WFH

legible_print

This is all just a reminder to fully embrace WFH culture

Pereise1

> She also said the US president monitored the situation overnight at Mar a Lago and will continue to do so with his national security team. LOL we really got a WFH war monger

PapiGoneGamer

WFH

ServeValuable6460

I enjoy hybrid WFH but I miss the days I’d go to the office and play with my coworkers tits after everyone else left for the day

UberBrah12

"You are a ##-year-old man with the heart of a kid and the brain of a forensic expert. That is a lethal combination. **How about we leave it there for tonight?** Break your fast, get some rest, and enjoy the WFH silence tomorrow." few are better hype men than AI

AirportMaterial5917

Blizzard WFH will be good for the markets right

Graevus15

Playing it on their phones while living in the park I figure. It's the Tent Works Lifestyle Change: its like going camping forever!!! Bonus points if you camp out behind the Wendy's.. Its a work/life balance thing. Low commute is always good, but WFH is not an option when your work is cheap BJ's... Respect the dumpster.

Character_Set3454

Demand is like energy though, it's displaced, not destroyed. I also think there's this belief that somehow every company is going to be the CEO/owner and 40,000 chatbots  I don't see it working like that.  At the end of the day, like I said, maybe 10-20% reduction in workforce, which is still a massive number. One of the key issues that automation has always had to contend with is insurance.    You can't simply replace massive elements of most businesses with AI and hope to maintain your insurance. There has to be liability in the system, someone to blame.    I was talking to someone in medical fields who was really nervous about AI and detection of cancers and the like.. but you are still going to need a human being overseeing it. Not because the human may be superior to the system. Often that's not the case, but because liability and insurance requires it. There has to be someone to blame if things go sideways, you can't simply shrug your shoulders and say "lol, oops, it was the machine LOL, sucks to suck I guess". There's lots of places where employment persists because courts exist. Not only that but there's this idea that once workers lose their job, that's it, they will never be employed again. But unemployed losers who don't want to work have a career now, the "influencer". Its shiny and new, and all kinds of worthless bottom feeders with nothing of real value to offer anywhere else have joined this exciting new avenue of being a clown on the internet because you completely lack self respect.  Every technology that has ever existed has displaced people, and despite that somehow, with more people than we have ever had in human history, the vast majority of them still, in fact, have jobs.  There's nothing I see on the horizon within the next decade that leads me to believe that we will be rounding up "the Poor's" and will just be feeding them feet first into the soylet green machine.  I think that there is a path forward that will fundamentally shift society forever in a way that has not existed since before the industrial revolution. That being AR for corporate use. Where you get the benefits of WFH with the benefits of "in-person" collaboration in that it will allow companies to leave the large corporate buildings, and their obscene costs, allow merit based hiring, instead of hiring only thr best that's willing to relocate, or already in the area, reduce overall energy waste, and allow workers more free time because they don't have to commute, and they can live anywhere they want.. which will allow people to leave shithole cities with their high costs, endless issues, endless cost increases.     That shift will shake the foundation of society as we know it, removing the power of the big city, which might see them collapse due to gross mismanagement and an inability to adapt due to corruption and incompetence.  I think that's the most efficient path forward, but, it's also a long way off, there's a lot of tech that needs to be created and fine tuned before we go that route, if we do. TL:DR; I don't think the doomer future where 70% of jobs are 100% AI will ever materialize. Corporations dislike liability and risk far too much. If you can get 20-30% more productivity out of an AI+human while still maintaining controls that limit liability and satisfies the insurance requirements... Then that's probably as good as it gets. For a while anyways, probably longer than my expected lifetime. 

Gigi_Langostino

>Not sure why this time would be any different than 2008. For starters these weren't high-risk loans; no one expected a global pandemic that would force people to work from home for months/years, and then return to the office only part time, or use WFH/blended working as a point of negotiation on job offers. Anyway, time to go back to the office now, or RFK will throw you in autism camp.

