The only people that are offended by Musk’s comment are the being he was talking about.
“You can pretend to work somewhere else”
Remote work is awesome for some people. But if you don’t admit that a great number of people are scamming it - then your opinion is just as invalid as their obviously defensive position.
Nah. I wrote critical boot code for brand new silicon from home. Took my team from "behind" to "changing how people did chip bringup." Without ever seeing them in person for literal years.
Can be done. And yeah, that comment rubs me the wrong way.
If you can’t see and admit the massive abuse from most people - obviously except for you - then there is no discussion.
Everyone is always so quick to say how great THEY are and can’t ever even sort of discuss the reality of abuse because that position threatens their goal.
It is obtuse self-interest and disingenuous. Those comments rub me the wrong way.
> It is obtuse self-interest and disingenuous. Those comments rub me the wrong way.
That is pretty much all arguments for WFH. It's always "oooo I'm so much more productive" and occasionally "I can do errands and stuff now"... but never does it get more reflective than that. It might be great for the individual but for the team level and higher, it's probably not great at all.
Plus... I personally know a non-trival number of people who made some seriously boneheaded short-term real estate purchases in the peak 2020 insanity assuming they'd be doing this WFH forever. The amount of privilege these people had doing that while so many non-tech people got screwed over by their governments... makes it very hard for me to really feel sorry for people having to go back into the office. It was always supposed to be temporary no matter what anybody told them.
lol. Or maybe people don’t all think like you and have equally valid opinions on things?
But no COVID was truly the absolute most deadly thing on earth since the dawn of humans. Space Ebola really. So let’s shut down all of society and let a bunch of privileged laptop class workers get richer pretending to work at their fancy expensive houses with separate detached offices while all the working class stiffs get screwed thanks to societies hysterical overreaction to a fucking respiratory virus whose median age of death is higher than your average life expectancy.
Perhaps if all the incredibly privileged laptop class got kicked out of their non-essential jobs like everybody else they’d have an entirely different take on what went down the last four years. Because I tell you what, most of these folks would have changed their tune really quick once they realized how little their unemployment check would have been and how they couldn’t get a straight answer from their insane government when things would return to actual normal and they could collect a paycheck again.
Instead they basically got a paid vacation working at home while yelling at all those less privileged to “stay the fuck home” from their fancy rich fucking houses. It’s really hard to give a single fuck about these people being asked to return to the office. In a just, equitable world they should never have been allowed to continue working their non-essential job in the first place no matter where that work would have taken place. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. You want society to shut down, then you too should stop getting a paycheck. In no case should society have allowed most of the tech industry to stay operational.
The only people that are offended by Musk’s comment are the being he was talking about.
“You can pretend to work somewhere else”
Remote work is awesome for some people. But if you don’t admit that a great number of people are scamming it - then your opinion is just as invalid as their obviously defensive position.