Somwe was sort of working a few days ago
Calling it dreaming basically. Gross. This feels like purposeful gaslighting
I have ADHD and schizoaffective, ugh this is my life in the digital age also. Sometimes I just cannot with people and phones. And then people take it personally, unintentionally causing me to crawl even further under my tinfoil lol. Glad to hear you have some understanding friends.
I totally agree about the Beyond thing. As a child I was always trying to find the Way Beyond when my mom went towel shopping
One of my fondest memories was beating our old HP printer to death with the baseball bat we keep for potential intruders. I now print at the local library and regret the beating incident less and less every year.
The things boomers spent on astound me. You could legitimately just get your own flipping boat for the cost of a cruise, and use it forever. They could have at least willed you a boat for Pete's sake
I feel similarly. My job uses all kinds of 2FA and email-chain nonsense that pretty much require me to keep one as well. I'm starting to learn how to retrofit a special half-dumb phone to do those required things, but it's quite a process compared to what George Clooney got to do
Far more accurate lol. Nothing's trickling down except some half-digested oats covered in horseshit
This. The invisible hand doesn't work if monopolists buy control of all the fingers.
I think Smith would probably prefer playing ball with Marx over whatever this hellscape is
Even with the Big Brother zoom though I gotta say I'll take it over RTO lol. Don't want to invalidate the fact the creepy speed up thing is often ten times as intense in person
I do think there is some evidence that companies are just doing that stuff regardless. There's a "speedup" I think I've seen it called, a push to do more with fewer people and make basic benefits feel more like a privilege.
My company fortunately did not issue RTO mandates but has taken to requiring people to work watched in a Zoom room all day and explain any bathroom trips longer than 3 minutes. That's where I think the real estate angle becomes relevant, probably the only reason my workplace went the other direction and full-remote is that a) we're stalking people on zoom now and timing their #2s and b) we're midsize with few close corporate relatives, and leased all our space previously. We have no other skin in the game besides saving a massive overhead cost