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WFH is best and worst thing to happen to me

shortgamegolfer

No that can be played off as hyperfocused genius. Fridays are no pants Friday at the office, and all WFH employees can go no pants everyday because you’re all fired. Covid’s over.

Future_Hyena2562

WFH on a Friday, all good

dont_downvote_SPECIL

For the first time in 2 weeks, I'll be taking a shower & getting groomed. I've been really busy with work and since I WFH I only clean myself whenever I'm free during business hours to maximize my free tim3

FINomad

Real estate *is* less passive, period. I know too many real estate investors and based on the stories I hear from them, not a single one is passive. Hell, they spend more time just visiting with their CPAs due to their complex taxes than I spend on my portfolio management and taxes each year. Even those with property managers still have to manage their managers. They are business owners with a real estate portfolio and either direct employees/managers on payroll or an outsourced property management company, which they have to watch like a hawk. And then there are all the wanna-be BiggerPockets landlords that bought at too high of price, thought rents could never go down, got a bad string of tenants, got a bad sequence of repairs/replacements, etc. and they are left with negative returns that they can never recover from (and hours upon hours of their lives wasted in the meantime). >What about the risk that VTSAX goes down 50% in a big crash? It will at some point. The typical bear market lasts less than three years. I keep three years of expenses in cash. What about the risk that your properties sit vacant for longer than you can stay solvent? What about the risk that you didn't know what you were doing and overpaid or picked the wrong property(ies)? What if you invest in commercial real estate and a pandemic hits and everyone switches to WFH and you lose your leases for years? What if your area becomes the next Detroit? What happens if your property management company doesn't do their due diligence on getting you quality tenants and you spend months/years (depending on the state) trying to evict someone? What if the foundation of one of your rentals starts to sink? What if you have properties in Florida and your property taxes go up 60% in five years while rents start to drop? And on and on and on. I like passive investments and there's simply too much to deal with and worry about with real estate.

Extra_Progress_7449

companies dont.....they are still recoiling and recouping from COVID. Their employees may have gotten the jab.....the companies closed doors, at least the non-online variants.....online companies did not skip a heart-bear. what companies are dealing with is WFH and RTW employment drama

SailorJerry7030

weirdo behavior, you probably want WFH people to return to the office too...check yourself!

borat_he_like_you

It's 3:39 fucking AM I'm so glad I WFH lol Any dumbfuck that tells me I have to go to an office I'm just going to have to tell them to fuck off it's just not possible

Bam2458

Plenty of places hiring.. except they aren’t WFH tech 9-5 w/ sUmMeR FriYaY jobs so nobody wants them.

dont_downvote_SPECIL

It's 2 AM and I have a job And I don't give a fuck Because I WFH all day And if I want to hang out with unemployed people I can do it

mngu116

I think it was your ‘read the post before commenting’ comment. It’s a bit much… relax man. Maybe Robinhood support does get people rattled lol. Honestly though, I have RH and haven’t used their support really, haven’t had to luckily. Although I had a family member got their account hacked and their support was some WFH person that was slightly unprofessional but that was 3 years ago. Maybe it’s gotten better. Their UI is really great though.

virtualbitz2048

Right now the average latency of 5G/LTE and Starlink are approximately on par with one another (\~35ms to a POP), however Starlink's latency is far more stable than cellular, especially under load. Perhaps latency, and latency stability isn't a deciding factor for residential buyers, but it is most certainly a deciding factor for businesses, particularly consistency across all broadband metrics (latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput). WFH and gaming users are going to care about throughput and stability a LOT. Your mom streaming Netflix in the living room and scrolling Facebook on her phone isn't going to notice or care. I'm telling you, the reason SpaceX is going to win this is because of their ability to get payload to orbit. Remember, LEO satellites need propellant to keep them in orbit, they eventually run out and have to deorbit. Of course the higher you are the lesser this effect, however they're going to have to replace these sats eventually. That being said, you're still going to have capacity issues. Spectrum is zero sum, payload to orbit is not. That put's a hard limit on how and how fast they can grow. If you're gonna shoot the king you better not miss, and right now ASTS is armed with a slingshot and pebbles.

borat_he_like_you

I'm sorry I need to WFH and I can't make going into an office work. I need to masturbate 2x or have sex... in the morning Also 1 - 2 more releases during the day. Going to an office just doesn't work for me. 🤷‍♂️

