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Stullekovski

@davidgerard @frumble crossposts von bluesky, what a time to be alive

glasspshr

@davidgerard I regret that I have but one boost to give this

lopta

@davidgerard The site I work at is removing cubes and installing tiny desks because it means they can cram in more people.

lopta

@davidgerard ...and apparently I'm not supposed to call them "cattle stalls".

David Gerard

@lopta quite right, the precise term is "veal-fattening pens"

lopta

@davidgerard It's pretty grim. In one building they want two people per desk, working simultaneously!

Ulrich_the_Elder 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 😷

@davidgerard If an office block had the first floor converted to shops and services and the other floors converted to housing. You have an instant walking access neighborhood.

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Ulrich_the_Elder @davidgerard sadly that doesn't work in Germany due to building codes being vastly different between housing and offices...

Jeremy Kitchen

@davidgerard @kf only half of your zoom call? Clearly you haven’t been in public lately :(

Kazinator

@davidgerard

Except for, you know, all that work which does not consist of keyboarding and mousing over the Internet.

Nic Dafis

@davidgerard The last office job I had (briefly) required me to drive 64 miles a day to fiddle with a database on the internet. They even had an office I could’ve walked to near my village, but “the IT dept is in Aberystwyth”. I lasted 5 weeks.

Nic Dafis

@kkarhan @davidgerard In the interview they hinted at flexibility, but once I started they insisted on six months of pointless commuting

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@davidgerard +9001%

I once left a company with 75% of the #Linux team due to escalating commitment of the employer to an overpriced commercial lease.

Grumbling Game Master

@davidgerard I'm 'lucky' in that our offices are only 2 km from my home, but even so I absolutely fng loathe the ambience. Those pictures could be taken right here. Currently working 60% remote and been applying elsewhere to get 100% remote.

dperkins

@davidgerard Who is "us"? Many people have remarked for a very long time that offices were terrible environments, and many people have been working remotely for decades if not longer.

Chris L

@davidgerard "Hello I would like to hear half of your Zoom call" is chef's kiss.

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