Want to take a moment to thank covid for helping us work remotely more easily.

You're not wrong?

Seriously dude. We should thank Covid for all the deaths.

@Cyanide is that sarcasm?

@Cyanide why?

@iiii @TeachMeCode Sarcasm 🤦‍♂️
Asshole OP wants to thank Covid for WFH. Narcissistic much?

@Cyanide I don't get your butthurt. She's not wrong

@Cyanide I’m not narcissistic much, lol chill. But yes, I see your point, it’s totally wrong to celebrate a deadly virus that’s putting people on ventilators and its not a quick and painless death at all

I agree with OP every job I went for before Covid, the response when asking for a remote role. “Oh we don’t offer remote roles” or “ We don’t have the capacity or allow people to work remotely” - now with Covid all those companies now offer remote roles. Amazing, now all I get is remote roles from recruiters too.

Imagine the person who accidentally start this pandemic read this rant and whisper secretly "you are welcome, and I am batman".

just imagine.

@TeachMeCode Nah man, not you. OP is narcissistic and everyone who agress with them.

@iiii She is. Working remotely easily doesn’t even compare to the number of deaths Covid has taken. Thanking Covid is bullshit thing to do for any reason whatsoever. Narcissistic assholes thank Covid, not empathetic humans.

@Cyanide on the other side the virus would cull the population a bit. Less humans - less problems.

And as if affects mostly old people it can also somewhat fix the issue with old population becoming too big to support in developed countries.

This i guess

It's the push we needed to move forward. WFH changed from "no, that's Impossible, we can't work if everyone is at home, and we don't trust you" to "huh, it works"

It's just sad it took a pandemic for the shift to happen. I'd say It's silver lining in this case. A form of social evolutionary pressure. The environment had to change for us to start adapting.

Im sure I wouldn't speak like this if someone I knew died due to it, but no one close to me did. (Yet, hopefully never) so I can still be objective on the issue.

I don't think we can deny that some good came out of it too. Things are never black and white, they are a various shades of gray and I for one think having hand sanitizers in all grocery stores and transit is a great step that would've never happened without some sort of pandemic. We can tone it down a bit, not all stores need it, but some should keep it

I am actually thankful.

So many companies used had have the philosophy that they would never trust their employees to work from home.

If it wasn't for Covid they would've never even considered testing out working from home - they would've assumed it would result in low productivity

@Cyanide it's a sort of good-ish side effect of a really shitty situation. Personally I'd be thankful thinking anything good came out of this horror show - and I'm fairly sure that's the sense in which this post was meant. It happened (is still happening) and we can't change that immediately and I'm sure most people here have been negatively affected to at least some degree - but that doesn't change the fact that it gave WFH a huge boost. Silver linings and all that.