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How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely

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Re: How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely

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My entire office has been work from home since March, I don't think any of us have been having issues (we're hourly and there's no work you can do without being clocked in and leaving timestamps) and I 100% hope I never have to go back to the office. Ever. I have MORE time for life, I'm not in a car an hour a day driving to and from work, I don't have to get to work 15 minutes early to make sure my system boots so I can actually clock in, I don't have to fight for 1 of 3 microwaves in the break room on the 30 minutes I get for lunch, I clock out and bam my wife and I can get on with our evening instantly, I can eat much better because I don't have to worry about what food I can keep in a small lunchbox without it spoiling/without losing too much space to ice packs, I don't have to use an often soiled public restroom and dodge puddles/piles of human waste, I don't have the distraction of 100ish people in a cramped open office talking/walking around, I have an entire bedroom as an office to myself instead of a few square feet of space, I can listen to music/books/YT videos without having to have earbuds jammed into one ear because we're supposed to always be able to hear people at work, I don't have to smell a 3-7 burnt bags of popcorn a day or someone's frozen artificial crab/cheep microwaved garlic monstrosity/boiled greens they microwaved about 3 minutes too long. It's great. I never, ever, ever, want to go back to an office.

Sadly we'll be back to work, sharing desks/keyboards/mice with another shift, as soon as they feel covid is under control :( it's going to suck and absolutely destory my desire to work.

Re: How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your job sounds horrible, look around more. The "respond within an hour to slack" sounds downright torturous.

My last week of week consisted of my coworkers freaking out if I didn’t respond in 5 to 15 minutes

On the other side, my last job had no work for me and never merged the stuff i did that they asked for, and that was pretty annoying also; sounds like you got out though, so hopefully you found something better!
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