MarginCalled_inMars

One of those days when I wish I would WFH. Tempted to drive under a semi on the way home is a tad too high after these LULU calls. Ngl. 

im_a_squishy_ai

You have the cause and effect backwards. Places ended WFH *because* it was impacting commercial real estate. Remember, if you get investment to start a business, and all the bankers/investors have a significant portion of their portfolio wrapped up in office buildings, they can very easily put conditioner statements on your funding like mandatory 50% in office time, or no more than xx% employees remote, all others on site. If you're trying to start a business you're not going to be in a great position to negotiate for different terms, despite all independent research showing hybrid work or remote work is **actually more productive** than mandatory in person, so you're going to take the terms and require employees to come in. Look at Jaime Dimon, dude had a crash out on an interview over WFH/hybrid. *Purely coincidentally*, JP Morgan is one of the largest holders of commercial real estate in the US, especially in major cities where office density is plummeting the most.

abrandis

Exactly, there is no issue with CRE, especially now that most major corporations and governments have ended WFH..

beaucoup_dinky_dau

they need to put their money where their mouth is, it would be hilarious if the AI turned out to make caring decisions and set long term goals over short term growth emphasis. It would probably recommend immediate WFH so all that office money could be spent at the data center.

original431

Literally no one I know who had it had anything serious happen when they got COVID. The only serious stuff I saw was on the news. I had COVID 3 times and still was able to WFH. It was a joke for me and everyone I knew.

PriorityLate50

Don't worry friend, I'm still here for you 2x days of the week when I WFH Other days you have to fend for yourself good luck

Thraex_Exile

Like i said to the other commenter, I think people are heavily underestimating what 5-10 years can do. Businesses like Amazon added 1.4mil job in 10 years and many actively hire and fire in mass. My wife is going through this exact process right now, as the employee of a contractor under Amazon. She gets counted as one of those 1.6mil employees to-date, yet she has to reapply biannually to a new contract firm as the old one loses its contract. Quality may go down, but most of us working for major corporations are easily replaceable. And that mid-term timeframe is more than enough for businesses like Microsoft to build/rent facilities and train new staff to fill positions overseas. WFH is definitely a possibility too. My job has me seeing firsthand the speed major U.S. corporations are able to open/close locations. And many Americans in those towns are saying the same thing you are, “they’ll never leave here!” Corporations just don’t gaf and will always find a way to cut cost or increase profit. They’ll fire you or give you ultimatums to move or accept a lower position in the company. If businesses like Microsoft become a poor investments, it’ll more than likely be due to poor management or a global recession before a single country’s economy.

jankenpoo

Whoa there cowboy, it’s not that simple. These are American companies because the vast majority of their employees and assets are here. Sure, you can move assets but you aren’t going to move tens of thousands to another country. But maybe that’s the thing that makes WFH permanent? Messy times.

iAmTheWildCard

Nobody wants to buy a glorified cooperate food delivery service..they deliver food to employees who WFH and set up virtual events.. wow. Ground breaking.

reaper527

cnbc made a point this morning that made a lot of sense. they had a guy in a suit saying "cava and sweetgreen are for people that dress like me, are going down a few flights of stairs to go across the street, pick it up, and bring it back to my office to continue working, and the fact WFH is a thing and isn't going away has really hurt these companies". if you were looking for restaurants, he was suggesting the more suburban sitdown places. (he specifically mentioned chilis, but i'm going to give a shoutout to DRI since 1. i love yardhouse 2. i'm up like 200% on my DRI shares i got 5 years ago)

toughfluff

When covid lockdown first hit, one of the first things we bought were 2 Aeron chairs from an office furniture reseller. Consider how many weeks of lockdown we experienced (and continuing to WFH post-covid), it was the best £70 spent. No way our spines would survive weeks in our old lumpy IKEA chairs.

