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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

WFH has been a blessing.

You easily eliminate almost 2h from there, no commute, and some workdays no showerp/getting ready to go out. Even when I shower I try my damnest to do it between meetings in company time.

I also do zero overtime, you'd be surprised that there are actually decent consultancy companies in that regard.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sometimes you can sit and cut vegetables and peel potatoes in a meeting.... Which drastically cuts down meal prep time, I find.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Just don't be like the guy at my job loading your dishwasher with your mic unmuted.

When you’re crying about the 10th Teams Meeting that week you can blame the onions.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

This is why I demand work from home.

I hate commuting.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

As soon as I got a taste of working from home back in 2020, I knew I was never going back to the office. I bought a nice chair and built a good computer, and now I just hang out every day while working when I feel like it. I've come up with enough shortcuts and workarounds that I can do my job over twice as fast as my coworkers, though I'll never tell my boss that. I do have OT sometimes, but I get paid well for it, and still rarely have to put in a full 8 hours of actual work in a day, even when getting an extra several hours of time and a half. People look down on hourly pay, but it's way better than salary for times like those.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You two have hit the jackpot apparently.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 4 points 1 week ago

I got lucky for sure. A lot of my friends in the office tried to keep working from home after covid and got let go. I just happened to time it perfectly where I asked a little later, after the higher ups got worried they were letting too much of the younger talent go by being so rigid with the in-office mandate.

I thought for sure they'd let me go when they found a replacement willing to be in the office, but it's been years and none of the new hires in my department have picked it up nearly well enough to take over my responsibilities. I think it's settled down enough by now that I'm pretty safe with my work from home exception.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Lol are you me?