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Posted: 9/6/2024 12:00:49 AM EST
[#1]
My job is fucking awesome*
 *to me 
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Posted: 9/6/2024 12:06:01 AM EST
[#2]
I love my job
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Posted: 9/6/2024 12:09:43 AM EST
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I love the job Hate the fucking people LOL!!!!! Glad to know there are more of us out there....... 
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Posted: 9/6/2024 12:16:31 AM EST
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wrong. My biggest issue is employees. I pay at the top of the scale for the industry, no mandatory overtime, no night, no weekends. I don’t yell, I work everyday at the same tasks as the employees, and I provide lunch everyday. I can’t even find people who want to work 5 days a week. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: job market is favoring employers employers turn into fucking assholes because they have no worry about retaining/replacing staff Wrong. My biggest issue is employees. I pay at the top of the scale for the industry, no mandatory overtime, no night, no weekends. I don’t yell, I work everyday at the same tasks as the employees, and I provide lunch everyday. I can’t even find people who want to work 5 days a week. Just curious, but could you do a 4 10 schedule? After working that I absolutely hate the 5 day work week. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 12:47:51 AM EST
[#5]
Like my job, hate my managers and our customers.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 1:07:32 AM EST
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m seeing increased worker dissatisfaction due to workers being cut and the workload increasing on the remainder. That works for a little bit, but eventually burnout sets in and people check out. Hey, I've seen that one! In my case it's mainly attrition due to people quitting or transferring, and corporate is so screwed up that they can't figure out how to hire people anymore despite having the positions posted. I routinely do the job of 2-2.5 guys as a result and have the aches and pains to prove it. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 1:26:42 AM EST
[#7]
im good almost 20 years
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Posted: 9/6/2024 4:37:19 AM EST
[#8]
I love my old job now that I'm retired, especially on the last day of the month.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:28:33 AM EST
[#9]
I like my work.
I'm work for and with an old friend, and we're spread thin within our department. I'm hoping to hire a subordinate soon which will make my life easier. I like the job enough that the missus and I just bought a place so that my commute could change from 25 miles to 5. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:32:20 AM EST
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Everyone is waiting for the election results. T$ wins and there's hope. But dems win, and cuts will be everywhere as companies slash costs to try to get through the next 4 years. This is why you recession-proof yourself. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:34:03 AM EST
[#11]
I know I am a bit odd, but I have worked the same job for over 30 years and I have always liked it. Got a great boss, good co-workers, it's less than 2 miles from home, and I still get occasional surprises I have to deal with, which makes it interesting.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:34:32 AM EST
[#12]
Not really. There are people here I prefer to not work with, and some tasks are less enjoyable than others. The people continually bitching about their jobs here are always the short-timers who'll quit or get fired anyhow so there's no need to listen to them.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:38:42 AM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I swear no one even works anymore. I worked from home for a LONG time before the covid nonsense, I loved being able to go to stores during the week and they'd be empty. Now, Costco is a freaking madhouse open to close every day. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:48:03 AM EST
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In retail pharmacy, there is a HUGE retention problem; the young'uns aren't signing up like they used to, and the older hands are bailing out due to being burnt out and saying fuck it. My wife called her regional manager Tuesday to report an issue, and the first thing out of the manager's mouth was "you aren't calling to quit too, are you?" They had 3 pharmacists, all long-time employees quit, in the last 2 days. Replacements are few and far between. They dick over pharmacist as bad as about anybody in the medical field. I think nursing homes are the only place worse as far as staffing and the bullshit the nurses and orderlies have to put up with. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:49:00 AM EST
[#15]
*General Malaise
People are dissatisfied with life for various reasons, and work is one of those areas people are dissatisfied with. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:53:57 AM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They dick over pharmacist as bad as about anybody in the medical field. I think nursing homes are the only place worse as far as staffing and the bullshit the nurses and orderlies have to put up with. Yup. It's like the nursing home management is hired from the slimiest of the HR world and they're told that war has been declared on The Help. Arfcom wouldn't believe the bullshit they pull on the workforce unless they saw it with their own eyes. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 5:55:05 AM EST
[#17]
The problem with RTO is complete lack of consistency. Remote was fine when everyone was scared of the fake pandemic. Employees being forced to come back, in industries where they can work from home, know the reason is to prop up corporate real estate and support leftist shithole cities.
Anything for which the real reason isn’t communicated clearly is a hard sell. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:09:11 AM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I love my job! Wait, loved…  |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:09:34 AM EST
[#19]
Well my boss pretty much told me finding a new job would be a good idea so.....
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:12:49 AM EST
[#20]
People seem to hate everything right now.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:15:07 AM EST
[#21]
Here is my take.