Substantial_Cable169

Lots of people are either conveniently forgetting or ignoring the fact that we had cheap RAM/Flash storage prices, specifically dropped at around 2023/2024 because people were buying electronics like crazy at the beginning of covid and in 2021/2022. Because of that companies like samsung micron etc anticipated more demand and increased supply, only for the covid restrictions to be loosened or removed worldwide starting 2023/2024. So people stopped caring about electronics and started going out doing stuff instead, WFH was being phased out, all that dramatically increased the supply of RAM and other electronics thus the significantly cheap memory prices. Fast forward to 2025, Flash memory manufacturers anticipated dramatic drop in demand due to no covid restrictions, no wfh, and reduced the supply. Then suddenly, AI datacenters started hoarding all the RAM and storage and GPUs, so they ran out of supply earlier than the normally would. This tells us that the flash storage manufacturing is either a very complex business where the margins are razor thin so they have to try very hard to maintain the balance between supply or demand, or the executives working at these manufacturing companies are COMPLETE FUCKING MORONS LIVING IN OPPOSITE LAND and we will see dramatic increase in supply in the next two years, and then AI bubble will pop and the same thing will happen again.

mtnrnnr802

I have my own business and WFH 😂

biotribe

I translate as ‘SaaS is dead, long live Agentics’ and ‘WFH = Office Obsolescence’. Cue the rotation… More curious however: do you personally know anyone, job or position that has been fully replaced by AI?

No_Current3675

Kids at school while the wife and I are WFH. Just got the green light to fuck later. **BULLISH**.

EvolvingDior

None of them are WFH, so they can all go pound sand.

jacknifetoaswan

I mean, I guess, but I'm stuck in a VHCOL area. I'm maxing my 401k, but after that, everything goes to rent and living expenses. With WFH ending for a lot of industries, the days of living in a VLCOL area and making high salaries may be over. Couple that with the fact that most people don't want to live in VLCOL areas because they're generally shitty, and that the price of consumer goods and food are up 25% or more, year over year, and, well...here we are.

Rearender29

Slept through the rally on my WFH day ),:

Blankcarbon

Don’t forget the absolute terrible RTO plan and removing WFH from Amazon. Just a complete shitshow that is paying for their practices.

YoungXanto

WFH expands the talent pool, much in the same way that off-shoring does. It's not necessarily a location-specific problem but a logistical one. Off-shoring means moving entire departments away from the leadership and into different cultural regimes. It certainly can work, but its quite different than having a team scattered across the US that reports to a director in NY that works alongside the rest of the senior management in a given company. We work with teams across the US anyway, so 3 hour time differences arent a huge deal. On the other hand, 12 hour time differences would be more likely to be problematic (though not necessarily deal breakers). We're currently going through a hiring cycle after moving to an on-site presence. The number of applications has dropped by orders of magnitude and the resumes that have been picked for interviews probably wouldn't have made the cut previously. Tl;Dr: comparing off-shoring to remote work is specious

Perfect_Painter_7863

Who also stares at reddit all day while WFH

FidgetyHerbalism

Kind of, I WFH and all I have to do is meet my metrics & occasionally be active on my primary and secondary monitors (there's a screenshot tracker). So I get to kick around Reddit a fair bit. And you know what irks me most on Reddit? People who've never read a BLS report in their fucking life (which *I* do professionally) making up shitty conspiracy theories about the agency which make the left look like morons who can't even understand the basic concept of forced time off work screwing with deadlines. Nothing worse than seeing people politically aligned with you making absolutely terrible arguments.

PaperHandsTheDip

They don't really have a large moat and their growth got rekt. During covid when everyone was WFH it popped off, then it just kinda died when things went back to normal. Was priced for massive growth, market dominance, etc, etc. Never came to fruitation and they've been struggling there

Schumpeter50

brutal feedback: don't do this. just put your money in an s&p index fund. you don't have any real comparative advantage here, and even professional hedge fund managers on average don't beat the index. i don't think this is gonna go well for you. put your money in an index fund, then take this extra time you have and spend it earning labor income somehow in the labor market, maybe via a remote WFH job. good luck.

dudeondacouch

it would be tough to pull off if you can't WFH or are retired. that's really the only issue with recommending it to others.

