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Comment by midev | Hacker News Reader

I've found the WFH debate to be a great proxy for finding people I definitely don't want to work with.

Everyone has a preference. But in my experience, the people that whine the most about having to go to an office are generally the people everyone wishes would stay home anyway.

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I loved going to office at Google when we had teams of 5 in separate rooms. It was really easy to do team work, talk whenever we wanted. But the walls in the buildings were torn down while the company was growing, and we couldn’t talk without disturbing other teams, while they were disturbing me, and at some point I had to wait 20 minutes after lunch every day when I wanted to go to toilet. I’m happy that I don’t have to deal with that anymore.

Or that's someone that spends 3h/day commuting

Like I said, it's ok to have a preference. People that whine about it are toxic.

The next step after having a preference is expressing that preference.

Expressing preferences is great! Why do you equate that to whining, though?

are your peers "whining" about being forced to move to office? or are you whining about your peers?

The distance from whining to expressing preferences does not sound larger than that from whining to being toxic.

Ironically this is the most needlessly toxic phrasing of an opinion I’ve seen in this thread.

Hypocritically, it’s whining about the very topic it claims it’s toxic to whine about.

but how is that different what you are doing now?

That applies to "the people that whine the most about" anything.

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