Ask HN: Are you going to quit?

Post by freedom2099 » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:58 PM UTC

arcticbull wrote: post #100

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Move to a bigger place then! The beauty of wfh is that you can live wherever you want! I have a very nice home office… my wfh setup is by many orders of magnitude better than what the office used to offer: better desk (nice electric standing desk), better chair, better monitors, better headset/mic, a quiet space!

Moving to a bigger place won't put my coworkers into it lol

Post by freedom2099 » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 6:16 PM UTC

arcticbull wrote: post #102

freedom2099 wrote: post #101

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If you need a social life get in touch with your friends and family! Working from home you will get much more time to spend with them!

I spend plenty of time with friends and family after work - and on weekends of course - however I spend 9am to 7pm in isolation. This is the part I am referencing. I'm completely open to it not being a problem for you, but I don't like it. With respect, the question was what about I am going to do.

Post by WelcomeShorty » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 12:38 PM UTC

etrautmann wrote: post #95

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> I like commuting, I like smalltalk, I like dropping by people's desk to ask a quick question, and I don't mind it when people do the same to me. I like getting to know people, I like going out for lunch with coworkers, I like building relationships with people. I like knowing the identity of those I work with beyond a Slack pfp. You can not seriously suggest that people who can do (and have done the last 2 years) t…

What? I’m in the middle here but your suggestion is not practical. Your professional interests should be largely orthogonalizable from your personality traits like degree of extroversion. I’m a scientist. I like people. I don’t want to have to be a bartender because I like working with other people.