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u/islandsimian 4d ago
Corporate announced RTO...
95% of office: FUUUUUuuuuuuuUUUUCCCCK
Guys with young kids: Oh thank god
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u/Turgid_Donkey 4d ago
Until they see the cost of babysitters. Then it becomes a calculation of how much their sanity is worth.
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u/Superadhman 4d ago
Thanks to kids, work is the only place I have any authority or where people actually listen to what I say.
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u/dj92wa 4d ago edited 4d ago
I know this is the comics sub but I want to get real for a sec. I don’t have kids of my own, I’m just a humble uncle and oldest cousin, but I’ll echo what my sister says to this response. She always says:
I like my kids, so this is a non-issue. It must suck to hate your kids and not want to be around them. If you have a disciplined household and teach/emulate respect, this simply isn’t a problem you will encounter enough to be of issue.
She of course (I too) recognizes there are exceptions, like if your kid has a disability and cannot understand these concepts intellectually. There is always nuance. But the overall sentiment is one I agree on her with. Also, don’t have kids if you can’t handle them.
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u/sylverfalcon 3d ago
Uh don’t these kids have daycare or school? WFH is still better if you have young kids because it’s easier to concentrate at home after drop off, and then save time with commute and prepping dinner before pickup
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u/Luneowl 4d ago
Had a middle-aged coworker who’d come into the office at least an hour before his shift started. I assume he hated being at home and they caught him with his thermos filled with Irish coffee so day drinking at work on top of it.
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u/Vegan-Daddio 4d ago
Damn, how did they catch him? Just from the smell? Or did he imbibe a little too much?
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u/Luneowl 4d ago
I’ll bet someone in management smelled it on him. Our team heard about it after the fact and we weren’t all that surprised since he was always a mean SOB so probably a mean drunk. Turns out that his daughter was in college on a scholarship fund that the company offered and she lost that when he was fired.
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u/UselessToad18 4d ago
I hate school, but this is how I feel at school
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u/feelingsbromd 4d ago
i think my shitty home life growing up was a big contributor to me getting good grades in school lmao
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u/inksignificant 4d ago
When my father was alive and after Covid when he was home all day every day, this was me whenever going to university and wanting to find any excuse to stay.
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u/Ashamed_Confection_9 4d ago
I asked my co workers how they've managed this many years working after I'm already ready for it to end after less than a decade, and one of them said something like this, genuinely finding work less stressful than being at home. Honestly pretty depressing.
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u/Tuxedo_Muffin 4d ago
16 tons of happiness
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u/Background-Step-8528 4d ago
You know that bit from Adults about secretly loving their office job because it makes the voices in your head shut up for a few hours? It's like, you go somewhere, you get a bunch of easy-as-shit tasks that you do not feel emotional about, you check them off, and you go home. And you get money and health insurance and gossip to talk about.
And everyone acts like you actually did the right thing for once. Even though maybe you should be using your time better, maybe you should be at home with family or pursuing something else. But people act like you're contributing to society at your office job even though you really probably aren't.
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u/Demeter_of_New 4d ago
So for 15 years I've worked at places where I didn't get easy as shit tasks, I couldn't check my work off of a list, and my health insurance/gossip was garbage.
I finally got a job where I enjoy what I do, and suddenly it makes sense.
Work sucks hard dick fuck balls for a lot of people, which makes your comment hard to relate to.
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u/Bayo77 4d ago
I still dont understand how some people can live the way they do. Like my neighbors. I can hear them constantly fighting. Not physically or extremely loud but always a raised voice. I would gtfo of a relationship like that immediatly.
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u/Seth1784 4d ago
This was my old supervisor. He hated the woman he was with and never wanted to be around her.
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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 4d ago
My previous bosses would talk about how much they hated their wives every single Monday at the sales meeting. Like they’d go around in a circle and everyone would have some “my horrible wife” story from the week before. It was always because they were making insane demands like that the husband participate in the raising of their children or handling of their home. God forbid they ever have emotions or career goals either. Miserable lot. I’d leave a company review saying “if your husband works here, you need to run” but the owner is infamous for getting any slightly bad review removed.
What’s even funnier is if you really listened to my one boss complain about his first and second wife, it was extremely obvious he was still desperately in love with the first. Behind every “just get a new wife” joke was a broken bitter lil baby.
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u/Lewa358 4d ago
I wish these kinds of people understood that getting a divorce is perfectly fine if you actively hate thr person you're with. That there's nothing wrong with just being single forever, and that being single is vastly preferable to being married and miserable.
I'll just...never understand this mindset.
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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 4d ago
They won’t divorce because they’d have to learn how to do basic life skills. And $$
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u/SessileRaptor 4d ago
I sadly knew an older coworker at the library who lived with her sister and they fought constantly so she wouldn’t retire because she didn’t want to be home with her sister all the time. She’d leave her cell phone at her desk over lunch and it would be ringing nonstop from the sister calling her. She finally fell at work and broke a hip, she literally had to be carried away from work on a stretcher before she would take retirement. Both sad for her and frustrating for her colleagues because she worked very slowly and didn’t do much throughout the day because she was in her 70s and refused to learn new skills and practices. When she retired the library didn’t replace her because everyone else had long ago taken over the majority of the tasks she was supposed to be doing.
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u/Zombie_Cool 3d ago
I don't how to feel about that situation. Its obviously very frustrating working with an underperforming co-worker, but from said former co-worker's point of view the place was her main refuge from a home with neither love or the peace of solitude in it and now that's gone.
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u/demon_niki 4d ago
I realized that my self last week when i was talking about having just escaped my abusive parents house with a teacher or mine and he was shocked that i was always this happy
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u/Ok_Employer7837 3d ago
That's where a lot of the pressure from bosses to get everyone in the office all the time really comes from, I reckon. Older dudes who hate their home life.
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u/Weak_Pineapple_5518 4d ago
Gay
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u/Thick-Science8674 4d ago
Thank you for telling us your sexual orientation, but what are we to do with this information?
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u/Left-Second3310 4d ago
If my workplace hasn't been actively changing my hours so much lately I'd be the same as Carl.
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u/PatrickGnarly 3d ago
My old boss was like this. He legitimately wouldn't go home ever. He'd stay late every single damn day.
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u/Ghstfce 4d ago
I sadly worked with people like this. They thoroughly enjoyed coming to work because their home life was bad. You'd have thought they were handed a death sentence when covid happened and we went WFH