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Men's rea activist

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Another miserable day working from home. Wearing comfortable clothes. Surrounded by all the things I could possibly need. Little dog sleeping by me. Every day this nightmare. I yearn for the office

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Sarcasm or not?

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Blue Skies at Night's avatar Blue Skies at Night @blueskiesatnight.bsky.social
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I haven’t heard anybody refer to their favorite football team as “we/us” in far too long.

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TasiAF's avatar TasiAF @tasiaf.bsky.social
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i am in a living hell, not sure how much longer i will be able to survive

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Melissa's avatar Melissa @melissa1.bsky.social
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so much tv, privacy, personal bathroom, music, internet, and nobody watching me......... the horror

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Muz's avatar Muz @cmuz.bsky.social
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We are all family here in the office. Not like those beings you have to share your home with.

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David's avatar David @lagloriacubano.bsky.social
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I feel ya... #WFH

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's avatar @dlitt.bsky.social
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Sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof. Thoughts and prayers.

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Spectrox Celery's avatar Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social
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It would be great if it wasn't for the actual work part

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Andrew Brown's avatar Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social
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Is the mayor of minneapolis making you post this? Send two heart emojis and an upside down smiley if so.

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ShippingMammals's avatar ShippingMammals @shippingmammals.bsky.social
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Said nobody ever! Much the same except six huskies.

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Eyebeemania's avatar Eyebeemania @eyebeemania.bsky.social
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I don’t often get the chance to work from home, but when I do, I snap it up!

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Aly 's avatar Aly @alyam.bsky.social
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Its so so terrible when I walk down to a nearby cafe with good pastries to work at instead of being in my precious cubicle

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JRSY's avatar JRSY @jrsy.bsky.social
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Your manager loves to hear it

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Ana B. Nieto's avatar Ana B. Nieto @abnieto.bsky.social
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I actually miss the office.

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Smithereens's avatar Smithereens @rswan221.bsky.social
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Insufferable colleague

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JoyousPanther's avatar JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social
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I just don't understand how people can use the bathroom at home without coworkers in the stalls next to them and someone talking loudly on the phone walking around the room.

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(V)i_i(v)'s avatar (V)i_i(v) @rabbitwitch.bsky.social
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imagine instead of getting a deeper connection with my neighborhood and local shops i could instead just walk a circle around the parking lot a few times when i get tired

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laurenmerica online's avatar laurenmerica online @sixregrets.uhoh-boom.com
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you could be networking right now!!

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's avatar @shwaewi62.bsky.social
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Sadly posts like this reinforce the myth that WFH is “having an easy time / slacking off” and thus bolsters the return to the office frenzy.

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Naja Kaouthia (gretten heks)'s avatar Naja Kaouthia (gretten heks) @najakaouthia.bsky.social
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The children yearn for the mines. This is my weirdo WFH buddy.

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Miri Auri, Exarch's avatar Miri Auri, Exarch @exarchauri.bsky.social
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Truly a hellscape of our own making. Imagine if we had taken corporate profits to heart like we should have? This would have never happened.

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Your Administration Needs Upgradation's avatar Your Administration Needs Upgradation @aldokelrast.bsky.social
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I long for each of the 36 hours it takes for the stink of burnt microwave popcorn to dissipate.

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Cyn ✨'s avatar Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social
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<long sad sigh> (But also where’s the lil dog pic plz 🥹)

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Bartek Ciszkowski's avatar Bartek Ciszkowski @bartekci.bsky.social
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I bet you baked a loaf of bread and cried whilst doing it too. Absolutely miserable.

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SurlyITJesus's avatar SurlyITJesus @surlyitjesus.bsky.social
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You and your damn dirty cat blanket....

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Bleaktea's avatar Bleaktea @bleaktea.bsky.social
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I miss sitting in a meeting next to someone who is coughing and sneezing and thinking, uh oh, and then getting sick and my whole family getting sick and my kid missing a week of school. That's the true power of the office. The interconnectedness, the sharing.

