Posts by sarahm@fiasco.social
(DIR) Post #ATv03IBcrR2a9ePYae by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-03-22T21:26:12Z
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The NYT ran an opinion piece today, "Is Working From Home Really Working?" You are smart and can probably tell from the headline alone that the piece itself is not working--and in the same way it accuses American workers--has a bad attitudeIt is a fine example of muddy thinking and just embarrassingly bad writing. So it's unclear why the Times--which, btw, was a forerunner in allowing some staff to work from home about two decades ago--would publish it
(DIR) Post #ATv03NEe5dQXoSrXUW by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-03-22T21:29:13Z
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There is a lot to say about the piece, and I'm not going to say most of it; the 2,300+ comments are surprisingly good. But it surely must have drawn an editor's notice when the third graf tried to pass this off:"Until Covid, most employed Americans had workdays that followed a decades-old pattern: Wake up, shower, breakfast, commute, spend at least eight hours in an office or a factory, commute home and maybe enjoy a glass of wine or a beer."
(DIR) Post #ATv03RMElLsObAResa by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-03-22T21:31:03Z
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I'm not sure whose day that is describing, but I gather somebody without kids, who doesn't need to eat lunch or dinner, take care of their home, their health, their loved ones, or connect with other humans outside work
(DIR) Post #ATv03WNU68qSAU4E1A by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-03-22T21:32:10Z
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The lack of understanding and critical thinking are *breathtaking*
(DIR) Post #ATv03apzW61a03R30S by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-03-22T21:39:39Z
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Ok, I'm rereading the whole thing and getting mad again, because the assumption it's relying on are disproven by almost all available data and anecdata. The logic is...missing. And the only case it could possibly be trying to make is that rich people aren't benefiting enough from exploitation these days. I don't want to spend my emotional energy analyzing this mess
(DIR) Post #ATv03dzfmYYFmwzK0u by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-03-22T21:40:02Z
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But I will say: when you are at the point of blaming SVB's collapse on remote work, you have well and truly shown your whole ass. The writer manages Bloomberg's money, and his explanation for the bank failure is that the execs didn't all work in the office all the time ðŸ«
(DIR) Post #AVfXNVUuFW63jqwRrk by sarahm@fiasco.social
2023-04-10T18:10:33Z
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Hello, @nytimes @washingtonpost: When there's a mass shooting, you don't have to quote Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Paul Rand saying that they're praying for the victims. Those quotes add nothing at all to the newsYou can simply note that Republican lawmakers offered no new comments or actions in response to [whatever number] mass shooting in the US this year