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  • just more of the same

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 7:59am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    The reality is that WFH is a predominantly white privileged class leveraging gap inequities against African-Americans. WFHers won't admit to that, but stats don't lie.

  • bah.

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 8:06am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    Just go home.

  • wfh goon

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 8:09am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    OK Boomer

  • bdidnbee

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 8:27am EDT
    re: bah.

    bah. wrote:

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    Just go home.

    Triggered people because it's right on target.

  • Bill Gregg

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 8:48am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    There has always been a class system. Office jobs that require high iq have always paid better with more perks than a construction or factory job. WFH just makes one of the perks more obvious. A tax write off for non wfh? Maybe. I’d rather see higher taxes on the top 1%.

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    Badcompany

    Member since 02/26/2023.

    3,800 posts. Last post 2 hours ago.
    2 years ago 06/09/2023 8:56am EDT
    re: Bill Gregg

    I wouldn’t be envious. Working from home means location doesn’t matter. You become vulnerable to having your job lost to someone in a cheaper area.

  • Homey Mchomeface

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 9:01am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    Sucks to be you

  • it is time

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 9:30am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    I won't change your mind. I don't care about your mind. You can work in any field you'd like or cry about it.

  • cumminback

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 10:22am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    Ok dude I'll stop WFH and be on the highway with you in the morning. You don't get to complain about traffic anymore because you asked for this.

  • registered

    samcallan

    Member since 12/12/2021.

    5,396 posts. Last post 9 hours ago.
    2 years ago 06/09/2023 10:33am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    There are people who get to work in air conditioned offices in the summer and people who are working highway construction. We should air condition the outside world!

    There are all sorts of "inequities". The good news is more jobs will be replaced or partially replaced by automation of some sort so that will even the playing field :)

  • Femboi1

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 10:35am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    You should be more worried about your job being shipped to China or lose your job to someone from another country earning less. WFH folks are the least of your worries. Read the room.

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    samcallan

    Member since 12/12/2021.

    5,396 posts. Last post 9 hours ago.
    2 years ago 06/09/2023 10:37am EDT
    re: Never Leave Work

    Never Leave Work wrote:

    The negative side of being able to work from home is you never really leave work. Something might come up and I need to do something at 9pm. Or on a random Saturday afternoon. When you leave work you are away from work until the next time you go back. Work from home jobs don’t have overtime pay for weird hours.

    Some WFH jobs are hourly and have overtime. My niece WFH often and her computer system is set up to only allow her in between normal work hours. If there is something that needs to be done after hours, her boss has to put in an override (she does not have a management job) since she has to be paid for that work.

    There are a good number of remote jobs that are hourly.

    It is inherent on you (and I think the company) not to do those tasks during non-office hours except maybe when you really want to. If I am working on a cool project I love spending time on it even on weekends or nights, but that is on me. I am not answering random emails on Sat mornings unless we have something critical coming up where things get time sensitive (sort of built into my field).

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    samcallan

    Member since 12/12/2021.

    5,396 posts. Last post 9 hours ago.
    2 years ago 06/09/2023 10:38am EDT
    re: Yeah go back to work

    Yeah go back to work wrote:

    Yeah human nature is to slack off if nobody is watching and micromanaging your whereabouts. WFH is no different than home schooling. Those kids whack off and play video games after doing some silly workbook exercises. WFH slackers are taking dumps and checking this site every minute.

    Probably not a great example as home schooled kids often do quite well and the amount of learning in schools often is quite dismal.

  • Time To Grow Up

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 10:50am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    Jealousy is a terrible personality trait. Exercise a little personal responsibility (ever heard of it?) and find a better job if you don't like yours. You should redirect your bitterness towards your employer, rather than other people who have no impact on you.

  • bdidnbee

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 11:00am EDT
    re: Time To Grow Up

    Time To Grow Up wrote:

    bdidnbee wrote:

    There is a class system being created that is inherently inequitable. First off, I highly doubt most WFH are working most of the time they say they are. I know several people that say they are working and are taking care of their under 5 year old kids at the same time.

    How about the rest of us in health care, construction, and food service that have to wake up and get our kids ready, drop them off, pay for child care, and upkeep our autos? Shouldn't there be some kind of tax write off for those that work in essential non WFH jobs?

    Change my mind.

    Jealousy is a terrible personality trait. Exercise a little personal responsibility (ever heard of it?) and find a better job if you don't like yours. You should redirect your bitterness towards your employer, rather than other people who have no impact on you.

    Going to guess you are working from home right now?

  • Time To Grow Up.

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 11:17am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    bdidnbee wrote:

    Going to guess you are working from home right now?

    Guess again, Mr. Whiner.

  • don't fit in

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 11:34am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    Work from home would probably be ideal for me.

    I'm extremely polite, but I'm quiet and an introvert and most people ignore me after a while. People can't stand quietness.

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    Josh439

    Member since 01/29/2021.

    1,408 posts. Last post 3 days ago.
    2 years ago 06/09/2023 11:42am EDT
    re: bdidnbee

    People who don’t work much at home probably didn’t do much in the office either. They’re just not pretending to be busy or bored at the office anymore.

  • weird take

    Anonymous Poster

    2 years ago 06/09/2023 11:48am EDT
    re: don't fit in

    don\'t fit in wrote:

    Work from home would probably be ideal for me.

    I'm extremely polite, but I'm quiet and an introvert and most people ignore me after a while. People can't stand quietness.

    That has nothing to do with work from home. 😂 You would probably get fired in a month if you think that's what work is. I've had to work more hours work from home than I ever did in the office. I'd rather go back into the office at this point to kiss the boss's booty like the old days of wasting time. I agree with many of the posters here - corporate greed is getting ignored in this thread. So many jobs have been reduced to 30 hours a week to avoid paying benefits. On top of that, jobs are getting eliminated and every day, the new corporate culture is to guilt everybody into thinking they are a bad employee so that they can be manipulated at the drop of a (corporate) hat.


  • OldRWRunner

    OldRWRunner

    Member since 08/16/2021.

    97 posts. Last post 1 week ago.
    2 years ago 06/09/2023 11:49am EDT
    re: Yeah go back to work

    Whoa there! As a collegiate coach, I have coached both home schooled and government schooled kids. the home schooled kids are smarter, harder working, more mature, more respectful. Plus their average GPA is much higher too. You're right, home school kids don't spend 8 hours a day "in school." It only underscores how terrible our government schools are. Kid's spend twice as much time on "school" and get half the results.

    As far as WFH goes, I am way more efficient at home. Nobody is stopping by my office to "chat" all the time. I'm not stuck in near as many waste-of-time meetings. I think the success of WFH depends on how motivated the worker is.

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