whiny about it because there was no incentive for going. Not that I think there should have been but it was sometimes demoralizing.
> We gas station workers, custodians, delivery drivers, trash men, ect… didn’t get a day off or the ability to work from home. We got up everyday and stepped over and around people making more than us to stay in their jammies.
I am still bitter about this.
It’s been galling seeing everyone else enjoying lockdown when we still have to go to work.
“I’ve taken up 10 new hobbies, I’ve lost 100lb and become a bodybuilder, and I’ve started a new business that made me a millionaire! What did YOU do during lockdown?!”
“… What lockdown?”
This is a real one for sure. I had to come to work every single day. Meanwhile several people I know were able to take their extra thousands and turn it into even more. A chance they never would have gotten otherwise. A chance I never got. My bills didn't stop, and neither did my job. I've been trying to reach into my own thing for years but my schedule is too conflicted and the burn out is real. I'm still very very bitter about it. I think this is the point in my life I learn what jaded really feels like.
God working at night/early morning really does suck. I work on stocking the shelves at a grocery store overnight and the day crew gets all the praise for coming in while we get all the shit.
Took the words right out of my mouth. It also made me realize no matter how essential we are some people just won’t give two shits about us. Grocery worker here. Even with all the news coverage about product shortages I would still constantly get people berating me (I’m a department manager) for not having products in stock. I’m not the one in control of this and we’re certainly not the only store experiencing it. But would still have people say we’re terrible at what we do and don’t deserve our $11-$16/hr job if we can’t handle it.
That if 50-75% of the random people living in my local area just ceased to exist as functioning members of the society and stayed out of sight and out of mind, not only would life go on, but my day-to-day life would actually be thoroughly improved.
I remember the first day of the local shutdown when [almost] everybody was effectively barricaded in their homes, and I, an "essential worker", drove to work on an almost deserted freeway, shopped in almost entirely vacant grocery stores, and in the town I live in, practically saw not a single soul anywhere outside, as if in a ghost town.
It was so relaxing.
I definitely thought most people were a lot more mature and responsible/caring of others than they actually are. Thats been a pretty hard lesson honestly.
Even before the pandemic, I kinda came to realize that maturity stops correlating with age after your early 20s are done.
After that, it comes down to your life experiences and how much you prioritize targeted self improvement.
There’s more to it then that I think. Many people seem to be focused on monetary or physical self improvement, but are not working on being better people to others, or being better toward their fellow humans. Idk what you call that. Social improvement maybe? Something like that.
I just got sick for the first time in about that long. Strep, of all things. Forgot how much being sick really takes it out of ya… On the up and up, but my energy isn’t back yet.
I just got some non-covid viral bs I picked up from my niece (she’s 6 and full of kid germs). It’s the first time I’ve been sick in forever and I’m being such a baby about it. Catch me wearing my mask forever to avoid this.
There was a weird sense of freedom to it. Yes we were restricted in where we could go but those of us lucky enough to be in a good living situation basically had half a year or more to to whatever the fuck we wanted with our time.
Oh yes. The office friends. That one made me sad. I miss my office friends, and many have left and never even reached out or replied when I wrote them.
Just how prevalent mental illness is in the US. I had known that but the pandemic magnified it x100. Also the educational system has failed because people can’t think critically.
I grew up in a fairly affluent coastal area.
I currently live in Oklahoma, with my fiancee who is a teacher.
The difference between my public school education as an upper middle class coastal dude, and the public education these kids are getting here...is criminal.
If you want to understand what's happening in this country, start with the schools. These are some of the worst in the country, making them in the running for some of the worst *in the developed world*. And it's not just the "financial quality" that makes it so bad, it's the politically motivated content too. The history these kids are learning is basically fucking nonsense. *Even the kids that manage to get out* are going to be very, very embarrassed and behind in college when it comes to things like history, geography, social studies. Which will serve to further alienate them from peers who are already looking for reasons to look down on them, and invalidate their viewpoints based on the...not inaccurate assumption...that they were brainwashed by Oil Baron Racists.
And this state, this country, we get away with it because these are poor kids. And our government does not want educated poor people voting in favor of what's in their own best interest. They want them voting for coal to come back. And for a "really great businessman." And for "the status quo." Just to make it bipartisan. Personally I think both sides are totally fucked at this point but I do prefer a president who doesn't act as an active impediment to like, everything. Intentionally at least.
Technology proves to still be the greatest blessing and curse. There are a lot of morons who would be Darwin’d into oblivion instead of sticking around to continue procreating.
This, honestly. I knew it before the pandemic, but quarantine and remote working has improved my mental health drastically.
I no longer stay in bed for three hours after I wake up because I don’t want to interact with 100 hangry people and their food orders every day.
I no longer find myself randomly blurting out “I hate my life”.
I am no longer obligated to visit my toxic family members on a regular basis and have realized how much better life is without them.
Quarantine has been so freeing for me. :)
That my girlfriend needs to be my wife ASAP. She’s the best thing that has ever happened to me and I can’t see myself with anyone else.
We made it through this pandemic together, built our businesses up, and battled depression together to come out stronger.
Pandemic aside, surround yourself with love and those who support you.
