Remote work?

[Sherlock77]

What bugs me (and I keep hearing about remote work all over the news these days)

They seem to assume that "everyone" works in an office, at least the way they talk about it.

There are many people who work in jobs that simply can't be done remotely, basically all warehouse workers, retail, anything service related, and many of the trades

Not that I feel left out, as a warehouse worker, or maybe I do? There are just so many jobs and workers who can't work remotely, and really can't work the four day work week I keep hearing about

Just saying... Heading out for the evening now... Perhaps slightly ranting... Not even sure what point I'm trying to make...

 

[Nitro]

Twice during my employment I had jobs that set me up with four ten hour days a week.

Correct, most blue collar workers are in hands on employment.
I have a brother in law that has worked for a firm out of his home office for going on 25 or more years now.
He sells bar code reader systems and the only time he is not at home is when he is pitching a big sale in another part of our country.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

What I hear from people in jobs that must be hands on, is resentment that others can work at home AND feeling totally left out of the "work" world. All the talk now is about the revolution and working from home and doing Zoom meetings with a formal shirt over pajama bottoms.

I can't think of the word right now, but it seems to be ignoring the very existence of and contribution of people who work in jobs that have to be on site.

It's not just warehouse workers, it is health care, restaurants, public safety, and on and on. It is as if you are invisible.

 

[Sherlock77]

What I hear from people in jobs that must be hands on, is resentment that others can work at home AND feeling totally left out of the "work" world. All the talk now is about the revolution and working from home and doing Zoom meetings with a formal shirt over pajama bottoms.

I can't think of the word right now, but it seems to be ignoring the very existence of and contribution of people who work in jobs that have to be on site.

It's not just warehouse workers, it is health care, restaurants, public safety, and on and on. It is as if you are invisible.

I don't feel like I have resentment, but it does seem like every time they talk about the employment topics on the news, 99% of it seems to only talk about the kind of jobs related to office work, as if that is the only important thing

There is so much more in the employment world, and many people do enjoy working with their hands anyway

 

[Progster]

Yes, you're right, and the percentage of people who actually do work in offices is probably far less than 50%.

 

[Outdated]

I was a printer. During busy periods I'd start work before dawn and finish after dark 7 days a week. I wouldn't see sunlight for months at a time. Sometimes I used to stare up at the tin roof and wonder what the sky looked like.

When I ended up living in the bush I liked just sitting back and watching the clouds drift across the sky.

 

[Shamar]

What bugs me (and I keep hearing about remote work all over the news these days)

They seem to assume that "everyone" works in an office, at least the way they talk about it.

There are many people who work in jobs that simply can't be done remotely, basically all warehouse workers, retail, anything service related, and many of the trades

Not that I feel left out, as a warehouse worker, or maybe I do? There are just so many jobs and workers who can't work remotely, and really can't work the four day work week I keep hearing about

Just saying... Heading out for the evening now... Perhaps slightly ranting... Not even sure what point I'm trying to make...

Most of my career was remote work. Pushing through midwinter snowdrifts in northern Saskatchewan and Alaska, dehydrating in the deserts of outback Australia and southern California, hacking through the jungles of northern Borneo, slogging through assorted swamps, avoiding tiger snakes in Tasmania, trying to avoid burning my feet in boiling hot springs of New Guinea of semi fresh lava in Hawaii. There is remote, and then there is remote.......

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Most people work in labor, service, or medical.

 

[Forest Cat]

What I hear from people in jobs that must be hands on, is resentment that others can work at home AND feeling totally left out of the "work" world. All the talk now is about the revolution and working from home and doing Zoom meetings with a formal shirt over pajama bottoms.

And sometimes no bottoms at all. We had some incidents here where people did zoom meetings half naked. And forgot that they were half naked or accidentally left the camera on. I don't know what they were thinking.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

And sometimes no bottoms at all. We had some incidents here where people did zoom meetings half naked. And forgot that they were half naked or accidentally left the camera on. I don't know what they were thinking.

There was one zoom meeting early in the pandemic when a naked woman walked behind the employee on the zoom screen and she was not the employees wife. Oops!

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Most of my career was remote work. Pushing through midwinter snowdrifts in northern Saskatchewan and Alaska, dehydrating in the deserts of outback Australia and southern California, hacking through the jungles of northern Borneo, slogging through assorted swamps, avoiding tiger snakes in Tasmania, trying to avoid burning my feet in boiling hot springs of New Guinea of semi fresh lava in Hawaii. There is remote, and then there is remote.......

Ok. I wanted your job so badly. Seriously. Especially the jungles in Borneo.

 

[Duna]

I worked remotely almost all my working life, with days or sometimes weeks in between where I had to be at a certain place to learn, watch, do or whatever.
I have been working only remotely for the last ten years, and though in the beginning it was a necessity because I had to stay home, it is now a little.problem because all I do is at home.

 

[musicallessness]

then i guess the only option is that those that do service work in the field, warehouse, fast food, etc... then, we are truly the ones deserving of the praise and royal treatment and shall be paid accordingly. or, better yet, just provide a better apartment close to where we do the service we love so much.
me be a truck driver but, family slander has led me to be an unemployed trucker (haha, the most demanding most needed in the world).; haha I just got my learners permit back.
geez, like I need to relearn this field!!! i already mastered it when I started but, here we go and lets give the teachers hell in being the master and master student I am.

i love the new top gun, me being the maverick trying to teach aces what they already know and cruise says, "when I retire I'm going to take up trucking."

its funny because when you don't allow an ace to have his wings and ground him, there's nothing to do but to question the sanity of the said leaders. its amazing what being a computer database programmer and unconditional love can loop the insanity of the world. not to mention the conspiracy against me to change my identity in more ways than one.
yeah, god, has given me lots of skills, talents, gifts, and well, love doesn't fear but, when people try to threaten my life with fear I tell them as if we are playing a game of russian roulette, go ahead and be the ***** and assault this autistic retarded "man-child." geez, why do these people like to mock what they know but don't want to accept and bully us.
but, things are changing for all of us autistic people. and excuse me, if down myself with fascetiousness and say, "autistic retard disable." its a sarcastic remark to get the people to question themselves but, i don't think they understand sarcasm or they just can't take it when they get it back.
anyways, thanks for this post after being a manager for fast food in the past we are like actors serving people that don't deserve to be served but do it anyways and laughing in the back when those think they are entitled to be served. yet, i guess they laugh at jesus for being king and washing feet.
ugh the arrogance of people because they can't accept their loss of grief and guilt is a loss of consciousness more than that but I'll write about this later.

 

[musicallessness]

me be a truck driver but, family slander has led me to be an unemployed trucker (haha, the most demanding most needed in the world).; haha I just got my learners permit back.
geez, like I need to relearn this field!!! i already mastered it when I started but, here we go and lets give the teachers hell in being the master and master student I am.

joke: why does a trucker never get old, we just get a new Peterbilt?

 

[Judge]

Point taken.

Honor labor....regardless of whether the media emphasizes or glorifies one work over another.

 

[musicallessness]

Point taken.

Honor labor....regardless of whether the media emphasizes or glorifies one work over another.

trucking is like being a tourist on an adventure and well, drive thru fast food is like a party...

and when i take a vacation sail around the world or just crusie the great loop in a 28' regal express sipping my essante because its easier than making a meal plan and cooking. because all I do is make a soup even when BBQing, haha