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My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.
A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.
Then you don’t have an office job, but a lab job that also involves sitting in an office. Almost every job that is 100% sitting in an office can be done remote.
When you can only commute with a car, yeah it’s dumb. However, I have a daily commute of 1 hour with my bicycle and it’s a great way to get some exercise. In this regard it’s forcing me to move my body, which I otherwise probably wouldn’t in my free time. Gym of life.
What kind of dumb argument is that? If you worked from home you could still take a morning and afternoon bike ride. And you could actually go some place new or run an errand.
As I said, I personally wouldn’t do that in my free time, especially not every single day… because I’m too lazy haha
People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I’m zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I’m just straight up zoned out. I don’t have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
Bus drivers are magicians, I always think “where is he even going to go there’s not even close to enough space” and they just magic the bus smaller to fit while I’m panicking the whole time thinking we’re about to crash.
The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing and admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level of dexterity alone is just 👨🍳🤌💋
Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I’m more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.
Hiking in the arctic pulling a sled with all your gubbins… or having 12-16 fluffy doggos pull you and the sled for the love of the game?
At one point I had a 55min commute using transit but would usually get hard by weather as 2 of my stops didn’t have cover. Also the occasional meth/fent heads, missed connections, overcrowding…
Or sit in my car on a 45min commute.
Eventually I met it halfway by joining a vanpool but that shit still cost more than mass transit and got expensive when my employer cut transit vouchers.
Walkable doesn’t mean only walking
Walkable doesn’t mean only walking
Just like portable software doesn’t mean that the only thing you do with software is porting it.
Around here, if someone complains about a two hour freeway commute, it’s “man up, it’s just part of life!”
What an insane mentality. Barring some pretty specific circumstances I fail to see how anyone would be forced to endure 2 hr commutes. Those people chose that shit.
My husband is blue collar. He goes where things need to be fixed. Sometimes his commute is 15 minutes, but it’s often 2 hours, when you factor in distance and traffic. A lot of blue collar deals with this, and yeah. We choose that shit over being homeless. His tech field laid him and everyone else off a few years ago.
The specific circumstance is your religious family indoctrinating you into thinking you have to have at least 6 children and then you have to move somewhere that you can afford that much space on one income. It’s extremely common in the US.
Traffic is so shitty, it takes two hours to go 20 miles by freeway.
I have to commute by car to commute by bus so I’ve started just commuting by car
my goodness, im having flashbacks of my pre covid office days spending 6 hrs of commute time just to get on and off to work
every…fucking…day.
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Waze is owned by google and developed in israel by ex-intelligence from unit 8200
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Locking to prevent more reports about absolutely braindead takes. Some of y’all clearly aren’t adults
I don’t mind being stuck in stop and go traffic because it’s a great time to play candy crush
I know it’s a joke but like, that’s what the bus/train is for.
Can’t play candy crush on the bus because then something bad could happen while I’m distracted
I don’t want to be crowded around strangers, feeling awkward and anxious, in a shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling and takes 4x as long to get where I need to go.
Im sticking to cars. The fuckcars group can suck a fat one. And this is the only place I can vent about it so why not.
shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling
So get better mass transit. Metros in most of asia are comfortable enough to take a nap and significantly faster than cars, and at least in Japan even the buses are smooth enough I can nap.
crowded around strangers
Imagine how much less crowded it would be if so much space wasn’t wasted on car infrastructure.
