MystikIncarnate

To be fair, squirrels are pretty interesting.

As a Canadian, we're feeling it too. I'm sure it's not as significant as what you're all feeling.

It's weird having a half deranged megalomaniacal neighbor, where they're fine most of the time then occasionally go completely off the rails.

Ahh the United States of America. What a fascinating planet.

We should really be counting English literate people, since nobody here is talking, and literacy is more reading/writing.

Literacy is pretty broad too. It doesn't imply that it's your native language, nor if you can speak the language (whether you can do that very well or not).

Literacy is going to be a bonefide requirement for most of the internet, with some exceptions, like text to speech and speech recognition stuff, people with disabilities who may not be able to see properly or at all.... Stuff like that.

I'm also a remote guy and I see both sides as well.

The critical assumption you've made in this example is that a large majority will choose to be remote, so there won't be anyone in the office for the in-office people to work with.

I don't believe that's as much of a problem as you seem to imply it will be. The problem with the argument is that it's all assumption and opinion based. To my understanding, there hasn't been any reliable data produced on what percentage of the population wants in-office and/or remote to be permanent.

Relative to that, you'd also have to take into consideration for populated the company is, and how many people would actually be in the office, before making a determination whether it would be a ghost town or not.

Additionally to that, not everyone wants in-office work for the social aspects of it. Some people's home life is too chaotic so they prefer in-office, to separate themselves from the chaos of home, and focus on work. It's not a desire to connect that drives them to the office (pun might be intended here), but rather a lack of outside distraction from their home life while they try to "earn a living".

There's also the consideration of who is at home all the time. A homebody spouse, such as a stay-at-home mom/dad, may appreciate having space from their spouse to get things done, as they appreciate the space away. Having such separations can be very healthy and beneficial for relationships, which can also play a role IMO.

The fact is, not everyone is doing it as a social and/or company culture thing. The percentages of people who want it for company culture vs the people who want to for personal reasons, is also an unknown metric.

So in all, at present, we don't know how many overall people want remote/in-office work, and we don't know what their motivations for making that choice are. Without that data, it's difficult to make a value proposition about a decision.

Company owners don't really care about the metrics, since, during COVID and mandatory isolation, everyone was WFH, and productivity was overall increased. Whether that was because people now had 24/7 access to their work systems, or because people were overall happier about it in average, and were simply more productive due to that, is anyone's guess.

I appreciate the comment, but there's a lot more in play than simply socializing and company culture.

For me, the 1440p is also in the middle, I think mine is a 25", I forget, I've owned most of them for a very long time.

1080p 23" I believe, both left, right, above, and top right. So it's pretty even all around my 1440 main screen.

Top left is actually the built in display of the laptop, which is on a stand to prop it up so it system is basically flat/vertical. It's aspect is more square than 16:10... I think. In any case, it's that aspect ratios version of 4k, but the screen on the laptop is easily the smallest physical size display and it's furthest away since it's on the laptop, which is on a stand, behind my monitor arms for everything else. So it's set back from the rest of the screens by about 3-4".

That's not to mention my KVM, which is triple display, so my 1440p display, and the left+right 1080 displays can be switched to my personal rig, and the two 1080's above (middle and right) are on a USB to display port adapter by USB through the KVM. So my personal computer has 5 displays, and my work laptop has 5 + the built in display.

I got a portable display for my work PC since I'm going on site to a customer site later this week, and I plugged it in to this cacophony (on my work PC), and when I set windows to extend my desktop to it, one of my other displays turned off.... It seems that I've hit my monitor limit for this system.

It's not surprising given that they're almost all connected by displaylink either through the docking station or by the USB to display port adapter, and I'm pretty sure this new display also uses displaylink. Oh well. I can't seem to make it worse for now. If I get any additional screens I'll have to get a thunderbolt egpu for my work system, something I'm already considering since I've noticed frame drops on some of my screens occasionally, which I believe is a bandwidth issue for the displaylink on the USB bus. In that case I'd want to replace my displays on the dock with the connections from the egpu, so only my top displays are connected by displaylink. By doing that, I can easily switch between computers by my existing KVM and get the five screens on both systems. I also suspect that the USB on one of my systems needs to be improved since my personal system also has issues with the displaylink displays, though the three KVM switched displays are to an Nvidia desktop GPU. USB upgrade first on my personal desktop, then I'll think about the egpu again.... Bluntly, I don't need the graphics horsepower on my work system, so it would not be a good investment to beef it up more than it is.

I'm not new in my career, when I started, my training was a couple of days on a full-day teams call with my direct manager, where he showed me the ropes of how we do what we do with the tools we have.

I think it was 3 or 4 days for me, until I had grasped enough of the basics to properly adapt to their way of doing things.

Within a week or so, I was pretty much up to speed. Like with any job, there's specifics that I learned as I went, but I got the broad strokes during the first week.

I imagine anyone that's green will need more mentorship that I did. I'm fairly senior in my position, so many times I'm on the other side of mentorship. It's been a while since I've been green.

The problem is that, at least in my experience, the zoom is set per site, so I'd have to set the zoom on every website.

Also I generally have browsers on multiple screens and drag tabs between them, so I'd be constantly zooming sites based on what screen they're on.

It's literally easier to simply buy a horizontally scrolling mouse and use that, than to fiddle with the zoom all the time.

It's a bit problematic to run websites on a vertical 1080p display, since it seems that most websites default to around 1200 or 1280 wide, so you end up having to horizontally scroll. It's problematic.

IDK why it's so difficult to find 1920x1200 displays so I can put a new vertical display on my system.... It's literally the only reason I don't have a vertical display on my system right now.

My setup isn't on this.... I'm beyond chaotic evil.

My work setup is six displays, four are 1080p, one is 1440p and the last one is the smallest diagonally, but 4K.

None of them are vertical right now though.

My work does a weekly "meeting" that's specifically just a hangout for everyone in the company, just to hang out and talk about whatever.

It's like a social hour every week, so we can get to know the boss and eachother.

I've worked at the place less than a year and there's been two in person social events so far with everyone, and at least three with my team additional to that.

The culture of the company is clearly important for them, and I'm happy about it. They do what's needed, and losing an hour of productivity every week isn't as important as giving everyone the opportunity to connect with eachother.

Is that what we're calling it now? Insulting someone's "manhood" is now "body shaming"?