555-Rally

First off, liquidity is a multiplier for gains no matter how it gets used, lack of it slows growth. 2020 was a can kick like never seen before...not just in the USA but world-wide. Private equity has plenty of liquidity in most industries (it sits on the sidelines waiting for reasons to get out of steady bonds), there's one industry in particular though that has a lot of vacant space... They'd like your 401k invested in that sector to assure the too-big-to-fail nature of those investments when bailout time comes. There's some fringe signs...not that Portland is doing great to begin with they are like 80th in major city economic growth... https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/07/portlands-newest-skyscraper-home-to-ritz-carlton-turned-over-to-lender.html?outputType=amp But 2 major buildings like that within a year; Big Pink was the other one and that valuation when from 380M to 45M overnight. Again, this is fringe but it's like a glacier pace for the industry and a lot of PE has exposure they don't want to talk about. Big macro - if the rates don't come down and push economic growth, the collateral these assets provided to the banks will destroy them as it erodes. I guarantee you all the surrounding downtown Portland buildings that haven't dropped their deeds are still sitting on high valuations that the banks are using for collateral. $45M buildings are able to lease out at lower rates, and take tenants from $300M buildings around them. Those buildings eventually roll over too, because they will take on the vacancies that move "across the street". It takes forever, so there's time...and you better believe orange man knows his real estate enough to see this if he cares enough to look at it. Solving it further burns the peasants in inflation though...so I don't know the answer there. Super wide view - the US should have been building tons of light rail from the burbs into the cities where this valuation needed to be stuck...instead we are all stuck in traffic with cars and much prefer WFH now as a result. But coulda shoulda woulda invested in infrastructure...orange man will never do that. Good luck to you all, but if I could put my BTC into a roth...oh the glorious retirement tax free!

Fun_Ice9530

Boomer here. Many of us went thru that losing-your-ass shit at the dot com burst in early 2000's. A couple of examples...I watched my MCOM go from $10/share to $100/share and back down to $0/share...$90k in paper profits...gone. Also lost $50k in a tech stock private placement, in addition to a few less catastrophic financial mistakes. Was a lot of $ back then! This was right after I (my wife) had two kids. Couldn't stand myself for a few years but by the grace of God I had a few huge years in my business 5 yrs later and was able to dig out of that Grand Canyon of a hole and reposition financially. Still...If I only used common sense investing practices back then, my net worth would probably be 2-4X what it is now and the prospect of retirement wouldn't be so intimidating. When the covid bucks started falling from the sky and everyone started WFH and the Robin Hood thing, it felt eerily like the early dot com inflating bubble days to me and I did my best to warn people to not get sucked in to the illusion of easy bucks. IMO back then )2000's) it was the advent of on-line trading that helped fuel that bubble (ease to access of the markets), just like RH when covid dropped on us 5 yrs ago. The Bulletin Boards like Raging Bull, etc. were the social media and WSB pump and dump vehicles of that era. After having my ass handed to me way back then, I never touched meme stocks, NFTs, options, etc . Bought mostly good solid companies and ETFs on the big dips and still holding. People can ridicule Warren Buffet all they want, but playing a mostly conservative long game is the best play unless you literally are playing with $ you can afford to lose.

Roqjndndj3761

Nice! Yeah my plan was 10 years out (I’m only working now because I WFH and my kids are still in school) but now looking to move to Costa Rica in the next year or so and might retire earlier than I expected.

Fit-Reputation-9983

WFH today because I’m a lazy fuck and decided to check out all my losses on the RH Legend web app…it’s actually better than I anticipated (I had low expectations)

notalwayswright

Same but I WFH

trump_supportr

Its fuckin' great isn't it!!! I'm perm WFH now but miss when i would go shit for 30-45 mins on the bosses dime, and to boot using their toilet paper... cause we all know we are just one fuckin' sneeze away from some -\_- creating the new covid pandemic!?

surmoiFire

management offshore jobs to save money, if your job can WFH 3 days a week before, they can hire 2 Indians to work from India whether they change policy or not.

Fix_The_Money

WFH fucking sucks. I'm not motivated to work at all unless there's a cute girl or two around me

Ceyenne18

dude, shifting from WFH to office is not a bad thing. WFH jobs are more easily offshored and you might find yourself in food queue.