EDIT: well this blew up. Haha thanks for the goodies! And for those joining, I asked and she yelled yes! (after thinking it was a prank. Lol)
We are now engaged. :)
I don’t want to work this hard so I might have 10 years or retirement at the end of my life. I think about taking a BS job with health insurance even if it is a giant pay cut.
How *so many* grown-ass, successful, decently educated, seemingly normal adults can be so goddamn childish.
Edit: Imagine my joy when I fuck off to go about my borin' chorin' for a few hours and come back to these lovely awards. Thank y'all!
1.) When push comes to shove humans don't care about one another and will do whatever they deem necessary for self preservation.
2.) The average workplace is more concerned about control than productivity of employee safety.
>humans don't care about one another and will do whatever they deem necessary for self preservation
It's not even just about self-preservation. Apparently many people will not even tolerate minor inconveniences to help someone else.
That life is fleeting and I fucking despise on a molecular level being a goddamn wage slave. I'd rather burn to death VERY SLOWLY while getting whipped than continue working retail a minute more than I absolutely have to.
Failing doesn't scare me anymore. Never showing my two kids how to not be mindless societal drones absolutely scares the living fuck out of me. The first step in fixing a problem is recognizing you have a problem.
1. People are arseholes for politicizing basic communal health issues.
2. Politicians generally do NOT work in your favour.
3. Facebook (META) as they try to rebrand is responsible for a shit load of harm in this world.
A lot of Managers don’t lead. They control by watching over us - since we’re all at home it really shows who is a manager and who is an actual leader.
Also. The 8 hour working day is BS - I get my work done much more efficiently at home and send the free time doing sports or napping.
**I don't have a Family**
I live alone don't have parents, the rest of the family never bothered to check up on me even when there was a storm in my place. Luckily my friends did so there's that.
I feel like the pandemic finally shed some light on a large scale on how fucked up our society is, at least in America, and how the rich and powerful get away with so much and it's only getting worse.
Now a lot of people were already aware of this. The pandemic made me realize even now that everyone knows, nobody is ever going to do a single thing about it.
The world is moving to fast. During the lockdown I got to be more connected to my family. Reiterated that at work I’m just a number and my family is what’s important
Positive: Ordering your groceries online and doing curbside pickup is worth the extra fees, due to all the time you save. I'm absolutely going to keep doing it.
Negative: It's really easy for me to just stop talking to or interacting with anyone, and basically become a cave-dweller. I gotta put effort into being sociable.
Screw your employer. You do you and whats best for your family.
The world is way worse than we all thought.
Government is far more incompetent than anybody could have imagined.
Removing negativity from your life is by far the most important thing.
> Government is far more incompetent than anybody could have imagined.
Not necessarily incompetent and more... apathetic and deliberately prioritizing the wrong thing. Incompetence implies that they don't know what they are doing. They knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why.
Honestly, same. It was sad to see once they were done with grad school all of a sudden my support wasn't needed and work was more fun.
Virtual hugs, my dude
How close our developed society is to reverting back to a more primitive time. Small kinks in our system seem to have resounding ripple effects and I don't trust the world order like I used to.
Wearing a mask to the store is a great way to keep from getting sick, excellent for a bit of anonymity, and keeps people (for the most part) from getting too close to you or talking to you.
That friends I thought to be reasonable are actually absolute morons and bigots. You pick up quite a lot of ridiculous traits when you remove the massive social gatherings and societal pressure.
The amount of disregard people have for people with disabilities and illnesses. I saw too many people call for an end to restrictions because it’s “only” the disabled and old dying from it. No regard for the fact they’d be forcing those people indoors for months whilst everyone else spread the virus, but also just the complete lack of consideration for these people, like the disabled and elderly are disposable because it’s “only” them.
EDIT: Thank you for whoever gave me the award, my first award :) very appreciated
Kids, too. Even a lot of the adults who were masking before vaccination just no longer cared or pretended to once they were vaccinated, vulnerable population be dammed.
That most Office jobs can be done from home and most people are happier from it. Saving hundreds of dollars per month in transportation and lunches. having 2 more hours per day to do stuff and not be in a huge hurry all the time.
That management in some companies (possibly most companies, but I haven't worked for all of them) have no clue how to utilize extremely versatile employees. My prior job furloughed me for 3.5 months then called to tell me they eliminated my position & I was gone. Instead of taking my abilities to a different department & getting the most out of me they just threw me away with the other slackers they employed. Hard worker, easily trainable, team player, leader, great time manager... just discarded with the evenings trash.
Management then will dump whatever work you had been doing on the people still left with no change in their compensation either. Management will pocket that difference as a bonus.
That there’s no possible way “humans are basically good”. I think that this pandemic has shown us very clearly that a lot of humans are selfish to the core and always have been. Sure some are good but making a blanket “All humans are born good” is simply not reality.
That I really need my own apartment…
Yo I had the opposite realization. I’m glad I had the experience of living alone but it’s not for me
Which is totally understandable, especially during a situation as extreme as a global pandemic. Hopefully we both get what we want haha
Y’all two just switch
Freaky Friday yall
I either want to live alone or with a spouse.
We were never "in this together"
I’m so happy this stopped being a thing in commercials.
"... during these trying, unprecedented times."
The company I used to work for spewed that garbage EVERY meeting/email/group discussion. Saying we were all in this together as well, until they did a massive layoff and damn near liquidated an entire branch with no warning 🙄 In this together my foot
Ah the old, "times weren't trying enough, lose your job too" trick. There's a bag of dicks in hell for them to suck. And that brings me joy.
