Comment on Sitting in traffic
umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
commuting is D U M B.
the internet exists motherfucker. THE. INTERNET. EXISTS.
every single office job is dumb.
Sure, sure … but it’s important to remember that not all jobs are office jobs.
For your delivery drivers, retail shelf-stockers, sanitation workers, farmers, nurses, construction workers, etc, etc, etc … remote work doesn’t really work for them. Remote work is fine for IT jobs, clerical jobs, and administrative jobs, but a lot of jobs can’t be done that way, which means a lot of people still need to commute.
For sure, but if I don’t have to, that frees up the road for the people who actually need it.
i drive delivery whenever i need to, and i’d appreciate less useless traffic on the streets.
i’m sure other people would appreciate it too!
True, true. Less commuting would be a benefit for just about everybody (except wealthy commercial real estate landlords).
Just wanted to point out that saying everyone should stop commuting is pretty hyperbolic.
In a nearby harbor they were crying out for dock workers. You have to be at location, but there was no transit option. The nearby city was too expensive for housing for the salary they got so the commute by car from somewhere affordable was long and not worth the pay. Commuting isn’t free.
When you can only commute with a car, yeah it’s dumb. However, I have a daily commute of 1 hour with my bicycle and it’s a great way to get some exercise. In this regard it’s forcing me to move my body, which I otherwise probably wouldn’t in my free time. Gym of life.
What kind of dumb argument is that? If you worked from home you could still take a morning and afternoon bike ride. And you could actually go some place new or run an errand.
As I said, I personally wouldn’t do that in my free time, especially not every single day… because I’m too lazy haha
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.
A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Then you don’t have an office job, but a lab job that also involves sitting in an office.
1984@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
The reality is that its unnecessary for the absolute majority but there are some exceptions, which people wont list to make their statement absolutely correct. It would be exhausting.
I dont mind blanket statements when its something to applies to almost everyone.