2nd_yr_cs

The bank I’m working at, they had 2 days inperson and 3 WFH days all this time. Today they emailed us that we’re gonna start 4 days inperson and 1 day WFH starting November 😭😭😭 for better team collaboration and shit Does that mean the jobs are safe being offshored? 😤

WaterPretty8066

Told my boss I'm going home to WFH as it's too hard to follow WSB in the office. 

bulk_logic

Saw a meme or a tweet the other day that said the reason CEOs and executives stopped WFH is to get access back to their side pieces

Prestigious-Ice-2742

Love WFH. Thinking of bugging out for the day, sliding on a speedo, and prancing around down at the beach.

kayvonte

I was going to buy an espresso machine for my WFH, but then I got laid off

dont_downvote_SPECIL

So glad I didn't listen to my parents and become a doctor Instead of going to an office, I WFH all day, less stress, and more money because I've invested in the stock market. On-track to retire by 39 instead of paying off medical school loans 👍

Sharkbait000

Hey guys. So my family member has been giving me advice on buying stock telling me to wake up and buy right when the market opens, wait a few hours or so and then sell when it goes up, basically day trading. While i understand people do this even as a full time job, is there a kicker to this? He makes it sound so easy and claiming he makes a couple hundred a week, to a few thousand a month. Is there a downside to this compared to just holding for longer periods? I have a corporate 9-5 (WFH) so i can spend a few minutes at a time watching the market, but obviously not 100% of the time. Just curious since he’s been pestering me about it every time I see him.

wildcat1055

WFH and you can pour anything into your mug

dont_downvote_SPECIL

My clothes are covered in BBQ sauce But people is going to think it's actually poop because I smell bad and haven't taken a shower in +1 week I WFH all day so that's why I don't need to take a shower often

borat_he_like_you

Me in 2030+ at my virtual retirement party since I WFH Coworkers: Congrats on your retirement, Borat. How are you going to enjoy it? Me: I will be a IaaS businessman or Imtimacy-as-a-Service. Just like SaaS. Basically I'll he owning multiple sex robots and renting them out to clients. I control access to sex, collect money for sex, and manage the clientele. I'm not a pimp, I am a IaaS businessman!! 😡 Sex robots will be a new asset class just like real estate Female coworkers: 😒🤢🤮 Male coworkers: Well...ok...good luck.... 5 minutes later via text: hey bro, let me know if you're hiring. Hope the benefits package includes fucking those robots. 👊🤝

Competitive_Touch_86

This was basically written in stone once WFH during covid became a thing. I don't know how the average white collar knowledge worker didn't understand this. Racism and myopic thought I guess. Lack of real-world experience in other areas of the world. There are people just as smart as you everywhere. The top 20% cannot be easily replaced, but everyone else can if done right. The old-school ways of body shop outsourcing are dead, but standing up remote offices/local talent hiring pools/etc. is growing at an exponential pace. For every failboat idiot trying to do it the oldschool way, there is one mid-size enterprise doing it rather successfully. No one gives a shit if your senior technical folks are located in the US or Croatia - timezone is the only real downside if everyone is working remotely anyways. Similar talent can be found for 1/3 to 1/2 the cost. I was arbitraging this for the past two decades since my company has always been remote-only. There is zero difference between any of my guys no matter where they are located in the world. Everyone is an equal. The competition in hiring in the "low cost" regions is now incredibly hot. We went from wages being 10% of US, to 40-60% for most quality talent. The top-tier guys are making US equivalent now - they are just better and more productive on average so it's still worth it.

NoJournalist5553

> Far too many people getting paid 6 figures to do 2 hours of work per day. This strikes me as true because it's the exact type of thing Americans, particularly so-called white collar Americans, feel compelled to lie about. I'm close with someone who is a senior dev at this point at Microsoft. Completely remote WFH situation. I've crashed at his place for a week when visiting his area multiple times. Rarely doing anything during the day. But whenever we talk from a distance he's always putting on this facade like he's so busy and work is such a time sink when I know for a fact that he's paid to be available more than he is to work. It's so bizarre.

steelhouse1

It’s not all AI One of the other things that happened in my company is the whole WFH movement. They kept pushing for people to comeback and it was fought by my coworkers. It happened in two layoffs, our headquarters is empty. It was realized remote work could be done by very remote people. Accounting, accounts payable, scheduling etc… moved some of the jobs to Poland, Mexico etc. our IT used to be in-house. Now it’s in India with remote access. We have a third party we send our laptops to for major fixes. I am a field guy. Customer front line. A dirty hot industry (steel making). If a job can be done remotely by an American making $~60k+ a year working from home, it can be done by someone in another country making $15-20k. My company is slowly replacing our engineers with ones from Poland, Brazil, Mexico, Eastern Europe etc… One, I know makes $23k and lives in Poland. Speaks 5 languages, Masters, etc… replaced a mechatronics engineer making $105k.

