The work culture at rich tech companies (people read something upsetting in the news and want to discuss and 'process' it on company time) is so alien from most people's experience of work that it makes me despair for ever finding common ground with the actual working class
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the key distinction here is that at a remote work environment all the shit you shoot at the cafeteria during your lunch hour is surveilled and logged. most employers probably? don’t think to regulate what exactly gets discussed at the water cooler, ie talk radio on job sites
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The way you talk about “Company time” sounds like you think people would be more productive in their work without these spaces. But have you any evidence to support that?
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My issue here isn't with productivity or how hard people are working in these situations, but the degree to which social and community life in our industry moves under the purview of one's employer
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People named the physical space around the watercooler, people named the virtual space in a piece of software. What’s the problem? That typing was involved?
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Physical communication and online communication are visibly different styles. People behave in very different ways, just having everything saved makes it very different, yes.
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Gotcha, that makes sense. Referring to “on company time” made me think you were talking about productivity. I’ve definitely unpacked boxes while talking politics, but I can’t really write code while carrying on a conversation
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I phrased things badly and see how you understood it that way. But for me it's more about where the boundary between work and employee is drawn—what belongs in what world. I can't get over how comfortable tech people are with having so much of their life on the employer's terms
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It's happening on physical bulletin boards instead of Slack, or email FWD: FWD: FWD: chains instead of "memes", but it's still happening in the blue collar shops I pass through.
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Tech companies are the only employers that have these spaces though.. workers talk in whatever spaces they have.
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