Greentext

I'll never understand why it offends people that my job is just a job. It is not a social space for me. It's a place of employment where I exchange my time and skills for a paycheck and healthcare.

I guess other people lack imagination to realize other people are different than them and have different values/priorities in life. I have family whose entire social/romantic life was co-mingled with their work life to the point they had zero friends outside of their company and would stop being friends with people who quit. Creepy and weird AF if you ask me.

I just want to get through he day so I can go live in my life. The fewer interactions I have means the faster the day goes. I also each lunch at my desk because it means I get to go home earlier. But often in my city I meet people who boast about working 60 hour weeks for no overtime pay. It's wild. They let their pride/identity be used to exploit them.

And frankly WFH boosted my productivity like 500% and has meant I've gotten three promotions in 5 years and more than doubled my salary. None of that would have happened working in the office where people constantly kept coming up to me to ask for 'favors' that were never recorded and got pissed off when I told them to go back to their desk and write it up in an email.