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This is one of those areas in my mental health journey where I’ve learned to accept that what my brain needs is not necessarily what my conscious personality thinks would be ideal.

I love my home and my family, and I’m an introverted reclusive nerd like I’m sure many others here. But whether it’s the ADHD or some other factors, I not only get way more done in the office but I feel better mentally and physically when I drive to work to do work things, then drive home to be in home mode. It helps that my “commute” is only a few miles on a fun quiet twisty country road.

In the last few weeks I’ve gone into the office every single day and had zero work from home days (I work on embedded systems and have needed to interact with certain in-office hardware) and I have actually felt great. Younger me would probably be horrified to hear this realization that that must somehow be wrong, lol.

The funny thing is that the rest of my team works from home so often that nobody bothers me all day!

I have too go into the office for the first time in a year this Tuesday. I am completely at peace with the fact I will get nothing done.

I have a training seminar to run on Wednesday and intend to make sure everything is ready before I leave Monday evening.

we're in the office one day a week, mandatory for everyone regardless of seniority.

My direct reports have begged me to miss it on occasions where they really want to meet a deadline and know that the in office day means they'll barely get anything done.

I have to push the deadline back rather than honor their request because my boss' boss is fanatical about it.

It's so fucking stupid.

shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP

Remote makes it easier to seem busy and not get anywhere? This is why you have progress reports. Wtf? It's way easier to slack off in the office because the assumption is you're working. At home, someone like this guy would assume you're slacking off so you'd have to work harder to convince him otherwise.

Skill issue

Wasn’t there a study done that showed that remote workers are more productive?

So they don't make chalk, but are called chalk.

Had anyone explained to them that chalk is brittle and easy to erase?

I'm super unproductive when I work remote. I don't attend all my meetings, I average about 0.4 MRs per day, and probably only 10 lines of code. I make lazy post-development tickets just to check the box. I sometimes take hours to respond to messages, and I frequently end my day at only 5-7 hours worked.

Mysteriously, none of those things is a good way to measure productivity for software development, and mandating that everyone look like they're working hard does not ensure optimal creative problem solving.

I mean, he's not entirely wrong tbh. There's a lot of people this would 100% be the case for

He sounds like a cokehead

When I worked in office, there was one guy who literally brought in a gaming laptop. People would sit on their phones all day playing games or scrolling through Facebook. Or take a half hour smoke break every hour. Oh and so many people getting up to go just chit chat with somebody else, not about work, just to talk.

I have never spent more time pretending to be busy than when I've had to work in an office. And god help the person who drags me away from what I'm doing every five minutes for "meetings".

Remote makes it easy to look busy without making progress.

Boy, oh boy, do I have some news for you...

Then why do the highest paid people sit alone in a office away from everyone else ?

Where is the accountability when the C level a-hole separate themselves from their entire company ?

Contrast this with the guy in Seattle who like tripled the size of his company in a year simply because offering remote work options made it super easy to scalp software engineers from his competitors.

"We want to iterate really, really fast."

No. YOU want that...

Of course he's into "AI", but healthcare decisions? Where is Luigi when you need em...

Motherfucker, I want you to schedule meetings with me, so that I can effectively manage my own time, and not get jerked around at your whim whenever you decide that "we" should do something completely stupid. If you don't want to have to schedule meetings with people, you don't value their time.

What you perceive as "looking busy" is quite often me letting things cook a little bit when I'm at an obstacle (technical or otherwise). My taking space to think and make sure I am not just flailing around in a panic all the time or saying the wrong thing the wrong way to the wrong people makes me more effective.

But you wouldn't know any of that, because you're a chode.