If I see one more smug tweet about, "now the rest of the world live like those of use who WFH before."....

[SpaceOp]

I know. Very minor. But at least once a day there's some smug git on my Twitter feed banging on about how none of us understand what WFH was like truly and we thought it was all parties and sleeping in. Or there's the version which says that "us longstanding WFH types are totally used to this isolation so you all should stop complaining."

Drives me mad.

because never mind anything else, as someone who has long WFH, I can assure you it's different in lockdown. Not least because my kids are miserable because they can't see their friends outside of school. Because I can't meet up with a friend for a coffee. Because on the days I'm not WFH I'm still sat at home rather than seeing my family or my friends.

And breathe.

Do people really think it is just all day parties? There maybe a little truth in the lie ins but only as much as you can get up a bit later as there is no need to factor in a commute.

I don't WFH (now or ever) but I get a similar rage whenever I see smug self-described introverts saying "now the extroverts can experience what we normally go through in a world that's set up to cater to them". Thankfully, I think the general sense of misery is now universal enough that they've mostly piped down

@psychomath

I don't WFH (now or ever) but I get a similar rage whenever I see smug self-described introverts saying "now the extroverts can experience what we normally go through in a world that's set up to cater to them". Thankfully, I think the general sense of misery is now universal enough that they've mostly piped down

YES. This annoys me too. Although I haven't seen many of these recently. Did see a lot at the beginning of lockdown originally. Especially as I struggle to believe your average introvert genuinely just carried on as normal during lockdown without any downside (I am more introvert than extrovert although not strongly either one, and I can assure that the introvert side of me still struggled....).

But surely there was an element of choice WFH pre-lockdowns. As in if it wasn't for you there was at least the possibility of changing position to not WFH?

Some people like to be smug or antagonistic on social media just because then can/are bored/enjoy it...........

@psychomath

I don't WFH (now or ever) but I get a similar rage whenever I see smug self-described introverts saying "now the extroverts can experience what we normally go through in a world that's set up to cater to them". Thankfully, I think the general sense of misery is now universal enough that they've mostly piped down

Yes, that one's obnoxious. I'd consider myself very much on the 'introvert' side of things, but the world isn't neatly divided into 'introverts' and 'extroverts'. It's more of a sliding scale. Plus, being an 'introvert' doesn't have to equate to hating being around others at all times, and if it did, you'd wonder why these people chose a career which would force them to do so in the first place?

It's very fashionable on MN to boast about being 'introverted' and hating the 'toxic' office where everyone is an obnoxious loud-mouth...other than them, of course.

I'm introverted but WFH is an absolute bag of spanners. It has one advantage - no commute. That's about it.