My company went full remote in like August 2021 so yup, been WFH since a little before then. And I am actually wearing pants right now, albeit SWEATpants still pants!
I would probably ask the recruiter what is appropriate. Granted this almost never comes up for me since I work in the tech space where youâd probably get knocked down for wearing a tie to a remote interview. I think there was one company I passed the first round phone interview only to be told they wore a tie in the office everyday, so I noped the hell out of the onsite real quick.
I am unmoved by your appeal to authority of random screenshot. I know in my gut what pants are and what pants arenât. Or arenât pants. Or something.
John Maynard Keynes argued that a hot economy raises prices more than wages because the former adjust more frequently than the latter. This may be a good description of what happened in the 1960s. Inflation started to rise in 1965 but nominal wage growth didnât appreciably pick up until 1967, leading to a large decline in inflation-adjusted wages. This may also describe what has happened in the U.S. economy in the past year, especially for middle- and upper-income, workers whose wages are stickier because they are generally adjusted only annually.
Do I read this correctly? Flight attendants do not get paid for the time during boarding when the wrk their asses off dealing with baggage in bins and kissing first class ass?
And now They want a metal for paying them half rate during the boarding process?
Forbes says a first-year flight attendant makes $32.20 an hour, yet the hourly boarding pay rate is $16.10 per hour. For a ten-year veteran earning $59.66 an hour, the boarding rate is $29.83.
I didnât click the link, but it sounds like the article was written by someone who thought dividing by two was a complex thing to wrap oneâs head around.
The thing is, this isnât even totally untrue, but in the office this would just be replaced by things like standing around the water cooler, taking a 20 minute shit, walking around with papers in hand trying to look angrily busy, etc. Let people waste the same fucking amount of work time, but not waste the extra time and gas driving to and from the office.
Iâve been thinking about this some more since and exchange we had in the LC thread (I think). Cliffs: Iâm a weirdo who misses the human contact. 2 days/week with not a crazy commute would probably be ideal for me.
I donât know if itâs that weird though. Many of us will spend something like 35% of our waking adult lives working. I think it makes sense to want that time to be as fulfilling as possible, if youâre lucky enough to be able to do so.
Didnât we always hear growing up, âMake a living doing what you love, and it wonât feel like workâ? I genuinely like programming. It gets me into flow state where hours fly by and it doesnât feel like work. After working every shit job in my youth I still canât believe I get paid many multiples of that to solve puzzles all day. I also really like the team aspect of it - building something cool together. Iâm not nearly as motivated by lone-wolf type projects.
Imagine a professional baseball player, and you tell them they can play virtually from now on form the comfort of their home. No need to come in to the ballpark. Only see your teammates over Zoom, make the exact same money. Some might go for that. But I have a feeling most wouldnât like it. Because they love what they do, and the team aspect is a big part of that.
Also it bums me out that I used to cherish wfh days so much and now I just feel like Groundhog Day every day. Iâve always been someone who needs a change of scenery. I guess thatâs why I walk all over LA now. I have to get out of the house. And thatâs not a bad thing so I dunno.
Obviously Iâm not saying force everyone back into the office. I know for many working from home is a dream and the office is miserable. Iâm just saying if I had the prospect of taking two identical jobs - one fully remote, and one with a mild commute where we go in 2-3 days/week, Iâd probably take the latter. Maybe in the future companies will split into two types.