Power_Grumpus

Wait, I also work at the JPM Plano campus. If you just select the WFH - health reason option, they can't deny it. The roads are completely iced over. On the topic of this post, I'm very very much struggling with the same FIRE decisions you're facing, but with much less (about half) your net worth but still haven't. I need to find something to keep me engaged and challenged and although I hate JPM and the people here, it does provide that.

cryptohorn

I WFH so yea

Prune-Butter

Change fields to one in demand. There is a massive shortage of staff in the medical field. No one I work with in mine makes under $50.00 per hour and we’ve been short for years with people quitting and becoming a traveler for $90-$115.00 per hour. 100% match 401k, 10% discount on the company stock purchase plan, etc…and we still can’t get enough people. Everyone wants WFH jobs.

cryptohorn

One of my coworkers who WFH already lost power and nothings falling yet 😂

corundum9

exact same experience. bought an oz when it was clear covid was gonna keep me WFH for over a year. smoked once after an 8 year hiatus and it wasn't fun anymore. some people just mature and become alcoholics haha

neverending_light_

> telling employees they could move further away from the office given the new WFH policies during covid. surely this is some sort of constructive dismissal case?

tinyfred

As someone who worked there for over 4 years. Good. I have many friends who are still there and they announced yesterday mandatory 5 days back a week at the office, after specifically, on paper, telling employees they could move further away from the office given the new WFH policies during covid. Many moved over 1h away from the Montreal office, and now theyre forcing them back 5 days a week. All those employees are 100% going to quit. You'll also see some major layoffs. Company is going to absolute shit.

Arnab_Goswami_RTV

Nice try, I barely work, just collect paychecks sitting from home. WFH 🙌

HunterGatherer072

Imagine how many WFH software engineer redditors made 100K dollars a year with that budget

shamblingman

India is only remote relative to the US. They're in an office and they aren't WFH in India. Also, they are excellent at the price you can get them for relative to the US marketplace. There used to be a serious quality issue with India but they've improved immensely in the past decade. It's even better if you hire them as full time staff and give them benefits. A fraction of the cost of US staff, but even more motivated and committed if they are hired as full time staff.

BroughtBagLunchSmart

> because we know with certainty that people who WFH are less productive lol, LMAO even. Found the guy who is mad they cannot overcharge people for downtown commercial leases anymore.

shamblingman

Couple of factors. It hasn't been that long since the initial investments in AI and the CEOs are being a bit disengenuous with their replies. I consult for fortune 500 companies and I've seen where much of the AI spend is going and the CEOs are not going to admit that they've cut back on staff or how effective AI is at showing which employees are actually productive. Last year there were about 150,000 developers laid-off from the tech field that were earning an average of $200k. That's $30 billion in salary and more if benefits are factored in. AI is also useful is measuring productivity and we're now aware of which employees produce, especially those that WFH. Companies will accelerate the push to return to office because we know with certainty that people who WFH are less productive. For now, it guides decisions for who to lay off and when. CEOs are not going to publicly admit these immediate results, even in a PWC survey and PWC is certainly aware of these results from AI investment themselves.

tothemoon4stonks

No company is buying oculuses for their WFH employees when you got a camera built in work laptops with zoom/teams

havntmadeityet

I’m supposed to WFH for the first two hours of the day but instead I just stare at green lines

ForCrying0utLoud

WFH and decided in my infinite wisdom to trade 0DTE SPY calls in between meetings while showering. A lot of expletives during that 10:50 AM EST drop but successfully came out on top. Never doing that again!

blerg-blip

You sound like a loser when you glorify travelling all the time for work. Been there done that. WFH now and making more.

