| For me, it's been nothing short of the dream it was supposed to be. My pajamas are so comfy to be in whole day, I don't remember how my jeans fit me anymore -- and I am all the more happy for it to be that way. I switched roles and got myself away from obnoxious self-glorifying micromanagers who couldn't conceive of the idea of not lording over my shoulder when I'm working. They would never consider WFH even for a couple days a week, ("because I say so") -- until Covid shut them up ("Tell me, Mr. Anderson. What good is a phone call, if you're unable… to speak?"). The irony was as delicious as watching all their pointless flailing. I hope they have figured since that their days of milking workhorses are over, and had diminishing returns from having their pets scratch their back instead of doing real work. Also, pay peanuts, get monkeys. Enjoy what you deserve, suckers! I've never met my current manager in person, video calls are just as good to discuss business, if not better since there's exactly zero travel to deal with. He isn't even in the same country as I am, let alone an office building. No complaints. I work exclusively with folks across the globe now and I'm the only one in my TZ on the current team, so going to office no longer makes sense just to have small talk with maybe loosely related folks in the office working on completely orthogonal commitments. I'm single and have an aging parent who was hospitalized and recuperating, so I can actually cook and clean and get stuff done at home, even on a workday, taking breaks that I need when I really need them, and filling out work at other off-work times of the day that are more appropriate for me. I have lower-back pain at times and biking (motorcycling) to work over a 50-minute commute was just exasperatingly painful, even for a cruiser. Cars took 1.5h one way, that's a lot of time to get back not having to commute. All in all, yay. Never been better. The schadenfreude of seeing my previous managers squealing like little piglets at things they can't get their lilgrabbies on, especially after the meltdown leading to the exodus of the most useful people from that team, is so satisfying to watch and it pays for itself every day... |