I have the dumbest office job. I go in, walk upstairs to my office, sit in my room alone all day, leave and go home. I only ever see anyone when I need to go to the kitchen, or when I go to make a copy.

and yet it’s imperative that I go in. My boss doesn’t even work in my building. So most of the time I don’t even go in, and I never tell him. Barely even talk to him unless it’s an emergency.

I like that i don’t have to deal with anyone, but it’s so dumb that they really want people in the space…

cubicle walls aren’t that high anymore. the bosses like “open” floor plans, so they can more easily see what is one everyone’s screens. so, more panopticon style.

Weird shower thought: as a guy who’s nearly 30 now, I remember there just being A LOT of “office work sucks” media being on the TV. And it lead to a lot of my peers all being like “oh that must be why our parents are so miserable, working in an office, I never want to do that” so we all like went to trade school or graphic design college to try and become some freelancer laborer, and 15 years later a lot of us are exhausted and underpaid. I know a lot of people who today are like “yah know maybe majoring in accounting and getting a job where I sit in an air conditioned room and spend most of my time playing flash games while pretending to work wasn’t so bad, maybe my parents generation was blaming office work on their misery when it was actually something else.”

But I’ve never worked in an office so maybe it does actually suck that much. Idk.