Sad-Literature-5341

My friend who forced me into buying xrp-usd said that shit was going to be $27 by Christmas.  WFH!

KristyKae-12

Thank god I’m not the only one. But since WFH I just don’t care about fashion brands anymore. I do like a good investment opp tho.

Commercial-Demand412

Hi all, Looking to get into Options as a second source of income. Im WFH so have free time to scan charts and such in the mornings/throughout the day. Im 27 and not looking for a get rich quick but a consistant and reliable stategy that I can learn. I have something that I like but havent really seen any significant gains from it so far. Will post the details below. Screener This scanner includes price > $3, change > .01%, market cap 300M USD, EMA(50) < price, EMA(21) < price, avg volume 10D > 500k, ADR > 2%. I look for a tight bases on the daily timeframe and a breakout on the 5 min with a bullish conformation candle. I look for calls atleast 1/2 OTM, with high volume atleast 100 and OI of atleast 1000, the Delta should be higher than .25. I will hold the contract to 50%-100% not to get greedy and have a SL of the low of the day (stock price) I bought the contact. I will close the contract if it hasnt played out by halfway to the exp. If anyone has any advice or tweaks to this or a totally different statagy that you think would work better please get in touch.

Commercial-Demand412

Hi all, Looking to get into Options as a second source of income. Im WFH so have free time to scan charts and such in the mornings/throughout the day. Im 27 and not looking for a get rich quick but a consistant and reliable stategy that I can learn. I have something that I like but havent really seen any significant gains from it so far. Will post the details below. Screener This scanner includes price > $3, change > .01%, market cap 300M USD, EMA(50) < price, EMA(21) < price, avg volume 10D > 500k, ADR > 2%. I look for a tight bases on the daily timeframe and a breakout on the 5 min with a bullish conformation candle. I look for calls atleast 1/2 OTM, with high volume atleast 100 and OI of atleast 1000, the Delta should be higher than .25. I will hold the contract to 50%-100% not to get greedy and have a SL of the low of the day (stock price) I bought the contact. I will close the contract if it hasnt played out by halfway to the exp. If anyone has any advice or tweaks to this or a totally different statagy that you think would work better please get in touch.

callmecrude

I was WFH during the pandemic. Always noticed the fun screensavers on my laptop were satellite images from this publicly traded company called Maxar. Bought a bunch of shares on a whim when they were $12. Company got bought out and taken private like 18 months later at $72.

assholy_than_thou

When can I start WFH from Greenland?

thiskillsmygpa

Q for you then with your experience. Ive been trading and investing for 15ish years. In my experience sometimes the easiest most obvious big trend, trades really do work quite well. For example, you could buy AAPL in '15 on a couple qs of slowing iPhone sales AFTER buffet bought it and showed up on the 13s. You could buy MRNA and BioNTech AFTER we knew the vax was gonna work and still make a huge return. Same for WFH stocks like zoom after it was clear WFH was gonna be a thing The travel names when it was already apparent people were booking trips again NVDA , AFTER chatGPT came out and AI was the hot thing. LLY well after hundreds of articles and everyone plus their sister on GLP1 Euro weapons companies well into Ukraine war and re-arming under way. So this trade is a simple one, yes, but does HAL and VLO make sense even if it's kinda obvious and consensus?

Evol_Etah

Nah, I'm under 30. But I grew up super super poor. Now I'm making bank. But I had to give-up so much of my childhood, cause I could never afford stuff. So basically, it's like a guy earning 1 million usd, but living in a shitty apartment basement eating ramen and having a broken laptop WFH. (Good company, good benefits) Purely cause idk how to do with this money, and I don't wanna make stupid decisions. But I also need to make A decision eventually. I'm just scared of losing everything I have.

