LOL: Zoom, the Company Whose Technology Allowed Laptop Liberals to Work From Home While Essential Workers Had to Brave Covid, Orders Its Stay-At-Home Workers to Come Into Work

Time for the Zoomers o peel their gigantic asses off their much-abused couches and report to f*****g work.

Telecommunications firm Zoom has ordered its employees to return to the office, reflecting the broader trend of employers restricting pandemic-era work flexibility requirements.
"We'll continue to leverage the entire Zoom platform to keep our employees and dispersed teams connected and working efficiently," the company stated. The company is seeking that employees work in the office at least two days per week, according to the BBC.
The firm's video conferencing services were instrumental in enabling worldwide remote work options during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company employees roughly 8,400 people. Roughly half of them work in the U.S.
In September 2022, roughly 1% of the company's workforce routinely appeared in the office while 75% worked remote and the remainder split the difference. In July of this year, however, only about 12% of employees were fully remote while another 29% were in hybrid arrangements.

I totally understand why workers want to work from home. I do myself, and I know other people who have been able to do things they could not -- like buying a piece of land far outside the city and raising their kids while still working in a city-based company -- if they were forced to come to work.

I think it's reasonable to press for work-for-home when feasible.

But after the school closings... I'm just a little sour on liberals demanding the right to work from home. I think we all are, even those of us who work from home.

And, also: As one might guess, people are less productive when they don't have bosses looking over their shoulders.

A study from economists at MIT and UCLA found productivity dropped when people worked from home.
The study observed groups of data-entry workers in India working from home and from the office.
People who worked from home saw their productivity fall by 18%, the researchers said.

The LA Times just seriously "reported:" Making black people show up for work is racist.

I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Ace at 03:59 PM

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1 Lol

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2023 04:00 PM (T4poM)

2 And FIRST!!!!

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2023 04:00 PM (T4poM)

3 Man that racism is harsh man

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2023 04:00 PM (FQmDC)

4 As someone who benefits from wfh policies, I'm not going to comment one way or the other here...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 09, 2023 04:01 PM (zjgNU)

5 They need to explain to me what racism is.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2023 04:01 PM (T4poM)

6 RAAAACIST!!!!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2023 04:01 PM (Mzdiz)

7 Seriously! There's probably an article somewhere about how working from home is racist too because POC don't have beautifully appointed offices, dontcha know!

Posted by: Iris at August 09, 2023 04:01 PM (n3DL0)

8 People don't want to go to the office anymore because liberals have made the office a miserable, joyless place where the slightest bit of misinterpreted behavior gets you fired.

There's a lot of bad things about my industry, and I'd love to get out, but it looks like I'm never going to have to go back to the office again and that's worth a lot.

Posted by: Oschisms at August 09, 2023 04:03 PM (0A5+1)

9 I can't stop Toobin, Toobin every day.

FAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP

Posted by: Jeffrey Fappy Toobin at August 09, 2023 04:03 PM (NtVYv)

10 Seriously the race card has been maxed the fuck out. That shit is being revoked.

Posted by: steevy at August 09, 2023 04:03 PM (FQmDC)

11 "Black Privilege" ... must allow them to work at home. But only 18% of whites wanted to return to office ... so, not really that significant a stat'.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (Cus5s)

12 Biden announced the other Friday that government workers will need to go into the office. Getting that remote designation for the position will be super valuable I think!

And of course the government has the policy without considering that if the people in the office don't come in on the same days, that it really doesn't have ANY benefit. And is a "sin" against their Gaia cult. LOL

Posted by: Iris at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (n3DL0)

13 But I was promised I wouldn't have to pay back my loans and wouldn't have to really "work!"
/gen x

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (JvZF+)

14 Just wait until the black workers figure out that the people in the office are more likely to be promoted than people working remotely.

That will be racist, too.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (2tUFv)

15 Too much masturbating on company time.

Posted by: Zoom, Inc. at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (v0R5T)

16 L.A. Times used to be the goto paper when I was a kid in Santa Barbara, now... not so much and it hasn't been for umpty-umpth years (The Santa Barbara News Suppress was an absolute joke way back then).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (ysaNs)

17 A study from economists at MIT and UCLA found productivity dropped when people worked from home.

Ya think?

Good grief.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (ufFY8)

18 I'm actually looking at land in the country right now because my company will let me work remotely. Lets me live out of the city and prepare for the coming burning times while still working. But I get companies wanting to have people on-site.

Posted by: brak at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (25k9m)

19 “ Knowledge Workers”… snort.. or puke..

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:05 PM (PCK5/)

20 They could find a new job, you know. Mr. Catherine recently switched to a company that only requires face time once a year. But that would require talent and a track record that indicates productivity in that situation . . .

Posted by: Catherine at August 09, 2023 04:05 PM (ZSsrh)

21 Just a reminder, Zoom is a data-mining machine owned by the CCP. Their programmers are all PLA soldiers.

If you are using zoom you are literally giving China incremental advances in technological warfare.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2023 04:05 PM (IG4Id)

22 Not everyone's productivity goes down in WFH situations. Apparently, there are some folks who do better work and get more work done -- not having to bother with commute times, socializing around the water cooler, office politics, etc.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 09, 2023 04:05 PM (tQL7r)

23 That teacher down in Mesquite will be "working" from home after her racist twitting. She's not white, though.

Posted by: huerfano at August 09, 2023 04:05 PM (7zEAH)

24 Racist...they keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at August 09, 2023 04:05 PM (FVJNG)

25 Biden announced the other Friday that government workers will need to go into the office. Getting that remote designation for the position will be super valuable I think!

Not enough shit in the hallways.

Posted by: EPA at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (v0R5T)

26 Why does Zoom need 8400 employees?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (eL0G3)

27 But I was promised I wouldn't have to pay back my loans and wouldn't have to really "work!"
/gen x
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (JvZF+)

Um, I'm Gen X, and that ain't us.

Posted by: Catherine at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (ZSsrh)

28 I'm not cheering this. I won't deny there's a certain satisfaction in seeing the overwhelmingly woke upper middle class find themselves inconvenienced, but telework has been good for precisely the reasons you laid out, Ace -- it allows people who would otherwise be locked into urban areas a chance to move somewhere more hospitable to raising children. That's far more beneficial to the right than to the left.

Also, the study you cite that shows productivity dropping 18% was conducted in India, and frankly, anyone who has dealt with the work culture of India understands why this is absolutely not analogous to the United States.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (Bmy9A)

29 if the people in the office don't come in on the same days, that it really doesn't have ANY benefit.
Posted by: Iris

They need the roads clogged with cars burning all that gasoline to keep prices up!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (ysaNs)

30 but it looks like I'm never going to have to go back to the office again and that's worth a lot.
Posted by: Oschisms

I've heard that from lots of people. Anecdotally, of course.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (tQL7r)

31 I totally understand why workers want to work from home. I do myself, and I know other people who have been able to do things they could not -- like buying a piece of land far outside the city and raising their kids while still working in a city-based company -- if they were forced to come to work.

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Dolley's new job won't consider, at all, remote work. She will get a hybrid 3/2 schedule out of it at least, and they're going to let her work remote until we buy a house (probably no later than December).

But, yeah, they own large amounts of land and offices, and they're getting use out of it again, dammit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (LvTSG)

32 I did the WFH thing from March to August of '20. It probably has affected the way I look at work. Not having a commute was great, and it made me look forward to retirement in a way I hadn't before.

On the other hand I had to look at the same walls all day long -- unless I ran out to the store, and starting in April or May I had to battle the Face Diaper Nazis. So I spent more time than I liked at home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (J2vNu)

33 https://www.youtube.com/live/CLRiRfdJYb8?feature=share

Valliant Renegade is starting.
3.7k watching.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (ufFY8)

34 A study from economists at MIT and UCLA found productivity dropped when people worked from home.

Ya think?

Good grief.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:04 PM (ufFY

How did they measure productivity? If it was something concrete like number of TPS reports filed, then the companies know it as well. Otherwise, productivity can be vague in those types of jobs.

Posted by: WOPR at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (Ix9FU)

35 "I need to get away from all this racism!"

*stays home and fucks about on Twitter all day*

...that's like going to Yellowknife for the winter to escape the cold.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (9UlRk)

36 Spending time and money to drive to a different place to do the same thing you'd do at home is quite frankly fucking retarded and I don't care who hears it.

Liberals love to complain about how golf courses are a waste of real estate. Know what else is a waste of real estate, resources, energy, and everything else? Gigantic stupid-looking office buildings full of people there only during the day, doing as little as they would be doing at home.

Posted by: ballistic at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (oXNqT)

37 Shakin' it here, Boss!

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (sWM8x)

38 For me personally...my productivity when working from home is substantially higher than when I have to go into the office. Saves me about 1.5 hours of drive time, the piss break is only 15 seconds instead of 3 minutes (it's a long walk to the restroom at work), lunch takes 15 mins instead of 30 to 45 minutes, etc., etc., etc. So, I usually spend more time doing actual work when at home than when in the office.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (XMwZJ)

39 I get that a lot of people like working from home. I did it for two weeks in November 2020 when I had to quarantine due to husband's 'rona, and I hated every second of it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (DRSnL)

40 Fukkem. May they get mugged, raped, kidnapped, spit on, pissed on, and step in a pile of homeless druggie shit on the way into the office.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (pohLc)

41 I'm officially done with caring what black people think, say or want. I'll listened to an individual who happens to be black but the whole "black community" thing is not working for me anymore.

Don't want to show for work? Ok. You're fired.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

42 The LA Times just seriously "reported:" Making black people show up for work is racist.

It's worse than making us pick cotton!

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (gmo/4)

43 DIS earnings just came out. Meh.

Not looking like Wall Street is happy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (/iWhV)

44 I worked more when I worked from home. But I'm a well-paid professional with somewhat workaholic tendencies. The average office drone though? I doubt they're putting in a lot of hours from home.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (ppBhU)

45 The LA Times just seriously "reported:" Making black people show up for work is racist.

I'm not kidding.

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Making black people do anything is racist. Making white people do whatever their betters demand is not racist, though.

Also, did they report on the racism of vaccination mandates and the disparate impact that it represented on a community that largely resisted it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

46 So, I usually spend more time doing actual work when at home than when in the office.
Posted by: Angzarr

But you are paid the same?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (eL0G3)

47 You can't even be a racist anymore everything is racist. Sad world

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (ytSiK)

48 Why does Zoom need 8400 employees?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (eL0G3)
.......

The circle jerks are awesome!

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

49 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)

50 A lot of what the laptop class “ produces” could be done without, I suspect… so where they don’t produce meaningful product from may be ultimately irrelevant.

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (PCK5/)

51 It's all in how you say it. Just don't say office. Instead, tell those fags they have to "come into the orifice " and they'd be stepping all over their needle dicks to get in there.

Posted by: Semantics at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (cCxiu)

52 LA Times is racist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

53 > I'm actually looking at land in the country right now because my company will let me work remotely.

With my luck, I would move out there and my company would let me go. Then finding a new job that works for you is a massive suckfest because you're interviewing long distance.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (0N1h0)

54 I'm in one of those industries where it's perfectly feasible to work from home since 95% of what I do is just sitting in front of a computer. I can do that anywhere.

The remainder of the time is spent meeting with faculty/instructors. Many of them work from home or are not on campus, so we use Zoom to communicate.

We have a lot less face-to-face meetings. Which means we tend to get *more* done since we aren't wasting our time with chit-chat/small talk.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (YIVH2)

55 33 https://www.youtube.com/live/CLRiRfdJYb8?feature=share

Valliant Renegade is starting.
3.7k watching.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (ufFY

=======

My prediction:

Disney+ numbers went up. Cruise numbers are great. The box office bombs aren't as bad as reported. Healthy numbers all around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

56 LA Times is calling the black man lazy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

57 just 3% of Black white-collar "knowledge-workers" wanted to return full time...

