Eggs now in different baskets.7h ago
evacide
Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.
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Show threadMark T. Tomczak11h ago

@evacide I gotta be honest, it was surprising to me to find out that I actually did have a threshold for alone-time and there was such a thing as too much.

Granted, I didn't find it until COVID, but still...

Show threadPhil Haigh10h ago
@mark @evacide I was fine at the start of Covid. I found out half way through. Still finding the happy medium.
Show threadDavid Does Federated10h ago

@gulfie @mark @evacide

I learnt that as well. Understand now why people go work out of cafes. It does help.

Show threadPhillip Upton9h ago

@mark @evacide

Heresy, I say.

When I was a kid I dreamed of being on a mission to Mars, alone.

The South Pole seems kinda fun too.

*Working remotely since 2002, not a fan of places with people.

Show threadCaptain Button7h ago

@philsplace @mark @evacide

SF story here is "View From a Height" by Joan D. Vinge.

(Analog Science Fiction - June 1978)

Show threadResuna2h ago

@mark @evacide

I found that out in a previous job where there were two and a half employees and most days I was the only person in the office and I wasn't the guy who got to talk to the customers. It was super-alienating. COVID wasn't near so much of a pushup because we had slack and zoom and I was interacting with cow orkers online all the time.

Show threadCadmus 🌲11h ago
@evacide #GoblinGang
Show threadTranslunar Injection 🌕💉11h ago
@evacide saaaaaaaammme
Show threadMarijke Luttekes11h ago
@evacide On the other hand… "normal" is boring, right?
Show threadevacide11h ago
@mahryekuh To be fair, my friends are goblins, my family are goblins, and most of my co-workers are goblins. It's a goblin-rich environment.
Show threadMarijke Luttekes11h ago
@evacide I dare say that Fedi is also a goblin-rich environment, which is absolutely not a complaint.
Show threadevacide11h ago
@mahryekuh Goblin (complimentary).
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.9h ago
@mahryekuh @evacide Not until a reply-goblin enters the thread.
Show threadiamdtms11h ago
@mahryekuh @evacide So comfortable could be. (good)
But work steps into the daily routine. (bad)
Visiting office once a week is a happening! (good)
Timeless and unhandled workmate communications (bad)
Show threadVictor11h ago
@evacide goblins of the world, unite! (at home)
Show threadJohn McChesney-Young11h ago
@superpixels @evacide I was about to respond with this!
Show threadBrett Terpstra 🏴🐈‍⬛11h ago
@superpixels @evacide I make every zoom meeting weird, and I’m *pretty* sure I was that way *before* working from home for 20 years.
Show threadWolfgang Müller (DE:er/EN:he)11h ago
@evacide and as long as you are fine with it, this is the way it is supposed to be.
Show threadendolexi11h ago
@evacide you know who is making things weird for me: people who won't offer you a single genuine expression, just their shoddy persona. I'll prefer straightforward weirdos over those regrettable performances any day.
Show threadPatrick.sh11h ago

@evacide Some days I'm part goblin, other days part welcoming hobbit...

Most days I dream there was a national holiday where it was acceptable to walk around town in hooded cloaks and trade trinkets...

Show threadelectric brain dump11h ago
@evacide I've come to embrace my goblin side, but it's taken me a while.
Show threadJoe Steinbring 11h ago
@evacide Same.
Show threadjosh g.11h ago
@evacide relatable. also, strangely gives me hope for working from home
Show threadJoan of Contention 😷10h ago

@evacide Wait. I have read this, and suddenly my life makes sense.

Thank you.

Show threadStefan Scholl10h ago
@evacide https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/quotes/?item=qt0334680&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.10h ago

@evacide I think that you might have missed a word out both times.

"Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without *them* making it weird."

Show threadYavo10h ago
@evacide Hooray for all the normal weird people on this spinning piece of rock.
Show threadPhil Haigh10h ago

@evacide I feel seen. Have not spent two consecutive days in an office since February 2020. My partner is definitely concerned but I, on the other hand, am not.

Thing is, she’s usually right. Hmm..,

Show threadLisa Melton10h ago
@evacide Raises hand. Same.
Show threadGwyn Ciesla10h ago
@lisamelton @evacide is me
Show threadWTL9h ago
@lisamelton @evacide Likewise. Ten months of the year I work from home, then have to change hats and do stuff for music festivals … and there are humans everywhere. It's always a tough changeover for me.
Show threadOrca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️10h ago
@evacide
← Have never wfh yet can't interact with people without making it weird
Show threadMedea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️10h ago
@evacide @lisamelton
Show threadHumphrey Archer10h ago
@evacide
I have always been a goblin, unfortunately
Show threadLog 🪵10h ago
@evacide Goblin, hob. brownie, and nisse. Depends on my mood.
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸9h ago
@evacide Validating, thanks. (Though I do feel like I was getting better at it there for awhile.)
Show threadLeo Schuldiner🤘🏼9h ago
@evacide sounds great to me
Show threadGreg Bell9h ago
@evacide working from home has only made you more powerful
Show threadJ_Peregrine8h ago
@evacide
Iam a goblin! And being called weird is actually a compliment.
Show threadCoach Spore Diesel8h ago

@evacide most of the people I've worked with have been weird goblins and I'm fine with that. I think they were too.

I really miss it.

Show threadAnarchic Teapot ⚧️8h ago
@evacide There's another way to interact with people?
Show threadAgnieszka R. Turczyńska8h ago
@evacide Let's hag out together!.
Show threadsollat7h ago
@evacide
I find myself leaning into the weird, with occasional side-eye from Third Thoughts.
Show threadWexx7h ago
@evacide big mood, lol.
Show threadCats Who Code (cursed)7h ago
@evacide thank you for this! I feel so much better now! 
Show threadDeven Phillips7h ago
@evacide
I feel seen.
Show threadCaptain Button7h ago

@evacide

"I'm in this photo and I don't like it."

Show threadShaula Evans6h ago
@evacide This is so incredibly relatable. 😅
Show threadJoYo5h ago
@evacide if i ever end up in an office again my habits will only cause suffering.
Show threadĞÖKÜ👻👻™3m ago
@evacide I love to stay alone most of the time. Work from home, walk alone at my rooftop while listening music 🎧, talk to myself most of time.... But whenever I join other people anywhere I start acting like every normal person. Being alone gives me more time to think about myself and about many things that I can't do staying with other people