Bravadette

Data centers replace all the offices for companies who refused to allow WFH because Gen Z is the captain now. The walls are filled with liquid cooled tubing like arteries. You can hear the pumping, like a heartbeat, at 1AM in NYC. All cars are silent now. In the summer, Peter Thiel finds evidence of the antichrist. Turns out he lives in a cave of ice on mars. Joint venture between Elon Musk and Thiel is announced on the public market to ignite the first thermonuclear bomb on another planet and terraform it . People ask how theyre still alive. No one knows. People say money. Some say they harvest the blood of their countless progeny, 5 of which are uncovered every year. The truth is that they died in 2042.

borat_he_like_you

Why being a doctor is overrated. By the time you’re really earning: You’re mid-30s You often carry $300K–$500K in debt Your investing clock started a decade later You can’t WFH You work nights / weekends / holidays Burnout is common

Character_Economy928

My brothers want to get super drunk tonight, so I called in WFH We will have bare minimum work tomorrow, but I still feel bad having the subject line “bro drunk sesh”

chargedcapacitor

I've got the discovery channel coming to shoot a doc about the permanent folding-man syndrome I developed while WFH. They thought such a syndrome was only possible in the poorest parts of China

orsomeshitidk

WFH isn’t good on my posture. Catch myself sitting like a fuckin gremlin in this chair

karock

fuel costs are involved in the delivery of most goods, so it does matter a bit more than just for personal usage, but yeah I feel kinda the same way. I WFH so I get it matters more for others but even if I did 25 miles/day more driving I'd still only be spending like $30/week on gas... so yeah 10% reduction would be like a couple hundred bucks a year difference give or take.

PaperHandsTheDip

It's closer to 300k in market gains (\~10% average since 1990). \~7% accounting for inflation (210k) - of which draw out just over half of that (110k). I accounted for those things. Basically just sell \~3.5% of your assets per annum. It's more conservative than the 4% rule. That draw rate will run you indefinitely and grow faster than inflation. You'd actually get to draw out more than 110k in year 2, more in year 3, etc. \--- Income comes in the form long term capital gains. Online calculators suggest you'd owe \~10k in tax on that - which means after tax you get \~100k of disposable income per annum. That'd grow with inflation \--- \> 30 year old couple, but we don’t live 2x better than them. Yea, we spend slightly more on housing, but part of that comes with WFH. We lease a new Honda every 3 years cause both of us cba to deal with the stress of a mechanical issue. You are living well above the average. It's a case of lifestyle creep more than anything imo. I also WFH (and know several people that do as well). They work in the living room / at an office desk, etc. You have \~1k sqr ft / person. I know families of 4 who live in \~1400 sqr ft AND have an office at home. I grew up in a \~2400 sqr ft home with a family of 6 and 3 dogs. The reality is that the average person spends less than $100 / month on entertainment & hobbies. They also live in a smaller & cheaper home. They spend less on food and also eat out less. Even in a HCOL area - it's mostly just attributed to rent. \--- For a thought experiment - if you guys only had $100k income - how would you live? Can you adjust your lifestyle down to that? The average income in america is only 67k / person. Are you willing to live cheaper (just compromise on a home). If yes - you can save more / invest more & retire earlier. \--- You have a ton of time / space left to compound your income to afford these freedoms as your assets grow

modder9

If you are still working during, sure. That income is still taxed, and every year of inflation and incidental expenses will eat away at your savings. Idk it still feels like we earn so much more than the average 30 year old couple, but we don’t live 2x better than them. Yea, we spend slightly more on housing, but part of that comes with WFH. We lease a new Honda every 3 years cause both of us cba to deal with the stress of a mechanical issue. Unfortunately, the older I get, the more I yearn for nice climates in even higher COL areas. I could move to a cultural desert like Texas, but what’s the point of saving money if you are surrounded by the most annoying uneducated fucks? Basically, everyone under 30 is fucked unless you want to live in Kansas.