After-Imagination-96

Anecdotally I know 2 women over 50 who are over employed - each works 3+ separate WFH jobs and these women don't know each other  If they are doing it...

Cold-Piizza

WFH atleast?

elgrandorado

I can't take him seriously after his internal WFH outburst debacle.

AzulMage2020

Fine. There are savings now but what happens when AI demands to WFH too? Productivity gone- out the window! Whats going to be the next move?? Create another AI to do the original AIs workload? Good luck with that!

Chrg88

WFH w/ cat >

dont_downvote_SPECIL

I love WFH because it means I can stay up past 2 AM and hangout with unemployed people in the chat 🫵🤣🤣🤣🤣

borat_he_like_you

26% of people that WFH have sex or masturbate during business hours 10% of people that work on-site/in-office have sex or masturbate during business hours I've been part of the 26% since 2020 and I fucking love it 👍👍👍👍. It's so easy when no one is watching you!!

IrvTheSwirv

Whenever you read an MSM article where some CEO or whatever is complaining about WFH the very first thing that should be popping into your head is “CMBS”. Literally all that is ever really about.

No_Guess_5711

This was a natural consequence of WFH and post covid. Lots of places had long leases that companies were forced to hold onto for several years.

Striking-Credit-2765

No no, I used to wake up at 6am/7am and start working on WFH days. And worked till 7pm couple days to complete urgent projects! She was completely satisfied and happy! Not a single complain since I joined 😭

brucekeller

I like WFH, but damn, kinda rough in a 'new' city as someone over 30. Of course, I could go out and meet people but man, excuses are better.

Rob1iam

Most of these big CRE office deals were done with banks lending at ~60% LTVs. Even if the property lost 30% of its value, which was about the average for large office buildings during the sectors worst time in 2023, it’s still isn’t putting most bank’s collateral positions in danger. And even then, the value only matters if they have to sell. The owners of those buildings have large enough equity that they have a lot of skin in the game to defend those properties when times get tough. When push comes to shove, most of these office buildings can still cash flow even at 60%-70% occupancy. The corporate guarantors have deep pockets and have stepped in to keep payments current even when the buildings struggled. Banks don’t want their office borrowers to default and have done a lot to help workout their CRE deals and avoid foreclosures that would hurt the market even more. And like I said earlier, the biggest threat to office buildings was vacancies resulting from the quick large scale shift to WFH after Covid. Now that a significant amount of those workplaces are doing full or partial RTO, a lot of that vacancy issue has alleviated. Rates going up definitely had an effect, but banks and borrowers always stress test variable rates before the deal. Rising rates didn’t hurt those office borrowers ability to repay nearly as much as high vacancy rates did.

SuperLeverage

The big question is, can you WFH? 🧑‍💻

dont_downvote_SPECIL

I bought a Scion iA when I finished college in 2016 and paid it off in 2021. Every month I'm saving $276 that can go towards the stock market. I don't really want to spend much on a car since I WFH all day and the only time I go out is buy food. Anything else can be bought online and delivered to my house And I'm not trying to impress anybody with a big truck, flashy sports car, or a luxury car. I'm just quietly building my wealth. If my car ever broke down, I was thinking of a scooter or a robotaxi.

AmberLeafSmoke

No one wants to use it, yet. It's the wild West atm, same with WFH devices and cloud IT was. Once firms and their clients actually start to care about what data is being put into LLMs, Copilot will become the go to. Microsoft thinks in years, even decades, given their size they have to. As long as they own the Office Suite, Windows, Azure, Intune etc they can wait years for new products to finally catch the user base.

eat_rice__fuck_ice

This is a better argument for WFH but ceos dont wanna hear that lol.

Potato_Octopi

Just WFH.

borat_he_like_you

I spend more time masturbating than actually working It's so easy when you WFH

didistutter69

Or…you know WFH arrangements? We tested that out in 2020-2024ish? Seems to be a hit with the wage slaves, Mr CEO

iSaidThisIsNotWhere

Ya know what else is faster than flying? WFH.