I think it's funny that the study was sponsored by Slack...
Yeah, I just wasnt to slack off at home.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (ynpvh)

58 Remote working kept me employed during the Wu-flu and when I spent a summer in Montana helping Mom take care of Dad, but I do not like working remotely. It takes more effort to stay productive. I often would work late into the evening to keep up. One thing I did was get dressed as if I was going to the office. Shoes, pants, shirt.

On the other hand, I like office meetings via MS Teams (we dumped Zoom very quickly). It allows me to "be there" while doing actual work.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (T/Lqj)

59 4 As someone who benefits from wfh policies, I'm not going to comment one way or the other here...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 09, 2023 04:01 PM (zjgNU)

I benefit as well but here's the rub, I don't think other people should have to go out and work in service to me and my needs.

Was amazing to see how many people spouted off about working from home while also talking up things like DoorDash and InstaCart.

"Hey, it's not safe out there. That's why I order my groceries online!" F outta here with that.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (KbCG3)

60 "My three martooni lunches never inflected my werk. Racist."

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (Cus5s)

61 Ya know what else would give black people a reprieve from racism?

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (or2+y)

62 Blacks always scream "RACISM" to get something they want or to offset some screw-up they were responsible for.

Posted by: vic at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (A5THL)

63 Speaking of black men, this guy just made me laugh. It's hard to argue with his points.

https://tinyurl.com/tyxjanjy

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (eOEVl)

64 I don't Zoom.

Posted by: For anything at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (l4ZVr)

65 So, I usually spend more time doing actual work when at home than when in the office.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (XMwZJ)
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My productivity is about the same, except it's spread out over twelve hours rather than eight. I'm most productive in the mornings and evenings. I hate mid-afternoons (like now).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

66 I'm officially done with caring what black people think, say or want. I'll listened to an individual who happens to be black but the whole "black community" thing is not working for me anymore.

Don't want to show for work? Ok. You're fired.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

Black Fatigue is real. I'm all for peaceful separation where they can run a successful country like SA has become.

Posted by: WOPR at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (Ix9FU)

67 Zoom? Pixy's August 8 "Daily Tech News" (yesterday) had a Zoom link. Apparently, Zoom now includes in its Terms of Service the right to use Zoom customer content for its AI product development. Namely (via Stack Diary):

"Additionally, under section 10.4 of the updated terms, Zoom has secured a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license" to redistribute, publish, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content."

Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (rj6Yv)

68 I totally understand why workers want to work from home. I do myself, and I know other people who have been able to do things they could not -- like buying a piece of land far outside the city and raising their kids while still working in a city-based company -- if they were forced to come to work.

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Unfortunately, I think we got an influx of people from Seattle who figured out that housing was about half the price here on the east side, and that's what f*cked up our local primary election last week.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (DRSnL)

69 LA Times
*insert delirious laugh track*

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (0q+t6)

70 I can't tell from that split screen cartoon guy. Is the racism in the desert or in the city?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (63Dwl)

71 The LA Times just seriously "reported:" Making black people show up for work is racist.

De overseer he calls us lazy and he runs us round a bit.

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (gmo/4)

72 Everything at this point is racist, spreads COVID, increases income inequality, causes Global Boiling, or all of the above.

They've got us stitched up.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (krYYY)

73 That India study is crap. I've seen reports from companies in the US who stated their production went up when we all went to work from home. The company I work for had a production increase of 4% in the first quarter of working from home and it has not dropped. This is likely because workers with kids and logistical concerns can now stay home with their families and don't have to plan around commutes.

Posted by: neverBiden at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (eIGHH)

74 Yeah, I'm paid the same. But because I'm not worn out from a 45 minute commute, dealing with retarded/maniac drivers, I don't mind putting in a few more minutes to get some work done. Plus, I then still have enough time to get personal/fun stuff done.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (XMwZJ)

75 Everything is either racist or gay. This is true freedom comrade.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (5C4od)

76 Why does Zoom need 8400 employees?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (eL0G3)

It takes a lot of workers to sort, collate and file the data Zoom steals off your devices...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (/HDaX)

77 My prediction:

Disney+ numbers went up. Cruise numbers are great. The box office bombs aren't as bad as reported. Healthy numbers all around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

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Was that sarcasm? I can't tell if that's sarcasm.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (Bmy9A)

78 70 I can't tell from that split screen cartoon guy. Is the racism in the desert or in the city?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (63Dwl)

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All of the left's complaints about America tend to be complaints about how Democrats run cities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (LvTSG)

79 My productivity is about the same, except it's spread out over twelve hours rather than eight. I'm most productive in the mornings and evenings. I hate mid-afternoons (like now).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

That's similar to what I prefer. I like to get up early, crank out a lot of work until lunch and then just handle any issues the rest of the day.

Posted by: WOPR at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (Ix9FU)

80
It's worse than making us pick cotton!

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (gmo/4)

I never picked cotton........

https://youtu.be/hoRoi2bbspk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

81 77 My prediction:

Disney+ numbers went up. Cruise numbers are great. The box office bombs aren't as bad as reported. Healthy numbers all around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

=======

Was that sarcasm? I can't tell if that's sarcasm.
Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (Bmy9A)

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Deep, deep cynicism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

82 70 I can't tell from that split screen cartoon guy. Is the racism in the desert or in the city?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (63Dwl)

Neither.

You're the racism.

It's a "fourth wall" kind of thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (9UlRk)

83 I've been doing WFH for 8 years. Best thing ever for me, but I know how to make it work. Government workers should only have WFH if their productivity can be closely monitored. Companies should strive to make it work. My team loves not having to go the office and it is a big retention tool.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (MTm8X)

84 "People who worked from home saw their productivity fall by 18%, the researchers said."

I suspect my productivity dropped by that much, because my work-issued laptop ran as slow as molasses in winter.

Not that my in-office productivity is anything to write home about.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (ou9hh)

85 I would love to work from home full time.

I would immediately move out of NYC to somewhere more friendly (like Texas or Florida) to people like me and the 2nd Amendment.

As it stands right now when we work from home we have to let the company know if we are in the Tri-State area or not. It is for tax reasons. The greedy State governments want to make sure they get their share of my salary.

I am sure if I worked from Texas or Florida for a NY based company there are tax headaches the company would have to address.

My 2 cents, oh wait, buck fifty (adjusted for Bidenomics)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (4q/mG)

86 76 Why does Zoom need 8400 employees?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (eL0G3)

It takes a lot of workers to sort, collate and file the data Zoom steals off your devices...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (/HDaX)

Honestly, most work for the CCP.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (ynpvh)

87 LA Times is calling the black man lazy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)
......

Quite the opposite of our hard working new neighbors from south of the border!

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

88 Deep, deep cynicism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

Close enough.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (/HDaX)

89 The Gibson Man's group has gotten more productive since working from home. He doesn't miss the stressful commute in and out of downtown.

Posted by: GibsonGirl at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (KXY4V)

90 The coffee"s better at home.

Posted by: And it's quieter at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (l4ZVr)

91 I don't understand the attraction of Zoom. It's basically just Skype, but with the CCP spying added in.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

92 Could we have the shorter list of things that are NOT racist. Or sexist. Or anti-LGBTQWERTY.

Yeah. I didn't think there was one.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (brAQZ)

93 Speaking of black men, this guy just made me laugh. It's hard to argue with his points.

https://tinyurl.com/tyxjanjy
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (eOEVl)

Dang. that was awesome.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (T/Lqj)

94 90 The coffee"s better at home.
Posted by: And it's quieter at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (l4ZVr)

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But the coffee isn't free at home.

Also, harder to scrounge off of other teams' catered lunches at home.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

95 You guys do read Pixy's "Daily Tech News" posts, right? 'Cause then you'd know why Zoom needs 8,400 employees.

Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (rj6Yv)

96 Holy shit.
Disney lost 12 million subscribers in India.
Lost 300k subscribers in North America.

The India subs don't bring in much money per user, but the NA numbers are more problematic.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (ufFY8)

97 91 I don't understand the attraction of Zoom. It's basically just Skype, but with the CCP spying added in.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

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You didn't have to sign in or set up an account. It made the proliferation very easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (LvTSG)

98 We have a lot less face-to-face meetings. Which means we tend to get *more* done since we aren't wasting our time with chit-chat/small talk.

This is true.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (eOEVl)

99 I've worked from home for decades, mainly because the companies I work for are headquartered far from where I live. I currently live 10,000 miles from HQ so the commute is kind of a bitch.

I work more hours than most 9 - 5 employees cause I work when the job requires and that includes weekends and nights. I'm pretty productive.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (ZLI7S)

100 LA Times is calling the black man lazy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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Can't pick cotton from home.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (YqDXo)

101 So people didn't want to go back to work in 2021. Probably because a lot of (blue) places still had mask mandates, the media was hyping the next variant, and the artificially inflated "COVID death rate" hadn't yet been broadly debunked.

It may be the most recent data they have, but how does a 2021 stat still matter?

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (f/6Wb)

102 Work from home destroys any cohesion a workplace has. It'll never go back to normal.

Posted by: InZona at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (YKRxb)

103 The coffee"s better at home.
Posted by: And it's quieter at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (l4ZVr)

yes. Well, except I have my own coffee pot at work. So, you know. office still wins.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (T/Lqj)

104 The actual data that work from office is more effective then work from home for "internet/computer" type work like the Zoom people is...questionable

It seems logical you'd work harder if your boss was around looking at what you were doing but...I'm not sure that's the case for your good employees.

So...do you put in a policy that makes the slackers work harder and annoys the people you can't afford to lose?

And to add to all of cities have intentionally made themselves harder to get in and out of - so if you have to choose:

Look for a new job
Commute 2 hours each day
Buy in an urban shithole

option 1 looks more and more appealing...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (lc5cP)

105 "Could we have the shorter list of things that are NOT racist. Or sexist. Or anti-LGBTQWERTY. "

Wait you mean we missed something?

Posted by: BLM and Big Homo at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (or2+y)

106 I work from all over the damn place anyway, so it doesn't really matter to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (9UlRk)

107 So, a study of Indian workers in India working from home is kinda useless. I think we can do better than that.

Funny enough, feds got more work done at home, probably b/c they got no early outs for snow, warmth, wind, etc...so, the pitch to get feds back is camaraderie and team-building, b/c productivity will go down...

But DC needs a bailout and VA has been thriving with work from home feds...thus, they need to go back says the liberal man...most "back to office" policies are meant as city welfare and security (more people around who care about the law, the more it tends to be upheld)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (exHjb)

108 Stereotype much???

Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (UUBmN)

109 Drawing from both studies, it seems to show that 3% of black workers are productive vs 21% of white workers?

Posted by: db at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (wu87C)

110 76 Why does Zoom need 8400 employees?

New cover sheet for the TPS reports.

Posted by: And it's quieter at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (l4ZVr)

111 That India study is crap. I've seen reports from companies in the US who stated their production went up when we all went to work from home. The company I work for had a production increase of 4% in the first quarter of working from home and it has not dropped. This is likely because workers with kids and logistical concerns can now stay home with their families and don't have to plan around commutes.
Posted by: neverBiden at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (eIGHH)

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Precisely. The only reason US companies are pushing to go back to the office is because they can't justify the property taxes and the commercial real estate market has tanked so they can't sell it. And there are a lot of middle/upper management types who just want to make a policy change for the sake of making it look like they're doing something important.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (Bmy9A)

112 Disney lost 12 million subscribers in India.
Lost 300k subscribers in North America.

The India subs don't bring in much money per user, but the NA numbers are more problematic.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (ufFY

Disney+ in India dropped the cricket league.

Posted by: WOPR at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (Ix9FU)

113 Of course the ultimate goal is to keep everyone but the food producers cooped up in their high rise apartments in megalopolises under state surveillance.

