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lightnsfw , to workreform in Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit

Could definitely be a factor. I’ve not been diagnosed but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn I have an attention deficit issue.

lightnsfw , to workreform in Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit

I’m going to look it up. Thanks for the suggestion.

lightnsfw , to workreform in Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit

Sort of. I have to go on site to different locations we support sometimes and I will post up in a out of the way corner and do some work while I’m waiting on a local tech or something. Never had a issue concentrating then. It’s kind of a pain to work off only one laptop screen though with what I’m usually doing.

lightnsfw , to workreform in Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit

I’d like to do something outdoors but I can’t find a job like that which pays enough and doesn’t require a totally different education. I’m not even able to afford the things I want on the salary I have now.

lightnsfw , to workreform in Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit

Your problem is a severe lack of discipline. If you need someone watching over your shoulder and putting pressure on you in order to get work done then you have a big discipline problem.

I’m in the office by myself most days. There’s no one over my shoulder. It’s just something about being in a different environment. It doesn’t occur to me to go on the internet to start doom scrolling or researching stuff for personal projects. I do admit it’s a discipline issue but nothing I’ve tried to overcome it has worked. I’m open to suggestions.

For me it’s about getting the job done. If I don’t get the job done then I’ve shown my employers that I am useless and I lose my job.

The problem is with my job there isn’t a lot of “getting the job done” I’m the middle man on a lot of different things so there’s a lot of just sending emails to different people to gather information or get something I can’t do myself done. I’m pretty good about getting actionable things taken care of right away but all the setting up meetings and replying to emails stuff is tedious as hell and I find it really hard to focus on when I’m at home.

I guess I can’t relate to the concept of dragging ass all day. Aren’t you worried about losing your job?

Yes, That’s why I go into the office to work.

lightnsfw , to workreform in Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit

I am wildly unproductive when I WFH. I literally cannot focus on work tasks when I have so many more interesting things available to me to do. I’ve tried everything to make myself focus but the best I can do is maybe 3/4 hours of the day interrupted by doom scrolling or messing around on my personal desktop. My coworkers all WFH as well and seem to have no issues getting their stuff done so I’d never argue that WFH is bad for everyone but for me personally it is. I need the structure of going in the office. Thankfully my job gives us the choice.

lightnsfw , to technology in Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems

Yea, if it’s anything like my tech job the peons were raging about it in their group chats while every successive manager up the chain raved about how great it was and how much progress they were making to the guy above him and silencing any dissent.

lightnsfw , to technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

Installing Linux is a pretty trivial process at this point. Not much additional work beyond what already comes with setting up a new laptop. Especially of you’ve already done it before.

lightnsfw , to technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

My job is in the early stages of planning for updating everything to windows 11. I just got my testing VM with it the other day which is my first experience with it and I had an almost physical reaction to how bad the gui looks when I first logged in. I haven’t even done anything with it and I already hate it.

On the other hand the Linux VM I set up at home to test my personal stuff out on has been going swimmingly.

lightnsfw , to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

Yea, because it would cost me $1000s of dollars for very little benefit for me or others in the same boat. It might save government and big corporations money but for the little guy it’s just a bunch of extra work. I’d be interested to know what massive inconvenience not switching is causing the average person.

lightnsfw , to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

Again that article doesn’t actually cite anything and is very opinionated and vague. Basically saying “trust me bro”. Even if those big businesses are saving I very much doubt those savings are going to pass on to the little guy. They breeze right past this part.

What kinds of costs were considered? They included out-of-pocket payments for physical changes in things: for example, modifying scales or buying new ones, altering gasoline pumps, adjusting or replacing machinery, repainting highway signs, rewriting plans and specifications. They also involved intangibles, such as having to learn new words and how to use them, having to work more slowly for a while in order to avoid mistakes, and having to do arithmetic in order to understand an item in the newspaper.

Every tradesman would have to buy all new tools for the metric standard. They’d have to account for mistakes when doing conversions between the new metric stuff when working with an existing construction or carry two sets of tools with them. A corporation might be able to absorb those costs easily enough but for an individual that’s going to take a much larger bite out of them.

lightnsfw , to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

I already don’t have to maintain two sets of tools. I would only have to do that if we switched because I would now have to have tools with metric measurements (which would cost me $1000s) for new construction and my old tools for working on existing stuff.

As for that article I don’t find many of their arguments to be very convincing especially the numbers they’re using to determine costs. The article they used to get the $6, 100,000 figure for the cost of not switching is from 1915 and even allowing for that is largely nonsense. They mention having to educate on the imperial system. The only education I got about the imperial system was during wood shop as an elective and maybe some in math but that was more to demonstrate fractions and using rulers and such, the focus wasn’t on the units themselves. We spent far more time learning metric during science class. The main article also mentions that converting to metric will save money but don’t explain how this is the case. Then go on to accuse companies that have not changed out their tooling to metric in order to avoid the cost, so it’s very inconsistent. The language they use is also very biased.

lightnsfw , to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

What about imperial invites mistakes and what makes you think that there will be fewer mistakes after we switch to metric and now have to use both systems and do messy conversions anytime we are working with pre-existing structures? Retrofitting old construction is basically a constant state of being for me and many others. What do we gain by switching to metric?

lightnsfw , to memes in I feel so old

turns into dust

lightnsfw , to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

The problem is everything is already built using the imperial measurements. Even if we switched all the new tools and materials over to metric we’d be stuck having to do a bunch of conversions when we’re integrating it into existing construction and we’d probably be dealing with that for the rest of our lives.

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