nomy99

Deep

The situation in Brazil contradicts your point.

Yes I think it was a cumulation of these things. (I am adding more points as I become aware of it. I never really considered why I stopped going, but I knew that I would never go back to wework).

1) Having to wear a mask for 8 hours a day. I couldn't breathe properly. Also, generally poorer ventilation compared to my apartment -- I sit beside a window.

2) Couldn't freely engage in meetings -- especially the technical ones. I was the only engineer there and I could feel how flabbergasted people were of what I was saying.

3) Constant dread of hunger; at home I always had snacks, fridge nearby, but at wework I had to either responsibly pack the lunch/snacks or routinely go out the convenience store.

4) Exhaustion from the environment stimulus. What I mean is, my mind is always subconsciously scanning the room (cleaning lady, elevators, telephone ring, coworker A-Z). At the end of each day I was mentally tired which led me to skip my gym workouts. Now that I'm back home, I have been back to regularly hitting the gym.

5) No large screen monitor; context switching for screen real estate is also exhausting.

Overall I think my experience at my employer could be different since point 2, 3, 5 would be mute.

Ok so I'll share my personal anecdote. I was of the opinion that I wanted to go back to work. I was tired of the remote work, feeling trapped in my apartment. My office wasn't calling us back till at least July, so I had to figure out a solution -- this was affecting my mental health!

So I signed up for wework.

Initially it was great, the change in scenery and socializing was a welcome change. However I quickly got very exhausted. My wework was down the street, yet I was getting exhausted on a daily basis.

I cancelled my membership and now I am working from home and much happier than before. I think we underestimate how hard it will be readjust from no commute/mental simulation from the environment to full blown pre pandemic lifestyle.

This thread reminds me of this scene from TED (2012) https://youtu.be/cjgmreH_d7s?t=58

Can be a combination of management and the technology available. Zoom is great, but I do feel handicapped sometimes during brainstorming sessions.

I did, but it seemed like a personal rant so I didn't read every bullet.

I'm sorry I don't understand. What beatings/punishments?

Amazon is bringing back their office employees as the default operating mode; citing inefficiencies in the creative process.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/amazon-expects-some-employee...

sharp eyes!

It's a joke: https://twitter.com/_jayphelps/status/1377671468130140166

Is this an april fool's joke?

I understand that it’s not the ideal bomb, but it’s the strongest non nuclear option. Enough of these bombs could disappear the ship and the debris

Not enough bomb :[

I was going by the amount of tnt/bomb payload. It’s about 44 tonnes of tnt.

Bunch of these ?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs

Can use this to avoid radiation :] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs

Let me call moses, hold on.

not if you blow up so hard that there is a massive crater. Then let nature fill it up. Isn't the canal connected to large waterways on both ends

People think I'm joking but we should bomb it to smithereens. The crater would probably just fill up with the water flow.

Why do you think this pandemic isn’t worst than the previous? If you gauge by economic impact alone it can be the worst ever. The lower number of lives lost is because of quicker lockdowns, vaccines, advanced health care, and information networks

Honestly I live near the Times Square location and I never get free donuts

No but you should not assume that defaulting to the victim's mindset will help your chances of survival. Your initial comment implied that nature has your best interest in heart; and your child comment is contradicting it?

What's so hard about taking a cautious approach and proactively increase your chances of survival? I.e get to higher grounds (floods), evacuating(hurricanes), get vaccinated (covid + new diseases?), etc.

You do understand that nature/evolution's plan or 'solution' can be to eradicate you?

Though I thoroughly enjoyed reading this dark path, in reality the bar is set so high in top companies that an engineering manager is usually an architect/senior engineer/and a people manager.

So most don't make it, and those who do have a tremendous career that's fulfilling and financially rewarding.

i signed up now I'm expecting moneys

Wouldn’t you have to have an ec2 open ? We are trying to minimize infrastructure and do it all in lambdas

hit the nail on the head

Also a bit unrelated, but at my work place we reimplemented tar algorithm so we can run it in a lambda/state machine. We used the s3 multipart upload to help with the file transfer bit. The performance was phenomenal. On avg we were tar'ing 20gb in 15 seconds or so, a lot faster than on my pc.

maybe that's what triggered the witch hunt