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (PCK5/)

114 Why does Zoom need 8400 employees?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

It takes a lot of workers to sort, collate and file the data Zoom steals off your devices...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

Management: 1400
HR: 2000
Coders: 4
Chinese govt spies: 4996

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (wF+cs)

115 80
It's worse than making us pick cotton!
Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (gmo/4)

I never picked cotton........
https://youtu.be/hoRoi2bbspk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

Black guy at my brother's work was bragging that his ancestors were house slaves; they never worked in the fields.
My brother goes, "What's wrong with working in the fields? My Grandmother and my uncles worked in the fields"
coworker pauses, then says, "That's just wrong."
both laughed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (ynpvh)

116 "Liberals love to complain about how golf courses are a waste of real estate. "

That's because they don't know that smart developers put those in flood plains where it would be hazardous to put actual buildings.

But finding that out would require them to do research and learn things that have utility outside their bubble.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (ou9hh)

117 You didn't have to sign in or set up an account. It made the proliferation very easy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (LvTSG)
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It saves that ten seconds it takes to sign in? Productivity boost!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

118 > Also, the study you cite that shows productivity dropping 18% was conducted in India, and frankly, anyone who has dealt with the work culture of India understands why this is absolutely not analogous to the United States.

I HATE working with remote teams in India. They'll straight up disappear on you for days on end with no explanation. If you don't watch them every second they'll take a second job or outsource their job to their retarded cousin. If you don't solve every coding problem for them, they'll take ages to come up with their own bizarre solution that has all sort of downsides that ten seconds worth of thought would have revealed. Oh, and they have ZERO initiative. If they hit a problem, they'll just stop. And you won't hear about it until you check on them to see how it's going.

And these are the guys that are still making $70K plus, not some $8/hour reject dragged off the street.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (0N1h0)

119 My nephew just spent two months at my cabin in the woods, working the whole time (got his Starlink hooked up). He does internet security for some bank.

Working remotely may be a factor in his pay, idk, but he seems much happier that way (and it's much better than dodging poop and vagrants in San Fran.)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (Cus5s)

120 I totally understand why workers want to work from home. I do myself, and I know other people who have been able to do things they could not -- like buying a piece of land far outside the city and raising their kids while still working in a city-based company -- if they were forced to come to work.
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I know a *ton* of people who did this. Hell, *I* did this.

But here's the thing: it's a gamble. If you do this, you must be prepared for when it's over. You will not be able to earn your big city money in a better, quieter, less-dense place with less density of your particular kind of business. You have to understand before making such a move that when the party does finally end, you will be able to comfortably live on what the *local* market will bear, including a period of unemployment while you look for a job in an environment that might not have nearly so many choices.

If you make a move like this while assuming that party will go on forever, you will get your face ripped off when it finally stops for you. You did *not* suddenly get rich, you got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with a very real - albeit unknown - expiration date.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (WkNQM)

121 The bathroom is cleaner at home too.

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (gmo/4)

122 The libtards and WEF all want us to be carbon free. They're going after our vehicles, appliances and our mobility. Yet these clowns get to travel to ritzy destinations, dine on some of the finest food while they lecture us.

Why isn't someone challenging them to do these meetups over Zoom or Teams? They would emit so much less carbon.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (N39Ws)

123 102 Work from home destroys any cohesion a workplace has. It'll never go back to normal.
Posted by: InZona at August 09, 2023 04:15 PM (YKRxb)

DEI or DIE already destroyed that...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (exHjb)

124 I suspect that in addition to the familiar loss of productivity from screwing around at home, running errands etc. during business hours, there's also reduced productivity from the breakdown in organization as an organization. A bit like the Millennial/Zoomer obession with never having phone calls, let alone meetings. "This could have been an e-mail." There are times when face-to-face communication is more efficient. I'm less a fan of the work-from-home thing as time goes on.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (ppBhU)

125
114 & 86: Horde Mind

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (ynpvh)

126 But the coffee isn't free at home.

Also, harder to scrounge off of other teams' catered lunches at home.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

Was like Black Friday when those emails would come through: Leftover lunch is now available in the break room.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (KbCG3)

127 117 You didn't have to sign in or set up an account. It made the proliferation very easy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (LvTSG)
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It saves that ten seconds it takes to sign in? Productivity boost!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

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It was more about the account. Just send a link, and grandma can click on it and be in a chat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

128 The LA Times just seriously "reported:" Making black people show up for work is racist.

I'm not kidding.
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Meh. Everything is racist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (WkNQM)

129 Disney+ in India dropped the cricket league.
Posted by: WOPR at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (Ix9FU)

Yep. That is the primary reason.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (ufFY8)

130 You didn't have to sign in or set up an account. It made the proliferation very easy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (LvTSG)
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I was an early adopter of this stuff, starting with NetMeeting, which was a pain in the butt to use, but invaluable for letting the grandparents see the grandkids.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

131 The bathroom is cleaner at home too.
Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (gmo/4)

And I can microwave whatever the hell I want.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)

132 126 Was like Black Friday when those emails would come through: Leftover lunch is now available in the break room.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (KbCG3)

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Moe's were my favorite...Also cakes...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

133 It may be the most recent data they have, but how does a 2021 stat still matter?

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (f/6Wb)

Any stat that fits the Narrative matters. And is always a lie.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (krYYY)

134 Stereotype much???
Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (UUBmN)

Not usually. Why?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (/HDaX)

135
Meh, lay off the Black people. L.A. Times is just stirring racial shyte.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (lCaJd)

136 Slack de-platformed LibsOfTikTok for--all together, now--violation of their "Acceptable Use Policy."

Also, I didn't realize until now that Slack is owned by Salesforce who had previously kicked all law-abiding firearm-related vendors from it's platform.

Leftoid scum. All of them.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (DTX3h)

137 Is the racism in the desert or in the city?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Yes

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (tQL7r)

138 134 Stereotype much???
Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (UUBmN)

Not usually. Why?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (/HDaX)

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I generally generalize in general.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

139 So people didn't want to go back to work in 2021. Probably because a lot of (blue) places still had mask mandates,

It may be the most recent data they have, but how does a 2021 stat still matter?
Posted by: Impudent Warwick at August 09, 2023 04:14 PM (f/6Wb)

Dude, we still had a mask mandate in the summer of 2022. So I left. It remained until about October 2022. In all that time we had a little less than a month reprieve. And so everything fractured.

Posted by: InZona at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (YKRxb)

140 At home you can dress just like Biden dresses at home, in a bathrobe and unzipped khaki pants.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (vlMl3)

141 Disney's losses were cut to a half billion this quarter, vs one billion last quarter. Streaming losses.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (ufFY8)

142 131 The bathroom is cleaner at home too.
Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (gmo/4)

And I can microwave whatever the hell I want.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)

But won’t you miss the burnt popcorn stench wafting through the cubicles????

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

143 When everything is raysis, nothing is raysis.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (ng4Aa)

144 I don’t want to work from home, either. I want to get paid from home.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (JTwsP)

145 Switch them to to what we called piece work. They get paid for each job/task they complete. No hourly wages for them since they aren't in the office.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (xT7BI)

146
Dang. that was awesome.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:13 PM (T/Lqj)

The vid below that one was good too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

147
anyone who has dealt with the work culture of India understands why this is absolutely not analogous to the United States.
Posted by: Caiwyn

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Hmm, please elucidate.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (lCaJd)

148 141 Disney's losses were cut to a half billion this quarter, vs one billion last quarter. Streaming losses.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:18 PM (ufFY

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And on that news alone, the stock will jump 15% or more in pre-market trading tomorrow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

149 143 When everything is raysis, nothing is raysis.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (ng4Aa)

That's raysis!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (ynpvh)

150 When I did tech support for hardware/software I worked from home when I wanted to... it worked. My commute was 7 miles and took a maximum of 20 minutes door to desk, and that includes putting on motorcycle gear to ride to work.

I was completely flabbergasted when I found out you had to come to work every day when I worked with patients in the hospital! Why couldn't we send all the patients home on weekends and holidays?
What a rip.
/s

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (ysaNs)

151
But won’t you miss the burnt popcorn stench wafting through the cubicles????
Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

I could do that any time I want as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

152 My nephew just spent two months at my cabin in the woods, working the whole time (got his Starlink hooked up). He does internet security for some bank.

Working remotely may be a factor in his pay, idk, but he seems much happier that way (and it's much better than dodging poop and vagrants in San Fran.)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (Cus5s)

I'm surprised he's happier. I'd think having to deal with the Buckner family might impact his producitivity slightly.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (/HDaX)

153 Don't want to show for work? Ok. You're fired.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

I can't blame them for enjoying remote work, but productivity is really going to be the measure of who stays and who gets fired if they don't report in.

Posted by: trev006 at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (+Wz5+)

154 What I do miss when I am working from home is all the food options available to me. So many places to eat in midtown with restaurants, food carts and trucks and lunch places. Soooooo much variety. And pretty girls to look at (especially in summertime) :-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (4q/mG)

155
Fine, don't return to the office.

Do stop by to pick up your boxed personal items at your office building's front desk, however.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (xG4kz)

156 142 131 The bathroom is cleaner at home too.
Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (gmo/4)

And I can microwave whatever the hell I want.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2023 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)

But won’t you miss the burnt popcorn stench wafting through the cubicles????

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

Fish reheated in the microwaves at work. That's always nice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (ynpvh)

157 I don't want to work. I want to bang on the drums all day.

Posted by: Todd Rundgren at August 09, 2023 04:21 PM (l8gTz)

158 My small city received a bunch of WFH people over Covid from the closest Blue Shithole. They instantly set about doing everything possible to turn it into an exact duplicate of where they came from.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 09, 2023 04:21 PM (/BBNv)

159 Black white-collar workers?

Ring around the collar!

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2023 04:21 PM (Z05Ao)

160 153 I can't blame them for enjoying remote work, but productivity is really going to be the measure of who stays and who gets fired if they don't report in.
Posted by: trev006 at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (+Wz5+)

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I swear. Just show up to every meeting on your calendar. You don't even need to speak. Just show up.

It's something like 90% of staying employed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

161 "Disney+ in India dropped the cricket league."

Ah, so they don't understand their audience in ~multiple~ countries

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (ou9hh)

162 you know what's easy?

firing remote workers

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (AcWfM)

163 "No more Toobin' ...
On a Monday afternoon."

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (sOWoL)

164 After the wife retired from the VA I nuked zoom from her laptop, that thing is a security nightmare. She was HR and they sent her entire office to work from home when covid hit. It was a disaster, she spent more time trying to log on that she actually spent on meetings or working. She was constantly getting kicked off and unable to log back in even though we bought a high end laptop as soon as covid hit because we saw what was coming.

Her productivity went way down and she requested that she be allowed to actually come in to the office because of it but that was denied. It got to be so frustrating that she retired at 62, three years earlier than we had planned on.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (QNSds)

165 If the NYT took a Rorsch test every ink blot would be racism.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (JTwsP)

166 "Liberals love to complain about how golf courses are a waste of real estate. "
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So are courts for midnight basketball.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

167 161 "Disney+ in India dropped the cricket league."

Ah, so they don't understand their audience in ~multiple~ countries

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (ou9hh)

Response from Disney: :::crickets:::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

168 Indian workers in India suck no matter where they work, at home or at a company. Absolute waste of money. Off shoring is one of the stupidest things ever.

Posted by: NC Kate at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (an6os)

169 My small city received a bunch of WFH people over Covid from the closest Blue Shithole. They instantly set about doing everything possible to turn it into an exact duplicate of where they came from.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 09, 2023 04:21 PM (/BBNv)

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See me @ 68. The same thing is happening where I live.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (DRSnL)

170 I actually have humidity in my house during winter. Also, no sick people walking by my desk. Never been healthier during the cold and flu season. So, F-off.

