Were I work the thing I noticed was the only people comfortable to voice their opinion were the extroverts who would talk about how much they get from in office.
Not knocking them. I love talkative people who are great to talk to during the day. But they’re at a natural advantage when you’re in a public meeting and the management is asking where the employees land on back to work policies. Its easier to voice the opinion that aligns with higher but also its easier for the friendly guy every one likes to talk about how they can’t do remote work alone a day in their room. Meanwhile the people who don’t have issues could get unspoken negative pressure to not voice their opinion.
The company where I work did a bunch of surveys and shared the data with everyone throughout 2020 and 2021. They were completely anonymous and done in a browser in about 5 minutes. Opinion shifted back and forth over time, but the general consensus is that some kind of mix was preferred. We now have that mix and most people are still happily employed.
I still end up spending most of my in-office days on Zoom, but that’s OK. I am also part of a small team in a 200 person company and really appreciate being around other people outside my team occasionally.
Pretending there is universal agreement in either direction is silly.
This is why you need anonymous surveys and not anecdotes. But when someone asks “what do you think” extroverts are going to answer. If you don’t agree then you have to speak up either there or in private afterwards otherwise no one will know.
It’s not just an extravert/introvert thing. Some people will say whatever they want their bosses to think about them rather than speak their own mind because they think it will be better for their job if they do. So if they think their bosses want to end WFH, they will agree even if they don’t want to come back to the office because they think they could be on the chopping block if they don’t.
I rarely give my bosses my opinions unless I realize they are directly asking me because I know it won’t actually make a difference except that it will look like I’m rocking the boat. It’s not because I’m introverted, it’s because I’m pragmatic.
Allowing the government to control online speech will create a world no kid should have to grow up into. At some point you have to ask yourself if you're protecting anyone.
Do tell us how that other option of not even going to grade school is going to work out for them in the future when they want to do things like move out of their parents’ house.
I’m not talking about college, just normal grade school. Because without a HS diploma, good luck getting much more than a minimum wage job.
The only reason I could see is if the group providing the rides were pushing the people to vote a certain way. From the looks of it though it’s just an outright ban which is ridiculous. I’m privileged to be able to walk to my polling place, but I know that’s not an option for a lot of people.
I’m priviledged to just be able to ask for a ballot in the mail, to be able to sit at a computer while going through it and, you know. doing the research while staring at the names.
Okay so I also do research before hand, but like, naw. my memory isn’t that good. it needs a refresher. then all I have to do is pop it back into a mailbox somewheres.
What’s even scarier is that it’s got support from both dems and reps: introduced by a Democrat, co-sponsored by 22 Republicans and 21 Democrats. www.congress.gov/bill/…/cosponsors
As a subscriber of antischool and a promoter of self-guided learning, I'm for people freeing themselves from school so long as they're not hurting anybody to do it.
On one hand, yeah, but on the other, to really achieve, you must stand on the shoulders of giants. Else, you will be reinventing the wheel, sometimes literally. One of our great advantages as a species is language, allowing us to communicate complex concepts.
I do think when people eventually decide what they want to do, they will apply themselves and learn. Kids (correctly) believe school is wasting their time. If we offered vocational training instead, I think it would be a win-win.
This is some libertarian ‘pull themselves up by their bootstraps’ bullshit that I also never hear from anyone who actually has a child. Children do not have fully-developed brains. That alone should be enough to realize that they can’t be trusted to teach themselves things properly. They need guidance.
Also, letting a six-year-old decide for themselves whether or not they want to learn to read and know what 1+1 equals is just fucking stupid.
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