Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

Doug Ford mandating 4 days in the office per week for provincial employees. Gotta use that tax money on rent we didn’t need…

For a guy who cares so deeply about traffic, you'd think he'd be all over the benefits of not having as many commuters every day

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Whynotnow

Since most of the real estate is owned or long term leased not really an issue, I actually support this, I don’t think we are thriving sitting in our basements all the time staring at screens,

Do you work in the GTA? Because commuting is like the main reason people quit jobs here.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

Do you work in the GTA? Because commuting is like the main reason people quit jobs here.

It’s important to thrive sitting in your car staring at the car in front of you all the time, accomplishing nothing, instead of sitting in your basement starting at your screen, or what people might call “working.”

I also like how it’s always the basement. My entire office has WFH days and I have not once seen anyone’s office setup located in a basement.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

It’s important to thrive sitting in your car staring at the car in front of you all the time, accomplishing nothing, instead of sitting in your basement starting at your screen, or what people might call “working.”

I also like how it’s always the basement. My entire office has WFH days and I have not once seen anyone’s office setup located in a basement.

Gonna have to be the guy who admits to the stereotype...mine is in the basement. My wife got the office upstairs. OK with me, nice and cool in the summer.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

It’s important to thrive sitting in your car staring at the car in front of you all the time, accomplishing nothing, instead of sitting in your basement starting at your screen, or what people might call “working.”

I also like how it’s always the basement. My entire office has WFH days and I have not once seen anyone’s office setup located in a basement.

Mine totally is, and it kinda sucks. But I’m also not driving 1.5 hrs each way…

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Yup, mine is in my basement too. There's just a perfect nook there for it, but it would be nice to have windows.

Thankfully the new place doesn't have a basement so that one will be in the den.

[PepsiFree]

I’m not saying basement offices don’t exist fellas. I also relegated my partner to the basement when we chose office locations in the house. Simply pointing out that offices are located all over the house.

And agreeing that, wherever they are, they are better than traffic, which Calgarians have no real worldly knowledge of.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Except for the whole radon thing which I should probably look into…

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

And agreeing that, wherever they are, they are better than traffic, which Calgarians have no real worldly knowledge of.

None whatsoever. The delays just trying to drive through North Van on the highway in the middle of the afternoon are soul destroying. Couple of months ago I left Delta BC - not even a high traffic part of the lower mainland, relatively speaking - before 6am to try to get ahead of traffic going to downtown. I was in bumper to bumper within 5 minutes. Apparently you have to leave by 5.

It's like if you took the worst of the Deerfoot traffic and applied it to every major road from Airdrie to Okotoks for about 8 hours a day.

[Locke]

So Government employees have to actually go to work. Like they always used to.

Do we need to start a letter-writing Campaign to Amnesty International to free of these poor and unfairly imprisoned souls?

Commuting sucks. So does life. It is an endless sequence of one miserable state of suffering to the next. Deal with it.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Locke

Commuting sucks. So does life. It is an endless sequence of one miserable state of suffering to the next. Deal with it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Iz9bs0MAz80

Relevant Tim Robinson clip.

[Monahammer]

But honestly, some days I think getting eaten by a pig might not be so bad.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Whynotnow

Since most of the real estate is owned or long term leased not really an issue, I actually support this, I don’t think we are thriving sitting in our basements all the time staring at screens,

Spoiler!

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

Do you work in the GTA? Because commuting is like the main reason people quit jobs here.

I ended up in the GTA a number of times over the past few years including driving through on a few weekdays, riding the train etc. With the cost of living (Rent/owning) where it's at, the amount of time it takes to commute either by train, car, walking, etc. within distance from anything remotely affordable is over an hour plus each direction. At that point unless you're going into a 1% er job (Probably actually a 0.1%er job) there's absolutely no reason to accept a move there if it involves commuting.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

None whatsoever. The delays just trying to drive through North Van on the highway in the middle of the afternoon are soul destroying. Couple of months ago I left Delta BC - not even a high traffic part of the lower mainland, relatively speaking - before 6am to try to get ahead of traffic going to downtown. I was in bumper to bumper within 5 minutes. Apparently you have to leave by 5.

It's like if you took the worst of the Deerfoot traffic and applied it to every major road from Airdrie to Okotoks for about 8 hours a day.

Haha, that's your fault for living on the North Shore.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I ended up in the GTA a number of times over the past few years including driving through on a few weekdays, riding the train etc. With the cost of living (Rent/owning) where it's at, the amount of time it takes to commute either by train, car, walking, etc. within distance from anything remotely affordable is over an hour plus each direction. At that point unless you're going into a 1% er job (Probably actually a 0.1%er job) there's absolutely no reason to accept a move there if it involves commuting.

Ahaha #### that noise. That's like what, 7 to 12+ weeks of holidays every single year depending on if you are only commuting part of the week.

Soul crushing time stuck in traffic with morons or time sitting on seats with bedbugs and morons.

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by peter12

Haha, that's your fault for living on the North Shore.

But he's one of the good old boys. Drinkers and carousers, the likes you've never seen.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by FurnaceFace

But he's one of the good old boys. Drinkers and carousers, the likes you've never seen.

I have been back to Calgary more times in the last 3 three years than I have been to North Vancouver.

It's a gorgeous city, but almost completely inaccessible at certain times.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Locke

So Government employees have to actually go to work. Like they always used to.

Do we need to start a letter-writing Campaign to Amnesty International to free of these poor and unfairly imprisoned souls?

Commuting sucks. So does life. It is an endless sequence of one miserable state of suffering to the next. Deal with it.

The thing is they don't have to now, and the benefits of working from home far outweigh any perceived negatives that boomers whine about. If governments were actually serious about climate change, mandating that companies allow WFH where possible would be one of the easiest wins with the highest impact. But no, we have to have millions of people in their cars stuck in traffic puking out CO2 because boomers need to see heads in their office because "That's the way it's always been"

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

The thing is they don't have to now, and the benefits of working from home far outweigh any perceived negatives that boomers whine about. If governments were actually serious about climate change, mandating that companies allow WFH where possible would be one of the easiest wins with the highest impact. But no, we have to have millions of people in their cars stuck in traffic puking out CO2 because boomers need to see heads in their office because "That's the way it's always been"

In this day and age of security and the fact that agencies like CRA get hacked on the regular, the fact that you're trying to get important work done while some chucklehead is balancing his froot loops while juggling his cell phone and working off some third-rate laptop in his kitchen on his home wifi isn't helping.