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (Z05Ao)

171 Ah, so they don't understand their audience in ~multiple~ countries
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (ou9hh)

Not sure why they lost it.
I think they were outbid by another entity for the rights.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (ufFY8)

172 The bathroom is cleaner at home too.
Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023 04:16 PM (gmo/4)
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I'm afraid I can't make that claim. The custodians around here keep the bathrooms at work sparkling clean.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (YIVH2)

173 165 If the NYT took a Rorsch test every ink blot would be racism.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (JTwsP)

Of course. They manipulate black ink on white, racist paper.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (ynpvh)

174 >>If you make a move like this while assuming that party will go on forever, you will get your face ripped off when it finally stops for you. You did *not* suddenly get rich, you got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with a very real - albeit unknown - expiration date.

Depends what you do. If you have a job that used to require you to be in the office all the time and circumstances gave you the opportunity to WFH I agree. But I've never had a job like that and as my career has progressed there is even less reason for me to be in an office.

I'm either working from home or on the road and it's been like this through a number of jobs. Hell, I've been working this current job for over 5 years and I've never even been to the home office once and in my last job I worked for 9 years I was probably at the office a total of 30 days.

Definitely not for everyone but its worked for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (ZLI7S)

175 I never got to work from home. I showed up every goddamn day, on time, ready to take care of hordes of people scared shitless and coughing everywhere.

Put on your big person pants and go to work.

Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (pcG5m)

176 I had a friend at my last job who worked something like 70 hours a week in order to make things work. He was overdoing it like crazy. He shouldn't have been doing it, but he was dedicated like mad to make a bad process go well.

He worked his own schedule, though. He wouldn't show up to scheduled meetings and just didn't respond to communications in any sort of timely manner.

He got put on a PIP, and then he noped out of there as fast as he could. He ended up much happier in a different place with different expectations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

177 "Disney+ in India dropped the cricket league."

Ah, so they don't understand their audience in ~multiple~ countries
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM (ou9hh)

Yep. Mouse is evil AND stupid.

Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

178 Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2023 04:10

That was funny

Posted by: Cheri at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (oiNtH)

179 165 If the NYT took a Rorsch test every ink blot would be racism.

You're the one with the dirty pictures!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (l8gTz)

180 164 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2023 04:22 PM

My company never used Zoom. We started out using Skype and about a year ago they got rid of Skype and use TEAMS.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (4q/mG)

181 What I do miss when I am working from home is all the food options available to me. So many places to eat in midtown with restaurants, food carts and trucks and lunch places. Soooooo much variety. And pretty girls to look at (especially in summertime) :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (4q/mG)

My office is a couple of blocks from dozens of good restaurants. But what do I do? Microwave burritos or chili, or tuna on crackers.

I am a cheapskate.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (T/Lqj)

182 Um, I'm Gen X, and that ain't us.
Posted by: Catherine at August 09, 2023 04:06 PM (ZSsrh)
===
Ok, gen z, whoever. get off my lawn and get a job!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (JvZF+)

183 140 At home you can dress just like Biden dresses at home, in a bathrobe and unzipped khaki pants.
Posted by: Eromero at August

How does Biden dress at home? Depends.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (XFBHF)

184 > You didn't have to sign in or set up an account. It made the proliferation very easy.

Microsoft and others really dropped the ball with that. People get used to one platform, and they simply don't want to create a new login, download another program, and get it all set up and figure out what's different.

It used to be a very common problem where people's friend, church, and hobby groups couldn't all decide on a single platform. People simply wouldn't join meetings if it wasn't on the one they were on.

Zoom made that dead simple. Send me a link, I join in the browser and enter my user name. DONE!

Zoom, especially in the beginning, was MILES behind Skype. It was a buggy crapfest. But being able to send a link and get everyone to join a meeting in their preferred browser was so freaking easy.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 09, 2023 04:24 PM (0N1h0)

185 Zoom ? Wasn't that a Flash villian a million times more frightening than Reverse Flash ? He actually manipulated time... not simply a reverse colored copy of Barry Allen.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (v6Pu6)

186 I can't blame them for enjoying remote work, but productivity is really going to be the measure of who stays and who gets fired if they don't report in.
Posted by: trev006 at August 09, 2023 04:20 PM (+Wz5+)
___________

The crucial consideration is whether you have a tangible work product. If yes, WFH is fine. If no, you're toast.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (YqDXo)

187 Joe Mannix - yes. We could sell our California property and buy a dream home on multiple acres elsewhere, but it's a one-way ticket.

Gee, when I read that again, it sounds pretty good.

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (f/6Wb)

188
I suppose that it's a matter of what your actual work is, however-

my general viewpoint were I an employer would be that-

if I don't need you here at the office, I probably don't need to employ you.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (QzZeQ)

189 Also. Why I do not work well from home: I am working at home right now.

I saw a hummingbird today, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (T/Lqj)

190 That LA Times article seems like it was ripped from the pages of The Babylon Bee.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (sAmhv)

191 Another thing about office cohesion - I work with a bunch of leftists, some are assholes, some are not. But I have to constantly filter what I say. That's a LOT easier to do at home then in the office...

Recently I had a cow-worker go tranny with a new stripper name and damn if I didn't screw myself using his real name in a meeting.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (lc5cP)

192 I've been working from home for 11 years. I'm not sure I could go back (if I had to, of course). I work for a woke company and it's hard enough putting up with the BS in online meetings (Zoom). I couldn't stand working for this company if I had to go into the office and interact with these woke assholes all day.

Posted by: Biergood at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (FQWHA)

193 175 I never got to work from home. I showed up every goddamn day, on time, ready to take care of hordes of people scared shitless and coughing everywhere.

Put on your big person pants and go to work.

Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (pcG5m)

This nurse… I like..

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

194 Guarantee this will have the opposite effect:

@Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: Biden issues an executive order restricting U.S. investments in Chinese technology - AP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2023 04:26 PM (IG4Id)

195 Unfortunately, I think we got an influx of people from Seattle who figured out that housing was about half the price here on the east side, and that's what f*cked up our local primary election last week.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:11 PM (DRSnL)
++++
It appears - for now - that there are two kinds of migratory activity in this great migration that's going on now:
1. People getting out of the blue hellholes for better nearby locales. These people are outright colonists and the better nearby locales will be destroyed.
2. People pulling up stakes completely and moving far away - like to a suburban or exurban or rural area in a much more conservative state. This is more vague - there may be colonists but so far it looks like a whole lot of them are refugees with no desire to recreate the shitty homeland in their new place. The jury is still out as a whole with this group.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:26 PM (WkNQM)

196 175 Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM

No.

(ducks)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 09, 2023 04:26 PM (4q/mG)

197 191 Another thing about office cohesion - I work with a bunch of leftists, some are assholes, some are not. But I have to constantly filter what I say. That's a LOT easier to do at home then in the office...

Recently I had a cow-worker go tranny with a new stripper name and damn if I didn't screw myself using his real name in a meeting.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (lc5cP)

Justs refer to him/her/it as "it puts on the lotion or gets the hose".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

198 A friend of mine took a meeting in her PJs but with a nice blaz er on so you couldn't tell.

It was a little embarrassing when she forgot and stood up to grab something on her desk though...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

199 This nurse… I like..
Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

She is feisty.
And if you cross her, then Otter 841 will fuck you up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (ufFY8)

200 Those of us who reported for duty throughout the madness and who perform personal service are ... unimpressed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (JvZF+)

201 This summer in particular I have noticed fewer women with nice figures wearing skirts versus in the past, and many MORE women with not-nice figures wearing skirts.

The shocking part hasn't been more women wearing pants, as such, but rather more women with very big bare pockmarked legs showing them off. They don't wear any kind of tights either. Trying to figure out what exactly happened.

Has the so-called Body Positivity Movement been *that* effective?

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (krYYY)

202 188
I suppose that it's a matter of what your actual work is, however-

my general viewpoint were I an employer would be that-

if I don't need you here at the office, I probably don't need to employ you.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (QzZeQ)

What can be done in an office that can't be done through a work station at home?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (KbCG3)

203 It appears - for now - that there are two kinds of migratory activity in this great migration that's going on now:

I couldn't help but say that sentence in my head in a Monty Python voice.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (eOEVl)

204 I'm more productive without all the pointless meetings and "Project Managers" Some jobs I am lucky to get anything accomplished. We should have a meeting to discuss why we have so many pointless meetings.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (v6Pu6)

205 Meh, I go into the office pretty much everyday. Now I usually don't actually spend 40 hours a week there and can WFH as needed. My office set up is nicer with my own office, 2 large monitors, standing desk, etc. My manager really doesn't care as long as I get my stuff done.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (UUBmN)

206
Guarantee this will have the opposite effect:

@Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: Biden issues an executive order restricting U.S. investments in Chinese technology - AP
Posted by: weft cut-loop

=============

Well, now that Biden's got his...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (lCaJd)

207 Never worked from home. Always had a job where I was 'essential' and had to be at the office.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (sAmhv)

208 Fortunately my work didn't involve Zoom except for a few denominational meetings. Good thing, because I hate Zoom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (3B4/u)

209 I'm either working from home or on the road and it's been like this through a number of jobs. Hell, I've been working this current job for over 5 years and I've never even been to the home office once and in my last job I worked for 9 years I was probably at the office a total of 30 days.

Definitely not for everyone but its worked for me.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (ZLI7S)
++++
Yeah, if you're a road warrior and your origin point doesn't matter, that's its own category. If you're a consultant or contractor and can set your own terms regarding location, that is also a different category.

But most people with normal office jobs who got the hell out during COVID but assumed that WFH was forever are going to be in for a hell of a shock.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (WkNQM)

210 If everything is y, then nothing is y.

In this case if everything is racist, then nothing is racist.

This should almost work as some kind of law, or a corollary.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (FCbAQ)

211 >>>15 Too much masturbating on company time.

Define "too much."

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (KRtlO)

212 My brother works in financial services. His employer (a big name in the industry) moved online/remote during CV-19 and they only spend 1/4 time in office now. They're routinely firing people who just can't seem to stay focused working from home, those who think they can fool the system and either a) goof off or b) try to moonlight on company time.

Apparently, work discipline isn't what it used to be. Most still require the hand-holding because independence is hard.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (aXxgO)

213 It appears - for now - that there are two kinds of migratory activity in this great migration that's going on now:

There is an amount of corruption and crime that we consider normal and will vote for, and that amount is *just* below the levels of the place we just left...

Posted by: City Folk at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (A0/af)

214 My manager really doesn't care as long as I get my stuff done.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (UUBmN)
---
Best kind of manager. Mine is the same. As long as stuff gets done, he really doesn't care what I do, though I am expected to work in the office most of the time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

215 People who fool around on AoS all day were 18% less productive, but much happier.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

216 6k watching on the call.
One minute before it starts.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (ufFY8)

217 When they allow the military to work from home we might have a problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

218 @Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: Biden issues an executive order restricting U.S. investments in Chinese technology - AP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2023 04:26 PM

Bet that Chinese check to joe biden bounced.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (QNSds)

219 I actually get more done working at home, since I'm not interrupted 12 and 14 times an hour by some "coworker" wanting to "chat."

Plus I do laundry on my breaks, so that helps, too. And the dogs dig it. They sleep under the desk on my feet.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (EHSip)

220 I work remote 3 weeks a month, bit I have an office. My wife works at home and the company has offered me the same. Nope, I have to go to the office, gets me in work mode

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (NtVYv)

221 202 188
I suppose that it's a matter of what your actual work is, however-

my general viewpoint were I an employer would be that-

if I don't need you here at the office, I probably don't need to employ you.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (QzZeQ)

What can be done in an office that can't be done through a work station at home?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (KbCG3)

Have the office secretary go around collecting for the coffee fund, or signing a birthday card, or chipping in for the take out food order…

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (PCK5/)

222
Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan!

Based

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (xG4kz)

223 Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (pcG5m)

*Jumps up, looks at lazy ass, showers and shaves throws on suit...*

...wait I'm retired.

