• mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    this still smells of propaganda, like it’s woven through the whole thing. “The American worker is making peace with a longer ride”.
    and yet the very first example they provide is someone who works from home twice a week.

    I’ll tell you this: the commute is even better when you work from home. WFH means less carbon emissions, less time wasted in traffic, and less time literally putting your life at risk from vehicle collisions.

    • worldwidewave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      As someone that loves going into an office, I wish they let people who didn’t stay at home.

      I miss the aspect of the pandemic where people were freer to stay home if they chose, and the roads were so much emptier. It’s better for people to work how they’d like to, it’s better for me trying not to spend an hour commuting, and it’s better for the Earth to have fewer people burning carbon twice a day.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      WFH means less carbon emissions, less time wasted in traffic, and less time literally putting your life at risk from vehicle collisions.

      It speaks volumes that all of these problems are car-related. The whole push for WFH is a massive condemnation of how badly people actually feel about the effects of the car-oriented development that the U.S has been spending so much time championing.

      • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        a) what you say is true b) these car-related issues affect other countries just as much : I’m Canadian. c) there are other things that WFH improves as well, but they are far enough behind the car-related problems that they can seem petty by comparison. They aren’t petty at all, but they do make a convenient foil for those who argue against WFH.

    • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      Hey! That sounds like pure communism! You go to work where the overseer can keep an eye on you and your productivity!

    • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Lol I have no reason to be in the office for my job. My company started forcing people back in January. I take the train in. It takes me 2.5 one way, 5 hours total. Doesn’t make any fucking sense that I have to make the journey, and it makes no fucking sense that the train ride takes an hour and 45 minutes

      • fartington@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Are you me? I am supposed to go in once a week and the drive to the train station and taking the train is like 2.5 hours each way. I love going into the office and just sitting there not talking to anyone.

        Worked from home all through the pandemic, I even have various pieces of tech at my house for testing purposes. I literally don’t need to be in the office at all and I get more done at home since I don’t have to wake up at fucking 5:30am for the trip.

        Edit: I didn’t even mention that time I got off the train, sharted, then took the next train back home lmao

        • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Not to mention it’s just exhausting spending 5 hours of your day in commute

          That’s about 15 hours a week I could use to work and to go out with my dog, work out, actually do work more efficiently with two screens, and just idk spend some time with friends

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      If there only were trains, or trams, or busses. In many areas, public transport consists of “the morning bus” and “the afternoon bus”.

      And not everyone can WFH. Actually, most people with lower pay grades can’t, so they still have to be present whereever they work.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I worked in Manhattan and had coworkers who lived in Pennsylvania. Two hours each way. A story I heard was that a bus company recruited drivers who would get up at 4am, pick up passengers, drive to the city, and then go to another job. 6 pm they get in the bush and drive home.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      That doesn’t make much sense. What happened to the bus in the middle of the day?

      Parking in Downtown Manhattan can be rented out for $30 - $50 per hour, maybe $80 all day. And that’s a car-sized space. Since a bus is two or three of those, it would make no sense to just waste $240+ on an unused bus.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Before Hudson Yards went up that space was mostly empty. I’ve also seen lines of buses parked under the FDR downtown.

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Same in Canada, and I have not moved, I live ~12 miles (~20km) of my working place, 90% highway. Early 2000s it took 30 minutes or less, early 10s ~40 minutes, 2019 before pandemic it was already a good 45+ minutes. 2023+ it is more than one hour (forth, and 1h back).

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      So you’re passively looking for work every day, right? You’re not gonna keep doing an additional 10hr shift a week unpaid, right?

    • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      5 months ago

      If it’s two minutes do you need to be driving? That seems like a walk or bike

        • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I drop off kids and pick them up every day. By bike. There’s really no excuse for driving in a city.

    • HuntressHimbo@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      I hope immigrants sneak in and move your house a few inches further from your work every day

      • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        That explains the noises at night! If they could just shore up our one sagging foundation corner in the back while they’re at it, that’d be great. After they do some serious manual labor in the summer sun for me, then they can go back to their country until I need more work done. Oh! Actually, no, we need them to do the harvest. And there’s this thing with some construction… shit. It turns out that hard workers are actually really needed everywhere and we shouldn’t be such xenophobic/racist assholes all the time.

        I do actually need the foundation looked at, though but I can’t afford it despite having a pretty decent and high experience required job. All the money is going to billionaires instead. Strange that those same billionaires are funding lots of media telling me to be afraid of people all the time… no relation to the whole immigration thing, I’m sure.