Company on TikTok got ROASTED for posting this incredibly cringe and honestly infuriating TikTok about how there’s two people working in office during Thanksgiving in the USA, and it’s just the two of them, no one else is there, but they still have to come to the office. They thought they were really doing something here and going to make people laugh. But they are so out of touch with reality. Almost every other company I’ve heard of let’s people work from home during this time, but not these truly soulless corporate shills, of course. And they had the audacity to say that they enjoy working in the office, and it’s not even a good office with cubicles, mind you. It’s one of the open concept ones where there’s no privacy and you have to hear everyone fully…
I might get roasted for this, but as a person who likes to work from home, I did exactly this with a friend on some holidays that both of us didn’t feel the need to take PTO on (we did get to take this PTO later) and it was a blast, having a huge office just for us was really fun.
But I understand that I’m in a privileged position to make this choice and that it changes the context.
People’s work preferences are their own, these guys are having fun, good for them.
I always maintained I can’t work from home, I was forced to teach via zoom during lock downs and even now my job is hybrid, I teach in person in a shared classroom but I don’t have an office, I do all my prep and notes from home. Only I don’t. My productivity genuinely dropped when I lost my office.
Then I house sat for a friend who had a home office and I realised I can work from home, just not my home, because it’s not set up for work and my head space in my home can’t flip to that “productive mode”.
So now I go to the local library, which is better than my house but still not as good as an office because it’s still distracting.
But it depends on the type of work, I prefer lesson planning alone in quiet peace, I get so much done, but when we’re developing community events I love being in our open staff room with laptops out, some of us sitting on the floor, others standing and just shooting ideas around, we always get so much done.
But I’ve worked in other centres where that level of collaboration and communication wasn’t there - we didn’t have the right mix of personality types, and a workplace like my current staffroom would be chaos and nothing would get done.
I think this video gets flak, because (in your scenario) not you and your coworker made a video about having fun, but your boss made you come to the otherwise empty office to act like you’re having fun and use that as advertisement.
Time for some Nerf!
I really don’t mind the open office. It’s a good excuse not to work hard /s
I work in an office cubicle. I am constantly interrupted by coworkers asking for stuff or wanting to take about non-work related things. Or I am distracted by other co-workers who are having loud conversations within 2 meters of me.
I am probably 5x more productive at home than in this environment.
Nowadays cubicle are a luxury. Open floor space is the new hell. We got extra bonus torture at my place, putting office desks right on the fucking factory floor.
Oh yeah I’ve interviewed for a job like that. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever fucking heard. “We need people to know the engineer is reachable” ok cool, but I usually take multiple walks on the floor per day and they should know where my desk is and how to get ahold of me. I need some peace and quiet from time to time to do my job though
They need to be able to ask you a question anytime right away. Most questions are about the weather. Sometime it will be : I dropped this very delicate part then stepped on it, do I need to report it?
I can imagine a scenario where I don’t mind open offices, all it takes is picturing a job where I never have to focus and my coworkers and I never have to take part in calls or online meetings. Oh, and I’d have to like my coworkers and not enjoy the prairie dog style chats.
Sigh, I miss cubicles… At least I can turn my hearing aids off.
Who took the picture though? /s
Open office floor layouts are horrible for those that need to get “into the zone” and grind through work. Nothing like being forced to hearing about somebody’s “Epic” drunk’n weekend.
toxic corpo “culture”
I guess it might be kinda cool if you like being around people and also like your co-workers.
Right. I love my job and I like the people I work with. I know that’s not true for most people but damn, don’t hate on those that are lucky
Ok but even if you do, my job requires focus. And my coworkers have phone calls sometimes. Having a bit of privacy goes a long way and it’s not like I can’t pop by and chat
Let’s be real, though, it really is bliss when there’s no one else around. Hell is other people, after all!
When I had mandatory in person office work, almost my entire team took time off, including the boss, leaving me and my mostly automated data job alone. I brought my steam deck on those days. It was bliss.
I did like working in an open office back in a previous career. I did QA and was integrated with a team of devs. It was lovely to turn to the person whose code I was testing and ask for clarification on a behavior. There really was a lot of teamwork facilitated by the lack of privacy.
The office had small rooms with doors where you could make phone calls without distracting everyone.
i used to request to work on holidays so i didn’t have to spend time with my shitty family lol
As someone who worked in an office with relatively low walked cubicles, it’s very disruptive to work that requires a level of concentration.
it’s hilarious how the idea of open concept office is “to encourage cooperation and stuff” when in reality all that happens is that it drives people to get noise cancelling headphones so they don’t hear Garry chewing gum as noisily as humanly possible, or all the “hmmmm Mmmhhmmhhh” sounds he makes while eating lunch at his desk. (Seriously, Garry, you’re not making love to it.)
Or Chatty Kathy on the phone gossiping about this or that.
People are weird. the world was a better place when we didn’t realize how weird.
corporate accounts payable, nina speaking… just a moment
Sounds like a bad case of the Mondays
They ain’t called fundays.
Did ya get that memo, Bob?
Ya, I got all 12 of them.
It also hinders cooperation ime. I still go to my coworkers desks to talk because I’m not going to speak over a few people’s heads to discuss something. It’s just that now I can’t have privacy when discussing things. Which I’m convinced is the actual reason for them. Boss can see how much you’re chatting with people and can see when you’re talking unions
Mostly, it started with small startups and then big corpos thinking “hey they were successful! And their team looks happy!”
So they emulate it. The thing is something that works for groups of 5 doesn’t work so well for more than that.
Also, yeah. There’s probably somebody in the corporate decision tree that realizes it’d increase opportunities for middle management to suck the soul out their minions, but usually the people pushing it are just stupid, and trying to be “hip” and “cool”, and all “how do you do, fellow kids?!”-ish cuz they read about it in a Forbes magazine.
That’s fair, I mostly just associate it with Japanese business practices, where to my knowledge it’s an equalization and community thing. You see the big boss sitting there next to everyone same as everyone else in the same uniform and eating the same meals. The problem is, that in Japan they have experience with being considerate of others in shared spaces, and round here in the states we’re atrocious at it.
What pisses me off most is the misuse of pov. If it were pov I’d only be looking at one fucking person. Porn gets it right, why can’t tiktok???