Dammit nurse!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (or2+y)

224 At home you can dress just like Biden dresses at home, in a bathrobe and unzipped khaki pants.
Posted by: Eromero

Pants?? What is this pants business? I have on good authority that pants are NOT required for WFH

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (tQL7r)

225 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (lc5cP)

226 Did anyone ask if Zoom directed employees to return to work via a Zoom call? That would be very ironic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (84FlP)

227 215 People who fool around on AoS all day were 18% less productive, but much happier.
Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

Ignore that elephant in the room!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (PCK5/)

228 @Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: Biden issues an executive order restricting U.S. investments in Chinese technology - AP
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2023 04:26 PM (IG4Id)

Right.
Restricting investments to only those companies that have bought Biden.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (hv9bm)

229 Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (lc5cP)

I filter everything now. I used to be looser with everything, crack people up, give real thoughts, etc.

Now I just don't say shit to anyone. No opinion. I don't know shit. Do whatever the fuck you want. Yes, jump off that bridge, great idea boss.

The whole world is almost exactly the way the miserable left wants it. With them the only people allowed to talk.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (krYYY)

230 This Callipygian blonde still lives in the city, because she wouldn't leave that "city energy" for any reason - but she still doesn't want to go to work, be it from home or otherwise:
https://is.gd/nmHGDj

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (WkNQM)

231 198 A friend of mine took a meeting in her PJs but with a nice blaz er on so you couldn't tell.

It was a little embarrassing when she forgot and stood up to grab something on her desk though...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

Wife didn't realize I was on a video call once and popped in to give me a kiss. Surprisingly, given my wife's distaste for pants, she was wearing clothes at the time.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (KbCG3)

232 Racism: The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

Posted by: Homerisms at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (aXxgO)

233 I worked from home for the last ten years before I retired, and I loved it. While working for a biotech startup, I came down with the flu, and worked from home to avoid exposing others (unlike the a-holes who think they're martyrs for coming in and infecting everybody).

It suddenly struck me that practically no one either in the office or in outside contacts realized I wasn't in the office. It literally made difference, as I had fast internet, of course a phone, a fax (when people still used fax), and all my files were with me in digital form.

So when the biotech startup went belly up, I started consulting from home. It was great.

I did miss the birthday parties, the baby showers, the United Way crap, the Girl Scout cookies, etc. Not.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (YqDXo)

234 I don't work at the office. I don't work at home either. I don't work AND IT FEELS FUCKING GOOD!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (BdMk6)

235 You know what is racist? Saying that black people can't make it on their own in the world. That's pretty damned racist.

Don't get me started on brown folks. My son is Mayan, and he can damned well make it. No idea why we think anyone who isn't white is somehow stupid or incompetent. Most of the stupid people I come into contact with are white.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (EHSip)

236 Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 09, 2023 04:23 PM (pcG5m)
===

This.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (JvZF+)

237 >>>Put on your big person pants and go to work.

Pants?! we don't wear no stinking pants!

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (Z05Ao)

238 I never got to work from home. I showed up every goddamn day, on time, ready to take care of hordes of people scared shitless and coughing everywhere.

Put on your big person pants and go to work.

Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan!

Tell us how ya really feel !

Posted by: JT at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (T4tVD)

239 145 Switch them to to what we called piece work. They get paid for each job/task they complete. No hourly wages for them since they aren't in the office.

i think agile calls "piece work" "story points"

Posted by: anachronda at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (oY6Yp)

240 heh and I see blaz er is still banned at AoS. That guy is going to live forever here.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:32 PM (lc5cP)

241 that "city energy"
________________

Is that the energy you get when running from a mugger or a vagrant?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (YqDXo)

242 if I don't need you here at the office, I probably don't need to employ you.

We're essential! This paper isn't going to push itself!

Posted by: I Am Automatable at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (Sv58p)

243 SFH > NSFW

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (Z05Ao)

244 otherwise:
https://is.gd/nmHGDj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (WkNQM)

Junk in the trunk.
Nice curves. Callipygous, indeed.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (ufFY8)

245 Once a layabout gets word to be a layabout then the layabout will be motivated to be a layabout.

It's in the democrat playbook.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (HTUD+)

246 233
I did miss the birthday parties, the baby showers, the United Way crap, the Girl Scout cookies, etc. Not.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (YqDXo)

We used to have monthly meetings with cake for the employees having birthdays that particular month. One time, I ended up with a piece of cake that said "Birth"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

247 Lived next to a guy with a limited access permit (fishing), but we didn't know that at the time. DH asked him what he did. He didn't get the question. So DH clarified: Where do you work? He answered: Work? I don't work. I fish!

Sid was my kinda neighbor.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (EHSip)

248 Coworkers wife works for overseas company. They just ask that during work hours your computer camera is on...I'm guessing a lot of people could not handle that

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (/6GbT)

249 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.
Posted by: 18-1

Same here. I get tons of work done during endless and useless meetings. I've trained myself to pick up my name or issues that I'm a part of and can quickly jump in if needed. I spend more than half my day in meetings some days. We literally have meetings about upcoming meetings.

Posted by: Biergood at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (FQWHA)

250 otherwise:
https://is.gd/nmHGDj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (WkNQM)

Junk in the trunk.
Nice curves. Callipygous, indeed.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (ufFY

I'm thinking German.

Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (rj6Yv)

251 RIP Robbie Robertson. Great with The Band and solo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (84FlP)

252 Screw the Mad Max commute
Screw the overhead fluorescents
Screw the unwanted small-talk in the hallways
Screw the nasty bathrooms and filthy office fridge
Screw the desktop drummers, coughers, whistlers

Work from home is awesome, I'm far more productive, and ten times happier. Each hassle I mentioned takes away from the 100% I'd otherwise have to give to the work.

Posted by: weew at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (EaEMG)

253 Never type blazer here. It can't be done.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (krYYY)

254 Hiya Cannibal !

Posted by: JT at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (T4tVD)

255 My manager really doesn't care as long as I get my stuff done.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (UUBmN)
---
Best kind of manager. Mine is the same. As long as stuff gets done, he really doesn't care what I do, though I am expected to work in the office most of the time.

This reminds me of Joe Rochefort, the guy responsible for Midway. Nimitz was smart.

Start at 0:45
https://tinyurl.com/4wj5xhen

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (eOEVl)

256 33 https://www.youtube.com/live/CLRiRfdJYb8?feature=share

Valliant Renegade is starting.
3.7k watching.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:07 PM (ufFY

=======

My prediction:

Disney+ numbers went up. Cruise numbers are great. The box office bombs aren't as bad as reported. Healthy numbers all around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:09
-----------

Listening to youtube. Disney+ lost 500k subscribers.
6.5k watching now.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (7vuhT)

257
Gotta love that L.A. Times graphic, showing the enslaved hair in the office and the dreds o' freedom in wfh. Is ANYONE in corporate America telling Black people to make their hair look more "white"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (lCaJd)

258 When I was working, up until 2015, my boss was trying to get me to work at home. We did that for several months after Katrina and I didn't like it. My son now does the same job and they are asking him to come to the office two days a week. For what?

Posted by: javems at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (9AACZ)

259 This one lady where I worked nuked FISH in the kitchen.

But surprisingly, burnt popcorn was far far worse.

Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (iziT8)

260 225 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.

i do crochet to keep myself from snoring during the endless, pointless meetings.

Posted by: anachronda at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (oY6Yp)

261 "People who worked from home saw their productivity fall by 18%, the researchers said."

I suspect my productivity dropped by that much, because my work-issued laptop ran as slow as molasses in winter.

Not that my in-office productivity is anything to write home about.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Well, #1. We do MS Teams.
2. Our productivity skyrocketed. So mu so, that for the first time in 33 years, we received a Christmas bonus three weeks before Christmas on top of our annual bonus.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (SUJ+x)

262 This nurse… I like..
Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

She is feisty.
And if you cross her, then Otter 841 will fuck you up.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:27 PM (ufFY

Careful. She is old school. Still uses a rectal thermometer.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (hv9bm)

263 But won’t you miss the burnt popcorn stench wafting through the cubicles????
Posted by: tubal

or the squid I let nuke in there for 5 minutes

Posted by: Your Korean cow-orker at August 09, 2023 04:35 PM (TZ75n)

264 Iger talking.
Sounds like Biden on drugs.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:35 PM (ufFY8)

265
I saw a hummingbird today, though.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Kaboom survivor at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (T/Lqj)
.......

This morning the top of my birdbath fell over on to some animal, probably a squirrel, skunk or small raccoon and trapped them. They had to dig their way out from under it making a big hole and pile of dirt all around.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

266 210 If everything is y, then nothing is y.

In this case if everything is racist, then nothing is racist.

This should almost work as some kind of law, or a corollary.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (FCbAQ)

But the racism label is useful as long as there are people (well-meaning and otherwise) who are willing to jump all over everyone and everything the label has been applied to.

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at August 09, 2023 04:35 PM (f/6Wb)

267 Careful. She is old school. Still uses a rectal thermometer.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (hv9bm)

And she takes a running start.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:35 PM (or2+y)

268 "Our progress will not always be linear."

Films, parks, streaming will be core.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (ufFY8)

269
Now I just don't say shit to anyone. No opinion. I don't know shit. Do whatever the fuck you want. Yes, jump off that bridge, great idea boss.

Stop ... think it over ... ... don't ... ... ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (xG4kz)

270 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home.
_______________

One of my baseball buddies was on a business conference call while he was awaiting his turn to bat in the cage. He'd say, "Uh huh," "right," "good point," periodically, but then mute his phone just as someone hit the ball, so the people on the call would hear the crack of the bat.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (YqDXo)

271 ...wait I'm retired.

Dammit nurse!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (or2+y)

But... you ARE still a Cannibal, yes?

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (EHSip)

272 One of my favorite office moments - a fire drill when it was before 20F outside.

Management sent an email after the drill saying we were not allowed to get our coats - when the drill went off you were to run outside immediately.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (lc5cP)

273

225 My company has endless, pointless meetings.
Posted by: 18-1

Roberts Rules of Order.

And a presiding officer who can tell people to shut the fuck up and come to the point.

Posted by: Auspex at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (j4U/Z)

274 Iger says they will be spending less on films.

LOL.
Duh.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (ufFY8)

275 The bathroom is cleaner at home too.
Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2023

***
Yeah, but I had to clean the litterbox for two huge male cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

276 267 Careful. She is old school. Still uses a rectal thermometer.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (hv9bm)

And she takes a running start.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:35 PM (or2+y)

Cannibal Bob! long time no see.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (ynpvh)

277 Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (or2+y)

=====

BOB!!!

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (DRSnL)

278 A Cannibal Bob sighting

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (TZ75n)

279 But... you ARE still a Cannibal, yes?

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (EHSip)

Correct. i have not changed my lifestyle.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (or2+y)

280 Future Forum asked around the LA Times newsroom, right?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 09, 2023 04:37 PM (Rbu5d)

281 I have to go to the office, gets me in work mode
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

Please don't tell us you live on the coast and/or you have an office that looks out on to the pacific!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (ysaNs)

282 You know if the Mannix/Fen pic jousting thing were to escalate, we might end up having age verification at the HQ….

Posted by: tubal at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (PCK5/)

283 but she still doesn't want to go to work, be it from home or otherwise:
https://is.gd/nmHGDj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (WkNQM)

See the lady in black?
She makes her living on her back.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (hv9bm)

284
With my luck, I would move out there and my company would let me go. Then finding a new job that works for you is a massive suckfest because you're interviewing long distance.

yeah that's my number 1 concern

Posted by: brak at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (25k9m)

285 Another favorite office moment...the town the office is in passed a law that 50% of all parking spots must be designated for compact cars.

80% of my cow-workers drive SUVs by my estimate.

Not long afterwards management sent out an email saying they were not responsible for scratched doors/paint.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (lc5cP)

286 250 otherwise:
https://is.gd/nmHGDj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2023 04:31 PM (WkNQM)

Junk in the trunk.
Nice curves. Callipygous, indeed.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (ufFY

I'm thinking German.

Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (rj6Yv)

She definitely works out. She's no spring chicken, still too young for me (were I single)

Posted by: javems at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (9AACZ)

287 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (lc5cP)

I HATE it when people put up a PowerPoint and then read it to me. I read faster than they can talk and I'm ready to kill someone by page 3. Ugh.

Posted by: Catherine at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (ZSsrh)

288
Iger says they will be spending less on films.

LOL.
Duh.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

"Steamboat Willie Whacks His Willie"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (xG4kz)

289 Iger making excuses of strong dollar for decline in FL.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (ufFY8)

290 285 Another favorite office moment...the town the office is in passed a law that 50% of all parking spots must be designated for compact cars.

80% of my cow-workers drive SUVs by my estimate.

Not long afterwards management sent out an email saying they were not responsible for scratched doors/paint.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (lc5cP)

At my workplace, we (mostly) park right next to each other, ingnoring the white lines. Otherwise, only 60% of the cars would be able to part.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

291 "Steamboat Willie Whacks His Willie"

So....no Butt Pirates of the Caribbean 7 or whatever they are up to?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (lc5cP)

292 "Iger says they will be spending less on films.

LOL.
Duh.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt"

Fucking lol. What an asshole. This guy is PRICELESS.

Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (iziT8)

293 Cannibal Bob, hope you and Heidi are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (pQt72)

294 We used to have monthly meetings with cake for the employees having birthdays that particular month. One time, I ended up with a piece of cake that said "Birth"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (ynpvh)
______________

It'd be a good policy if your employees are six years old.

If they're adults, it's ridiculous. NOBODY CARES about your birthday. Nobody.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (YqDXo)

295 The crucial consideration is whether you have a tangible work product. If yes, WFH is fine. If no, you're toast.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (YqDXo)

You'd think that work product would always be a consideration, but some people think they can be employed merely for gossiping. I don't know why teachers ever wanted to encourage remote work: they may as well have been advertising for Khan Academy.

Posted by: trev006 at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (+Wz5+)

296 287 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:30 PM (lc5cP)

I HATE it when people put up a PowerPoint and then read it to me. I read faster than they can talk and I'm ready to kill someone by page 3. Ugh.

Posted by: Catherine at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (ZSsrh)

But, they can add animations and delay some text to keep you engaged...
well, not engaged.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

297 Our productivity skyrocketed. So mu so, that for the first time in 33 years, we received a Christmas bonus three weeks before Christmas on top of our annual bonus.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (SUJ+x)

Jelly of the Month Club?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (BdMk6)

298 Another favorite office moment...the town the office is in passed a law that 50% of all parking spots must be designated for compact cars.
***

Simple fix. Leave the parking slots a lone. Put up sign that says Compact Cars.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (hv9bm)

299 I did miss the birthday parties, the baby showers, the United Way crap, the Girl Scout cookies, etc. Not.

But you did enjoy the perpetually empty coffee pot, the fish sticks and popcorn in the microwave, the crop dusters, the overly bright lights or thermostat wars, the loud gossips, the constant sounds of people moving around, the distractions and pointless ad hoc meetings with too many people invited - just because they are there.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (p8A+W)

300 291 "Steamboat Willie Whacks His Willie"

So....no Butt Pirates of the Caribbean 7 or whatever they are up to?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (lc5cP)

"Jack Sparrow and the Bonus Hole of No Return"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

301 I worked from home for two years during COVID and when we went back to the office everyone else had become gay or tranny as well as fat and mostly purple-haired. I unintentionally committed 135 fireable offenses the first week back. I left that Friday and never returned. True story.

Posted by: Andrew del Sol at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (ik/65)

302 Oh at one job I had to buy the monthly birthday cakes...which was great when we ended up with a vegan.

Yeah, kosher requires you to be a little careful with what you buy but vegan? Ugh. And the cake looked like sh*t.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (lc5cP)

303 Cannibal Bob, hope you and Heidi are well.
Posted by: Ben Had

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (T4tVD)

304 I see the FBI killed some guy who threatened Joetato. So that's nice.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (DRSnL)

305 288
Iger says they will be spending less on films.

LOL.
Duh.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

"Steamboat Willie Whacks His Willie"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:39 PM (xG4kz)

The copyright protection on Steamboat Willie ends soon, so you might actually see someone make that movie.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (/iWhV)

306 Hello all!!! I am here reading posts but rarely in the comments. I had lost my devil may care, what the hell, smokin' jokin' attitude so just took a break to get my mind right. But I watch occasionally... ya know...the ettes. I like the etttes...and watching.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (or2+y)

307 297 Our productivity skyrocketed. So mu so, that for the first time in 33 years, we received a Christmas bonus three weeks before Christmas on top of our annual bonus.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (SUJ+x)

Jelly of the Month Club?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2023 04:41 PM (BdMk6)

That was a great year for The Human Fund.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (KbCG3)

308 294 We used to have monthly meetings with cake for the employees having birthdays that particular month. One time, I ended up with a piece of cake that said "Birth"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:33 PM (ynpvh)
______________

It'd be a good policy if your employees are six years old.

If they're adults, it's ridiculous. NOBODY CARES about your birthday. Nobody.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (YqDXo)

Hell, *I* don't care about my birthday.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ynpvh)

309 We used MS Teams for meetings as well as messaging. There was so much software running on my PC during COVID that I spent what felt like half the day trying to recall the passwords that the system was constantly demanding. In frustration, I would just enter f this, f that, f you, etc. I stopped when one of my profane password attempts went out to my team by accident.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ogTiX)

310 Iger blabbing about 'one app' for Hulu/ Disney+.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ufFY8)

311 Careful. She is old school. Still uses a rectal thermometer.

Wait, there are other kinds?

Posted by: The Man With The Callused Ass at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ppBhU)

312 NOBODY CARES about your birthday. Nobody.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

You will be made to care. And sign the e-card.

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (f/6Wb)

313 Not long afterwards management sent out an email saying they were not responsible for scratched doors/paint.
Posted by: 18-1

I hate shopping centers with narrow parking slots. People inevitably go into fuck-it mode and park in two slots fucking everyone over.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (IG4Id)

314 I suppose that it's a matter of what your actual work is, however-

my general viewpoint were I an employer would be that-

if I don't need you here at the office, I probably don't need to employ you.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2023 04:25 PM (QzZeQ)

What can be done in an office that can't be done through a work station at home?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:28 PM (KbCG3)

It just depends how much of a self-starter you are and how independent and how much self-pride you have.

My experience, particularly over the phone, indicates that there has been a real decline in service and an increase in mistakes and general dumbfuckery. Also, it's clear that some folks are spending their work days drinking.

Not saying that you or anyone here does that. But, if an employer, I don't want to have to fart around riding herd on people who are at home rather than the office.

If I'm paying you good money, I'd expect a good day's work and I can best insure that if you're at the office.

But, again, depends on the work being done and the person doing it.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (QzZeQ)

315 225 My company has endless, pointless meetings.
Posted by: 18-1

Roberts Rules of Order.

And a presiding officer who can tell people to shut the fuck up and come to the point.
Posted by: Auspex at August 09, 2023 04:36 PM (j4U/Z)
_______________

Also you need a detailed agenda that lists the matters to be decided (not discussed) and the options. You should be able to designate a proxy if there's a proper agenda.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (YqDXo)

316 This one lady where I worked nuked FISH in the kitchen.

But surprisingly, burnt popcorn was far far worse.
Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 04:34 PM (iziT

......

This guy where I work put a burrito in the the microwave for 118 minutes (supposed to be 118 seconds) and walked away.
When I came to the office after lunch there was smoke pouring out of two exterior doorways.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

317 nuked FISH in the kitchen.

But surprisingly, burnt popcorn was far far worse.
Posted by: eleven

Sautéed cabbage has entered the thread.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (ysaNs)

318 Imma bring back murder hornets!

Posted by: Silly Season at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (LPkjK)

319 LAT Headline; giant asteroid heading for earth, people of color most vulnerable

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (N9tGb)

320

In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

Posted by: Zoom America at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (63Dwl)

321 304 I see the FBI killed some guy who threatened Joetato. So that's nice.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (DRSnL)

What? Did they say they knew what he did to Ashley and the dog?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

322 I was in the corporate world for several decades. The rule of thumb was the W@H guys are the easiest to layoff.

You have to have very special skills to break this rule.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (nnp+f)

323 Zoom just changed its EULA to scrape all personal data, facial recognition etc. in perpetuity with no opt out proviso

Posted by: 13times at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (CpTFW)

324 292 "Iger says they will be spending less on films.

LOL.
Duh.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt"

Fucking lol. What an asshole. This guy is PRICELESS.
Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (iziT

The more Iger talks, the lower DIS trades in the after-hours market.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (/iWhV)

325 OK, cawfee. I do miss those that I miss. take care. Keep the faith.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (or2+y)

326 311 Careful. She is old school. Still uses a rectal thermometer.

Wait, there are other kinds?

Posted by: The Man With The Callused Ass at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ppBhU)

Bonus Hole thermometer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (ynpvh)

327 Not saying that you or anyone here does that. But, if an employer, I don't want to have to fart around riding herd on people who are at home rather than the office.

If I'm paying you good money, I'd expect a good day's work and I can best insure that if you're at the office.

But, again, depends on the work being done and the person doing it.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (QzZeQ)

Okay, I read what you originally posted differently.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (KbCG3)

328 Another favorite office moment...the town the office is in passed a law that 50% of all parking spots must be designated for compact cars.

80% of my cow-workers drive SUVs by my estimate.

Big dogs at corporate (in Europe) want to have people stop parking their trucks in the front of the building, using the side lot instead. They are too big, they say. It is hard for employees to see around them when backing out.

I'm trying to diplomatically fight this. The fact I drive a 20ft long pickup has nothing to do with it (wink).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (N39Ws)

329 This guy where I work put a burrito in the the microwave for 118 minutes (supposed to be 118 seconds) and walked away.

I'm so important I could not possibly stand by the microwave for the 4 minutes and 20 seconds my entree needs to cook.

Posted by: Office Guy Who Is Not That Important at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (ppBhU)

330 Hell, *I* don't care about my birthday.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ynpvh)
_______________

Exactly. Decades ago, when I lived on the East Coast, my parents called and asked me if I'd done anything special that day.

Me, puzzled: "No. Why?"

Them: "Because it's your birthday!"

Me: "Geez, yeah, it is. I'd forgotten."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

331 I’ve worked remote for the vast majority of my career. It’s given me the opportunity to live away from coastal shithole cities while still making blue city money. Live in flyover, work for a coastal company. The best arbitrage there is.

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:45 PM (N9tGb)

332 311 Careful. She is old school. Still uses a rectal thermometer.

Wait, there are other kinds?

Posted by: The Man With The Callused Ass at August 09, 2023 04:42 PM (ppBhU)

Only way to tell the difference is the taste.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2023 04:46 PM (N39Ws)

333 Another favorite office moment...the town the office is in passed a law that 50% of all parking spots must be designated for compact cars.

Oh. So you have to trade in the utilitarian vehicle your use case dictated, the family battle-wagon or light truck, for a Town Parking Minister Compliant sub-compact. That or add yet another vehicle to the family driveway with insurance and annual taxes...

Just for the pleasure of neurotics that demand physical appearance in a place no one really wants to be.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2023 04:46 PM (p8A+W)

334 ESPN is linking up with some sports betting stuff. I don't have my head wrapped around that yet to comment intelligibly.
Might not stop me though.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:46 PM (ufFY8)

335 319 LAT Headline; giant asteroid heading for earth, people of color most vulnerable

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (N9tGb)

How the hell does that work? A racist asteroid?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

336 Nuked Fish, is that a Nagasaki day ritual?

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2023 04:46 PM (MOY79)

337 This guy where I work put a burrito in the the microwave for 118 minutes (supposed to be 118 seconds) and walked away.
When I came to the office after lunch there was smoke pouring out of two exterior doorways.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

Ryan started the fire!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:47 PM (KbCG3)

338 I’ve worked remote for the vast majority of my career. It’s given me the opportunity to live away from coastal shithole cities while still making blue city money. Live in flyover, work for a coastal company. The best arbitrage there is.