BiblicalAss

i WFH and am getting fat :\[

Slow-Information-847

y'all, take a break. Stop staring at the chart, it is JPow's last 3 months, he is WFH

borat_he_like_you

She's pissed off that I decided to masturbate to someone else instead of focusing on her She threatened if she caught me masturbating again instead of fucking her, she would tell my workplace that I'm masturbating while I'm WFH

No_Stand5622

Bers are WFH, come out and do some work.

OpeDefinitely

There's nothing wrong with Chicago in the summer & while Chicago winter is tough, things don't really get much better until you're in Florida. Winter everywhere between the Great Lakes & the Gulf of Mexico is gloomy, grey, and cold enough to need to wear some kind of jacket outside. If it's not 75+ & sunny, it's too cold. Wearing extra layers for Chicago winter vs Nashville winter is basically trivial. "Oh no, I had to put on an extra shirt. Boo fucking hoo." And snow is a plus now that COVID WFH adoption has resulted in snow days for adults.

DirtyTacoKid

Its not about creative outputs, its about streamlining repetitive time consuming work Actually this isn't really "AI" its "Automation". They're near synonyms in 2025. The mantra right now is AI AI AI The real agenda though, is 1. Automate as much as possible 2. Outsource to low cost countries If it can't be automated, outsource it to India, Sri Lanka, who ever will do it. Wherever it can be done cheaper. If your job is WFH, it can be done in India instead.

dont_downvote_SPECIL

Humongous news: for the first time in a long time I took my 2nd shower of the week Usually I just do 1 shower a week since I WFH and save money for stocks But I did another shower today because my dog wanted a shower (it's his first in 2 weeks)

BrandonLeeOfficial

I’m not concerned with the AI bubble. I’m concerned with the commercial real estate fallout. An 18-30 window is what Gemini is estimating. Drive around town and look at all the office spaces & whole buildings up for sale or lease. WFH/Remote changed the landscape and this is a slow & painful reaction. I’m 100% opposed to another bailout.

andoesq

Yet another thing killed by WFH culture, now there's proof it's holding us back!

portfoliorating

**Attractive female colleague**: "so, I heard you are into stocks, I have $46k sitting around, what should I buy?" **Me**: \*blush 😳\* "uhm... so invest in AI, blue chip companies like Oracle and Meta, and some speculative like Palantir, buy them, don't miss another boat" # That was ~2 months ago, I haven't been into the office the last couple of days, and I am not going to for a while. I am WFH until morale improved 😩😩😩

dragonilly

No that's what I get for being WFH and having a meeting during street sweeping

SignalDragonfly690

I’m the same way (I’m 35). I’m spoiled and love five minutes from our factory outlet mall so I typically go there. I primarily WFH anyway.

MontasJinx

You literally made an assumption. “You can’t blah blah blah over teams.” And I’m telling you that you can because we do. Everyday. And yeah I’ve led teams. Quite well actually. Because I was concerned about outcomes and not some marketing level BS about ‘synergy around the water cooler.’ Listen it’s obvious that this is role and task dependent but don’t make assumptions though. WFH can and does work well. It’s a blessing as far as I am concerned and anyone trying to convince me otherwise, I’ll assume they have an agenda. Good day.

modder9

My gf and I both WFH so we are looking for at least 4BR. Both snipped so all the space is just for us and the cats.

MattieShoes

Timing the market *successfully* is far better than time in the market. The problem is just about nobody times the market successfully consistently. So I take it as more of a "you could be wrong," or "you could be *right* but wrong about *when*." Figure a target allocation, and that's home base. Then be willing to shift a bit from it given market conditions. How much you're willing to shift depends on risk appetite, how reasonable your takes are, etc. But it doesn't have to be huge. Like back in 2021, the fed repeatedly indicated that they were going to be raising rates *a lot*. So maybe you shift away from growth towards value, or away from companies holding massive amounts of debt towards companies on more solid financial footing. Not like liquidating your portfolio, just... moving stuff around a bit, or allocating new contributions towards value, whatever. You're just reducing risk in the short term, and if you're wrong, you're still doing fine. Then 2022 hits and growth takes a shellacking and starts to look like an opportunity, so you start shifting back towards growth. Or maybe back at the start of covid, you start looking for things that would benefit from it -- WFH, delivery services, teleconferencing, etc. Then Zoom goes up like 500% in under a year and MS starts getting around to stepping on them by shoving Teams down everyone's throat, so you get out with a tidy profit. At least that's kind of what I try to do -- beat the market by a few percent without taking any drastic actions.