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mingusmonk's avatar mingusmonk @mingusmonk.bsky.social
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I miss pretending I watched The Office last night, or Game of Thrones or Coach Lasso.

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PARSONS's avatar PARSONS @digitalparsons.bsky.social
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I am really having a hard time deciding if this is sarcasm or not? Haha

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Kari G Elliott's avatar Kari G Elliott @kbyrd.bsky.social
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I guess ergonomics was just a fad. Now I wander around looking for a chair that won't hurt to sit in.

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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It's hell.

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Detryck von Doom's avatar Detryck von Doom @detryckvondoom.bsky.social
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Another victim of woke Big Labor propaganda.

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rabagast's avatar rabagast @rabagast.bsky.social
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got up 5 minutes before work started. had lunch break in my living room hammock. did not have to wade through knee-deep snow before sunrise to commute to work. the coffee was affordable and exactly how i like it. wore yoga pants all day and got a load of laundry done while i was working. just awful.

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YuzuKawauso's avatar YuzuKawauso @yuzukawauso.bsky.social
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I yearn to add even more imaginary value to commercial real estate, and yet alas here I am working from bed.

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ENVY2024's avatar ENVY2024 @envy2024.bsky.social
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Some of us don’t. But enjoy!

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DodgerFanLA's avatar DodgerFanLA @dodgerfanla.bsky.social
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Sounds frightful

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Concoloris's avatar Concoloris @concoloris.bsky.social
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I cannot be fully happy unless I'm building value for the shareholders of various REITs

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Alex's avatar Alex @alex0082.bsky.social
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Ugh. And here we are and have to do it again. Although I did make lemon crinkle cookies during lunch, so at least I have cookies for another day.

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Jeff Hanna's avatar Jeff Hanna @jeff-hanna.bsky.social
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I yearn for the last dribble of bad coffee left by some coworker who viewed making a new pot as beneath them.

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Excalibur Discount Legal Services's avatar Excalibur Discount Legal Services @kevychristian.bsky.social
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I particularly hate being able to wake up an hour and half later because I don’t need to get dressed up or drive somewhere.

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Me 's avatar Me @char20.bsky.social
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I wish

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Catherine the 🍓Redhead 's avatar Catherine the 🍓Redhead @rapieress.bsky.social
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Not having to be too hot or too cold... Fresh coffee whenever I want it… slippers or sandals... Sleep in and work later... Or start early and end early... Gardening during lunch or a walk with the dog...gosh… then there is life at a corporate office...🤷‍♀️

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Chillbo Hangins's avatar Chillbo Hangins @woskethoughts.bsky.social
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Aha. They said as much! People clamor to be at the office. Eyeball to eyeball with the crown virus! LFG!

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Stephen Rodda's avatar Stephen Rodda @kernowbear.bsky.social
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:) "Dogs. Dogs are nice." After Terry Pratchett.

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Gothicc Hel Unfiltered's avatar Gothicc Hel Unfiltered @gothicc-hel.bsky.social
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How can you stand it? Absolute torture. The comfort of a rock hard office chair sounds appealing to me.

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Harper needs headpats  🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Harper needs headpats 🏳️‍⚧️ @thatharper.bsky.social
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Riding the train with people coughing from at least three different directions...

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Morticia91's avatar Morticia91 @morticia91.bsky.social
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Yep. All the snacks in the world, listening to my music and podcasts on SPEAKERS, but no human contact. On second thought...

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Doing Asbestos I Can's avatar Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social
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There was traffic* and an accident** on my commute from the kitchen to my home office. Waze didn't even try to warn me. -- *dog in the way **dog shoulder-checking me to herd me back into the kitchen for snacks

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TheAntleredCrow 's avatar TheAntleredCrow @theantleredcrow.bsky.social
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And think of the children! Why, with laws preventing them from working they too must exist in an even worse state - unproductive and not contributing to the Holy Economy. Poor souls, they too yearn; for dangerous and underpaid work, that is. Not the office. My deepest sympathies to you.