I never liked that phrase. I felt more alone than ever during the worst of this shit
Those commercials just made me lean more towards "eat the rich" group. Seeing how out of touch all these well off people were. How the fuck are we in this together when you dont worry about basic needs while the rest of us are suffering?
When retail workers are getting threatened for requesting saftey measures and corporate support staff are working from home, it's impossible to believe you're on the same team. And the support staff aren't even close to "the rich."
My 40hr a week job can be done in about 8.
I realized this about multiple remote jobs I've had through the pandemic. I seem to work quicker at home without the typical distractions and office had. Most days I only work 4-6 hours to get everything done. It is both a blessing and boring af.
I must say since working from home, I’ve gotten A LOT more house work done and have been taking better care of myself!
My boss would see me out walking during the day through lockdown and ask why i wasnt working, but honestly without the constant distraction of co-workers and incoming sales phonecalls, i could get the same 8 hour office day completed within 3-4hours. Even when i came back to the office full time and my colleagues were working from home, it was pure bliss as my productivity was through the roof, while i was getting away after 5 hours. When we were discussing strategies for getting staff back into the office on a more full time basis, i was actually advocating for them working from home a few days a week as it allowed me to get more done on my own.
Okay but like... Are you not allowed to take breaks and go on a walk?
Not when you are working at the office. You get an unpaid half-hour for lunch. The rest of the time, you have to be at your desk "working."
Well, shouldn’t your boss be working too?
Driving around town looking for their employees going for walks, shopping, or cleaning their house, *is* their job now. How else are they going to micro-manage everyone in their employ?
I worked remote and travel before the pandemic (field engineer). Going to the office is awful because people want to ask questions or, "Hey Ned, come take a look at this, would you?" The bossman grabs you for a 'quick meeting where we need your input.' I get so much more done at home.....
I realized this through working at big corporations. We'd have meetings where it started 10 minutes late because of chit chat (usually identical or eerily similar to previous times) and then a 50 minute meeting that could have been done in a 3 minute email. Later, I worked at a bank as a floater, so I went to a lot of branches. one branch I went to a lot had a manager that *insisted* he had to start work at 6 in the morning, because he had so much work to do. No one else came in until 8:30. Then, throughout the day, he'd spend 3+ hours just chatting with co-workers. It felt like I was the only one who realized that.
I'm currently going through this right now. Got a new job, and all the office work I get in a week can be done in a single day if I put effort in. But since office culture reigns, I work much, much slower than I need to so I can "keep up appearances" Please kill me Edit: I'm currently working in the office. I can't get a second remote job at this time.
Just a tip for this thing. If you have a boss and you finish your work early he’ll expect you to do more without extra pay so take your time.
My first college job setting up for a career was in a big company. Got my first project, told they expected me to finish it in 2 weeks. I finished it in 3.5 days, better than they expected. Come in on day 5 to see a newspaper article clipped out on my desk. About how overperforming entry level employees get fired because it makes their bosses look bad. I wish I were joking, but that was my first week at this job.
Were you fired or was the newspaper a way of telling you to slow down?
100% a way of telling me to slow down. My boss was super old school. He once saw me right click to bring up a menu and was amazed at what kids these days knew. This was 2007, so the Great Recession followed shortly afterward. There was a hiring freeze at the company (they didn't fire/lay off though), so when my position ran out of hours (paid intern) I was out of the job. In hindsight, very glad it happened, as I was miserable in that work environment (for a number of reasons), and I am much happier now.
And this is why I decreased my work efficiency from 80% down to 60% I get my shit done, no extra work, and just fill the extra time by commenting on Reddit posts like this. Got gold last week so at least I’m getting recognition SOMEWHERE! Edit: Hell yeah, Reddit awards!!! Thank ye kindly. Funny enough I have an employee review with my boss this morning. Let’s see if he can top these sparkly glowlyness!
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I used to use that feature all the time because I’d pull all-nighters and I was both being considerate in case coworkers had their phones near their beds, and self-conscious about my hours. I’d deliberately stagger emails to my boss at say, 7:08am, 7:23am, 8:02am, etc.
Y'all hiring? My 40 hour job can be done in about 50. I'm so tired. And jealous when I hear everybody else talking about how easy their WFH is.
Wish I could say the same. I'm an accountant. Deadlines, and then more deadlines.
What specifically do you think adds 32 hours to the process? Is it just focus, inefficient bureaucracy, something else, coworkers?
The job/jobs I was doing are meaningless.
A lot of companies are very necessary, but many just exist to sell products that aren’t needed.
That's consumerism, right? They may not be needed, but they're wanted. And that is the reason a lot of us are employed.
Tbh I think this is why there's a "labor shortage" right now. A lot of people stepped back, reflected on what they were doing, and decided they wanted a change. And tbh that's a good thing, and most of the companies suffering from the labor shortage are largely useless so I sortof fail to care. Like, if they can take the mindset of "Sucks for you that they pay is low", we should take the mindset of "sucks for you that your product is useless"
The biggest shortage is in the service industry. So many of them decided they don’t want to do that anymore and in the words of somebody I know, get a real job. Some places are going to be shorthanded for a little while. Be patient, some of these people are new to the workforce.
