Work
- Thread starter sufi
- Start date
shakahislop
Well-known member
it's a massive difference i find. every job i've done is different in that respect. but anything manual seems to have much less downtime. working on a production line obviously there's zero downtime, coz the speed of the line determines the speed of your work, and that's basically nonstop. the good thing about it is that there's nothing to think about and you can drift away in your head. actually you have to. the same for warehouse work, i got to listen to a lot of music, and pay attention to it too. all of that stuff has a consequence for what you're like outside of work. there's definitely something about drivers where they've clearly had a lot of time to think the world through. whereas a defining thing about office people is that they don't have that worldliness, they're / we're locked into an information matrix so tightly that there's no room for the mind to wander. even if we're not doing any work you're still on the computer while you're pretending to work. but work from home is bedded in now and changing that. a lot of people i know are just doing other stuff where they'd previously be in an office fucking around on bbc news.
shakahislop
Well-known member
office work twists people's minds into a certain direction. office workers are a cultural category. and generally they've got a lot of money and therefore shape the commercial world around them. that's half of what nyc is, a city twisted to the needs of office workers. apart from the artist wave, all the gentrifcation waves that come after are office workers, that's who needs the fancy apartments with doormen gyms and coffee shops and wholesome food and so on. noise cancelling headphones and fake salads for lucnh
shakahislop
Well-known member
our kabul office had a load of stressed people doing stressful office work, crammed in, people shouting into phones, i was whirling about walking up and down the stairs, in and out of rooms, talking to people, conveying information, trying to figure out how to do things in the chaos, sending emails, making calculations, writing documents against deadlines, buckets of nescafe, jumping into cars and grinding through traffic to go to meetings, sending emails from a laptop in the car, tucking in my shirt and then shaking hands, sitting in meeting rooms eating biscuits, and then out the window in the courtyard of our office and all the others you could see a totally different world going on, the childminder at the creche picking up three year olds to pick grapes off the vines, kids pottering about in little plastic cars, the handyman wandering about making jokes, the guards in camo pissing about and taking the piss out of each other for the colour of their skin, playing with the children with an AK slung over their back, the twenty year old girls in the call center we had in the basement giggling with each other, the cook walking in off the street with a pile of bread from the bakery, the drivers washing thier cars. totally different sets of emotions and vibes going on.
Leo
Well-known member
even less when they "work from home". four-day work week is totally doable for most office jobs, or five days a week paid to work only a few hours a day instead of eight.
wild greens
Well-known member
It's a bit of a mad situation really. You are probably looking at a long-term downturn in Central London activity with a lot of foreign firms gradually moving away from UK & remaining ones continue to go hybrid/remote, but then there is so much foreign money invested in property ownership here that it's in no-one's interest to let these areas degrade in any sense, so the offices themselves continue to be propped up. A bit like the banking system in general really
I'm sure we all know plenty of people who have almost completely fucked off the office world, especially your consultant types. I know a lad "working"/consulting for a local authority who has never been to the office and they've been paying him for nigh on two years to log on to a few calls in a mostly automated job
He is really depressed and quite bored though, not sure i could do it
I'm sure we all know plenty of people who have almost completely fucked off the office world, especially your consultant types. I know a lad "working"/consulting for a local authority who has never been to the office and they've been paying him for nigh on two years to log on to a few calls in a mostly automated job
He is really depressed and quite bored though, not sure i could do it
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I suppose a coke habit that heavy isn't really conducive to sexual performance, given that Viagra didn't exist in those days.
Leo
Well-known member
I like remote work because I'm used to it (done it for 21 years), worked in offices for years before that, and generally don't give a shit about office culture/politics. but I can see how young people can get fucked up by never having the in-person office experience. despite everything, it's a foundational element of a social life: you meet and get to know people In a way that can't be replicated online, you go eat lunch with people, out after work for drinks, maybe date a coworker. to graduate college and start your career working remotely would have a big negative impact on a person's social life and mental health.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
working remotely is the best thing since cave art
You get this really weird feeling when you're passionately arguing with your CEO, "Look, I work better at home...I'm way more productive than when I'm in the office, I get SO MUCH MORE done here..." - but deep-down you know you've been bragging to Dissensus about spending your working day making whiskey cocktails, going on long walks, reading PDK and binge-watching drek on Youtube.
wild greens
Well-known member
I have a theory that some jobs are so fucking boring you have to do them in an office because it gives you an anchoring distraction tbh. If yours is a particularly creative or sociable job then the hybrid model is probably great but if you're in the monotonous boring world then surely doing that at home will just get you down even more, at least by going to the office you have the mental seperation
If you hate your job at home then surely you begin to hate your gaff? Especially if, as you say, you're young and lacking the social interaction. Surely even worse if you're crammed in the houseshares that a lot of people in the city are- your office could well also be your bedroom, your social space, your dining room, horrible idea.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
When you run your own fleet
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Create international incidents with the French, raid the Low Countries
wild greens
Well-known member
Maybe it is time to become a stevedore down Tilbury