The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

Post by vba616 » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 12:10 AM UTC

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> it is (socially, in terms of security) a desert hellscape >Of course, such numbers mostly make sense in the US because it is (socially, in terms of security) a desert hellscape. The lower top salary in the EU comes with the benefit of knowing that if you go blind you won't have to die shitting yourself in some crackhouse. Can you elaborate? I assume the canonical source for information about the US is American TV,…

I have american colleagues who are undergoing various treatments and they know they can't lose their job because their health insurance would end and they cannot afford to pay for it without a job. Yes some kind of medicaid or other would eventually kick in, but it would still mean potentially months of going without cancer treatment because you lost your job. In (most) European states it's just not a concern that an…

Post by vba616 » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 12:46 AM UTC

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> In Europe there are not many "remote friendly" companies This is not true. There are many such opportunities if you ask, especially now. > it's not that you will get a 20% pay rise every time you switch If you work in IT (generous, but it is HN...), this should be your experience unless you switch more than once every two years. Then everyone will mistrust you, but you can still do it as a contractor. > On top, it…

> such numbers mostly make sense in the US because it is (socially, in terms of security) a desert hellscape. Tough but fair.

Post by vba616 » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 12:57 AM UTC

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Is there a safety net? (Honest question from a European)

There’s a patchwork of federal, state, and local safety nets with a lot of holes to fall through. Generally speaking, you have to be just fortunate enough (esp. with regard to mental health, social support, and having a mailing address) to have the wherewithal to secure the benefits, but not so fortunate that you don’t qualify. People with everything stacked against them tend to become homeless, and there are few peo…

Post by gambiting » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 7:06 AM UTC

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I have american colleagues who are undergoing various treatments and they know they can't lose their job because their health insurance would end and they cannot afford to pay for it without a job. Yes some kind of medicaid or other would eventually kick in, but it would still mean potentially months of going without cancer treatment because you lost your job. In (most) European states it's just not a concern that an…

Have your American colleagues ever mentioned any US programs, laws, or benefits instituted after 1965?

Post by themadturk » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 3:26 PM UTC

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So all the people in the office on calls are wearing noise cancelling headphones so they can take part in meetings with people who may be in the same office. Even with good noise cancelling they have to be permanently muted if not talking to avoid bleed though noise from the environment. All of the other people around then are forced to wear noise cancelling headphones to cancel out the noise of all the people around…

This was mostly just for company-wide meetings (standups and the like). For smaller meetings people would move to a conference room. >Remind me again which part of this is better than those people just being at home in their own space? I didn't argue against remote, simply that having an online meeting which includes people near you doesn't have to be problematic sound-wise.