1) companies going "wokeish" catering to the new pc/liberal/woke mindsets. The company's themselves make this an issue in the workplace by openly supporting those movements, examples are the support of the covid agenda, and having specific stuff in the workplace promoting support of lgbtq, and (insert here) movements. All this does is alienate the gold that just want to come to work and do a job. Not have to deal with that stuff. And what I've seen as well is it creates a weak management structure...on to #2 2) weak management. To much manageing and not enough leadership. And the management is catering to the stuff from #1. Where i work this is prevelant from upper management and h.r. And the average worker over the age of 35 is not impressed. To much blanket reaction to stuff. Lazy workers cause issues, and everyone has to deal with with the piss poor solution (again weak managment) or the good workers are treated the same as the lazy ones which demoralizes the good people. 3) blanket reactions. Employee A does something stupid, is lazy etc etc... to fix this, rather than deal with the person (train them, correct the bad behaviour etc) they make a new corporate policy that applies to everyone. Again.. demoralizing the people that just want to go on and do their jobs without B. S. 4) the newer generations of workers coming in that are lazy (because they have never had to work, don't know how to work, or have to, but don't want to be there) are catered to by management, (see 1-3) which demoralizes others. Ive seen a lot of examples of this, I've seen good folks either quit, get fired, or retire earlier than they planned due to ask if the above. If it wasn't for the paycheck i would be out of here. I just try to come in do my job and go home, leaving work at work. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:16:25 AM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This, remote worker for the last 20+ and you are correct. I don't believe more than 50% of people work anymore I worked at home for 35 years, starting at 18. I worked and it was easy to prove. I turned in the drawings I did and got paid. Don't turn in the shop drawings I didn't get paid. They would notice in a big hurry there's 50 guys standing around the shop waiting for drawings so they could build something. I mentioned I like my job. I will say that even people who like their job will complain. The company I do a large amount of my work for the average number of years worked there is 35, and that includes the office and the shop. Everyone is paid above average and gets a rougly 20% gross pay bonus each year. Nobody has ever been laid off from there since the owner got it from his father in the 70s. The only person(s) fired in that time was because they stole something. But people still complain. It's like a hobby. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:17:31 AM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People seem to hate everything right now. The country has become Arfcom. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:22:54 AM EST
[#24]
Covid caused more work and less labor. The last 3.5 years were brutal to keep up with. I see a lot of people who are just burned out from it, including myself.
I was doing the work of 3 people for that timeframe, and now that I have a couple people working for me it's been hard to keep the pace up. Plus my pay is way down because I'm having to pay their salaries and the cost of having an office Also the last 3 years has been brutal in my personal life. Very difficult adoption has trashed my marriage and some family relationships. I'm surprised I'm still standing to be honest, so I'm trying to not be too hard on myself. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:24:24 AM EST
[#25]
Yup tired of it all. Six days a week.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:27:26 AM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The country has become Arfcom. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: People seem to hate everything right now. The country has become Arfcom. Now I gotta go drive 3 hours to work. lol |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:27:50 AM EST
[#27]
I changed jobs in the last couple have months.
While I like the actual work that I’m doing less, I now have benefits, better pay, and mentally/emotionally stable management that likes me and looks out for me. Working at the gun store, I LOVED the actual work that I did and felt like I was making a difference in the world, and I got paid very well for retail, but I got no benefits and management was actively hostile. I’m in a better place now, even of the work is technically less fulfilling. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:33:09 AM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Everything sucks when Democrats steal an election and take over the country and implement their treasonous policies.. but I digress. This is where I am at too. I love my job though. One thing is guaranteed. Things will change. Just don't know if it will be for better or worse. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:34:30 AM EST
[#29]
Incredibly stupid customers are making work currently not fun.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:40:40 AM EST
[#30]
I like what I do, just simply despise the management class and what they done to our firm. Nearly every week we get an email announcing some new position they’ve created has been filled with someone hired from outside the firm, while telling us our job is going away in the next year unless we want to commute 80ish miles each way. Oh and no new jobs here, they’re being filled in India and the Philippines.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:41:11 AM EST
[#31]
I used to like my job doing engineering work, then they had the classic "hey lets make the good engineers be project managers instead" mindset and I have to sit in a cubicle all day instead of getting to do work that feels meaningful to me.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:41:37 AM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The country has become Arfcom. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: People seem to hate everything right now. The country has become Arfcom.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:41:44 AM EST
[#33]
It could be worse...the old 9:30 to 5:30, wait though, that's 9:30 PM to 5:30 AM, it pays the bills.