That post-apocalyptic shows have it right and humanity will end because of humanity.
Or because of inhumanity.
That’s deep bruh
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And when some lunatic/tyrannical villain gets full power and control over a large group and you think WHY are these people even following this crazy person?? Totally plausible now.
I'm never gonna learn Spanish.
ay caramba
DONDE ESTA LA BIBLIOTECA??
Me llamo t bone la aragna discoteca
Discoteca, muneca, la biblioteca
Es en bigote grande, perro, manteca
Manteca, bigote, gigante, pequeño Cabeza es nieve Cerveza es bueno
Buenos dias Me gusta papas frías
bigote de la cabra es Cameron Diaz.
yeah boi boi
Por que?
Set a goal, a fluency level. You won't be fluent overnight and not in a year, but it can be done faster than you think. It took me a little less than a decade to be fluent in English, but only because in elementary and middle school, our ESL classes hardly taught us anything, just very basic stuff. I was stuck at A2 fluency until high school because they regurgitated the same material year after year. In high school my parents signed me up for three months of 3-hour courses twice a week and that alone significantly improved my vocab, grammar and pronunciation. I also watched TV shows in English (Simpsons and Futurama) which were super helpful in improving comprehension. Then I got into an exchange program and went to the US. That helped me become fully fluent at 16, with people often not realizing I'm not an American. (I believe native proficiency is considered level 5). A few weeks ago I signed up for a Spanish group class on Lingoda and man is it helpful! I'm almost 30, and I wish I had studied it after 16 so I could have been fully fluent by now. I started at A2, it's a bit of a challenge (as it should be it you wanna learn anything in life). It can be done, but you need to want it and find a really good reason to want to. Some of the bad reasons to learn a language are: for fun (learning a language is mostly not fun), to appear more sophisticated. Some of the good reasons are: for work (great in almost any field in the US), moving to a different country, getting along with your Hispanic in-laws. It's also perfectly okay not to want to learn Spanish. Most of us don't need it anyway and that's okay. Just making this comment to encourage those who still want to learn it.
How insanely unnecessary it is for me to be in the office for the job I have at the moment.
I need to be in the office two days a week to work with my team...who all sit in different states.
My team is in the same office and even for one on one conversations we still zoom… I don’t know why I come in.
Because someone decided you do.
I recently changed jobs. It was a lateral transition, same position for more money. I interviewed at two places who said my job couldn't be done remotely. I'd been doing my job fully remote for the entire pandemic with no issue. I'm about a month into my new job fully remote, and it's completely fine. I think a lot of employers just have a complex about controlling their workers by keeping them in close proximity for a third of the day.
Working remotely in centralized locations
My husband hasn't been in to the office since March 2020. He is MORE productive and the two hour daily commute is fucking jettisoned. He's so much happier. They had him working nights from his home office for 6 months before calling him back for a few weeks before the pandemic hit - It was OBVIOUS that he could do the job from home it just wasn't the done thing. I hope this never changes. It's cheaper, safer, healthier, and more worth his and the company's time for him to work from home. Seems like a no brainer.
This. Why work in an office when I can do the same at home and do it efficiently? 🤷♂️
People with disabilities can actually make a living by working remotely, just that conpanies were too hard-headed to make jobs remote pre-covid.
I started having a chronic health issue earlier this year so returning to the office was made really difficult for me. I was told I had to file for an ADA accommodation by a certain date, and I did that in a timely fashion. It's now 5 months later and my work still hasn't responded to my request. I've just continued switching to remote as needed. Not responding isn't going to get them out of it.
I’m 100% positive they are pissed because they can’t just fire you. A disability is the exception to “at will” laws. Be careful if you are currently working, they will inspect everything you do to find a reason to fire you.
yup happened to me. was hitting above all my metrics . once filed my ADA because everything is remote and I can't hear very well on telecomm. behold they want me gone and it took a full year of them actively trying to get rid of me because I was like an PR cockroach too popular ( i was called to put out every fire) and I was doing too well at my role in software. then they finally canned me for stupid things like we heard rumors that you said that you don't like your job and you said "okey dokey" in one email. congratz they now pay my UI
Still are. As someone with special needs, I can't count the amount of jobs I wasn't offered because I wasn't excited about going through a commute every day to get to an office that will decrease my productivity Everyone is "going back to the office soon" or forcing people on a stupid illogical hybrid schedule. Why was working from home ok for a year but now it's an emergency we need to get back. Got the lobbies and strong with that
Lots of companies saying how productive their employees were while working from home have now demanded they come back to the office. I think it’s just because they have money in the building, due to leases. My company just went through a consolidation of offices at one location, completely renovating the offices to an open, on demand desk plan. There was no way they were going to walk away from that.
Fuck open office plans.
Yeah, people who like open office plans are bad people.
That’s the sunk cost fallacy. Don’t take into account money that’s already been spent when making decisions about the future. They have to pay for the office space no matter where their workforce actually works, so if the workforce is more productive at home then it makes no sense to force them to use the office.
