Posted on 08/15/2023 10:58:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce
My job cannot be done by AI either.
Requires site survey and each job is just as customized as an interior remodel.
No AI
All these discussions we have about people working from home and not wanting to go back to the office , Etc , it all depends how your job is structured. It all depends what sort of work you’re doing.
Some people sit at a desk all day and key numbers into a spreadsheet.
Some people are on the phone most of the day talking to people.
Some people work off site visiting clients and rarely spent time in the office even before covid.
Some people work collaboratively in teams of people, and and couldn’t do what they do if they were all working at their own home.
Some Freepers have said they won’t take a job where they have to go to the office. Apparently they have unique or in demand job skills that they can dictate to the employer where they will work.
“Wait until “stay at home work” is replaced by AI.”
AI is overrated as a replacement for creating written material. It is not overrated as a means for recognizing our faces in crowds.
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and cracked glass lungs (Stage 2 COPD). I have POTS episodes pretty regularly.
Fauci’s bioweapon was a doozy.
Many companies are just wishing they didn’t have these long term leases hanging around their necks so they could let their employees work at home and save money.
I will have to look that one up, as I’ve never heard of it.
I hope treatment helps you out.
There never should have been a shutdown.
Some refuse to grasp that the market works both ways....that employees can choose too. I suspect jealousy.
An associate of mine in my industry was fired from his executive position back in 2020 — because he refused to follow his company’s work-from-home edict. The guy would show up at his office every day — no mask, no nothing — as if everything was normal. I suspect he was also pressuring his staff to do the same (hence the firing).
It turned out to be a huge mistake for the company … because now he works for one of their biggest clients — who is now a FORMER client, since he cut them out of all his new employer’s business.
Especially over the last few years as Baby Boomers have retired in droves. It was tough as a Gen Xer with the massive Baby Boomer overhang. There was always a massive cohort who were always going to have 10-15 years more experience than we did. We could never catch up with that...but now that they're getting thinned out by retirement, suddenly things are so much easier.
There aren't a whole lot of millenials behind us who have been slogging along like we did racking up years and years of the kind of experience companies and banks want. So.....meet my terms or I'll just work for your competitors instead. I know you cannot easily find people who have the degrees and the decades of experience you want for this job."
This is a wonderful role reversal from the Great Recession when I was the one taking it in the shorts. I love the free market now.
LOL! Yes, I’ve used their own virtue signaling Gaia worship against them too. “wouldn’t it be better for the environment if we worked from home? Think of all those fossil fuels not used by having to commute into an office”. Save da Erf!
My daughter worked for a well known Christian publisher as an editor.
They wanted her to return to the office. She found another job that is full time remote. Worked for a year before actually meeting her boss.
LFH, Loaf From Home.
If these “employees” just quit I doubt the difference would bee noticed much at all.
A pox on them.
I've been in WFH mode since 2002 exclusive of July 2009->Jan 2010, July 4, 2010->Sept 15, 2014. The non-WFH timeframe was in closed spaces in San Diego where being physically in the facility was required. The San Diego based work required paying $750/month to rent a room, commuting expenses, higher food costs and being 925 miles from home from months on end. It also imposed CA state income tax that is higher than Idaho state income tax. To whit, my boss gave me a raise that I enjoyed for exactly 1 paycheck. 2 weeks later, the company moved to income tax based on geographic location when the work was performed. The increase tax rate in CA vs ID consumed all of my raise and a bit more. Yup, it would be a huge pay cut.
I too waa harrased for the same thing
If I was inside sales they would have has a point but, The nature of my work was custom a and there is no way dor our work to be done but by a physical site survey
It's the customers who pay the salaries. The company and the employees may change.
Companies who accessed better talent who are working remotely have more to offer their customers.
With Microsoft OneDrive / SharePoint and the Azure Cloud Servers, you don't have to send and receive files anymore. Others can use them right in the Cloud location you posted them.
What an ignorant and judgemental statement. There is no "back to the office" for people who work several states away. Our remote workers are much better than our locals.
Yep, and the version controls make collaboration and verification even easier
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