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During the pandemic I was teleworking. It's all database work so it worked. Then I had 3 spinal surgeries. I'm now partially paralyzed. I 100% telework at home for my gov job. It WORKS.

You sound almost impossibly insecure over and incredibly mild comment

It's just another way of them expressing their desire for control over every aspect of your life. THE OLIGARCHY WANTS THE REST OF US MADE INTO FUNGIBLE LIVESTOCK WHO LIVE FOR THEIR PROFIT AND DIE WHEN OUR "USEFUL LABOR LIVES" ARE OVER. THEY'D USE BOLT GUNS ON US TO PREVENT RETIREMENT IF THEY COULD.

The “steam and sparks factories” they constantly refer to on Citations Needed Podcast @citationspod.bsky.social

You misunderstand, I want other people to yearn for the mines.. I'd never go in one myself.. eww

Politicians in thrall of bankers, who purely by coincidence, have a heavy interest in commercial real estate

Apart from one thing I am working in a similarly productive way to before covid - * on a laptop, not a full desktop set up * hot-desking when in the office * with very little facilities compared to pre-covid * and paying for my own heating and electricity when WFH

As do I, and the message from some (not all, thankfully) of my management that very soon all this will be done by vibes alone is about as comforting as a French kiss from this guy

It was just a joke

idgaf if you work on your laptop, just gtfo of my local café

Who’s more valuable, a plumber or a guy who writes about trying to solve the huge mystery of why politicians lie? (It’s money)

Economic chains are more profitable than actual chains in the long run. Easier to manage.

Ah the old get back down t’pit and know your place … ps I have ten laptops around the house including three for work …

Also finally a way out of the lanyard class.

“Elon Musk is a lazy good for nothing laptop worker “. Actually I have better terms of abuse for him 😱😳🤣. Working from wherever you are gives you choice and enhances your work and life.

Cointerpoint: it is very funny to get a tough guy chud mad by mocking the soft hands he has from his email job

I like jobs you can do while drinking coffee.

I feel that term came about when workers had rights, were treated fairly, and could clock out at 5:00 p.m. . The fear was that we would take the work home with us, that your work would be extended past the scheduled hours. I wish the term had stuck. I wish that work was a 40-hour a week commitment.

When did this happen? I’ve never even heard of it as a term

They just want women to be at the office with them so they can sexually assault them.

It's also Very Bad for everyone around it.

america is not a technocracy, it is a virulent beast birthed by a technocracy from the 50s

“Oh, but the freedumb”. Give me the luxuries of modern life anytime over hard grind.

I work almost exclusively in Cloud Computing, but without a Laptop I'm not really much use.

Isn't insulting people for something that isn't actually shameful just wrong in principle, regardless of whether "they can take it"?

(that said obvs most laptop workers ARE physically capable of like, working retail)

does this make me, an aircraft mechanic, a wizard? since i have to input stuff into computers on the aircraft with a digital wheel drum?

Replacing the old derogatory term Paper Pusher

That’s right, slaves were the only real men ever 😳😱🤣

Take It Like A Man For LandSec™️

They've all got lanyards, too, dontcha know.

All so very gender, yes. We went from stanning Mad Men to mocking "Marketing Girlies" within the space of one workplace demographic shift.

There's valuable privacy and solitude in those mines, no GPS, WiFi, social media, etc... I think people misdirect their anger to easier or more vague targets, going after the oligarchs or fighting the system feels futile to so many. So they go after class comrades and the vulnerable instead...

you seem awfully defensive haha

yeah like there are plenty of issues with UBI as a concept but what I would do with all my free time is not one of them

Your comment reads like tech is the answer to everything. It is not. The world needs humanity, something tech cannot ever provide.

Mostly children 😔

They get the causation exactly the wrong way around by focussing on the power fantasy of physical strength instead of communal action.

Yeah, this is all about wealthy reactionaries concerned that their idiot children might not be guaranteed a spot at Harvard anymore.

Replying to @poppingbubbles.bsky.social A man who calls his freedom a cage has never known a real lock. You've traded the overseer's eye for the inbox's glow and call it progress.

I do think there is still a place for spaces specifically dedicated to work. At least from my experience, its a lot easier to be productive in a place specifically designated as "the place where youre productive". Ofc i have adhd so this is probably not actually a problem for everyone.

Yes, an incredible achievement that I took advantage of. But… and I feel as if this almost deserves the goose repeating the question meme. Who is making the laptops? It feels to me as if the techno-feudalism thing is more real than ever. Our digital lives are in machines we don't make or understand

I WILL however project derision onto the shitty managers who insist on forcing laptop workers into a shitty cubicle farm so they can pretend they actually do something

Man it really feels like remote workers and anyone who isn't doing hard labor jobs are the new "welfare queens" to this incarnation of fascist power.

Laptops, completely dependent on other people going into mines to get the metals needed, but those people are Africans, so don't really count.

I make about half what I probably should. It’s at a minimum a skilled trade but I make about half what a journeyman electrician does

Fetishizing the trades must go so hard if you’re deeply-closeted and miserable down to the pit of your soul.

Hey these laptops aren't gonna dig themselves out of precambrian shale.

Yeah, that's probably fair. We could all stand to be better aware of our various privileges. I guess my objection is solely to those who make the absence of such privilege a virtue, a cultural fixation and apparently a policy direction.

The ones weirdly yearning for the mines never work there, but are very keen you do.

How ya gonna keep em down on the farm after they’ve seen Par-ee?

Sorry, where in my post did you read "no one should work in a factory"?

F*ck them….

If I "yearn for the mines" I'll play minecraft

Mining and farming belongs to the world of cubic meter -sized blocks and minimalistic synth music, not to any kind of involuntary IRL!

But here in us it’s hard to find an actual work from home online job that is not a scam is there a reliable list anywhere of actual companies hiring actual work from home employees ? I’m looking for pt job