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Rhonda 's avatar Rhonda @rjdeal.bsky.social
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And you didn't get to spend hours out of the day commuting to and from the office.

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cyks's avatar cyks @cyks.bsky.social
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Like any prison, it affects your mind in ways humans will never understand. Good luck with your mild case of Stockholm syndrome.

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Grae Hall's avatar Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social
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It's like you don't even care about the struggles of commercial real estate owners, and petty micromanagers

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Grae Hall's avatar Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social
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Have you not considered the 2 to 3 hours travelling to and from the flouro lit "open office plan because it's productive but it's actually just loud and distracting" where it's more difficult to focus on your job but at least you're being micromanaged by a pointless middle-manager!

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Zed's avatar Zed @silverzed.bsky.social
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If I weren't in the office I would feel guilty scrolling social media all day.

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's avatar @skepticon.bsky.social
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You mean you don't want to spend 1 months' worth of groceries every month to RTO...? What about the 'energy' and 'collaboration'...?

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Liberty Beta's avatar Liberty Beta @darkhallway.run
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I miss the office ramen truck.

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Thug Dracula's avatar Thug Dracula @thugdracula.com
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Covid pretty much ruined WFH for me. Granted I have kids as well so it was a unique kind of hell. I have a job that's pretty close to me, but I definitely have learned to enjoy going into the office. My office is also pretty great though and I legitimately like those I work with.

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Tantalus Studios's avatar Tantalus Studios @tantalusstudios.bsky.social
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Haha, suckers. I get all the office chairs and limited snack options! And this isn't changing anytime soon. Call me privaliged, but at least I appreciate how good I got it.

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Password123's avatar Password123 @defaultvalue.bsky.social
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The grinding horror of being able to make toast or play upright bass at any time

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 ⚜️ PoliticalPR ⚜️ 's avatar ⚜️ PoliticalPR ⚜️ @politicalpr.bsky.social
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👀 get a new job.

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🤣😂🤣😂

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's avatar @bretbret.bsky.social
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Maybe you can appreciate driving in traffic on your days off

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Business Decision Pikachu's avatar Business Decision Pikachu @businesspikachu.bsky.social
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so many invaluable moments are lost when you're not around your colleagues. the other day I asked "im gonna make some coffee, anybody want some?", and then one guy said "no" (the rest were wearing headsets, couldn't hear me), and then I said "alrighty". you miss out on that when working from home

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Paul Sokol's avatar Paul Sokol @voyicks.bsky.social
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🤣

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Jarno Niemelä's avatar Jarno Niemelä @jarnon.bsky.social
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This is how I do meetings

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🔞🕴️CEO’s Escapades 🤫's avatar 🔞🕴️CEO’s Escapades 🤫 @ceosescapades.wtf
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Most confused

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Finnan Haddie's avatar Finnan Haddie @finnanhaddie.bsky.social
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You could be in the office right now, wearing uncomfortable clothes, swapping viruses with your colleagues, trying to concentrate while people around you gab, & dreading the hellish commute home instead. But you chose your current misery so I guess you’ll just have to buck up under the strain

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Matthew Williams's avatar Matthew Williams @mattheww1991.bsky.social
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Taking 30 seconds to get from my bed to my desk, despairing that it doesn't take an hour on a cramped train, getting sick all the while.

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Kris Davies's avatar Kris Davies @trasheighty.bsky.social
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I had to go into my office yesterday, it’s such a shame I am not able to come to this empty soulless void of a business park every day instead of just once or twice a week

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Hector Rodriguez's avatar Hector Rodriguez @hectoroctavo.bsky.social
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Nadie entiende el porqué de los ajustes contradictorios que emanan de las mentes humanas. Hay aburrimiento en los trabajos de oficina; luego hay aburrimiento en los trabajos que se realizan en el ambiente hogareño. Finalmente, se descubre que se quiere vivir bien sin aportes de sacrificios.

