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dwhite21787 t1_j8py2fo wrote

Reply to comment by No-Lunch4249 in Federal Government’s Return To Office Delayed By Union Disputes by Super_lobbyist

My on campus day is 90% shooting the sh*t with everyone who's in. It's nice to see folks and chat and occasionally even discuss something work related for a few minutes, but it's mostly sports, kids, pre-retirement plans, tv shows, traffic woes. I end up more stressed because I get hardly anything accomplished for the 3 hour roundtrip drive.

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No-Lunch4249 t1_j8pzv8p wrote

100% agree. I feel like most of what would have been a solid 10 hours of goofing off with coworkers and water cooler gossip in a pre-covid work week gets compressed into the 2-3 days I’m in office, rendering those days essentially pointless lol

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west-egg t1_j8q0s1q wrote

IMO even shooting the shit has value, in the form of building stronger relationships with your colleagues. Maybe it’s because I work for a smallish organization, but I’ve always found it helpful to find common interests with people whose roles are very different from mine and who I may only interact with a few times a year. It makes the work we do together easier and more productive.

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xhoi t1_j8q5xee wrote

> IMO even shooting the shit has value, in the form of building stronger relationships with your colleagues.

It also has value because it's on the clock.

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dwhite21787 t1_j8q4bjv wrote

I agree, it's intangibly valuable, and I'm pretty resigned that those days are not directly productive to my timesheet cost centers, and apparently that's fine with management. It irks me, but I'm not going to let it raise my blood pressure.

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Gumburcules t1_j8s8ixz wrote

> My on campus day is 90% shooting the sh*t with everyone who's in.

I'm 100% convinced that despite "productivity" being the ostensible reason for returning to the office the actual reason is that the higher-ups who make the decisions miss their office shit shooting, business lunches, and escape time from their spoiled kids and loveless marriages.

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