#41

Imagine it. You could piss in the garden together.

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#42

Sword fight!

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#43

The vast majority of translators are freelance, there’s hardly any in-house translation jobs around anymore and most of us work from home. It’s only really big organisations like the UN and EU then massive companies like Amazon that hire translators to work in-house, plus a few translation agencies. I guess it saves a lot of money for all involved but it does mean there’s a lot of really shit translations flying around because agencies can just find anonymous cheap freelancers who aren’t up to much.

#46

Two reasons to never work for a tech startup.

#47

I reckon as businesses become increasingly paperless office spaces will become businesses in and of themselves, multiple companies will hire them and hotdesk or use meeting rooms and the buildings themselves will hire cleaning/catering/whatever. Will also minimise the need for all the silly office interactions because a lot of workers will be coming and going.
edit: if this isn’t a thing already we should set it up and make our misery millions

#48

It’s a thing already.

#49

tsk
is there an app for it though

#50

Bet there is.

#51

iWorkRemotely

#52

Look at this wankery
https://www.sharedesk.net/
Guess my misery millions will have to wait

#53

I would expect to be paid more to work from home full time, as the company is effectively leasing my private space for business.I’m not actually a massive fan of it tbh, tbf. Get quite a lot out of working face-to-face with people, and I’ve got it hardwired in me that wfh is fucking lazy for some reason.

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#54

I remember reading a thing that said people worked harder out of fear they’re appearing lazy by not going in/general office bitchery/temptation to just do the work at like 1 in the morning. It’s sort of horrible how work is permeating into a lifestyle tbh but we deserve no better I guess.

#55

What if you made Tindr, but for picking people who you think you wouldn’t totally despise sharing an office kitchen and open plan shared working area with?

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#56

I’d be rich, damn rich, is what.

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#57

my underling has started today!!!

exciting times for warn inc.

#58

Haha, wasn’t he then relocated to the bogs? Royter Hatpoo!

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#61

offices are good
our boss bought 10 plants for our office today and paid for them himself. doubt many of you have that many plants in your house

#62

just get a garden man
edit: not a garden man

#63

doubt you have that many plants in your garden man

#65

Surely that just requires unions and the like to reorganise around new working structures though? See IPSE for example, though I don’t know how effective they are. Idk, it’s something I’m still trying to navigate myself and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it, but if the workplace is innovating the worker sort of has to do the same to protect what’s theirs.

(Also for @Ruffers and @shrewbie I have a bunch of well cared for plants in my house/workspace that would probably die if I worked elsewhere)