The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by feq543ni0g on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:10AM (#30852565)

My workplace requires me to visit the office once every two weeks. And even then I only go for a friendly one-on-one type of lunch with my boss. Nothing we ever discuss justifies the two hour commute, the same things could be discussed in Zoom. And yet, I am supposed to visit every two weeks.

Now it turned out that during my last visit my boss had already been infected with covid. So not only me, but my wife and my two kids will need to stay home, isolate and take days off to look after the kids. WTF is the point of this? I am losing valuable vacation days, my boss also loses an employee for days (and my wife's boss ditto) and the kids will go bat-shit crazy because they will not be allowed to go outside.

Yay. How much fun the office it is.

And this was just one example of how idiotic and unproductive this whole on-site in-person office work arrangement is.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by burner556 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:19AM (#30852619)

Use your sick time dude not vacation days

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by wu_187 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:33AM (#30853753)

Almost all jobs have gotten rid of sick days and have you use PTO. The US labor laws suck.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by h0p3 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:57AM (#30852860)

At some places, you get to choose when to use sick days but not vacation days. All else being equal, in that case, I'd sometimes prefer to burn vacation.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by willcipriano on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:18AM (#30852977)

Every job I've had they are one and the same. You just have PTO.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by thfuran on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:23AM (#30866359)

I have unlimited sick days and finite vacation days.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by willcipriano on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:19AM (#30866822)

A policy like that would make me sick!

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by thfuran on Thursday March 31, 2022 @01:02PM (#30869597)

I've never gone on a sickcation but I think well over 40% of my sickdays have been weekend-adjacent. A baffling statistical anomaly to be sure.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by slaw on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:25AM (#30852657)

Why you need to stay home and isolate? Is it required in your country?

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by Symbiote on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:38AM (#30853098)

Laws are irrelevant. It's the considerate thing to do.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by apurtbapurt on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:30AM (#30853396)

Of course stay away from crowded, public, indoor spaces.

But keeping your kids indoors is not considerate towards anyone. It is simply abusive to your kids.

Let them out in the garden/park/street to play.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by mikro2nd on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:39AM (#30853445)

"Required" or not, it's called "being a grown-up".

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by slaw on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:15AM (#30854774)

Staying at home without symptoms is called brainwashed.

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Re:The worst part of working from home is now haunting reope... by throwaway684936 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:45PM (#30862594)

Are you aware of the concept of an incubation period?

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