** fist bump ***

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2023 04:47 PM (p8A+W)

339 This guy where I work put a burrito in the the microwave for 118 minutes (supposed to be 118 seconds) and walked away.

Similar incident happened where I work. Destroyed the microwave. Smoke filled the offices. How we managed to not trip the sprinkles is beyond me. Good news is I'm finally getting proper fire suppression for the server room.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2023 04:47 PM (N39Ws)

340 "Our progress will not always be linear"

That is an instant classic. You could get your ass kicked saying shit like that.

Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 04:47 PM (iziT8)

341 What? Did they say they knew what he did to Ashley and the dog?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

=====

Heh, maybe. It's the top story right now at Daily Mail.

https://is.gd/NeyE2D

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:47 PM (DRSnL)

342 Financial guy talking now.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (ufFY8)

343 Big dogs at corporate (in Europe) want to have people stop parking their trucks in the front of the building, using the side lot instead. They are too big, they say. It is hard for employees to see around them when backing out.

I'm trying to diplomatically fight this. The fact I drive a 20ft long pickup has nothing to do with it (wink).
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Tell them they either lost WWII or the US saved their asses and you don't put up with being told where to park your ocean liner.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (ysaNs)

344 No microwave in the world should have a 118 minute setting.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (krYYY)

345 But won’t you miss the burnt popcorn stench wafting through the cubicles????

If I was running an office, there'd be a no microwave popcorn rule. You burn popcorn in my office, just throw your shit in a box and see yourself out.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (ppBhU)

346 336 Nuked Fish, is that a Nagasaki day ritual?

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2023 04:46 PM (MOY79)

LOL, if it isn't it should be.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (ynpvh)

347 An FBI raid early Wednesday to arrest a man who had threatened to kill President Biden ended with one person dead at a Provo, Utah, home, the agency said.

Posted by: DB - low trust person at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (geLO8)

348 Not long afterwards management sent out an email saying they were not responsible for scratched doors/paint.
Posted by: 18-1

I hate shopping centers with narrow parking slots. People inevitably go into fuck-it mode and park in two slots fucking everyone over.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2023 04:43 PM (IG4Id)
***

While out running errands I got flipped off in the parking lot of Home Depot. While waiting for senor dipshit to slowly back out of his parking slot so I could go, I was able to observe two others backing out over in the next lane. They were headed for each other. So I waited until they were about 3 feet apart when I hit my horn.
It's a nice horn. Loud. Expressive. Manly.
Anyway, they slammed on the breaks and reset. Meanwhile senor dipshit, who was done backing out, flipped me off for startling him, I guess. Fu*k him and his yard tools.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (hv9bm)

349 All of the Broadcast PM's started working from home in the fall of 2019 before the Plandemic hit, so we were well positioned when WFH hit.

None of us are going back to the office and our employer isn't demanding it as our success, failure and bonuses are dependent on the gross profit margin of our projects.

This is going to be a berry berry good year for me bonus wise.

It's almost Gimlet time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (XV/Pl)

350 You may not care about my birthday but might I interest you in my Fantasy Football team?

Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (iziT8)

351 Just for the pleasure of neurotics that demand physical appearance in a place no one really wants to be.

The best part of it? Some of my cow-workers lived in the town. I asked them about the new parking rule - outrageous, terrible, someone should do something!

Then I asked what they thought about the new mayor who put in the rule - awesome, cares about the environment, would vote for her again!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (lc5cP)

352 I don't know why teachers ever wanted to encourage remote work: they may as well have been advertising for Khan Academy.
Posted by: trev006

That was my take as well. What were they thinking??

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (tQL7r)

353 But, they can add animations and delay some text to keep you engaged...
well, not engaged.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:40 PM (ynpvh)
______________

Powerpoint animations are a classic case of "Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should do it."

Advice Jeffrey Toobin should have heeded.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

354 347 An FBI raid early Wednesday to arrest a man who had threatened to kill President Biden ended with one person dead at a Provo, Utah, home, the agency said.
Posted by: DB - low trust person at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (geLO

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I swear. Don't threaten to kill the president. It's just stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

355 DIS closing Star Wars themed hotel. Ouch.

They are also raising streaming prices by 27%. Not sure that the household market is going to like that.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (/iWhV)

356 I don't know why teachers ever wanted to encourage remote work: they may as well have been advertising for Khan Academy.
Posted by: trev006

That was my take as well. What were they thinking??
Posted by: Prime Sister at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (tQL7r)
____________

Easy: they're not excessively bright.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (YqDXo)

357 I swear. Don't threaten to kill the president. It's just stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

=====

Unless it's Trump, of course.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (DRSnL)

358 I don't know why teachers ever wanted to encourage remote work: they may as well have been advertising for Khan Academy.
Posted by: trev006

That was my take as well. What were they thinking??
Posted by: Prime Sister

Nothing. They're teachers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (TZ75n)

359 Another favorite office moment...the town the office is in passed a law that 50% of all parking spots must be designated for compact cars.

2 big trucks use 3 parking spaces, problem solved.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (ysaNs)

360 355 DIS closing Star Wars themed hotel. Ouch.

They are also raising streaming prices by 27%. Not sure that the household market is going to like that.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (/iWhV)

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The hotel news has been known for a few months. I think the price hike is new news, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

361 I swear. Don't threaten to kill the president. It's just stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)
______________

Tuco nods.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (YqDXo)

362 Disney is burning cash like a drunk sailor in Thailand.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2023 04:51 PM (G0bXQ)

363 I swear. Don't threaten to kill the president. It's just stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)
***

1/10
Squinty eyes and constant drool.
Would not Bang.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:51 PM (hv9bm)

364 341 What? Did they say they knew what he did to Ashley and the dog?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

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Heh, maybe. It's the top story right now at Daily Mail.

https://is.gd/NeyE2D

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:47 PM (DRSnL)

It's Trumps fault!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:51 PM (ynpvh)

365 I swear. Don't threaten to kill the president. It's just stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

—-

Not applicable to member of the left.

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:51 PM (N9tGb)

366
What idiot specifies 118 seconds for a cooking time?

120 seconds, or 115, or 110, sure. But 118 seconds?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (xG4kz)

367 357 I swear. Don't threaten to kill the president. It's just stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

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Unless it's Trump, of course.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (DRSnL

Totes!!

*holds severed head up*

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (G0bXQ)

368 Disney is burning cash like a drunk sailor in Thailand.

However, Disney isn't going to be as upset when they find their lady of the night has a bigger penis then they do...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (lc5cP)

369 Imma guess he was a communist who didn't think Biden was "doing enough"

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (krYYY)

370 Presdent Bydum should doo somethings about this now !!!

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (Htl4B)

371 Iger making excuses of strong dollar for decline in FL

Compared to what? USD is 10% below the Euro right now.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (Aeq2f)

372 344 No microwave in the world should have a 118 minute setting.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (krYYY)

Active setting, anyway. Some had a feature of starting the microwave at some preset point to cook food for you so you get home to a hot meal, but I wondered how safe leaving food in a microwave for the day would be.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (ynpvh)

373 What idiot specifies 118 seconds for a cooking time?

120 seconds, or 115, or 110, sure. But 118 seconds?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (xG4kz)

Hi

Posted by: OCD at August 09, 2023 04:53 PM (krYYY)

374 What idiot specifies 118 seconds for a cooking time?

120 seconds, or 115, or 110, sure. But 118 seconds?

118 pings, Yuri.

Posted by: drunken zombie sean connery at August 09, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)

375 370 Presdent Bydum should doo somethings about this now !!!
Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (Htl4B)

=======

As soon as you kick Paul out of your basement and stop letting Sid rape your dogs. Even Paul knows that Sid isn't his real uncle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

376 118 seconds? Pfft I've yet to meet a sailor that could last that long with me.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 09, 2023 04:53 PM (lc5cP)

377
DIS closing Star Wars themed hotel. Ouch.

Not close and burn to the ground?

It's those half measures that will eat your lunch, Bob.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:53 PM (xG4kz)

378 360 355 DIS closing Star Wars themed hotel. Ouch.

They are also raising streaming prices by 27%. Not sure that the household market is going to like that.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:49 PM (/iWhV)

======

The hotel news has been known for a few months. I think the price hike is new news, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 09, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

Hulu without ads: $18/month. So glad I don't watch TV.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 09, 2023 04:54 PM (/iWhV)

379 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.

Another WFH Win! During those meetings, I would get my steps in. The trick is to time out the routes so that I'm back home by the time the meeting ends. Occasionally I would stomp out three miles per meeting.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2023 04:54 PM (p8A+W)

380 Iger making excuses of strong dollar for decline in FL

Compared to what? USD is 10% below the Euro right now.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (Aeq2f)

It is his excuse for dropping international visitors to the FL park.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:54 PM (ufFY8)

381 Raising streaming prices doesn’t affect much I don’t think. All that shit is on auto pay, nobody even knows what it costs. I couldn’t tell you what Netflix costs right. I guess it’s $20ish but Wheter it’s $18 or $22? Damned if I know. and if it went up $2, also no idea.

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:54 PM (N9tGb)

382 I wonder how many threats the President receives every month? And this begs the question...why Utah? Why this guy? Why now? Or did they just get tired of waiting for a "right-wing" wacko to finally do/say something?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:54 PM (hv9bm)

383 This was worth a death sentence for a 300lb 80 year old man:

Robertson posted the following on social media: "I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the m24 sniper rifle. welcom, buffoon-in-chief!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:55 PM (eL0G3)

384 362 Disney is burning cash like a drunk sailor in Thailand.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2023 04:51 PM (G0bXQ)

The katoys in Thailand would be kept very busy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

385 What idiot specifies 118 seconds for a cooking time?

120 seconds, or 115, or 110, sure. But 118 seconds?

I'm guessing that the time was provided for a 1000 watt microwave and the idiot performed some maths to account for a 1500 watt office microwave

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (p8A+W)

386 383 This was worth a death sentence for a 300lb 80 year old man:

Robertson posted the following on social media: "I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the m24 sniper rifle. welcom, buffoon-in-chief!"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:55 PM (eL0G3)

I too am a stickler for spelling.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (KbCG3)

387 He posted that in the spring. The FBI didn't get around to telling the SS until June, and decided today was the day for the no knock raid.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (eL0G3)

388 My company has endless, pointless meetings. You can at least get some work done in those meetings from home. In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.

—-

You know how you avoid those? Use the tentative button. You’re not declining but also not accepting. And then don’t show up. I only attend meetings that benefit me or those where I can provide a benefit to someone else. The bullshit ones with 30 attendees…nope.

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (N9tGb)

389 I took a new job last year and it’s remote work from home, though I do have to travel every other week to a project site.

So far so good. I enjoy the afternoon naps and dog walks at the park.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (/A6QO)

390 344 No microwave in the world should have a 118 minute setting.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:48 PM (krYYY)
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Right! 99:99 is plenty of time to heat a Hot Pocket!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:57 PM (YIVH2)

391 @383

>>This was worth a death sentence for a 300lb 80 year old man:

That was a hardy dude, 300 pounders don't usually make it to the bonus age rounds.

Probably a lonely dude who couldn't bring himself to do the deed himself.

