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Sitting in traffic
Submitted 1 month ago by NarrativeBear@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
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.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For sure, but if I don’t have to, that frees up the road for the people who actually need it.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
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.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Then you don’t have an office job, but a lab job that also involves sitting in an office.
1984@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
fleck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I’m zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I’m just straight up zoned out. I don’t have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bus drivers are magicians, I always think “where is he even going to go there’s not even close to enough space” and they just magic the bus smaller to fit while I’m panicking the whole time thinking we’re about to crash.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
Turns out, spending 40 hours a week driving makes you pretty good at driving.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level dexterity alone is just 👨🍳🤌💋
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I’m more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
To be fair, I think depending on your mood and weather it can in fact be nicer to be sitting in a climate controlled box with a nice chair and a stereo system
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Even better would be sitting in a climate-controlled box, with a nice chair, and a good stereo system… at home, relaxing after a nice walk.
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sometimes you don’t want to go for a walk, it can be because you’re tired, or because the weather sucks. At that point public transit is best, but depending on how big your town/city is it may not be feasible to fund it properly.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
Also depending on how much shit you need to transport.
Even if there was a store within walking distance, I wouldn’t fancy walking with a week’s worth of groceries.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
In a walkable area, you don’t buy for a week at a time, you buy what you need for a meal or two. Popping into the store is a pleasant, 10-minute diversion where you’re likely to see friends and neighbors, not a 2-hour safari overland to the edge of nowhere. It means buying fresh, healthy food, rather than the giant palettes of highly-processed product that I see folks haul out of the CostCo.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Walkable doesn’t mean only walking
Walkable doesn’t mean only walking
Just like portable software doesn’t mean that the only thing you do with software is porting it.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
At one point I had a 55min commute using transit but would usually get hard by weather as 2 of my stops didn’t have cover. Also the occasional meth/fent heads, missed connections, overcrowding…
Or sit in my car on a 45min commute.
Eventually I met it halfway by joining a vanpool but that shit still cost more than mass transit and got expensive when my employer cut transit vouchers.
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hiking in the arctic pulling a sled with all your gubbins… or having 12-16 fluffy doggos pull you and the sled for the love of the game?
Bieren@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I would a million time prefer walking 16 minutes than sitting in traffic for 6.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Around here, if someone complains about a two hour commute, it’s “man up, it’s just part of life!”
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
“Man up” is just a universal thought terminating cliche whenever a person that happens to present masculine complains about anything.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
And if we’re going to go that route, I prefer “embrace the suck” as a more fun and helpful thought terminating cliche.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
What an insane mentality. Barring some pretty specific circumstances I fail to see how anyone would be forced to endure 2 hr commutes.
ChexMax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My husband is blue collar. He goes where things need to be fixed. Sometimes his commute is 15 minutes, but it’s often 2 hours, when you factor in distance and traffic. A lot of blue collar deals with this, and yeah. We choose that shit over being homeless. His tech field laid him and everyone else off a few years ago.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The specific circumstance is your religious family indoctrinating you into thinking you have to have at least 6 children and then you have to move somewhere that you can afford that much space. It’s extremely common in the US.
WereCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have to commute by car to commute by bus so I’ve started just commuting by car
RelativeArea1@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
my goodness, im having flashbacks of my pre covid office days spending 6 hrs of commute time just to get on and off to work
every…fucking…day.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
6 hours? At that point, I’d drive a camper to work and just sleep in the parking lot.
MarieMarion@literature.cafe 1 month ago
3 hours each way? Would you elaborate on how that came to be? I’m flabbergasted.
RelativeArea1@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
its a subsidized transportation (bus), distance is around 80 km from where I live, its a semicon factory and I used to work there as an all around IT starter(support, basic admin, dbms, etc.), I enjoyed what I did there thats why I stayed there for 3 yrs and endured that nasty ass commute.
I decided not to rent a nearby place because that would eat like 60% of my monthly salary.
sry for (kinda)trauma dumping , bit weird to do in a shitpost thread :)
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of the best features of Waze GPS, is it gives you a countdown counter when you get stuck in traffic.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
My city recently got a BRT route. Having a counter that tells you how long you can expect to be stuck in traffic is good UX, but even better is when the trip always takes the same time, because you’re not stuck in car traffic.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lucky you. Public transport isn’t an option for everyone. Keep your bitchy comment to yourself.
Jakule17@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Waze is owned by google and developed in israel by ex-intelligence from unit 8200
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And has a useful Countdown counter when stuck in traffic.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Locking to prevent more reports about absolutely braindead takes. Some of y’all clearly aren’t adults
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t want to be crowded around strangers, feeling awkward and anxious, in a shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling and takes 4x as long to get where I need to go.
Im sticking to cars. The fuckcars group can suck a fat one. And this is the only place I can vent about it so why not.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling
So get better mass transit. Metros in most of asia are comfortable enough to take a nap and significantly faster than cars, and at least in Japan even the buses are smooth enough I can nap.
crowded around strangers
Imagine how much less crowded it would be if so much space wasn’t wasted on car infrastructure.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
The reason for all of the inconveniences you’ve listed is the car-centric urban infrastructure. So yeah, fuck cars.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
I don’t want to be crowded around strangers, feeling awkward and anxious, in a shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling and takes 4x as long to get where I need to go.
Bicycling would alleviate all of these … except for the last one. (Now it takes 10x as long to get where you need to go. But it’s not crowded, no social anxiety, no shitty big vehicle, less jerking and no rumbling…)
BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My 3 mile bike ride takes 2 minutes longer door to door than driving.
As has been repeated a few hundred times in this thread already, the part that makes it takes so long is car centric infrastructure. If you live in suburbia where you have a population density of 1k/mi2 (400/km2) you will have to travel a much more significant distance than if you live in a place that has 9k/mi2 (3500/km2)
Then with less car centric infrastructure the benefit of having parking right next to work starts to go away and the extra space can be used to shorten commutes as well
smeg@infosec.pub 1 month ago
My trains, trams, and buses are rarely crowded. Maybe at peak rush hour.
High frequency makes them not crowded. You’re complaining about a poorly designed public transit system, which is probably all you’ve ever encountered.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t mind being stuck in stop and go traffic because it’s a great time to play candy crush
Soup@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know it’s a joke but like, that’s what the bus/train is for.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Can’t play candy crush on the bus because then something bad could happen while I’m distracted
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
Remove pedestrians, biking and transit because they take up car space. Now everyone drives and you’re 45 minutes stuck in traffic.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As long as I’m in my 18 wheeler pick up truck that takes up 2 lanes and consumes more gallons of gas than a whole pump in the middle east can produce in a day every week, I’m happy!
(Post brought to you by the american brainwashed mind)
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
CANYONERRROOOOOO