Office culture is wild.

Putting a hundred different people with various traumas, brain chemistry, problem solving skills, coping mechanisms and biasses into a forced community…is WILD

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Sorry. Is this pro or con in office? Cause hot take, I love watching the disfunction unfold around me 3 days a week. It beats hiding under my comforter at home 24/7. The ridiculous mania is what’s good about it.

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You seem surprised by this. Any general community above 20 people is all of the above. Isn’t this just a basic experience of communal human existence? Even in groups that you are excited to be a part of, I would say this is true.

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Definitely not surprised. I just like observational humour

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This is why it’s important to choose which community you’re going to be a part of.

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Isn’t that just society? Colour me confused. Your question is a group of people have to operate together? Cool. Also those people choose to be there with those other people. It’s not a gulag.

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And to think in the before times alcohol was FLOWING (Well, maybe in the after times too)...adding fuel to flames. 🫣

All that aside, 1-2 days in office isn't that bad. But with the way most agencies are going...we might be back to 5 days a week in 2026 🫠

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6? And waste a whole day of productivity every week?!?

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I think before the pandemic, it was fine. After the pandemic though?? It changed a lot of people. It’s not the same now.

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In what sense?

And GERMS

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No for real. I sit beside the bathrooms and rarely hear anyone use the sink after. No one washes their hands, especially the men. 🤢

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Pp ok

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