Comment by renewiltord | Hacker News Reader

Comment by renewiltord | Hacker News Reader

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Could generate the mess of comments here from ChatGPT but fine, I will do it myself: (100% human made)

- Why would I subject myself to a commute?

- I like being in the office and talking to my coworkers

- You have no social life. I actually have friends unlike you

- Managers are twirling their moustaches to make us come in

- no it's the company executives trying to justify their office space purchases

- actually it's the real estate mafia

- managers just want to exercise power

- yeah it's the managers who want to see butts in seats

- clearly you don't have a family

- that's actually why they want to go in to the office, they don't like their family

Blah blah blah blah constant ceaseless repetition. God why do we never tire of it.

People are beating the horse talking about their own opinions of working from home, but this thread could be a lot more compelling if people focused on at the very least the headline. It's a story about how expectations are shifting in the wider labor market, and people here are unfortunately missing the forest for the trees. The article goes on to say that when you mandate back to office, 70% of your staff either quits immediately or starts looking for new jobs. It's crazy just how much expectations have shifted over the past three years.

You missed a couple:

- real whiteboards are just better

- real whiteboards aren't as good as screen sharing

But yes indeed, nothing new has been said on this subject for years.

Very on point, subsequent discussions of this topic contain no new nuggets of information. It's 100% a tired topic.

It's just a replacement for the continuous complaining about offices we had pre-pandemic

"I could easily make a dump at your doorstep but I won't do it. I'll just describe for you how this dump would look like if I'd do it."

Well, tbh I was trying to kill engagement on the post in a way that will cause others to copy it later thereby killing engagement on this junk forever but there is some skill here that I lack. The gnashing of teeth and wailing will proceed.

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