{"id":61368,"date":"2023-06-21T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61368"},"modified":"2023-06-20T08:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:40:56","slug":"qotd-working-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/21\/qotd-working-online\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Working online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After a bit of a rocky start, most people I know who suddenly found themselves doing their “work” online quickly realized little work<\/em> they actually did \u2014 and, by extension, since they were the conscientious ones, how trivially little work so many of their coworkers did. Hard on the heels of that was the realization that “work” in a physical workplace, for the vast majority of people, really means “socializing”. There are a LOT of jobs in which one person actually working<\/em> from home can accomplish in one day what it takes an entire “customer service” department a week to do under “normal” \u2014 meaning, “in the office” \u2014 conditions.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

For lots of people, the office was their only social outlet. Coffee breaks, water cooler chatter, happy hours … for lots of people, that was pretty much it, socially. “Work\/life balance” was always a joke, because all your friends are work friends, so even if you’re “socializing” and not “working”, it’s with the same people from the office, talking about office stuff. And the longer you stayed in the same job, the higher up the corporate ladder you got, the more specialized your position, the worse it got \u2013 your rookie customer service reps still had buddies from college to hang out with, but junior managers tended to hang out exclusively with other junior managers, etc. The “professions”, of course, are famously clannish \u2014 the only ways to talk to a lawyer or doctor are to hire one, or be one.<\/p>\n

Severian, “More Scattered Thoughts”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2020-10-13.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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