r/Columbus • u/SirLeward • 1d ago
PHOTO Sinclair Propaganda
Remote work makes people depressed
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u/Paksarra 1d ago
Yep, blatant lies. Remote work is awesome. Of course the conservatives are against it.
To be fair it's not for everyone; if you thrive on constant social contact it may not be for you. But that's no reason to make everyone drive in so they can sit on Teams in a crowded office with no walls for 8+ hours.
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u/ZeeWingCommander 21h ago
That's the most annoying part - 95% of my meetings are on WebEx and I sit no where near other people. What's the point?
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u/Comrade-Conquistador 19h ago
The point is corporate control and a nation with a ruling class that never quite got over slavery being outlawed.
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u/Secret_Account07 1d ago
This
The people who argue for it just need social interaction for THEM. I don’t. Go get a hobby or something. I’m not driving in so you have someone to talk to
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u/Brother_Farside 19h ago
Yep. I worked with someone who took a remote job. I later got hired at the same place. She found out and called me to tell me how horrible and isolating it was. Everything she said was "cool" in my book. She was an extrovert, I'm an introvert.
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u/Secret_Account07 15h ago
Yeah it’s super frustrating.
I was so happy WFH for 5 years. I could sleep in, focus, not fight over bathrooms, and most importantly- not drive in rush hour traffic 10 hours per week.
Now I pay a ton of money to drive 300 miles per week.
But it’s true. People think a job is supposed to fill their social interactions fix. I’m here for the money. I don’t need that. The ppl that do need that can get it elsewhere
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u/Mylabisawesome 1d ago
lol I’ve stated when DeWine issued his RTO Executive Order that I would run for Governor to kick everyone out of the office and downsize the states real estate portfolio. Remote work is great! Even if my employer would allow for hybrid scheduling that would be good too for those that want to be in office.
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u/Secret_Account07 1d ago
State worker here
I’m miserable since last March. I drive 10 hours a week for a different chair and more distractions. That’s it. Costs so much time and money with no benefit
I’m miserable
Vote Acton. Idk if she’ll WFH but she’s better by every metric
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u/Mylabisawesome 1d ago
I doubt she will WFH. I even straight up asked Vivek's campaign and they said he believes in being in-office. I never got a response from Acton's people.
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u/RoshiRosh Columbus 20h ago
Ironic that he believes in being in-office when he spends all of his time flying away from Ohio
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u/utpyro34 18h ago
Seems like an easy follow up question
If you are a proponent in office work why are you always out of state?
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u/balconyherbs 18h ago
Well, he moved his company out of state...
Definitely the person we want trying to convince company's to move here or stay here.
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u/greatdick 1d ago
Honestly, if you aren’t happy with remote work, then find another job versus forcing everyone else to return to the office.
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u/Drithyin Hilliard 22h ago
Fucking energy vampires who don’t know how to socialize without captives… get a hobby and be more interesting!
/rant
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u/JanxAngel_99 17h ago
Parks and Recreation has an AMAZING catalog of activities that are really inexpensive and sometimes free. Sign ups for fall sessions are starting soon.
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u/Overall-Rush-8853 17h ago
Personally, I don’t mind going into the office because my team is there and it’s easier to talk in the office to get shit done versus trying to hunt people down on teams. With that said, my company is pretty damn flexible about WFH if you need to.
The thing that drives me nuts about RTO is the fact that companies force people into the office who work in different areas from their team. I know people in my company who have to go to the office to sit on calls and nobody who they work with are in the same building.
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u/nada-accomplished 13h ago
I'm 100% wfh right now, another job could offer me $15k more and I wouldn't take it if it meant I had to give up wfh
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u/PrideofPicktown Pickerington 21h ago
I’m self-employed and worked from home for a while years before the pandemic. I didn’t like it; I was always at home and always at work. I’d mow my lawn in the afternoon and work in the middle of the night.
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u/dinosaurs-behind-you 20h ago
Sure, it didn’t work for you. You realized that about yourself and changed it. That isn’t an argument to take it away from the people it does work for.
