Tech Support Memes

Beats the shit out of being on your feet 8 hours a day in an Amazon warehouse, stuck at a front desk dealing with the public, or having literal passers by tattling to your boss that what they saw on your screen didn't look work related because they don't respect your department as a whole and find you subservient. Point is that there's a hell of a lot worse.

Man, that last one. It's a miracle I never throttled the exec who was the biggest offender. He was one of the people that gave that department so much more work to do than take calls, yet every time he walked by he had some comment about work ethic to make to whoever wasn't on the phone. We have the numbers you chode! Check that work logging system you fucking bought us the last time you weren't convinced we were doing our jobs!

Anyway.

I find the whole idea of how telecommuting allows you to work in different surroundings also cuts the other way.

When I'm working in the office, I'm usually focused on my work enough that my surroundings don't matter. After that, I'm likely conversing with my co-workers and that's also enjoyable regardless of surroundings. If neither of those are the case, I have just enough privacy that I don't get random passers by glancing over my shoulder at me on my phone.

Additionally, I can do whatever the hell I want in my cubical space (within reason) without needing anyone's approval. It's my space.

That all said, if I didn't have an engaging job, if the people with view of my screens were nosy, if I was bound by restrictive rules about how I could use the space... in short, it wouldn't take much to turn cubeville into hell.

But in my opinion, a lot of that stuff would make working in the prettiest office hell too.