National_Spirit2801

Yeah - you'd think competition would drive the market down for WFH salaries but sometimes I wonder why I do what I do when I could apply the same skill set to something more lucrative. I suppose the security of barely being able to afford my mortgage and family expenses is what keeps me going. The windowless basement is alright, they let me out sometimes when they need me to grab equipment to test. But it's the same little hole I return to, day in and day out.

National_Spirit2801

If my career of choice paid 170k a year plus free $0 copay health benefits for me to WFH, I sure would! Boy howdy, it would be great to be with my family instead of being stuck in a windowless basement! God knows my wife sure could use the help at home! If only a single family home in California 2 hours north of the bay area didn't cost $600,000!

shadereckless

Spoiler alert, the commute for WFH is in fact 'even' faster 

borat_he_like_you

It's 8:53 AM, I just masturbated, and ready to start my day If I had to work at an office, I would either be extremely late for work or would not have time to satisfy myself Which is why I love WFH 🙏

InsertFloppy11

first i thought this is a work reform post advocating for home office/WFH, but no, sadly its much stupider.

circuitji

Musk will eventually say no more WFH and remote drivers should be in car or be fired !

dogecorleone

WFH returns

Expensive_Fruit_6695

not all jobs can be WFH… try fixing power lines from a laptop or giving someone a root canal over Zoom 😭 *“okay sir, just angle your molar toward the webcam”*

Neat-Emu-8731

why flight? ✈️ bc not everyone can WFH, brad. surgeons can’t zoom into your spleen. pilots can’t remote control boeings from their kitchen. sometimes you gotta physically show up and pretend you’re important 😭

dont_downvote_SPECIL

The WFH trend, along with hybrid work, resulted in: • it made workers freer to roam & happier; and • it created employer distrust. The trend now has employers ordering employees back to the office & cutting staff. S&P companies now have fewer workers today than 10 years ago. (WSJ 6-21) Big business is striving to become leaner & meaner instead of going global & taking over the world; still, companies are attempting to tap into a lower cost labor pool. However, the “America First” policy will mean profits fall, i.e., hence, cut staff. But then I repeat myself. In short, AI is coming to take the jobs, not to mention global trade is slowing down due to tariffs. Whether now or a year from now, a recession is coming; and it may be the first one starting at the top of the labor pool & moving down. It may even mean that blue collar jobs surge while white collars shrink. In any case, the summer will shed some light on the uncertainties that come to bear: • Will the wars wane or wax? • Will the tariffs finally take effect? • And the most pressing uncertainty of them all: will inflation rise or fall? Really, the economy depends on interest rates, which depend on the CPI, which depends on jobs, which depends on spending, which depends on jobs. Alas, the buck stops on jobs. But then I repeat myself.

Equivalent_Reply_416

She went full regard on those pandemic stocks. Like life then was going to be the norm, WFH is almost dead lol

caiodb

WFH

Rich-Past-6547

You know what would be cheaper and easier than replacing car commutes with flying object commutes? WFH.

bartread

Yes, but it's also worth pointing out that for a vast number of jobs you can achieve the same time and productivity gains simply by WFH, and without the environmental impact. Are you really uncritically buying into the not at all surprising shtick from the CEO of an air taxi company that the tech his company is all in on will change the world? And the regularity with which you post favourably about Archer, looking at your post history, answer me this: how much are they paying you? Go shill somewhere else.

shivaswrath

I WFH 4 days a week for minimal carbon emission.

Exciting_Strike5598

Why flight ? ✈️ ? Why not WFH ?

notalwayswright

I feel your pain. I WFH though lol

JediOrDie

Texas, Florida, and any boom town from the WFH Covid rush is dropping. I’d say it’s only a matter of time before more states follow suit. Tightening cycle is working. I suspect corporate margins shrinking from tariffs will be the next domino.

Cold-Piizza

I had to go back to WFH for this reason

redcoatwright

yeah idk WFH is lessening... this has already blown up a lot in the last month.