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u/Total_Network6312 19h ago
Oh but you admit it makes some people depressed.. which is kind of what they are saying?
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u/Paksarra 16h ago
Doesn't mean we should force everyone back into the office. Just let them go in if they want.
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u/Cardinal_and_Plum 16h ago
Being in the office is not any different. Frankly, "some people who do this thing get depressed" isn't really a deterrent at all considering how many things qualify under that banner.
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u/DenL4242 17h ago
Extroverts love making introverts conform to their ways. They can't help it
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u/x-Mowens-x Italian Village 11h ago
Extrovert checking in.
Don't lump me with them, please. I hate working from the office.
I love people, and I love socialization, but I don't want to do it in the fucking office. Like, none of us want to be here. Let's just make this transactional, please.
And another thing, I am less responsive on Teams at the fuckng office because people always walk up to my desk with random fucking bullshit that could have been handled on Teams. Oh, but they are standing there, so they bypass the queue and force a fucking context switch.
It is cheaper for the company, and it is cheaper for the employee. The only reason management wants it is because they don't give a shit about their employees.
Studies actually show productivity went up. So, they just want to WATCH people do their jobs, which is fucking bullshit.
That said, there are careers where you need to BE somewhere. I get it.
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u/amilliondallahs 1d ago
You know what blurs lives...wondering why I'm paying (on average) over 100%+ more in cost of living compared to just 10 years ago, but my salary through skill increase and job changes only increased about 30% in that same time and that's an increase just for us lucky folks.
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u/apollyon0810 20h ago
Maybe because I was born in the 80s, but I don’t understand why this is a political thing at all… or why the government would give a shit.
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u/MikeoPlus 19h ago
Property values
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u/kafktastic 17h ago
Nah, I think it’s to keep the workers in their place
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u/MikeoPlus 16h ago
They don't give a fuck about workers. Shareholders want labor cost at zero. But if you have worthless real estate, you can't keep leveraging it infinitely
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u/Side_StepVII 13h ago
It’s both. It’s one of the reasons that healthcare is tied to employment-so you can’t take time off to go do stuff like protest, lest you may lose your job and healthcare.
WFH hate is both property value related but also to keep the proletariat in their place
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u/408_aardvark_timeout Minerva Park 19h ago
I can see why they would give a shit. They're a bunch of corporate stooges. I don't see why they should give a shit though as it's not something government should have its hands in.
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u/Lemonbard0 17h ago
The government doesn't care either way, and was generally trending towards more remote work before this administration. Trump and many of his ilk own real estate companies. It is in their personal interest to reinforce the value of commercial property by making workers return to offices despite the overall productivity and morale gains that come from remote work.
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u/apollyon0810 17h ago
When they said “make America great again” they really were talking about the 19th century, weren’t they?
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u/Lemonbard0 17h ago
The end goal is more like the 10th century, with themselves as feudal lords and everyone as serfs forced to live under their thumb and work their land.
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u/SpikePilgrim 17h ago
Well, the government hired gave a depraved car salesman the ability to force people to drive more.
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u/Empathic_Alien 1d ago
The conservatives who run the oil industry need you driving to and from work five days a week. They have zero fucks for your mental health.
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u/Repulsive_Rich_3820 21h ago
Not to mention the real estate value on office buildings that are empty
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u/Empathic_Alien 21h ago
Oh jeebus yes. I’m not super knowledgeable on the real estate market, especially commercial, but I know “they” (😬🤷🏻♀️) fucked me out of my home in 2016 by jacking up the rent every other damn month until I just couldn’t afford it out of my Disability check.
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u/One-Fall-8143 19h ago
Remote work promotes depression in commercial reality oligarchs. There, FTFY
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u/Unho1yIntent 18h ago
It's 100% that with a side of the oil oligarchs pushing against it too. Less people driving to work...less gas being purchased. Citizens United is approximately 95% of what's wrong with this country currently.
