Kulturkampf

[Alpacx]

I dunno, I think the Jamie Dimon thing is...not that bad? At the start it just sounds more like razzing than some righteous condemnation.

"You're fucking around on your phone, you're giggling with your friends...you know you are, don't try to lie!" 

I think he's totally right. And I'm just a mook who would lose my WFH privileges if he got his way, but I think there's something to be said about how simple honesty about work has just evaporated in the past few years. "I have to WFH"...no you don't, you just like to punctuate your emails with a wank sesh. "My email job is so demanding" no it isn't! I work here doing the same stupid pretend job you do!

Since I'm on my soapbox, I just think there is something "semi-diseased" (to borrow Dimon's phrase) about middle class work in general, in the US at least. I'm grateful for the benefits I get from my own position, but it seems like there's this sort of...unwritten shared agreement among people in this class to characterize this kind of work as something other than it is. It's kind of disturbing.

100%. 

In my experience, the people most upset about WFH ending or being limited are the ones who do fuck all and are never available when you need them. 

I know it's never going to happen, but if you enforced camera on all the time WFH then that would really put the cat amongst the pigeons.

Imagine the uproar if someone did impose that? But what's the difference? In the office you're always visible, so why would people object to always being visible while WFH?

Let the top 10% of performers WFH all the time.

51%+ get some sort of flexible arrangement

Bottom half come into the office.

Problem solved