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EDIT: who is on here as @PavelASamsonov
![STOP DOING OFFICES
* WORK WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE 90 MINUTES BY CAR TO GET TO
* YEARS OF URBANIZATION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going to a different building to use the SAME INTERNET
* Wanted to do that anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that, it was called COFFEE SHOPS
* “Can you wrap up your call, we have this room booked” “how do we get office parking reimbursed” - Statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what corporations have been demanding your Respect for all this time with all the labor we have given them
(These are REAL FURNISHINGS found in REAL OFFICES)
[fluorescent strip lighting]
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[crowded open plan desks]
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[grey carpeted corridor]
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“Hello | would like to hear [headset] half of your Zoom call”
They have played us for absolute fools](https://circumstances.run/system/media_attachments/files/110/379/897/151/419/544/original/3049dbb405ea5277.png)
@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...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110382697884544399
@kkarhan @davidgerard In the interview they hinted at flexibility, but once I started they insisted on six months of pointless commuting
@nic @kkarhan @davidgerard To be fair, this remote work thing is pretty complicated, saw this in a job ad last year (admittled, it probably is something boring like a typo). 
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@mapcar @nic @davidgerard unless it's a position that requires physical on-site work like installations on a construction site, I think employers should be incentivized on their own to allow as mich remote work as technically possible, as this reduced needed floorspace and allows the few people that can't work remotely (i.e. sue to shitty internet, having loud work done outside or inside, having small children that don't understand work) to come in.
@mapcar @nic @davidgerard Not only will it reduce dissatisfaction due to unpaid work aka. commute but also reduce costs and increase resilience by not having a single location as a point of failure.
@mapcar @nic @davidgerard I just put 100% remote work into my contract.
https://toot.wales/@nic/110382799743673152
@davidgerard @mapcar @nic excellent.
I'm shure they also were able to cut costs this way as commercial leases are quite pricy after all...
@davidgerard @nic @kkarhan @mapcar Same. Went from seven floors to six, soon five, bigger desks and more conference rooms.
When our floor closes, our department of 80 people will move to another floor where we'll have 50 desks.