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by civilized 1665 days ago
I know you didn't personally insult me here, but I hate this comment.

I'm a remote worker and I spend a large chunk of my time every week helping other team members. I'm very, very good at it.

From now on, I'm going to ask everyone about their attitude towards remote work during interviews, and I'll be a hard NO on anyone with the attitude displayed here.

You can have employees who hate remote or you can have remote employees. You can't have both.

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Lots of people have that attititude (80%?) - and it is not connected to remote work.

They do just the absolute minimum.

In some ways it is debatable if they arent right. Also: if you are the one who cares in a team of those who dont (which is the usual situation), then you are in a world of pain. Snafu.

Blah blah blah, cynicism and disengagement is correct and right, etc. I know it's a prevalent attitude.

People can live their lives how they want but I don't want such people on my team.

Unless you’re a prestigious non-profit, good luck finding anyone at all to hire if you’re filtering on attitude.