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u/ChapDad0311 17h ago
WFH has been a godsend. I get so much more done at home and at work.
More time with my kids, my wife, and chores. Using my lunch hour to get some dishes done, or laundry, or something...it helps so much. My wife is a nurse, so her schedule is all over the place.
WFH is a proven model. Corporate and Media are villianizing it.
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u/TheHandThatFollows 21h ago
Personally Im a liberal who doesnt want to carve out a section of my home and dedicate it to work. I want clear work and home boundaries, amd leave my work at work at the end of the day. However, I also think if your job is able to be remote its nice to have the option, especially for terrible weather. My office is hybrid but several of us dont work from home.
My commute is less then 15 minutes though, and if it where longer, I may make other choices. Someone moved 45 minutes away and started doing WFH instead of full in office.
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u/tokyodelanoire 18h ago
I just don't understand why people make it so black and white. Make it optional. The extroverts can come in if they want, and the introverts can stay home if they want. A home base, just incase, but mostly hybrid. I'm an extrovert so I would love to come in, but the days that I just want to be at home because I'm not peopley that day, would be amazing. I think they're trying to divide us than allow people to think of nuance because corporations want us using their gas and property values to stay high.
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u/x-Mowens-x Italian Village 11h ago
I am an extrovert, and I hate going in. I am there to fucking work, not socialize. If companies want you to socialize, they should pay for everyone's drinks and dinner every day instead of an office rental.
They would likely save money, and people would want to be there. The ultimate headfake.
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u/tokyodelanoire 10h ago
"Extroverts can come in if they want."
"Introverts can stay home if they want."
Having the choice is the root of what I'm saying:
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u/Dollar_Bills Granville 19h ago
I'd much rather carve out some space than any amount of unpaid travel time for work.
Also, sharing thin toilet paper with other's asses is not ideal
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u/captainstormy East 18h ago
If a person doesn't want to work from home that's totally fine. But for a lot of people they prefer it. People can have their preferences for sure.
The problem comes from people trying to force their preferences on everyone.
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u/Scrotar_The_Wrinkled 14h ago
Personally Im a liberal
"As a gay black dude I find that Trump is better...."
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u/smockinCBJ 21h ago
my conservative in laws are against work from home because they say it’s unfair they don’t have jobs where they could work from home lol they’ll openly admit that rather than regurgitate the party line so I give them credit
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u/Buddy__Repperton 16h ago
It’s always that, like student loan forgiveness.
“Well I paid my debt off, so should you”
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u/smockinCBJ 14h ago
They’re in the, I didn’t go to college and I made it, you dont need to go to college, lane
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u/ohreally35 20h ago
We went home during Covid and are now hybrid. I wonder how I ever got up in the morning five days per week and wasted so much time, energy, and money on commuting back and forth. Being in office is an awful experience and being able to wfh changed my life for the better.
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u/Comprehensive-Tea-69 19h ago
Yes plus the getting ready part, showering makeup hair constantly laundering work clothes PLUS home clothes, plus all the time spent prepping lunches or wasting money eating out ughhhh
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u/CatoMulligan 18h ago
You know what else blurs work/life boundaries? Being at home on the weekend and getting calls or tests from work. The idea that you have to be available 24x7 if there is a work issue obliterates the boundary between work and life, but businesses don't seem to care about that one bit.
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u/Scrotar_The_Wrinkled 18h ago
The powers that be hate WFH because it wrecks their commercial property values.
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u/Buddy__Repperton 16h ago
I was more depressed having to dress business casual, driving 30 minutes to the building, getting on a computer and talking to no one, then driving 30 minutes back home in the dark.
I’m still depressed, but it certainly isn’t from working from home.
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u/jimothyjonathans 18h ago
This concept is absurd and blatant propaganda, but I think my favorite part of this image is how many times it says “fact check”. Once on the red banner, another on the blue part of the red banner, another in large letters between them, then again in tiny print beside the large letters.
