My office at the new job is right next to the coffee/break station. I am going to blow my fucking brains out.
Those wont stop the door knocks. I currently know about everyone’s weekend and have gotten 5 minutes of work done.
Yeah, but think about the camaraderie. Getting to know these people and see them face to face is more important than WFH or excelling at your job.
I engage with plenty of humans...that I actually enjoy conversing with. Martha from accounting doesn't improve my overall wellness.
I just witnessed a grown man cry on zoom because he might have to show up to work in person in downtown Portland once a week. He doesn't feel safe. Granted I was socialized through team sports so I already have a pretty low tolerance for that stuff but have some fucking self-respect
Scary homeless. The "criminal element" was the exact phrase I wanted to be like "don't make eye contact while they're heating up tin foil and you'll be fine"
The only time I was in Portland I ate at the Dennys by the convention center and a homeless guy got so mad the manager told him he couldn’t use the bathroom he locked the door and proceeded to smear shit all over everything.
That's obviously not an acceptable response, but access to public restrooms is a huge problem in big cities. Where the fuck do you expect displaced people to go? Nobody wants urine and feces on the sidewalk, but they often don't have an option. Seattle experimented with mobile bathrooms (a little nicer than port-a-potties), but those just turned into drug dens where people would shoot up and pass out inside. I get annoyed sometimes walking around a big city and realizing the only place to use a bathroom is walking into a store or bar and buying something to get permission to use the restroom. It's annoying AF. Most Latin American and European cities have free public restrooms, at least in my experience. But that won't turn a profit so nobody will develop that in the free land of America.
Don't make eye contact, don't make any sudden moves, and make yourself look as big as possible. Oh wait, that's the Forest Park bear.
Years ago I had a cube at the end of the hallway by the bathrooms. You could hear echos when people were taking dumps.
It’s pretty funny that this guy got so emotional on a work call but also very sad that there are people out there who have brainwashed to believe that big cities are so dangerous. There are so many cool things people like him won’t ever be able to experience due to this rhetoric.
Like a block away from the courthouse. It can be a little gnarly, especially early in the morning because they've been up all night but it's not that big of a deal I'd guess 100+ because of the managers that were in there
I was told by my 3rd grade teacher that everyone that lives in the suburbs has money and if you live in the city you are likely very poor. I took that as a fact until I went to college and realized it’s the opposite, in a lot of cases
Im always shocked how little wearing headphones deters people from trying to make small talk with me in the office.
just saying, if temporary bathrooms are becoming drug dens, why would permanent bathrooms have a different result?
Had one co-worker a couple of jobs ago who would look me dead in the eye while I was wearing headphones and start talking as if I could hear him. I think these people are missing large chunks of their brain which let you determine how to act around other people.
I feel like I had to put a coin the bathroom I ripped a piss inside of in Paris, but I was also very drunk
I admittedly don't know the answer, but in an ideal world I'd think you have government/city officials monitoring the restrooms that are also publicly owned and maintained. In the event the spaces get taken advantage of by drug users, there's an appropriate response system - like police or social workers responding without excessive use of force. Other countries have public restrooms that don't turn into drug sites, which IMO speaks to America as a whole. A society is only as strong as it treats its lowest class citizens, and we fail miserably in that regard. I'll stop derailing the thread now.
All good. I wasn't trying to condemn the idea, more of a helpless feeling where you are damned if you do, damned if you don't.
back when i first started my career and was working 80 hour weeks and had to go into the office every single day (incidentally, man that sucked), I wore headphones at my desk when I didn't want to be bothered. Then one day at an all hands meeting, someone made an anonymous suggestion that we shouldn't be allowed to wear headphones. There was some debate about it before this one woman called me out by saying she was trying to get my attention the other day but I didn't hear her because of my headphones. Before I could stop myself, I said yeah I know that's the whole point. Everyone laughed at her. Then the big boss man who had been silent the whole time jumps in and says headphones are fine, lets move on. That was a good day. Spoiler I heard her all along too. Fuck you Laura.
Found out today we’re doing some kind of “team outing” and the activity is playing sand volleyball. I think Im the youngest person involved and Im 34 so this is going to be a disaster. On top of that heard some dorks scheming who’d be on who’s teams, so they’re already taking this way too serious lol Might go lick some door knobs and hope I’m out sick that day.
I’m imagining Janice from accounting getting her momentum up after just two steps, she’s unable to stop herself from face planting no less than 10 feet from the ball. She will be red faced, sweating, and covered in sand and three people will come to her aid to assist her getting back to her feet. She goes straight to the picnic table for a bottle of water and calls it a day. Everyone else is stuck awkwardly trying to hold back laughter as the game goes on at a slower pace for a few points.
Not sure why bowling or TopGolf or just a normal happy hour isn’t the default. I said I’d pretty much prefer to do anything else if that was an option. It was not.
I’m guessing it’s going to be at least 90 degrees that day so I’ll for sure be the one sweating. I think we’re following up the sand volleyball debacle with some bowling! The dude who sits next to me said “I think I’d rather just goto work”.
We had a work outing / team building a couple weeks ago and we went to a brewery and had a bunch of bbq and wings catered in.
Had ours at stone brewery a couple weeks ago. Sounds cool, but we really only use their event space. Got to play a little cornhole and baseball target toss thing. We had to buy any beers we wanted after the retreat was over.
Only way I'd have fun at these events is if there was some solid boozing time afterwards that the company paid for.
Our company finally organized a top golf outting after dragging its feet for 5 months. The head of the culture committee earnestly asked whether we would prefer 6-8 pm or 7-9 pm. as in after a full work day. Across town. On a Wednesday night.
Had employee appreciation day a couple weeks ago. May … Florida. The result was me sweating my ass off on stage in front of hundreds of people answering trivia questions about Star Wars because it was May 4.
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