Cold-Piizza

Good luck brother. Last place burned me. Back to WFH lol

kindrudekid

So many: Smartest in general was shoving all my savings and excess income during first months of pandemic into buying stocks. Some of the moves during this that made me money: Uber, airbus, rolls Royce and GameStop of all the things. Thinking was 1. With WFH need for deliveries of food will be high especially with how bad most Americans are meal prepping or cooking at home in general. 2. Airbus and rolls Royce made sense cause my family back in home country were eager to just get out and away from family and with savings I knew air travel will pick up rapidly. 3. GameStop was mostly cause I saw it go up around time when new consoles came, off course I came out ahead cause of the squeeze tough didn’t cash out during squeeze but still made a decent chunk

SkoomaJunki3

Bruh WFH sucks when it’s beautiful outside

BukkakeKing69

This wasn't a minimum wage thing, this was a "coming out of the pandemic" thing. When an employer has to hire 1 person, business goes on if that person wants a big raise and they say no. When an employer has to completely re-open operations and hire 12 people, however, those people gain unique leverage to request raises because the business simply won't function otherwise. Remember, low wage unemployed at the time were making MORE on unemployment than they were when they worked! So employers were forced to sweeten the pot. This is why independent of minimum wage increases, lower wage workers saw greater wage gains than higher income deciles. Their physical labor was more likely to end up on enhanced unemployment at the time and mass re-opening created unique leverage many unaffected WFH white collar jobs never had. A similar phenomenon ended feudalism during the middle ages. Of course, Covid is nothing close to bubonic plague, but we shut down our economy for a time as if it pretty much was.

cafecoder

It's like remote work was popularized during Covid. However once folks tasted WFH and proved it works, they would prefer WFH even without covid. I don't want to sign anything in paper, even if I'm in person. Everything has been Docusign (or similar).

Cold-Piizza

Finally got another WFH job. The office was killing me slowly

friz_CHAMP

God damn WFH culture! Is it nicer blowing dudes behind your parent's garage instead of the dumpster? Sure, but you're not getting the same camaraderie with the rest of the staff!

Expensive_Web_8534

I disagree with almost everything here (and some of the stuff is just plain wrong) 1) Yes, some companies have slashed their guidance, but that is primarily related to political uncertainty, and no one wants to miss guidance when the time comes. 2) Yes, housing starts are down - that is primarily related to a push towards back-to-office - blue states, where the office jobs are, don't allow too much new housing. You can still see housing prices going up in those states. Red states, where the housing starts have declined precipitously, have started to lose some folks who relocated there during the pandemic, assuming the WFH culture would persist forever. 3) Credit delinquencies are coming down after having peaked in Q2 2024: [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS) Yes, subprime auto loan delinquency rates are up, but still this is irrelevant - The total amount of those loans is \~$1.5 trillion. Even a 3% default rate would result in a loss of $50 billion - which is barely anything. So yea, the market shrugs. You are looking at inconsequential data and making mountains out of mole hills. Sell your puts.

jump101

01 honda 150k miles and i WFH mostly...

2nd_yr_cs

Next 2 days inperson fuckkk!!!! In my company (bank), everyone works 3 days WFH and 2 days inperson 

gloomyglooom

WFH + No GF = living the dream shower *maybe* 3 times a month no longer wipe hook up PC to TV to watch porn on 77-inch OLED 

bt_85

The pattern is pumping an overheated market even more, in order to get the final exit liquidity. Nothing happens in a vacuum, nothing is isolated. The marker tsees what is coming and is getting ahead of it, and probably in the process creating conditions to make it more likely (eg, an even more overheated market moving into mass selling) What looks like will probably happen is real estate again. It's a house of cards. \- Economic downturn, or even just a slowdown or a rapid increase in inflation \- Lots of companies and individuals are way overleveraged on the short-term-rental boom \- People travel less, less disposable income, those people and companies can no longer afford the mortgages on their investment properties.   \- Combine with household debt and credit card debt way higher than before \- Forclosures and dumping of properties and other assets to try and cover their losses \- Which also tips over the banks that are sitting on massive unrealized losses \- And are sitting on lots of commercial real estate that is empty or at way below profitable rent due to the shift in WFH And there you go. And that's just one possible scenario. Rats fleeing a ship isn't what sinks the ship, but it is a sign it is sinking.

maxx159

WFH and not a real job

G0RD0N_CLARK

Beats sitting at the water cooler with my co-workers. Narrator: This guy is WFH and his "co-workers" are a 3 year old and two dogs.