Yes. My family is wonderful but doesn’t meet all my needs. I’m greedy and want friendships, too.
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I’d be your friend if we lived closer, as long as you can put up with me getting pissed off at you at times and yelling.
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I think it’s just people not being bothered more than they’ve got a wealth of social connections. Hopefully you’ll find someone more open to a friendship 
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I know it’s hurtful to put in effort that’s not reciprocated. Try not to take it as there is something wrong with you though. I’m someone that doesn’t need a lot of social interaction and I forget that others do need it. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more aware of this and try to reach out to people that need/want it but it’s still something I don’t think about much until I’m reminded.
So… thanks for posting this and reminding me that i should reach out to a few people today.
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I went back yesterday, didn’t care for it. Luckily I’m only going in 2 days per week right now. It was nice talking to a couple people that I hadn’t seen in over a year, but not nicer than staying home.
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I heard my old company’s office lease might be broken. Nobody wants to go back.
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Mask mandates dropped in the office for anyone who self-reported as vaccinated. No way to verify who has been vaccinated, though, outside of the HR system used to report.
My office isn’t super social, outside of basic niceties. Maybe this is why I feel no need to go back to the office.
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- It’s always amusing to me to see who shows up on Zoom meetings in tshirts (wearing my KISS shirt today)
- My group has decided to make Tuesday in-person day, so I’m going into Hartford tomorrow. I’ll see who shows up…
We are back 3-4 days a week on my team.
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For those of you with WSJ.com subscriptions, they ran an article this weekend going into some companies’ push to return to full-time (or nearly-full-time) in-office work: https://www.wsj.com/articles/return-to-work-the-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-11627079616
My company’s offices are open without restrictions, although return to office is still voluntary. One division of the company is requiring folks to be in-office at least 2 days a week starting in September; another division is letting the decision be made by each team/department. There’s a lot of HR paperwork working through who’s going to be doing what, to figure out how to adjust office floorplans and right-size our real estate needs.
(I was mostly WFH before the pandemic. I had to file a form with HR to keep that status after Labor Day; annoying, but I can appreciate that it’s complicated for them to figure out the practicalities of “new normal”.)
as going back to the office looms closer, i’m not sure i really wanna. my commute from my bed to my cubicle in my apartment is so great now! AND will i be allowed to work in pj’s in the office? I DON’T THINK SO AND THAT’S COMPLETE BULLSHIT!
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Geez, I hate commuting and have beaten those commute times for almost every job I’ve ever had except one where I rode the train which wasn’t as bad because I could do something on the commute. It wasn’t efficient, but in a 25 minute train ride I could probably do the equivalent of 10-15 minutes of studying, depending on whether or not some jerk tried to interrupt me with 20 questions. “Are you a student at [local university]?” “Oh, what are you studying then?” “Oh, what’s an actuary?”
So if you knock 10 minutes off that commute I think I’ve always been under… counting the state of the employer. (Not clear which number to use if you’re, say, commuting from Jersey into NYC.)
I’m curious to see what our new dress code will be. That hadn’t been discussed by management, last time someone inquired.
Does it really matter if someone wants to work at their desk in sweatpants and pink bunny slippers?
Seems like this is the same as being adamant that people needed to come into the office to work. Turns out that they don’t.
psh 5 years ago my amazing prior company was still deciding whether or not jeans day everyday (instead of every Friday) was too much of an indulgence.
I don’t know how someone can be a rational adult and say that with a straight face.
Next you’ll be smoking the mary jane in your cubicles!
We JUST went to jeans every day except for “customer facing colleagues” but the culture is still very much not jeans.