Ddubz

@Ddubz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that people this stupid exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct perspective. As it turns out, a huge amount of people that believe Bill Gates is injecting 5G chips into people absolutely don’t vote. If you recall, the first amendment nuts in the loser convoys and a bunch of the J6 defendants weren’t even registered to vote and yet they screeched election interference. For an election they didn’t even bother to vote in.

  2020 was one of the highest blue voter turnouts in national history making record first time voters in their 30s and 40s.

  So yes, it should be pointed out that everyday people turning out to vote against this brain rot is just as important whether or not magats and human vegetables are voting too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNN Overhauls Lineup: Abby Phillip Takes 10 P.M., Laura Coates to Host 11 P.M., New Morning Show Hosts and Weekend Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People at the doctor’s office that get too shit of a mobile signal on their phone in the waiting room to look at anything else.

  That and Gen X, boomer democrats that don’t think Bush Jr. is that bad of a guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In my observation it has been industry and sector dependent.

  Corporate tech and finance are calling for remote work to end. Most of the articles I see where going back to the office is touted are all “silicon valley” type companies and finance/investment firms writing opinion peices.

  PR, marketing, and news media, comms fields - which I am in - are doing the opposite. I work in digital media with government clients and my office just had a building contractor come in and walled off 2/3 of our empty cube space that was full pre-pandemic but is now vacant because all those employees remained remote. The positions in that area of the office were mostly copy editors, graphic design, and technical writers. The building owner turned that area into a new office but hasn’t rented it to anyone new yet.

  Many of my colleagues are active duty military and government civilians. They all telework as much as 3-4 days a week currently. All of their jobs are administrative in nature and almost all of the military people are officers.

  It is important to note that the military has loosely instructed liberal telework at unit level discretion because of record low retention rates. I’ve been working in/for government for a long time and even before 2020, federal contractors and DoD civilians have usually had telework of some kind provided what they did was something that could be taken home.

  When I worked in DC in the mid-00s it was common to see offices engage rotating flex schedules because of the insane traffic and hours long commutes in the DMV corridor.

  But, I suppose it’s all anecdotal. Where you live and what you do for work are going to impact reality more than anything. Watching the MSM speculate and reading nonsense opinion articles in the Atlantic or Times aren’t going to give you any real information.

  All I can say for sure is my office has fully remote and hybrid only. We are guaranteed two days WFH a week but all salaried employees have optional flex schedules and can work non-concurrent hours as long as deadlines are being met. But again, I work for a massive international fed contractor that does largely administrative and PR consulting. So all things that have a history of WFH schedules already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Maher Bashes ‘Barbie’ as a “Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The one person I know that still watches Bill Maher is a guy that says he’s a libertarian. But he’s a libertarian in the way that a college freshman in 2005 was a libertarian.