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 @jameschip Right??! I used to think this sort of workaholic attitude was normal. By now, I find it downright scary. These people don’t just make their own lives hell. They also mess things up for everyone else: Partly by setting impossible standards for presence (not performance); and partly because they tend to take decisions that make a sailor on shore leave look like a model of rationality. 4 comments
@jameschip That displayed coldness and contempt is exactly why so many people have anxiety or guilt about any tiny bit of pleasure, peace, or happiness that they can extract from this cursed capitalist existence.  @slothrop @DelilahTech @jameschip TBQH I have very little practical experience with sailors. But my mental model of one is Pig Bodine from Thomas #Pynchon´s novel "V", and that doesn´t seem to be too far off the mark. |
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@slothrop it was just the coldness of her thinking it was bad people enjoy a few moments a day that spun me. Usually these folks argue that you cant do the job properly remotely, or irlt is bad for team moral, or something else job related. But to come out against having time to enjoy breakfast, that is just cold.
Far more cold than the "I work in a super market and I dont get to work from home, so why should they" guy that called in, that is just petty jealousy.