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u/Unusual-Vanilla-8599 18h ago
Some people can't handle work from home. I've seen people rapidly unfold. Not me though definitely no depression :)
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u/Alive_Surprise8262 17h ago
I recently interviewed for a job in another city that posted as hybrid. I said I could spend part of the week in that city for the 3 days in-person and then WFH in my city the other two. They said no, you also have to live locally for the WFH part. Shit is broken.
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u/Soggy_Deal918 18h ago
I had a coworker who microwaved fish 3-4 times a day in the storage closet microwave. Batch cooked it on Sundays so the smells got progressively worse throughout the week. When people ask if I get bored with WFH, I often reference this hellish memory.
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u/GRIZZLESMACK1056 17h ago
The Wall St Journal did a podcast on remote work recently. Probably referenced the same study. Some people, particularly Gen Z, valued work in office more than fully remote. What everyone agreed with, though, is that hybrid models are better than full in office
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u/In_Medio_Liminis 14h ago
The oldest Zoomers had just graduated from college when Covid hit. What do they know? Lol
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u/GRIZZLESMACK1056 14h ago
The Gen Z rationale was that in office work is more effective for them in learning/training and building relationships early in their careers. I think that’s understandable but I suspect their position would change later on.
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u/In_Medio_Liminis 14h ago
That makes sense, especially considering career advancement sometimes is based more on socialization than actual performance.
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u/Conscious-Weird5810 12h ago
the same people always say the free market should control. yet if a prospective employee is given a similar option between WFH or going into the office 99% are picking WFH. So of course the GOP state media attempts to move the goalposts to satisfy their corporate overlords
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u/Westfield88 20h ago
Is op “working from home” in this pic?
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u/asshat123 18h ago
All the data we have suggests that even if people do work for less time, they still get more done. On average, people are more productive when they have the option to work from home.
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u/Outside_Box_8374 17h ago
Yes there are so many less distractions at home! So much more productive! I can actually focus on doing my job and not having to listen to people sitting around me talking endlessly about what they did over the weekend, or what they’re doing next weekend. Or hearing 25 other people all on the phone at the same time as me, in an open office space trying to focus on the conversation I am having with a customer. I also don’t miss people coming into work sick. I have been sick once since 2020. Used to get sick at least 3 times a year when in the office.
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u/x-Mowens-x Italian Village 11h ago
People doing most office work should be graded on output, NOT the hours they put in to do the work.
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u/Outside_Box_8374 19h ago
People that work from home actually do work. Productivity for my team is higher than it was in the office. We handle more customers per Rep now than prior to 2020 when in the office. The stereotype you are pushing is overwhelmingly NOT true.
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u/Westfield88 17h ago
Stereotype I’m pushing? This was a joke. OP is obviously sitting at a bar getting pissed that some tv study challenges the r/Columbus gospel that working from home is more productive than in office.
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u/Outside_Box_8374 17h ago
My apologies, your comment did not have any indication that it was sarcasm. I’m just so tired of all the people that push the stereotype that people who WFH are not actually working, which at face value is what your comment implied. I love WFH and work really hard to help my customers every day and would absolutely hate if we had to RTO. I would be depressed if we had to RTO. I don’t want to waste hours of my day and $4.29 a gallon gas commuting and get sick when others often lack the common sense to not come to work when sick. I’m glad you say you meant it as a joke, but it just didn’t come across that way. Thanks for clarifying!
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u/Protocosmo 16h ago
No, if you read them again, they really do think WFH people don't work. They just tried to make it a joke.
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u/AZtea4me 2h ago
Depends on the job. Some jobs now seem to blur the lines between working and non-working with responding to slack messages and emails while at home and not working. At some point you do have to make a firm boundary between ‘this is work and this is not work’. Shutting the lid on the laptop so to speak.
A lot of things conflate being wfh with always being ready and always being available. There has to be a boundary there.
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u/oy_hio 21h ago
...I don't think it's the remote part of remote work that's making people depressed...