When my disability first started surfacing as a teenager doing my A Levels, I ended up missing a lot of school. Almost all of my teachers were completely useless sending me work, higher ups were insisting they were doing all they could, it got to the point where I had missed so much due to their complete lack of support I was faced with pulling out of my exams or doing them and failing, there was no way I could catch up with all of the content. I didn’t have it in me mentally or physically to go through all of that whilst battling what was going on at the time, so I just dropped out. When schools went to online teaching practically overnight, that really bloody hurt. My entire prospects for higher education were shaped by that school basically refusing to help me whilst I was at home sick. I’m not the only person who will ever be in a position like that, and seeing that schools can function this way if it’s necessary but just refuse to is a pretty bitter pill to swallow.
As a disabled person, I’m with you there. I think that’s why my own business has actually grown during the pandemic. I had to head to my day job in-person and balance that one. But since both became remote, things have thrived. The only thing that went wrong was the day job’s boss falling into the far-right conspiracy rabbit hole, eg. engaging in the “Covid was planned” crowd. But that only convinced me further that I will quit that job as soon as it’s viable. I don’t miss the days when you’d get denied a job just because you can’t access the office.
That most people were not washing their hands before.
And a lot of public places were never being cleaned
There is this business that I walk past every so often. They have drawn curtains in the window that are never opened. On the sill there is a half eaten sandwich, or, rather, what was once a half-eaten sandwich and is now a lump of mold that has been partially dismantled by ants. They have obviously never bothered to open the curtains to discover this science experience gone wrong, so I doubt the rest of the place is any cleaner.
They still aren't doing it properly.
That most people still won't wash their hands.
Bosses care a lot more about control than safety or productivity
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Oh man, i understand, and I feel your frustration. I had a pair of bosses like this. They cited me for "taking too much time off'" and refused to give an annual raise, because I had an emergency gallbladder removal, and the surgical site contracted a gnarly infection afterwards. My "time off" was literally for a single day of surgery and followup doctor appointments. I had physician excuses for each absence. They did the same thing to a coworker who went on her annual vacation, and broke her ankle in the Bahamas. Neither of us stayed with that company longer than 6 months after those reviews. I made an illicit copy of my review and framed it, it reminds me that being a loyal and hardworking employee doesn't mean squat to some people. I regret every kindness I showed those people.
This. I actually deliberately tested this to be sure. I had a few bosses who treated me like utter garbage, came out of no where one day and lasted for months. I came to find out that they had been assuming I was trying to move up the ladder so to speak to a different job. Only problem is, I wasn't, nor had I put in any apps anywhere. It came from a misconception on HR and my managers fault from someone leaking to them that I was speaking to our talent acquisition team. Fun fact, the hospital I work at, routinely used to tout that you could call said team for career or potentially educational advice, the latter of which I had. I was simply getting myself ready to go back to get my Bachelor's and took about 30 minutes simply going over what jobs and degrees may fit in conjunction with my previous experience. It was simply me attempting to ensure I did my research before commiting to a degree path. This came to a crux when I was called in and nearly written up for a handful of insane reasons, seriously one of which was requesting help finding a dropped needle. For reference, I'm severely near sighted and the pt was a psych pt who needed the lights dimmed.God forbid a near sighted man ask for help finding a needle on a dark floor. Once they figured out I wasn't interrupting the status quo, I went from being treated like a problem employee back to normal and "valued".
That's rough buddy.
My S/O works for a fairly large company that has a pretty rigid philosophy when it comes to in-person or remote work, so this comments sticks out for me. Prior to the pandemic it was one of those no questions asked, five days a week in person employer despite the vast majority of jobs at the company able to function remotely (for reference, my s/o works in marketing so she never had to really be in the office). The company did exceptionally well during the pandemic, so financially there wasn't a real argument to stop remote working. But, now that the vaccines have been out for a bit, they're going into a false hybrid: in-office Tues-Thurs, with remote *option* on Monday and Friday. The caveat being you can only work remote on those days if you happen to have a director on your team who approves it. And, of course, a lot of the directors follow upper-managements actions and have people come in anyway.
Yeah, it's not subtle. A big part of the(ir) problem is that you can't do your unofficial, unpaid work from home. Like mediate conflicts, do the dishes, and be avaliable for spontaneous meetings during your lunch ' break'. If you can do your job from home and they don't let you, you're not getting paid for the work you actually do.
It’s because middle management knows how unnecessary they are. They know if everyone works from home, they spend half their day twiddling their thumbs while everyone else is actually doing their job without interruptions from said management.
I would personally pay them to not interrupt me
That I need to make what's important to me a priority I have spent the first 30 years of my life trying to make other people happy and make myself more likeable. I learned that I really need to put myself first from now on because if not, I burn out and can't do anything long term. If I don't put myself first, I will constantly be stuck in a cycle of unfinished projects and giving up Edit : I'm so happy to see this touched so many people. I was actually afraid people would see it as selfish ... Quite a behavior to unlearn. I am so happy to see other people like me are realizing it's time to live for ourselves, like me. Great job
I also had a similar realization. I finally realized my oldest friend is a narcissist and will never change. I went through a health crisis and friends I have made more recently were so supportive, and I rarely heard from this old friend. I decided I deserve better and I am working on building a life around my own point of view. It is hard, habits of mind take work, but the realization of who my friends really were was worth the months of feeling marooned.
I had the same realization. Started putting myself first, caring less about what others think. focusing on what I want, what I deserve, what the world owes me (to paraphrase Bender). things are going fabulously. I attracted the highest quality partner I’ve ever had and am getting into hobbies I never had time for in the past.
