The growing inequality of who gets to work from home

Post by gumby » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:26 PM UTC

vasco wrote: post #41

awongh wrote: post #28

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> How many airplanes crashed due to The pilot being on drugs? As long as testing is uncommon you could say that number will remain at zero or near zero simply for lack of data. You comment implies but doesn’t state explicitly that you think truck drivers are more likely than pilots to be on drugs, is that true though?

Based on likely social setting difference due to salary difference plus the fact that truck drivers go through seedy places and do many long stretches alone, compared to pilots frequenting airports and hotels, and always working with a crew, I'm sure truck drivers use more drugs than airplane pilots. If you are not sure of this, I think your mind is "too open".

Post by tinktank » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:28 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #23

The other day I phoned a service provider and the lady’s kid was babbling in the background and a children’s show was playing throughout the call. I couldn’t get off the phone fast enough. Either invest in voice isolation or don’t work from home. Functionally this lady brought her kid to my home office and blasted a cartoon during our meeting. Is this harsh of me and an unpopular opinion? Yes. I agree that Human bein…

Post by larrykubin » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:32 PM UTC

j7ake wrote: post #90

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #52

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Honestly a lot of the “low skill jobs” actually have a high skill threshold but we just arbitrarily decide to suppress them. Take somewhere like Starbucks. They pay them minimum wage, churn em constantly so they’re never trained and make them work arbitrary shifts like 4 hour -> 2 hour unpaid break -> additional 4 hours. Those staff end up “low skilled” but in reality someone who was treated fairly and respected woul…

Those skilled baristas are welcome to open up their own shop to compete though (which probably many do , successfully). Problem is VCs don’t fund coffee shops, otherwise Starbucks would be “disrupted” overnight.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

lawgimenez wrote: post #126

unsupp0rted wrote: post #73

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As an intentional non-parent who lived for a decade in several Asian countries: work calls are for doing work. Serious people don’t let their kids talk over their meetings.

Chill with the attitude, you have no idea what she’s been through with her kid. Maybe the kid just got off from a tantrum or something.

Post by ghaff » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

6510 wrote: post #44

calvinmorrison wrote: post #22

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No its because usually low level jobs require you to operate heavy machinery like driving a truck or operating a forklift or work on the floor of the factory, or being around those things. Or for example handling cash at registers etc. I feel like this conspiracy is the author, and apparently hn needs to touch grass a little bit

A friend from Yugoslavia told me about his job there. Their lunch room looked like a grand cafe with every possible kind of liquor and a variety of beer on the tap. Around 11 am some of his coworkers had a few beers, in the sun, in front of the building. Around 1 they had some whiskey or vodka etc. At the end of the work day some went home, others stuck around. They had a few more drinks, some went home, others went…