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Ensign Obvious's avatar Ensign Obvious @noyou.bsky.social
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Fortune magazine's top real estate moguls are paying Eli Roth to direct this movie.

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Victoria G's avatar Victoria G @vkgrundle.bsky.social
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I am forced to work from home right now due to recovery from surgery, and I legit do miss the office!

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Neal 's avatar Neal @nwilliam3.bsky.social
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Been in the office all day and only talked to people on Teams calls. I do have 2 coworkers in the office today, but haven't been able to talk to them, because they've been on Teams calls too. Ironically with each other! 🙄

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Winky the Brown Starfish's avatar Winky the Brown Starfish @dugalug.bsky.social
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my favorite part about the office is getting up 2 hours earlier - the 45 minute commute each way ($12 in gas) to sit in my office, speak to no one, use a public bathroom and pay $15 for lunch for no fucking good reason whatsoever. good times.

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Kassandra Peck's avatar Kassandra Peck @kassandra.bsky.social
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Ugh same, no interruptions, the worst

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Bo's avatar Bo @bodiva.bsky.social
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I miss the fragrance of the burning coffee urn. It haunts me.

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DFW Sam's avatar DFW Sam @dfwsam.bsky.social
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This is sarcasm, right?

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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX's avatar Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX @themilfmag.net
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📌

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's avatar @fraudguy.bsky.social
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Good news! Management has heard your pleas and will be improving RTO by increasing in-office days from two to four. This will help us remain competitive in retaining our best colleagues.

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Noamar Garciachomsky 's avatar Noamar Garciachomsky @kduffchicago.bsky.social
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Yes but you're missing out on building friendships with people who will leave in six months and then never see you again

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Smilner's avatar Smilner @smilner.bsky.social
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As children for the mines

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Holly's avatar Holly @scott902.bsky.social
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😂😂😂

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Cosmic Raise's avatar Cosmic Raise @cosmicraise.bsky.social
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I bet Elon Musk would be happy to hire you.

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Krissie 's avatar Krissie @krissie.bsky.social
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I hear you . .

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Enough of a Girl's avatar Enough of a Girl @minarising.bsky.social
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Our database just crashed, so I'm like "time to make some [fill in the blank].

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Horror Author Reed Alexander's avatar Horror Author Reed Alexander @reedshorror.bsky.social
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I never thought I'd have a job where I'd wanna get up and go to the office. That shit didn't seem real. But today I love my job.

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Will Bain's avatar Will Bain @willbain.bsky.social
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I miss the employee fridge. So much more biological diversity in there than in the one at home. And the variety of aromas!

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Chef Gaykwon's avatar Chef Gaykwon @gaykwon.bsky.social
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according to my mayor you must be a loser with a disgusting cat blanket

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TechnicallyOwen 's avatar TechnicallyOwen @technicallyowen.bsky.social
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Like the children yearn for the mines My home office has a cat door! no where I have worked has even had a cat! All the points for WFH!

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Eileen Wilson's avatar Eileen Wilson @glensidetwo2.bsky.social
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...and no cold wet commute. Even better.

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Wolfshirts's avatar Wolfshirts @wolfshirts.bsky.social
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I need to decompress in 2 hours totally stopped traffic both ways. That way I can just microwave something and back to work tomorrow.

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Erin Snyder's avatar Erin Snyder @erinlsnyder.bsky.social
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Easy for you to say: my wife also works from home, so all day every day I'm surrounded by those I love most. Just an endless barrage of empathy and companionship. And no office politics, either. Not sure how I've survived this long.

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Zenith Pillar's avatar Zenith Pillar @zionzenith.bsky.social
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Count your blessings!

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pixel pusha τreez's avatar pixel pusha τreez @zoetreez.bsky.social
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*sobs while yearning for this nightmare to visit my reality*

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