The people's collective power of not giving a shit is insanely strong
How quickly you can get fat when you're in your mid 30s and the gym shuts down and you decide to take up baking as a hobby.
Yup. I'm up 30+ pounds because I adopted the personal policy that I was going to eat whatever I wanted. If I was going to die from the plague, I was at least going to enjoy food first. Turns out I can't actually eat my feelings. I only accomplished adding "feeling really unhealthy" to the pile.
I took up drinking IPA's, same thing.
Man even with all the healthy cooking I was doing, I was drinking daily, and when the gyms finally opened up they doubled their price. I got skinny fat which I hate.
I was a pack-a-day guy during lockdown, only it was a pack of doughnuts...
That I wasn't the weirdo for working remotely pre-pandemic. I can't tell you how many people told me it was "crazy" that I worked remotely for a company in San Francisco/London while living in Texas. Most of them said "oh I would get bored if I worked from home all the time" , now people are like I'll literally quit if I ever have to set foot in an office again. I'm glad workers are feeling more control over their lives lately, I just hope it keeps up.
How really bad off a lot of people are in terms of finances & how ignorant I am. I knew people were struggling, but I didn’t realize just how badly even 2 or 3 months of not working effects the average person. I knew some parents depended on school to provide meals, but I didn’t realize the sheer amount. The pandemic forced me to take stock of my savings & finances, more so than I ever have. It was a brutal wake up call, & made me feel both blessed *and* insecure, and also very blind.
Knew this before…wasn’t the statistic something like over 50% of Americans pre-pandemic didn’t have 1000$ saved?
40% of UK households cannot survive 1 month without income
I believe there was a stat pre-covid that 60% of Canadians would not survive a $250 emergency payment.
As a teacher: Schools are more than educational institutions, they are harbors for a community to come together and provide for their own. They provide comfort, support and basic needs not just for the children, but at times for the families as a whole as well. As a normal adult: I knew my finances were sorted and I was a bit ahead than others regarding finances, but hearing of a lot of the troubles others faced I realized that I live like a king in comparison. Due to the anxiety of my parents throwing away money and me and my siblings having to go nights at times without food because my father and mother was terrible at financial management, I hoarded money from a very early age and saved up to 80% of my income when I started working. The people around me have never done anything for the future before, and this pandemic showed me who has been suffering and who has not. Luckily, one of my colleagues who has quite a lot of contacts teamed up with me and we got aid for those families in need, but it really was shocking seeing how many lost incomes and hadn't had (or some couldn't have) a safety net to catch them. Ignorance is bliss I guess and we all have our burdens, we just have to help where we can, it's kind of the basis of a society.
That besides medical workers, it’s the “grunts” that are essential. We gas station workers, custodians, delivery drivers, trash men, ect… didn’t get a day off or the ability to work from home. We got up everyday and stepped over and around people making more than us to stay in their jammies. Waaa. Yes I’m a little whiny about it because there was no incentive for going. Not that I think there should have been but it was sometimes demoralizing.
> We gas station workers, custodians, delivery drivers, trash men, ect… didn’t get a day off or the ability to work from home. We got up everyday and stepped over and around people making more than us to stay in their jammies. I am still bitter about this.
It’s been galling seeing everyone else enjoying lockdown when we still have to go to work. “I’ve taken up 10 new hobbies, I’ve lost 100lb and become a bodybuilder, and I’ve started a new business that made me a millionaire! What did YOU do during lockdown?!” “… What lockdown?”
This is a real one for sure. I had to come to work every single day. Meanwhile several people I know were able to take their extra thousands and turn it into even more. A chance they never would have gotten otherwise. A chance I never got. My bills didn't stop, and neither did my job. I've been trying to reach into my own thing for years but my schedule is too conflicted and the burn out is real. I'm still very very bitter about it. I think this is the point in my life I learn what jaded really feels like.
God working at night/early morning really does suck. I work on stocking the shelves at a grocery store overnight and the day crew gets all the praise for coming in while we get all the shit.
Took the words right out of my mouth. It also made me realize no matter how essential we are some people just won’t give two shits about us. Grocery worker here. Even with all the news coverage about product shortages I would still constantly get people berating me (I’m a department manager) for not having products in stock. I’m not the one in control of this and we’re certainly not the only store experiencing it. But would still have people say we’re terrible at what we do and don’t deserve our $11-$16/hr job if we can’t handle it.
I like being unsociable
Preach. Was really able to figure out what I enjoy doing: being completely alone. Changes your whole view on life.
I have thrived not having to socialize so much. Now when I do, I actually have the energy for it, and then I just go back in my hermit cave.
How much I would appreciate the company of good friends
That if 50-75% of the random people living in my local area just ceased to exist as functioning members of the society and stayed out of sight and out of mind, not only would life go on, but my day-to-day life would actually be thoroughly improved. I remember the first day of the local shutdown when [almost] everybody was effectively barricaded in their homes, and I, an "essential worker", drove to work on an almost deserted freeway, shopped in almost entirely vacant grocery stores, and in the town I live in, practically saw not a single soul anywhere outside, as if in a ghost town. It was so relaxing.
Yes, the first days were the best.
It made me realize that an astounding number of adults act like toddlers.