Maleficent-Hold-5466

yea im 100% WFH. 4 monitors, 2 work 2 trading all day.

All_FIREdUp

It’s all about who you know bud. And the WFH boys don’t know anyone 🤷‍♂️

All_FIREdUp

As a manager, I never promote the WFH crowd if I’m being honest. Half the time I kind of forget about them

Recent_Register_2952

WFH crew represent

DarkR124

New boomer VP at my job just ended WFH as one of his first moves. God I hate boomers so much. All it takes is one asshole to ruin everything. Guess I’m job hunting again, no way in hell am I driving rush hour 2+ hours a day to do the exact same job.

Business-Ad-5344

bernie madoff was a fiduciary and t rowe price had fiduciary duty. they ripped people off. t rowe price ripped people off and got fined for it. just like many other fiduciaries. they get investigated and it is found that they are scamming people. chase got caught doing that recently. schwab got caught. their robo-advisor was allocating to benefit Schwab's revenues over the Customer. annuities are NOT the way to go. those are going to be eaten up by fees and you're going to lose a lot of money. There's a high chance of getting straight-up scammed. they should get part HYSA, part VTI or VT. they should get a rice and beans diet, visit r/frugal regularly. and since they are 54 and not 74, they shouldn't give up on getting a WFH job. they should continue that route, and even grind and pivot into another field. It can take years to get a small business up and running such as teaching english online, or getting the right education/certs.

MrSnow702

I have a comfortable WFH job that is in a super safe field and a very safe job, with no one to answer too.. the problem is I been doing this since I was 18 and I can’t stand it anymore. So what motivates me is the ideal of not having to work in 15-25 years

HartbrakeFL21

WFH for the win.  

borat_he_like_you

Usually I masturbate/have sex first thing in the morning to start my day off right Unfortunately, I couldn't do that since I was busy with work. Finally have some free time to relax & relieve myself after a stressful day 😌. So glad I WFH all day 100% remote

AwarenessReady3531

Also anecdotal, but most of my friends are professionals with WFH jobs and they do doordash pretty often. I think people of all walks of life use it.

TestBrilliant4140

This feels like a repeat of 2021 moment .... WFH was taking over the world. Zoom was a $500+ stock, primed for a $200B valuation. We all know what happened since then.

StructureLopsided718

Have a buddy at Amazon who was texting me today saying he's going to WFH tomorrow because he has to be in a tuxedo for some sort of dinner theater thing and didn't want to show up on the day when he's possibly getting laid off in a tuxedo. I told him in no uncertain terms he should absolutely show up to work in a tuxedo because 1) they probably would be afraid to lay off someone wearing a tuxedo, and 2) even if they did that would be a hilarious way to go, and he could shout on the way out about how he would be taking this up personally with Jeff when he meets up with him at the opera later

AzulMage2020

This is bad. Both my neighbors work for Amazon and are freaking out right now. One is a Snr manager and the other is a Dev Project Team Lead with each having multiple years in ther role. Each stayed strong when RTO was mandated, insisiting that they would continue to WFH with their performance goals being the criteria for evaluation. Eventually, their managers agreed and they continued to WFH. But now, with this news, they are very worried. The Snr manager who reports to the VP, who also happens to be their mother, believes they might be in trouble as the VP retires this year. The Project Team Leader , daughter of the Snr Director who leads the department is also concerned for both herself and her dad. We all live on Oahu so I figured Id invite them over for some afternoon surfing/mai tais to cheer them up.

