But on the flipside, it’s hard for me to stay concentrated while at home.
While I believe that is true for you, I don't believe it justifies the lost time, health, and environmental damage of mandating in-office for everyone.
The office is super distracting for many people.
Oh, I read your thing backwards then.
I can't imagine wanting to go into the office on the regular. The commute. The lost time (can math out to like a 20% pay cut, if you spend two hours a day traveling + getting ready). The sickness. The lack of control over environment (temperature, sound).
Can't relate to it. And I'm a very social person that likes interacting with people.
Every day I'm a little surprised there's no news story of some workers beating their "no, you have to come into the office" manager to death. They've got means, motive, and opportunity, and it's extra funny because if they'd been allowed to work at home they wouldn't have at least two of those.
But really we're ruled by the worst of us. Cowards and fools.
Maybe unionizing is safer than hitting the decision makers with an office chair while screaming "you made this possible" until they can't even cry anymore.
Working from home doesn't appeal to the emotional needs of fragile managers.
I wonder about this a lot, too!
Some cursory searching shows a variety of causes. Maybe from a young age they were repeatedly taught that being wrong made them bad and stupid and unworthy of love, and that's deeply wound around their subconscious now.
It'd be just sad if it wasn't causing incalculable harm to society.
Some people have such a fragile ego, such brittle self-esteem, such a weak "psychological constitution," that admitting they made a mistake or that they were wrong is fundamentally too threatening for their egos to tolerate. Accepting they were wrong, absorbing that reality, would be so psychologically shattering that their defense mechanisms do something remarkable to avoid doing so—they literally distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening. Their defense mechanisms protect their fragile ego by changing the very facts in their mind, so they are no longer wrong or culpable.
:shrug:
Most people don't like when their ego is threatened. They'll make up any excuse to protect their flimsy sense of self worth.
It's easier to just go "I guess I was wrong" but most people are emotionally fucking cowards.
Almost everywhere I've applied or know people at is frothing at the mouth for AI. Interestingly, I met a guy last weekend that works for a big video game studio you've heard of, and he was like "everyone here hates AI. Management on down". So that was nice to hear.
. He’s not allowed to say, “It’s not.” Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups.
Those higher-ups should not be in charge.
This feels like the emperor's new clothes, except no one listens to the children pointing out the folly.
Dude really was a moron, wasn’t he?
A leading hypothesis is management are fucking stupid. Throw them back into the trenches. Let them do some actual work for a few years
My leading hypothesis is "management is stupid". It explains a lot of this sort of thing.
I've been applying to jobs for like a year. Very few interviews. So much AI slop and froth.
The place I'm at is barely hiring, but it's like a rotting corpse of a megacorp. They take months to do anything.
There are probably a lot of representatives I wouldn't recognize, even if I know their name and deal.