Work.

I've only ever been sick/injured enough one day in my adult life where I was unable to do work from home. I dunno. I guess it depends on what your responsibilities are, if anyone take up the work for you. I am opposite and get a little weirded out when people don't at least check email from home when sick. But I also want to know as little personal details about most people's lives that I work with.

checking email while you're sick really crosses the work/life balance line for me. i think having a clear division is really important. if your department is set up so that things just don't get done or fall apart if you're not there then there are bigger issues.

sometimes people really need to be told - stop checking your email on the weekend. we're not doing surgery here.

I mean, I get 6 sick days a year, so I wouldn't want to use one unless I'm genuinely incapacitated

this is really the thing. Ontario has a v low number of allocated paid sick days.

its gonna vary hugely from country to country here, let alone corporate culture and individual habit

ppl would be horrified here to be told they were expected to check their email while at work tbh

nice

people should oppose that kind of culture.

Partially thank globalization. The world doesn't stop because your weekend starts.

yeah, most people are so lazy as to be almost worthless.

i like to think of it as a tacit understanding that almost all work practiced in offices is unnecessary and its not rly worth getting het up over

This is also true. Most jobs are completely unnecessary. Places like to hire and lay-off so they have one more metric to change as progress.

After suffering through some of the most stressful years of my life (to the point where I was throwing up in the morning in preparation for the day and having some very, very dark thoughts), due to the convergence of a terrible six-year project, lackluster management, and a toxic environment - I started a new job six months ago and am continually amazed at how pleasant a non-dysfunctional, supporting work environment can be. Best decision I've ever made.

Email itself is old hat. Where I work, senior managers use WhatsApp at all hours, and share a lot of indiscreet comments (very unwise in my view).

lol that is a terrible idea

hat tip to jvc, i switched out of a nightmare gig two years ago and still have daydreams about what i should've done to some of the animals i was stuck with in the old place

that was mighty tempting, but I was just glad to have the light at the end of the tunnel not actually be an oncoming train for once, so I took the high road.

love it when you think you have a lot to do on a cold and snowy monday and it turns out to be really chill and quiet instead.

Okay, so I passed the work test, and it seems I'll be starting a new, long-term freelance gig later this week or early next. It pays more per hour than anything I've ever worked, and it is guaranteed to be a bit of a nightmare, but I'll be making as much in a month as I do in four now.

I'm absolutely terrified.

Thats great, grats

hope you can make it work for you!

i hope so too! thx!

Hate me, but I retired 15 months ago. I feel even better than I imagined I would.

"Everybody's flush with stimulus money and nobody wants to work" is something I've heard from four different people in completely unrelated conversations this week. The restaurant where I tend bar is going to close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the time being because the owner can't find a prep cook who doesn't throw money in the trash can. The roofing contractor who did some patch-up work for me Wednesday said he can't fill out work crews. An entire shift quit at the local McDonald's a couple of weeks ago because their manager was an asshole to them once too often.

Recalibrating the future of work and the value of work is playing out in some interesting ways. One of the servers at the restaurant, an extremely conservative white woman in her 50s, shocked the hell out of me yesterday by saying how this says more about the state of wages in Mississippi than about anybody's willingness to work.

(If there's a better thread for this, point me to it.)

that lady otm!

if you’re a business reporter or similar there’s always a column waiting to be written about the “skills shortage” in industries x, y, and z where goldurn it they just can’t find the right people - itisamystery.gif