David Gerardby @spavel.bsky.social
EDIT: who is on here as @PavelASamsonov
Fukuzawa@davidgerard Thanks needed this
lopta@davidgerard The site I work at is removing cubes and installing tiny desks because it means they can cram in more people.
@davidgerard ...and apparently I'm not supposed to call them "cattle stalls".
@lopta quite right, the precise term is "veal-fattening pens"
@davidgerard It's pretty grim. In one building they want two people per desk, working simultaneously!
Lars@davidgerard /r/antiwork
Jeremy Kitchen@davidgerard @kf only half of your zoom call? Clearly you haven’t been in public lately :(
KazinatorExcept for, you know, all that work which does not consist of keyboarding and mousing over the Internet.
Nic Dafis@davidgerard The last office job I had (briefly) required me to drive 64 miles a day to fiddle with a database on the internet. They even had an office I could’ve walked to near my village, but “the IT dept is in Aberystwyth”. I lasted 5 weeks.
Kevin Karhan 
@nic @davidgerard I would've refused to even apply!
I do 100% remote nowadays...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110382697884544399
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] +9001% I once left a company with 75% of the #Linux team due to escalating commitment of the employer to an overpriced commercial lease.
@kkarhan @davidgerard In the interview they hinted at flexibility, but once I started they insisted on six months of pointless commuting
Christian Lynbech@nic @kkarhan @davidgerard To be fair, this remote work thing is pretty complicated, saw this in a job ad last year (admittled, it probably is something boring like a typo).
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@mapcar @nic @davidgerard unless it's a position that requires physical on-site work like installations on a construction site, I think employers should be incentivized on their own to allow as mich remote work as technically possible, as this reduced needed floorspace and allows the few people that can't work remotely (i.e. sue to shitty internet, having loud work done outside or inside, having small children that don't understand work) to come in.
@mapcar @nic @davidgerard Not only will it reduce dissatisfaction due to unpaid work aka. commute but also reduce costs and increase resilience by not having a single location as a point of failure.
@mapcar @nic @davidgerard I just put 100% remote work into my contract.
https://toot.wales/@nic/110382799743673152
https://toot.wales/@nic/110382799743673152
Nic Dafis (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] In the interview they hinted at flexibility, but once I started they insisted on six months of pointless commuting
@davidgerard @mapcar @nic excellent.
I'm shure they also were able to cut costs this way as commercial leases are quite pricy after all...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@davidgerard @nic @kkarhan @mapcar Same. Went from seven floors to six, soon five, bigger desks and more conference rooms.
When our floor closes, our department of 80 people will move to another floor where we'll have 50 desks.
@davidgerard +9001%
I once left a company with 75% of the #Linux team due to escalating commitment of the employer to an overpriced commercial lease.
Chris L@davidgerard "Hello I would like to hear half of your Zoom call" is chef's kiss.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@davidgerard here as @PavelASamsonov, i believe
Pavel A. Samsonov@mawhrin @davidgerard Stuff from bsky spreading to here, never thought I'd see it
@PavelASamsonov @mawhrin my apologies sir, i just thought it was a funny picture and it took off like a rocket, i have added your local id
@PavelASamsonov @mawhrin at least the alt text is in full
@PavelASamsonov Fedi absorbs memes from wherever it can get it.
Eatingrainbows@davidgerard @PavelASamsonov If you look at how people who were born rich run companies, you will notice that they dont give af about progress or efficiency.