After going 12 years with no raises or COLA, I recently received a "Record" 10% raise this year, and now make over $35 an hour, plus COLA was reinstated. Now that the weather is cooling off, it's no longer 95* to 98* F in the building; it has dropped down to a much more pleasant 85* to 90*. It's typically about 10* warmer than outside air temperature during the Summer. It gets pretty toasty in those nylon coveralls. So, things are getting "moar gooder". Not great, not terrible. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:42:20 AM EST
[#34]
Weak and/or ineffective leadership is more common.
Distractions from your job (mandatory training anybody?) are more common, .gov has screwed up the economy for almost 4 years by printing obscene amounts of money. The attitude of “work to live” has a lot of people chasing pay rather than a job they enjoy or are interested in. HR often makes hiring the right person difficult. Imagine a person with a liberal arts degree screening resumes for an engineer, machinist, or nurse. HR has also commonly made employees a disposable commodity rather than an asset. Maybe the most common factor is social strife - life is so good in America we have the time to argue about whether a guy with a cock-n-balls is a woman. Politics and conflict is crammed down everybody’s throats all day everyday. I definitely believe we’re in the “easy times make soft people” stage. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:50:17 AM EST
[#35]
I love my job but I’m a self employed independent contractor.
I have unlimited freedom, set my own schedule and make really good money. I couldn’t punch a clock in a factory or sit at a desk all day. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:07:49 AM EST
[#36]
I know we have a lot more pressure on us to complete a ton of projects. I am an engineer for a .gov agency and we are putting out 3x as many projects as we did when I first worked there.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but it is wearing me down. I only have 3 years to go to retirement so I will just push through. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:13:24 AM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The country has become Arfcom. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:20:18 AM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not inaccurate. There's always still hungry dudes out there trying to get it. And if you are one of the hungry dudes you will absolutely shine. Work from home feels great and people love it, but they rationalize away the long term impact on their career. Sure you may be great at a job that you can do solo on your computer from anywhere in the world today. But one day you might start to get tired of it and start wanting a promotion to...(gasp) management. Unfortunately, you worked from home the past 20 years. Nobody knows you. No one ever mentored you. You never interacted with or presented to management and didn't know how work is done day to day at that level. Lots of opportunities went to someone else who was in the office because you were not there and it was easy to give the task to the guy who was there. Nobody knows how you deal with people, and even worse, you don't know how to lead a team of people because you have always worked solo. Over 30 years ago I sat in my annual review with my boss and told him I wanted to be a technical expert and didn't want to be a manager. Today I manage large petrochemical projects, with billion dollar plus budgets, employing thousands of people. I love my job. If I had stayed technical, I would have gotten bored and burned out. I moved away from technical tasks over 20 years ago. I predict that leadership skills (mistakenly referred to as management) in the American workforce will decline dramatically as people who have always worked from home with no experience interacting with people start filling leadership roles. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:56:11 AM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: And if you are one of the hungry dudes you will absolutely shine. Work from home feels great and people love it, but they rationalize away the long term impact on their career. Sure you may be great at a job that you can do solo on your computer from anywhere in the world today. But one day you might start to get tired of it and start wanting a promotion to...(gasp) management. Unfortunately, you worked from home the past 20 years. Nobody knows you. No one ever mentored you. You never interacted with or presented to management and didn't know how work is done day to day at that level. Lots of opportunities went to someone else who was in the office because you were not there and it was easy to give the task to the guy who was there. Nobody knows how you deal with people, and even worse, you don't know how to lead a team of people because you have always worked solo. Over 30 years ago I sat in my annual review with my boss and told him I wanted to be a technical expert and didn't want to be a manager. Today I manage large petrochemical projects, with billion dollar plus budgets, employing thousands of people. I love my job. If I had stayed technical, I would have gotten bored and burned out. I moved away from technical tasks over 20 years ago. I predict that management leadership skills (mistakenly referred to as management) in the American workforce will decline dramatically as people who have always worked from home with no experience interacting with people start filling leadership roles. It’s common to hear, even here, that people prefer WFH because they don’t want to deal with people in person. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:04:40 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s common to hear, even here, that people prefer WFH because they don’t want to deal with people in person. Dealing with people is difficult. Leadership is an art and a science. You can learn the science part fairly easily, but the art comes with experience and observation. I can honestly say that I learned as much from bad managers (what NOT to do) as I did working from great leaders. People who work from home will miss that experience. I love working with good people. I do not, however suffer laggards and troublemakers. Part of having a great team is not allowing those who don't perform, or who like to stir up shit to drag the team down. Those people are toxic to the work environment, and your true performers will thank you for getting rid of them. I have lots of time to coach and teach a person who is eager to learn. I have no patience for people who don't care and want to coast through life. A good leader has to know how to work the HR system and rid the team of the non-performers and toxic trouble makers. When someone says that HR won't let them terminate non performers, What I hear is " It's too hard, and I don't want to be the bad guy." |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:11:49 AM EST
[#41]
Hate my job and most of the people here.