betrayed247

WFH is a mythical pull.. at best you might get Hybrid

dont_downvote_SPECIL

You don't need to pay a premium to live in the city or a fancy suburb if: 1. You WFH 🏠 2. No kids → no school district worries 🎒 3. A cheaper area has no history of crime 🛡 4. No social circle to impress 👥 5. No ego to feed 💸 Just get the cheaper house and put the savings back into the stock market

ObjectiveData9902

That's what I do but because everybody gets on the band wagon, the price just moves too damn fast. One mistake and you've set a stop loss 20% lower than you want. I love the stocks that go up 40% in 10 days and down 40% in 10 days. Much easier than day trading when you have a WFH contract and you are in and out of meetings all day.

Thatbigheadedmf

Wendy's dumpster doesn't count as WFH

dont_downvote_SPECIL

Filling my gas pump for the first time in almost 2 months since I WFH $2.92/gallon

NoCandlesOnCake

Find a 9-5 office job with a closed office or WFH. Put your paycheck in ETFs, make a play money account, daytrade volatility when the opportunity arises, dump profits into ETFs, buy real estate, put your tenant's rent in ETFs, daytrade volatility, write an email so your boss thinks your working, go to the bank, show them your big boy account, secure low cost credits, buy more ETFs, daytrade, have fun until the market crashes, leverage yourself on the way down, go to your 9-5, buy ETFs clear out your leverage after the market rebounds, cash out money, buy more real estate.

NotTooShahby

I feel exactly this. Been WFH and invest almost everything into VOO + VXUS. I don’t live a lavish life, I don’t even make 300k like FAANG developers, I just buy resturuant food here and there, maybe some nice decorations and that’s it.

No_Art_2787

Covid is tricky, and the strong fed response makes it even trickier. I think the covid recovery was at probably the best time in human history in terms of finance/economics to hit. Tech to support WFH, Gig economy, and a more experienced fed post-2008 in terms of how to do QE made it possible. A general healthy economy prior to covid/market also made it pretty good to buy back into too.

borat_he_like_you

*WFH does not mean work from home* #IT MEANS I'M WANKING FROM HOME LMAO 🤣 🤌

Final_Ad9418

This is what happens when you cut down on WFH policies goog

Particular-Break-205

Not really the EV stocks but it reminds me of COVID. Everyone thought WFH, Zoom, peloton and gyms at home were the future with absolute certainty. Similar to how AI is the future with absolute certainty. Yes, we still work from home to a degree but it’s vastly over estimated

PaperHandsTheDip

Hang out with friends more. I try to see mine / be social every day of the week. Even if its only for a 30min - hour bullshit. I WFH so have to

dekyos

Owner of the previous company I worked for (a well known ecommerce clothing brand) took a 400k PPP loan, had his most profitable year ever during COVID, and got loan forgiven because he put the PPP loan in its own account and used that to pay rent and salary, instead of the funds that normally would pay for that. Gave himself more dividends out of the regular accounts and bought his third vacation home in Florida. I quit shortly after he mandated no one could WFH anymore (us in the IT department had hybrid work BEFORE COVID even started). Also, his mandate was that no one but him and his wife could WFH anymore. Lead by example apparently wasn't taught in his MBA classes.

poopyplayer69

They are just WFH

PrestigiousResult357

\>increased output due to company expansion was seen as good the less obvious part of this is that it resulted in a lot of overhiring and underutilization. we could really be at a point where AI hasn't done much and purely all this job loss is just from no longer being able to use 'we have a lot of employees and are hiring' to signal 'our stock should go up' cue all the people yapping about WFH and remote work in white collar jobs talking about how they literally do fuck all all day from 2020-2022.

Recent_Register_2952

40 hr "work week" and im not sure ive actually worked a total of 40 hours since COVID forced my company into WFH that we have still not stopped since 2021.

borat_he_like_you

WFH i wake up & do whatever the fuck I want as long as I meet deadlines