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16 May 2023 at 19:03 | Open on peeledoffmy.skin
@davidgerard @frumble crossposts von bluesky, what a time to be alive  @davidgerard The site I work at is removing cubes and installing tiny desks because it means they can cram in more people. @davidgerard It's pretty grim. In one building they want two people per desk, working simultaneously! @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.  @Ulrich_the_Elder @davidgerard sadly that doesn't work in Germany due to building codes being vastly different between housing and offices... @davidgerard @kf only half of your zoom call? Clearly you haven’t been in public lately :( Except for, you know, all that work which does not consist of keyboarding and mousing over the Internet. @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 @davidgerard I would've refused to even apply! I do 100% remote nowadays... @kkarhan @davidgerard In the interview they hinted at flexibility, but once I started they insisted on six months of pointless commuting @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. @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. @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.  |