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The second — [[The Man]]’s — was, “get back into the the office, punks”. With a twist: [[The Man]] teetered for a while between “I’m not having these good-for-naught [[Meatware|meatsack]]s in their goddamn pyjamas on ''my'' dime”, and the more squirrelly “hold on: if these clowns work at home on their own PCs we can nix half the downtown footprint and slash our [[IT]] bill so let’s not rush this”. The two impulses then merged and The Man compromised by ditching half the office space ''and'' ordering everyone back to work. | The second — [[The Man]]’s — was, “get back into the the office, punks”. With a twist: [[The Man]] teetered for a while between “I’m not having these good-for-naught [[Meatware|meatsack]]s in their goddamn pyjamas on ''my'' dime”, and the more squirrelly “hold on: if these clowns work at home on their own PCs we can nix half the downtown footprint and slash our [[IT]] bill so let’s not rush this”. The two impulses then merged and The Man compromised by ditching half the office space ''and'' ordering everyone back to work. | ||
==== | ==== TikTok Girl and the future of work ==== | ||
The debate has coagulated around poor | The debate has coagulated around poor TikTok Girl, tearfully confiding her social media channel the exhausting experience of having to commute, work an eight-hour day and then commute home again. Predictable mockery from some quarters, spirited defence from others. | ||
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I know I’m being like so dramatic and so annoying, but this is like my first job after college and i am in person, and I am commenting in the city, and it takes me forever to get there ... I get on the train at, like 7:30 and I don’t get home until like 6:15, earliest. ... Nothing to do with my job, but the nine-to-five schedule in general is, like, ''crazy''.}} | |||