Ever since I started WFH, I don't have any Sunday anxiety anymore. Why would I? I wake up at 8:55 AM on Monday, take two or three steps to my computer, log in to the daily meeting at 9 AM, tell my team what I'm working on and listen to what everyone else has to say. No traffic, no rush to take a shower and eat, no noise. Then, I am mostly unbothered for the rest of the day, just me, my computer, and code, in the comfort of my bedroom, sitting on my Herman Miller Aeron.
WFH is the biggest quality of life improvement I've ever had.
Same. I used to literally get depressed on Sunday nights shit was crazy
WFH is a nightmare hell with a family, and probably without one I'd have started to hate it. If you've got one of these jobs everyone claims to have where they do literally nothing all the time sure.
What sort of job do you have anon?
I'm a software engineer.
>everyone claims to have where they do literally nothing
With WFH you can really slack off all day if you want and people will only notice after months, at which point you get fired or you start working for real.
I do the opposite though, I try to excel at my job and be useful because I never want to go back to an office ever again.
> I'm a software engineer.
Oh so you’ll be jobless in a year?
idk, if you work "in tech" then yeah, you will have a bad time this year
the secret is there's plenty of software engineers that don't work for "tech" companies that will be fine in comparison
Nevermind, I see it. Code monkey. Enjoy that while it lasts they'll have unskilled naggers in there doing it for $10.50/hour within five years with AI guidance.
LLM AI can't do anything new and creative. can only do what has seen before. people have been saying coding is dead for years.
Maybe if you hate your life, tbh. My son was born right as lockdowns started. I got to watch him grow up at home. It was the best thing to ever happen to me. It was subsequently the worst thing to happen to me and my ex though. Wouldn’t have it any other way though. I was busting ass working over nights when his sister was born and I felt like a zombie the first few years she was alive. It fucking sucked.
Why do you have such a small shitty house. Get an office so you can get away from the family noise. Or are you rentoids?
Enjoy while you can
Should have paid attention in school idiot 🙂
WFH is great unless you live with other people. The folks in my house seethe unendingly at my ability to make more money than the both of them at a far easier pace, they also tried charging me rent after already living there for 5 years
>seethe
yes its the boomer way. never once can they admit someone younger than them is better. just how it goes. if you live in a house with a backyard a shed is a good investment to make that you can use as an office. Or just buy one from the hardware store.
i WFH and I fucking hate it
my entire family doesn't consider it a job and bother the FUCK out of me for hours on-end
>tfw previous role in graduate rotation asked that I only come in office on Wednesdays
>didn’t even come in every Wednesday, I have arthritis so my boss was fine that I worked at home most the time
>new placement
>boss is a micromanaging fucker, asks that I come in Monday-Wednesday
I’d got so used to comfy wfh, I’m struggling to cope with this shit.
Hey Jesse, glad you’re having a great time
You really paid $1500 for an office chair?
Yes I did. The health of my spine is worth much more than $1500.
Chair has 12 years warranty (part on one of mine broke after 11 years, now good as new .. ), you'll replace your PC many times sitting on in, and won't develop back-problems unlike sitting on a $200 one you have to replace as often as your PC.
For some objects quality is the primary concern, price being irrelevant compared to the damage skimping would create.
e.g. Decent sports-shoes if you spend much time on your feet, decent chair as you spend much time on it, decent mattress, decent hearing-protection if you like to shoot.
In all cases buying cheap shit will damage your health, it doesn't have to be the most expensive stuff, but sth. like an Aeron is perfectly reasonable .. even if you have to buy the headrest separately.
Please suggest some good quality chairs, cheap, medium and pricey
>cheap
something upper-end ikea-lineup, they can't afford selling you complete shit ergonomically.
>medium
Steelcase Please
and the pricey category when on sale, foreclosures etc.
>pricey
Steelcase Gesture
HM Mirra II
HM Aeron (careful getting the right size) + Atlas headrest
Okamura Contessa II
But in general, with chairs it's a lot of personal preference, e.g. some like the reline mechanism of the steelcase-leap, some don't. Personally like the Aeron/Mirra type most.
You need to test chairs yourself, if possible go to a shop with decent ones, sit on every one you consider for 30min+ if anything feels uncomfortable, it's disqualified.
Stay clear of Humanscale, shit quality.
hey man, let me tell you something, if you're even going to spend a few hundred dollars, make sure the product is not designed in china. i made the mistake of buying a middle of the road office chair and it's like it was made for someone 5'4"
any old operator chair or task chair will do. i have a unbranded operator chair i got for $50 off amazon like ten years ago with all the standard features (locking recline, etc) and have zero back issues. also just going for a damn walk, moving around, and not being fat will help more than any chair ever could. i've tried the aeron and all the big names. none of them are worth it.
it's like mattresses. for thousands of years your ancestors slept on any old shit and used wooden pillows. nowadays people moan their arm goes numb and fuck about with trying different memory foam mattresses. it's all bs.
this. only the paid shills say they are worth it. who the fuck shills for a goddamn chair company unless they are paid to?
Hermann-Miller Embody WFH master race checking in
good good
fell comfy in your new and improved wage cage
all the way to the grave
Superior Steelcase bros checking in
Same.
Based master race.
I am much like op, wfh since 2009, i am a infrastructure though, not code.
The company is pushing very hard now post covid to get people back in the office which is stomach churning to me.
>WFH is the biggest quality of life improvement I've ever had.
same, it's like the life of a NEETcuck, but I make lots of money.
WFH comfy Chads, we won