There’s a lot to be said for easy and stress-free as we get a little older! :)
And I am sorry about the issue with your coworkers. People who may have been friends or at least friendly acquaintances once, finding out what they are really about can be tough.
It was a different world even 15 years ago. I had gotten sick. I had to leave my job in the city and the liberals who I worked with, which were 95% of the department, were incredibly generous to me. Money. Gifts. Subscriptions. We were maybe all in our forties and the up and coming groups that were full of hate didn’t arrive yet, I think.
My God we would argue in the office. I was really the only conservative.
But then when we go out afterwards and we would have such a great time at the bars and clubs in manhattan. That can no longer happen I think.
These were people I didn’t agree with but I could respect mostly.
This new breed. They are evil.
I do not know if your working from home now is a permanent gig but if you like it I hope it is.
It is permanent. The organization is saving a lot of money by giving up the lease on one of our buildings. I am one of those people with a job that they have determined can be worked from home.
It isn’t that the people I work with aren’t nice; it’s just that as the stakes have clearly gotten higher this past year in terms of what I see as the Chinese attempt to take over our country by blackmailing politicians into locking down our economy, I cannot countenance anyone who does not see that.
I’m just waiting and hoping my S.O. gets their dream job so we can finally get a home together somewhere that makes sense for their commute and that has a study so I no longer have to work in the room where I sleep.