Working from home ruined my already fragile existence

 Yeah, not a popular topic, but I'm going to slowly but surely make it one - just the way the Covid-19 pandemic and mandates to leave the office slowly but surely deprived us of a great sense of responsibility and capacity to get along with others.

Working from home was fun and exciting for the first month, but after companies - who are run by men and women of the Hobbesian-ethic - determined that, sure, our existence can be maintained outside of the office, where we are surrounded by 60% of people we can tolerate, 10% we genuinely we, 10% we have to like, and 10% we detest, all while maintaining a go-getter attitude amongst noise and chaos, we slowly began to loathe our existence and gain utterly nothing but self-hatred and anxiety about what could-have-been.

Very few of us can effectively communicate with others from behind a camera. If you can communicate with others, then you are having a really good day, but it is not guaranteed that the person on the other side of that camera even cares about what you are talking about. Only the best of the best can develop a rapport that allows for a successful back-and-forth through a computer. The side that does the talking is full of themselves in that they perceive their underlings to care about what they are talking about.

They don't take the time to get to know what it is that their underlings are experiencing, or if their subordinates are doing well enough to gain more traction. If I could have, I would have hung up every single call that I had while working remotely, because none of them served me. In fact, none of my bosses ever asked me what it is that I would change, or how it is that I would manage my job and my aspirations within my career.

It was always talk-at-you-talk-at-you-talk-at-you. And if you were doing the same, rote job that you knew so-well before the pandemic, you saw that your managers really were - people pushers, meeting holders, time wasters. Because if they did not have you to talk to, then what else would they do? 

True subordinates like me were not given a chance to craft their job in any sort of way that fit their needs, and most needs do consist of being at an office. It's so disappointing that bosses suck so badly and wasted so much of our time during Covid, because there is no going back to what things were before the pandemic. 

And the leaders and bosses who espouse working from home are the ones who don't really have time to work anyway. They're loaded with kids and mortgages and the only thing so far as I can tell that they know how to do is waste time via speaking, and not directing.

Is it possible to sue the government - forget sovereign immunity - for scaring our corporations into sending us home for years and ruining our lives and everything that we had built up via a strong work-ethic at the office? I'm talking about about work - not the talking mumbo-jumbo that our mid-level managers subjected us to day-in-and-day-out to prove their control over us and to prove their 6-figure salaries to their do-nothing mangers? What about all the nonsense talk that people in IT and technical positions were exposed to - talk that most people can see through and easily slice through? What about our needs that were usurped and displaced?

Did no one in the whole United States have the sense in July 2021 - after restaurants and barber shops starting opening up - to tell us that we could safely sit in an office? Or are we that loathful of others? Yes, we are. We are inherently Hobbesian and our staying at home did not put the greater good into consideration. It was under the guise that 'flexibility is key. we can do the job from home.' That's what you think. You don't know anything because you make the determinations of others and are not trying to expand your skillset and your career.

Thanks to Covid and sending all of us home, my life was completely ruined, and I was let go by mid-levelers who never listened to me, and had me doing the most rote and meaningly tasks, all while wasting my time and subjecting me to their non-sense talk. They taught me literally nothing during Covid, and I'm sure there are others like us.

Elon Musk and others maybe had the sense to say that we should come back to the office, but where were our leaders? Where were the voices of psychology and education who told us that the experiment of working from home was a failure? Where was leadership? 

How can we get back at them.

Is China Experiencing Deflation?

 Hey, what ever is up with you? 

I'm gonna start writing more blog posts. In recent news, I was laid off from my job, and I think I will start blogging about the economy and finance. More specifically, I am interested in uncovering whether the economic data and reports that we receive from #cnbc #themainstreammedia holds water.

For instance, we are told that China is in a deflationary state. As for last week - around August 10, 2023 - it was widely and vastly reported that China is experiencing deflation, and that is from both fewer exports to Western and other Asian countries as well as less consumption internally. You ears may be pricked upon hearing deflation, and, in some degree, you may regard this as good for consumers because you are paying less for good that were formally more expensive. In fact, deflation and a falling currency is what led to Germany's sad economic state in the 1930's and and fostered the malaise that eventually led to World War II.

I think we can see this as a result of China's 'isolationism.' I think when we read these reports we should take a step back and wonder if this is China's real aim - to be economically not reliant the rest of the world, and that is a firm no. After all, why would China have created the 21st Century Silk Road, and all that. I dunno,  but I've been watching BABA's stock lately - because when I hear stop, I tell myself that I should really pull the trigger - and I am still going to keep buying it. I think China will figure itself out and we won't need to worry about shrill media reports. At least that's my hope...So I'm going to try to figure out if China's production is really waning and what they are reporting about us through their websites. 

What to do when you are frustrated at work

We have all been there. Ahem, let me rephrase. We are all there. Deadlines, last-minute changes, pressing tasks, and conflict with coworkers.

A simple disruption derails an otherwise great day.
The best solution is to take the changes and constant disruptions in stride and to learn how to enjoy the complications as they arise. Each complication presents a challenge but also an opportunity to learn, to grow, and to better understand how each of us deals with change. After a long day's work, and after overcoming seemingly insurmountable tasks, we will feel better about ourselves.

Annoying things at the work place include but are not limited to:
- the typing of another coworker (the precision becomes too much to bare. It is steady and hums perfectly, almost as though he is making no typos, and just like he is putting the perfect weight upon each key). Such perfection is annoying. Put your headphones on and move on with your life.
- the fact that your boss has a space heater that is used during the summertime (it's 80 god-damn degrees outside - fuck off).
- the breathing of another coworker
- their faces


Sometimes you are asked to do something by 

1) Listen to classical music.
There is no better way to hammer through a stressful day than intense Mozart. 
2) Immerse yourself in your task.
There is nothing more important than the task you have set forth for yourself. Do this task with gusto and do not allow any distraction. If distraction arises in the form of an email, an IM, a beep, a sneeze, a gesture or a hand-wave, literally wave it off until you have come to a stopping point.
3) Take breaks.

Interesting sites and photos

I cannot attribute these images to myself. As for attribution, I will say that they were found somewhere on the interwebs.