• ideonek@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    Come on, work being the sole source of community is the problem here. What are we even talking about?

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      12 days ago

      No one said “sole.” It’s about a sense of community between you and your coworkers, which is a very real and normal thing. It’s spelled out in the article very clearly:

      losing that sense of workplace community had a greater impact on childless men

      “Workplace community.”

      I’m a dad working remote and I love the benefits but I ALSO miss the sense of community with my coworkers which I used to get from lunches together, sharing the train ride home, or just working side by side at our desks.

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        12 days ago

        hmm, so having or not having kids have impact on your sence of workplace community during remote work?

        Does it add up to you?

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            11 days ago

            I like to think I would less judgmental about people attepting to communicate with me in the only language I know. Maybe approach like that is the reason work is the only place where people spent time with you ;)

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              11 days ago

              Your comment was unintelligible, sorry. I can hear you whining now, very clearly, and trying to insult me personally. So I guess you can communicate successfully when you try.

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                11 days ago

                I’m glad you understood me know, thank you. I adapted your approach to learning languages - speaking slow and laudly. It worked like a charm.

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      13 days ago

      Yes, but it’s also the most logical place. What other activity do you dedicate so much time to? Maybe sleeping but it’s hard to build a community around that.

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        13 days ago

        According to my kids, candies are the most logical place to get most your nutritions from. Where else could you get so many calories?

        If most of your time at work is spent socializing, couldn’t you cut your work time and build your community elsewhere?

        If most of your time at work you spent on honest hard-work working, how much community are you really building?

        Cut you calories. Life doesn’t happen at work.

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        13 days ago

        It would be logical to work less and get our own community. A lot of people work hard all their lives and die soon after retirement. That’s not logical.

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        12 days ago

        Quality over quantity.

        Great places to socialize are sports-clubs, social-clubs, volunteering, activism, religious communities…

        I’d much rather spend five hours a week distributed over two or three occasions with people i share interests with, than with people i share work with. Meanwhile at work i am mostly engaged in small talk, that is quite repetitive as i see the people every day and i have to guard what i can say and what i cannot say more than in other circles.