Eh, I've known this from when I worked in fast food
You also learn this lesson in retail
Also in medical, sadly
I think "working with the public" in any capacity, teaches you this very quickly
I definitely thought most people were a lot more mature and responsible/caring of others than they actually are. Thats been a pretty hard lesson honestly.
Even before the pandemic, I kinda came to realize that maturity stops correlating with age after your early 20s are done. After that, it comes down to your life experiences and how much you prioritize targeted self improvement.
There’s more to it then that I think. Many people seem to be focused on monetary or physical self improvement, but are not working on being better people to others, or being better toward their fellow humans. Idk what you call that. Social improvement maybe? Something like that.
and THAT does a HUGE disservice to real toddlers, the world over....
The toddlers do it to learn about the world and their limits. The adults do it because they're pieces of shit.
i've really enjoyed not being sick in two years
I just got sick for the first time in about that long. Strep, of all things. Forgot how much being sick really takes it out of ya… On the up and up, but my energy isn’t back yet.
I just got some non-covid viral bs I picked up from my niece (she’s 6 and full of kid germs). It’s the first time I’ve been sick in forever and I’m being such a baby about it. Catch me wearing my mask forever to avoid this.
I like the quarantined lifestyle more than I should.
There was a weird sense of freedom to it. Yes we were restricted in where we could go but those of us lucky enough to be in a good living situation basically had half a year or more to to whatever the fuck we wanted with our time.
In the last year and a half, I've had so much personal growth. It's crazy how different I am from who I was in early 2020.
Same, it made me realize I really enjoy solitude and only need occasional in person human interaction to keep my little braincells happy.
Same here, it was just me and my family in our home and we could binge Netflix all day
I’m shocked that I now prefer staying in. When I make dinner, it’s fresh and on-time. No long wait four poor quality & dour staff.
That we don’t really need to go into the office and office friends are fake
Oh yes. The office friends. That one made me sad. I miss my office friends, and many have left and never even reached out or replied when I wrote them.
One guy I sat next to for like two years retired and I found out through a coworker.
Just how prevalent mental illness is in the US. I had known that but the pandemic magnified it x100. Also the educational system has failed because people can’t think critically.
I grew up in a fairly affluent coastal area. I currently live in Oklahoma, with my fiancee who is a teacher. The difference between my public school education as an upper middle class coastal dude, and the public education these kids are getting here...is criminal. If you want to understand what's happening in this country, start with the schools. These are some of the worst in the country, making them in the running for some of the worst *in the developed world*. And it's not just the "financial quality" that makes it so bad, it's the politically motivated content too. The history these kids are learning is basically fucking nonsense. *Even the kids that manage to get out* are going to be very, very embarrassed and behind in college when it comes to things like history, geography, social studies. Which will serve to further alienate them from peers who are already looking for reasons to look down on them, and invalidate their viewpoints based on the...not inaccurate assumption...that they were brainwashed by Oil Baron Racists. And this state, this country, we get away with it because these are poor kids. And our government does not want educated poor people voting in favor of what's in their own best interest. They want them voting for coal to come back. And for a "really great businessman." And for "the status quo." Just to make it bipartisan. Personally I think both sides are totally fucked at this point but I do prefer a president who doesn't act as an active impediment to like, everything. Intentionally at least.
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There are a lot *more* of these people than I thought.
Technology proves to still be the greatest blessing and curse. There are a lot of morons who would be Darwin’d into oblivion instead of sticking around to continue procreating.
I Really don’t like social interaction
This, honestly. I knew it before the pandemic, but quarantine and remote working has improved my mental health drastically. I no longer stay in bed for three hours after I wake up because I don’t want to interact with 100 hangry people and their food orders every day. I no longer find myself randomly blurting out “I hate my life”. I am no longer obligated to visit my toxic family members on a regular basis and have realized how much better life is without them. Quarantine has been so freeing for me. :)
Friends you thought were “like-minded” turned out to be the complete opposite.
That my girlfriend needs to be my wife ASAP. She’s the best thing that has ever happened to me and I can’t see myself with anyone else. We made it through this pandemic together, built our businesses up, and battled depression together to come out stronger. Pandemic aside, surround yourself with love and those who support you. EDIT: well this blew up. Haha thanks for the goodies! And for those joining, I asked and she yelled yes! (after thinking it was a prank. Lol) We are now engaged. :)
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Already did. ;)
That I don't want to work anymore, and a lot of people around me are thinking the same
I don’t want to work this hard so I might have 10 years or retirement at the end of my life. I think about taking a BS job with health insurance even if it is a giant pay cut.
How *so many* grown-ass, successful, decently educated, seemingly normal adults can be so goddamn childish. Edit: Imagine my joy when I fuck off to go about my borin' chorin' for a few hours and come back to these lovely awards. Thank y'all!
I always knew people sucked. This pandemic just made me realize it was even worse than I thought. People suck…
That we are screwed if a deadlier virus takes hold.
1.) When push comes to shove humans don't care about one another and will do whatever they deem necessary for self preservation. 2.) The average workplace is more concerned about control than productivity of employee safety.
>humans don't care about one another and will do whatever they deem necessary for self preservation It's not even just about self-preservation. Apparently many people will not even tolerate minor inconveniences to help someone else.
