[bluedino]

I don't know about Starbucks, but there's plenty of resentment among manufacturing workers that their white-collar counterparts get to sit at home

[ergocoder]

White-collar counterparts sitting at home = much less traffic for the manufacturing workers ...

[bluedino]

They typically commute during different times

[gedy]

A lot of people who are envious of WFH imagine it's lounging around watching Netflix, and likely would not be able to handle the actual work though.

[bitlax]

How does the working environment of the white-collar employees affect the working environment of the blue-collar employees in this case?

[intunderflow]

It doesn't, it's just standard crab-bucket mentality

[lapcat]

Is this meant to be an argument against remote work? If so, it's a strange one.

Some working conditions are better than others. Some jobs are better than others. Some jobs pay more than others, often a lot more. Should everyone who makes more money than manufacturing workers take a pay cut? Alternatively, should everyone who makes less money than manufacturing workers get a pay raise?

Inequality is a fact of capitalism. I'm not saying whether capitalism is good or bad, but if you have any resentment, it ought to be against the system in which inequality is inherent. Anyway, given this system, I see nothing wrong with workers seeking the best working conditions possible for themselves.

[cplusplusfellow]

Workers seeking the best possible conditions for themselves can extend to white collar workers desiring to work from home.

If I’ve got to work a dozen or more weekends a year, and 50 nights a year when I can only deploy during non business hours (until 9pm), then by god I don’t need to suffer a commute in an expensive city to sit through my coworkers sharing YouTube videos and dad jokes nonstop.

[lapcat]

> Workers seeking the best possible conditions for themselves can extend to white collar workers desiring to work from home.

Yes? That was obviously my point.

[dlkf]

It’s not an argument, it’s just a positive claim. You’ve projected a bunch of normative angles on to it, but there are none.

The more interesting follow up questions are to what degree is this true, how do we know, and do we think this is a factor in back-to-office mandates.

[lapcat]

> It’s not an argument, it’s just a positive claim. You’ve projected a bunch of normative angles on to it, but there are none.

You've projected an interpretation onto bluedino's words. I'd like to hear the OP explain why this alleged resentment was mentioned here.