During COVID we sold a metric shit ton of crap, but here we are 4 years later and still "trying" to fulfill orders while not allowing new orders to be placed. Oh and we introduced a new product we're not allowed to sell yet. Meanwhile, we debut a product line that's pretty cool (kind of late to market), pump them out in crazy numbers - market falls flat - boss gets mad at Sales Dept. Production NEVER listens to Sales, or even considers what we see on a daily basis. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:13:24 AM EST
[#42]
I like the work I do but I hate everything about how the place is run.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:29:59 AM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s common to hear, even here, that people prefer WFH because they don’t want to deal with people in person. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Work from home feels great and people love it, but they rationalize away the long term impact on their career. It’s common to hear, even here, that people prefer WFH because they don’t want to deal with people in person. Some famous business guy said in an interview that working from home was great for a job but bad for a career. A lot of crybabies protested and said that was untrue and that he was out of touch with reality, but none of the people protesting were executives, management, or business owners. Remote work is great if your people are a commodity and easily replaced. I think a lot of people believe they can work remote and have the same opportunities and career progression as somebody who works in person. That might be true in some isolated cases but only a fool would believe that is the case for a majority of jobs. Part of the problem could be this cognitive dissonance - remote workers want to think they are equal to in-office workers, but they know subconsciously that an equally skilled coworker in the office gets face time with the boss and is probably better off professionally than they are. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:31:56 AM EST
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:33:03 AM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Here is my take. 1) companies going "wokeish" catering to the new pc/liberal/woke mindsets. The company's themselves make this an issue in the workplace by openly supporting those movements, examples are the support of the covid agenda, and having specific stuff in the workplace promoting support of lgbtq, and (insert here) movements. All this does is alienate the gold that just want to come to work and do a job. Not have to deal with that stuff. And what I've seen as well is it creates a weak management structure...on to #2 2) weak management. To much manageing and not enough leadership. And the management is catering to the stuff from #1. Where i work this is prevelant from upper management and h.r. And the average worker over the age of 35 is not impressed. To much blanket reaction to stuff. Lazy workers cause issues, and everyone has to deal with with the piss poor solution (again weak managment) or the good workers are treated the same as the lazy ones which demoralizes the good people. 3) blanket reactions. Employee A does something stupid, is lazy etc etc... to fix this, rather than deal with the person (train them, correct the bad behaviour etc) they make a new corporate policy that applies to everyone. Again.. demoralizing the people that just want to go on and do their jobs without B. S. 4) the newer generations of workers coming in that are lazy (because they have never had to work, don't know how to work, or have to, but don't want to be there) are catered to by management, (see 1-3) which demoralizes others. Ive seen a lot of examples of this, I've seen good folks either quit, get fired, or retire earlier than they planned due to ask if the above. If it wasn't for the paycheck i would be out of here. I just try to come in do my job and go home, leaving work at work. May I subscribe to your newsletter good sir? We must work for the same people. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:34:16 AM EST
[#46]
Love my job, still doing it after 37 years. I'm my own boss, make a decent living, play with puppies and kittens all day. What's not to love?
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:35:32 AM EST
[#47]
I quit a job of 15 years where I was miserable and took another one doing the exact same thing.
Much happier now though.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:37:33 AM EST
[#48]
I am tired of how much people expect me to work for free for them, while they would never do a damn thing without getting paid.
I am about ready to just say fuck it and go work the isles at Home Depot. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:37:50 AM EST
[#49]
I'm actively looking for a new job. It is proving difficult.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:37:50 AM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Some famous business guy said in an interview that working from home was great for a job but bad for a career. A lot of crybabies protested and said that was untrue and that he was out of touch with reality, but none of the people protesting were executives, management, or business owners. Remote work is great if your people are a commodity and easily replaced. I think a lot of people believe they can work remote and have the same opportunities and career progression as somebody who works in person. That might be true in some isolated cases but only a fool would believe that is the case for a majority of jobs. Part of the problem could be this cognitive dissonance - remote workers want to think they are equal to in-office workers, but they know subconsciously that an equally skilled coworker in the office gets face time with the boss and is probably better off professionally than they are. I interviewed at another company just for shits and giggles earlier this week. The work atmosphere is known for being good. In office. Position open as someone had retired. I was the only applicant who didn’t ask about WFH. I was offered the job but didn’t accept as it would have been an almost 30% pay cut and I’d have to pay $500 a month for my insurance. I currently pay nothing for my insurance. My retirement savings would have gone down to almost nothing. |
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