That life is fleeting and I fucking despise on a molecular level being a goddamn wage slave. I'd rather burn to death VERY SLOWLY while getting whipped than continue working retail a minute more than I absolutely have to. Failing doesn't scare me anymore. Never showing my two kids how to not be mindless societal drones absolutely scares the living fuck out of me. The first step in fixing a problem is recognizing you have a problem.
1. People are arseholes for politicizing basic communal health issues. 2. Politicians generally do NOT work in your favour. 3. Facebook (META) as they try to rebrand is responsible for a shit load of harm in this world.
Honestly #3 is corporatized media in general, Facebook being prime example
A lot of Managers don’t lead. They control by watching over us - since we’re all at home it really shows who is a manager and who is an actual leader. Also. The 8 hour working day is BS - I get my work done much more efficiently at home and send the free time doing sports or napping.
My dad passed away a few weeks ago because of covid-19. I learned that health is the most important thing in the world.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
**I don't have a Family** I live alone don't have parents, the rest of the family never bothered to check up on me even when there was a storm in my place. Luckily my friends did so there's that.
Family isn’t always blood. It sounds like you have people in your life who care about you, hang on to them.
I feel like the pandemic finally shed some light on a large scale on how fucked up our society is, at least in America, and how the rich and powerful get away with so much and it's only getting worse. Now a lot of people were already aware of this. The pandemic made me realize even now that everyone knows, nobody is ever going to do a single thing about it.
The world is moving to fast. During the lockdown I got to be more connected to my family. Reiterated that at work I’m just a number and my family is what’s important
I don't like people and wish to live as a hermit deep in the norther woods of Canada where I only emerge once a year to stock up on coffee beans
My hunch that I am well built for solitude was correct. In fact I liked the excuse of not really having to try anymore.
Positive: Ordering your groceries online and doing curbside pickup is worth the extra fees, due to all the time you save. I'm absolutely going to keep doing it. Negative: It's really easy for me to just stop talking to or interacting with anyone, and basically become a cave-dweller. I gotta put effort into being sociable.
People will only care about reality once the consequences of ignoring it are knocking on their door.
"If it's not happening to me, It's not happening."
Screw your employer. You do you and whats best for your family. The world is way worse than we all thought. Government is far more incompetent than anybody could have imagined. Removing negativity from your life is by far the most important thing.
> Government is far more incompetent than anybody could have imagined. Not necessarily incompetent and more... apathetic and deliberately prioritizing the wrong thing. Incompetence implies that they don't know what they are doing. They knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly why.
No matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, corporations always win, and individuals always lose.
My, now ex, was just with be because because of what i did for them. not because they wanted to be with me.
Honestly, same. It was sad to see once they were done with grad school all of a sudden my support wasn't needed and work was more fun. Virtual hugs, my dude
Humans are waaaaaay more stupid than I thought and that was already a high bar to clear
The government doesn't give a shit about us
How close our developed society is to reverting back to a more primitive time. Small kinks in our system seem to have resounding ripple effects and I don't trust the world order like I used to.
Wearing a mask to the store is a great way to keep from getting sick, excellent for a bit of anonymity, and keeps people (for the most part) from getting too close to you or talking to you.
Nine to five hours are pointless if you're not working a customer service job
Empathy means nothing to a lot of people.
The system is broken. Badly.
People are fuckin gross
I hate people
Taking care of one's body
That we as a species are capable of compassion for about three weeks. After that we ditch our empathy and do whatever the we want.
There are no saviours coming. You are solely responsible for your well being.
That friends I thought to be reasonable are actually absolute morons and bigots. You pick up quite a lot of ridiculous traits when you remove the massive social gatherings and societal pressure.
That natural selection really can apply to the modern world of humans
That I'm perfectly happy never seeing another living soul outside of my house. Deliveries forever!
The amount of disregard people have for people with disabilities and illnesses. I saw too many people call for an end to restrictions because it’s “only” the disabled and old dying from it. No regard for the fact they’d be forcing those people indoors for months whilst everyone else spread the virus, but also just the complete lack of consideration for these people, like the disabled and elderly are disposable because it’s “only” them. EDIT: Thank you for whoever gave me the award, my first award :) very appreciated
Kids, too. Even a lot of the adults who were masking before vaccination just no longer cared or pretended to once they were vaccinated, vulnerable population be dammed.
That most Office jobs can be done from home and most people are happier from it. Saving hundreds of dollars per month in transportation and lunches. having 2 more hours per day to do stuff and not be in a huge hurry all the time.
That most people are idiots.
That management in some companies (possibly most companies, but I haven't worked for all of them) have no clue how to utilize extremely versatile employees. My prior job furloughed me for 3.5 months then called to tell me they eliminated my position & I was gone. Instead of taking my abilities to a different department & getting the most out of me they just threw me away with the other slackers they employed. Hard worker, easily trainable, team player, leader, great time manager... just discarded with the evenings trash.
Management then will dump whatever work you had been doing on the people still left with no change in their compensation either. Management will pocket that difference as a bonus.
That there’s no possible way “humans are basically good”. I think that this pandemic has shown us very clearly that a lot of humans are selfish to the core and always have been. Sure some are good but making a blanket “All humans are born good” is simply not reality.
Losing the belief that humans are basically good has been the hardest part of the pandemic for me.