Sad.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2023 04:57 PM (XV/Pl)

392 LOL, Star Cruiser shutdown talk.

Had a shitload of depreciation to write off.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:57 PM (ufFY8)

393 Right! 99:99 is plenty of time to heat a Hot Pocket!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2023 04:57 PM (YIVH2)

Hot pocket is today's equivalent of the McDonalds Apple Pie.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2023 04:58 PM (G0bXQ)

394 66I'm all for peaceful separation where they can run a successful country like SA has become.
Posted by: WOPR at August 09, 2023 04:10 PM (Ix9F

Especially, with all the "kill the Boer" and "kill the farmer" chants.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 09, 2023 04:58 PM (Rbu5d)

395 Cap expenditures will be $5b, less than usual.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:58 PM (ufFY8)

396 This was worth a death sentence for a 300lb 80 year old man:

Robertson posted the following on social media: "I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the m24 sniper rifle. welcom, buffoon-in-chief!"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:55 PM (eL0G3)

I too am a stickler for spelling.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 09, 2023 04:56 PM (KbCG3)
***

And m24 should always be M-24.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 04:58 PM (hv9bm)

397 Please don't tell us you live on the coast and/or you have an office that looks out on to the pacific!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 04:38 PM (ysaNs

No, it's a mile from the beach

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 09, 2023 04:58 PM (NtVYv)

398 Speaking of meetings…one stating in 45 seconds.

Posted by: Montec at August 09, 2023 04:59 PM (N9tGb)

399 Raising streaming prices doesn’t affect much I don’t think. All that shit is on auto pay, nobody even knows what it costs. I couldn’t tell you what Netflix costs right. I guess it’s $20ish but Wheter it’s $18 or $22? Damned if I know. and if it went up $2, also no idea.
Posted by: Montec

$21.64

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 04:59 PM (SUJ+x)

400
I was told many a time during my last three or so years of working at the office prior to my retirement, "Krebs, you missed the meeting this morning."

My standard response was, "No, I wasn't there."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 09, 2023 04:59 PM (xG4kz)

401 Ha, announcing they might start issuing a dividend at the end of the year.

Question time !

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 04:59 PM (ufFY8)

402 If you work in my office and have a penis, you also wear a tie. Persons-of-vagina may wear anything professional. Because we're professionals who are paid to look, act and be professional.

Posted by: Danda The Assbeater at August 09, 2023 05:00 PM (5FPX4)

403 Question about selling 'linear'.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 05:01 PM (ufFY8)

404 @401

>>Ha, announcing they might start issuing a dividend at the end of the year.

A dividend would be big, investors love DRIPs so if Disney offers a decent dividend it could drive stock sales bigly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2023 05:01 PM (XV/Pl)

405 This was worth a death sentence for a 300lb 80 year old man:

Robertson posted the following on social media: "I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the m24 sniper rifle. welcom, buffoon-in-chief!"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2023 04:55 PM (eL0G3)
***

I have said before in these threads that there is an old Intelligence saying: "The first report is always wrong."
I pray there is more to this than what we are seeing so far. Are the Feds really that incompetent?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2023 05:01 PM (hv9bm)

406 1 hour and 18 minutes will give you the same results as 118 minutes with a burrito

Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2023 05:02 PM (UUBmN)

407 Question on improving movies.

Lol

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 05:02 PM (ufFY8)

408
Home Entertainment In Today's Ecconomy

I'm a modern day dancer with a quirk
I wiggle and I twitch and I jerk
I'm excited and enthused
But I'm just a bit confused
I literally work at home when I'm a-twerk

Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2023 05:02 PM (l4B/J)

409 What idiot specifies 118 seconds for a cooking time?

120 seconds, or 115, or 110, sure. But 118 seconds?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
.......

Well, this guy (no longer working here) had a brain tumor. One day we found him wandering around the parking lot, didn't even know who he was. He used to wear this electrical device on his head after surgery, I don't know what the heck it was.
I avoided him like the plague.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 05:02 PM (v0R5T)

410 No, it's a mile from the beach
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

That'll do.
We are 4 hours from sitting on the beach at the Sea of Cortez.
7.75hrs from sister's place on the cliffs over the Santa Barbara Channel.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ysaNs)

411 I feel like this post is incomplete without a Rump Shaker embed. Be better, Ace.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ppBhU)

412 409 What idiot specifies 118 seconds for a cooking time?

120 seconds, or 115, or 110, sure. But 118 seconds?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
.......

Well, this guy (no longer working here) had a brain tumor. One day we found him wandering around the parking lot, didn't even know who he was. He used to wear this electrical device on his head after surgery, I don't know what the heck it was.
I avoided him like the plague.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 05:02 PM (v0R5T)

did he drive himself to work?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ynpvh)

413 dividend would be big, investors love DRIPs so if Disney offers a decent dividend it could drive stock sales bigly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2023 05:01 PM (XV/Pl)

Renegade thinks it will start at a penny or two per share.
Disney needs cash, badly, for Hulu.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ufFY8)

414 I roll with the chimichangas.

Frozen burritos are all dough.

Posted by: eleven at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (iziT8)

415 LOL, Iger trying to justify the movies.
He brings up Avatar, but they were only distributors.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 05:04 PM (ufFY8)

416 85...I am sure if I worked from Texas or Florida for a NY based company there are tax headaches the company would have to address.

My 2 cents, oh wait, buck fifty (adjusted for Bidenomics)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 09, 2023 04:12 PM (4q/mG)

Clean up your resume, and start applying elsewhere. You are not stuck in NY, you just think you are.

Friend lived in CO, looked for jobs in FL - got phone interviews, then flew out for the final interview. Even if you pay for the flight bill, wouldn't it be worth it?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 09, 2023 05:05 PM (Rbu5d)

417 Question on price increases. Can you hold the customer base?

And ESPN's future

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 05:05 PM (ufFY8)

418 1 hour and 18 minutes will give you the same results as 118 minutes with a burrito
Posted by: lin-duh

😳😳 gobsmacked 😳😳
Posted by: Millennial

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 05:05 PM (SUJ+x)

419 410 No, it's a mile from the beach
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

That'll do.
We are 4 hours from sitting on the beach at the Sea of Cortez.
7.75hrs from sister's place on the cliffs over the Santa Barbara Channel.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ysaNs)

I'm about 10 miles as the crow flies from the ocean.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:05 PM (ynpvh)

420 Co-worker: It's not a tumor!

Doctor: It is a tumor.

Co-worker: Do you smell burning popcorn?!?

Posted by: guy wut has the electrical helmet and such at August 09, 2023 05:06 PM (ppBhU)

421 did he drive himself to work?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ynpvh)
.......

Yep. A regular disaster waiting to happen.
Poor guy, engineering graduate, brain cancer diagnosis before the age of 30.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

422 If you work in my office and have a penis, you also wear a tie. Persons-of-vagina may wear anything professional.

So *that's* why there are so many M-to-F trannies!

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2023 05:06 PM (2ocoG)

423 Zoom doesn’t train its artificial intelligence models on audio, video, or text chats from the app “without customer consent,” according to a Monday blog post from Zoom’s chief product officer, Smita Hashim.

Right

Posted by: Braenyard , thinks there are more people than the Bidens with their clock on the line. at August 09, 2023 05:07 PM (O2rhH)

424 No microwave in the world should have a 118 minute setting.

*********

How else are you going to dry out your schnauzer?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2023 05:07 PM (l4B/J)

425 @413

>>Renegade thinks it will start at a penny or two per share. Disney needs cash, badly, for Hulu.

A penny a share is not going to move the needle one bit.

They've got to so something along the lines of 1-2% yield at minimum.

As always, the people that are running Disney are buffoons.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2023 05:08 PM (XV/Pl)

426 421 did he drive himself to work?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ynpvh)
.......

Yep. A regular disaster waiting to happen.
Poor guy, engineering graduate, brain cancer diagnosis before the age of 30.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

Had someone with a brain tumor at one company I worked at. When he left, he sent an email to the company, but I felt bad when I read it. He tried his best to say the tumor wasn't affecting him, but you could see in his email it had started to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

427 NOOD Jack Smith

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

428 If you work in my office and have a penis, you also wear a tie. Persons-of-vagina may wear anything professional.

You had better coddle all of your 50 and 60 year old employees, and never let them retire, because college graduates aren't playing that game anymore. I've been with my company, so long, that we went from three-piece suits to blue jeans.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 05:09 PM (SUJ+x)

429 If you really want a thrill, put a CD in the microwave for a couple minutes.

Posted by: wth at August 09, 2023 05:09 PM (v0R5T)

430 Have been following a truck whose tailgate says:

NEVER HIT THE TRAIL WITHOUT YOUR BJ BUDDY.

Finally passed it and it's got a website bottlejackbuddy.net

I saw BJ Buddy open for ... too numerous to list.

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 09, 2023 05:10 PM (7fSS7)

431 They've got to so something along the lines of 1-2% yield at minimum.

As always, the people that are running Disney are buffoons.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2023 05:08 PM (XV/Pl)

That isn't gonna happen soon, but they had been promising restarting the dividend for a year now, so they have to do something, just to save a little face. It would be worse if they broke their 'promise'.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 09, 2023 05:10 PM (ufFY8)

432
In the office people don't like you focusing on the computer as they read off every bit of text on their 30 page power point presentation.

__________

People who do that should be beaten bloody.

Never have a meeting except to solve a problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2023 05:10 PM (MoZTd)

433 No, it's a mile from the beach
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

That'll do.
We are 4 hours from sitting on the beach at the Sea of Cortez.
7.75hrs from sister's place on the cliffs over the Santa Barbara Channel.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2023 05:03 PM (ysaNs)

I'm about 10 miles as the crow flies from the ocean.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2023 05:05 PM (ynpvh)

I'm about, oh let's say 1800 miles from the Pacific. Glad I'm not closer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2023 05:11 PM (BdMk6)

434
If I was running an office, there'd be a no microwave popcorn rule. You burn popcorn in my office, just throw your shit in a box and see yourself out.

Posted by: bear with asym

I had an employee who cooked fish in the microwave at 9 am. The rest of my employees, tried and true alcoholics, did not appreciate the need to blow chunks at 9:01 am at the stench of microwaved fish. I put up a sign about fish cooking before noon. Nine am fish cooker found another job. I actually liked the dude, and fish, but I understood the revulsion.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 09, 2023 05:11 PM (enJYY)

435 You had better coddle all of your 50 and 60 year old employees, and never let them retire, because college graduates aren't playing that game anymore. I've been with my company, so long, that we went from three-piece suits to blue jeans.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2023 05:09 PM (SUJ+x)

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None of my biz, but curious what biz are you in, rick?

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 09, 2023 05:14 PM (7fSS7)

436 Posted by: ... at August 09, 2023 04:52 PM (krYYY)

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Also curious about what biz you were or are in -- however, I know you're big on OpSec ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 09, 2023 05:16 PM (7fSS7)

437 work from home really filled up the golf course tee sheet.

Posted by: free tibet at August 09, 2023 05:17 PM (8ck2O)

438 Heh. Willowed again ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 09, 2023 05:18 PM (7fSS7)

439 I'm pretty sure my own daily productivity increased with WFH because it became easy to do dabs of work early or late. I was not one who worked in the office and then also logged in again from home on a routine basis in the before covid times.

If other demands on my time had not happened these last two years I'd probably have gone for the hybrid, in office a couple days a week setup just for the social interaction with the co-workers. But in my current life I simply could not work in the office 100% and having to commute 2 days a week would be a big strain.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 09, 2023 05:18 PM (3cGpq)

440 3% of black workers wanted to work? Who knew?

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 09, 2023 10:00 PM (rWBqr)

442 TIL I can be racist af against black folks remotely because it has no effect.

Posted by: Seymore at August 09, 2023 10:09 PM (kYW+l)

443 I never got to work from home. I showed up every goddamn day, on time, ready to take care of hordes of people scared shitless and coughing everywhere.

Put on your big person pants and go to work.

Lazy fucks. Get your ass back to work and stop pretending. You're not doing shit at home. And your company is paying you. Fuck off.
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Same for me. Other than a few weeks at the beginning of the Plandemic when elective surgery was canceled, I showed up every day and took call. And got to deal with COVID + folks needing intubation, as well as an indeterminate number who were false negatives. And worked while I had the 'rona myself in early 2022.

So let's just say that like Nurse R, I have no more Fs to give.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 09, 2023 10:11 PM (uY1j2)

444 Nothing to see here, move along.

Posted by: Kemp at August 10, 2023 01:29 PM (NbJXF)

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