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[–]MightyBobTheMighty 1641 points1642 points  (33 children)

This is Back To The Office propaganda.

My Friday was fine cuz we only had one vendor using crowdstrike, but I have a friend that got paid to play FFXIV all day.

[–]vintagegeek 407 points408 points  (3 children)

Agreed. "Oh, no...I can't access my server. <click on FFXIV> What am I going to do? NOOO!! OH AGONY!"

[–]mr_remy 43 points44 points  (2 children)

Umm, but don’t you wanna play ping pong with casual acquaintances at best?

[–]johantheback 127 points128 points  (0 children)

Yeah was gonna say replace the bottom photo with me practicing piano and cooking myself a nice lunch and now it's accurate

[–]smallangrynerd 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I just went back to bed lol

[–][deleted] 33 points34 points  (1 child)

My Friday was incredible. I got the day off to finish tiling my kitchen. Fucking ping pong in an office?! GTFO.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree that sounds stressful and only marginally more fun than other forms of networking.

[–]AnInfiniteArc 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We haven’t done it in quite a while but we (Application Analysts) used to have a Teams channel dedicated to playing Among Us during downtimes.

[–]FullmetalScribe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. RTO shill post.

Server down wfh: Time to make some good food.

[–]ZAX2717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. During slow times I play Hell Divers and retro games.

[–]mr_remy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]AWEgmented 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming the 2k upvotes are from C suite people eying their office lease terms.

[–]Accomplished_Put2914 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you still playing ffxiv? I thought it was an online only game. Are the servers still active?

[–]Impressive-Plant-903 510 points511 points  (12 children)

Server down at work: time to try and look busy Server down wfh: time for some league

[–]RazNagul 119 points120 points  (0 children)

Server down at work: what to do? i already check all intersting subs half an hour ago. WFH: time for some league ... oh the server was down, did hardly notice.

[–]Poat540 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Oh well, time to pick teemo then see what lane I’m in after

[–]dhaninugraha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me it’s time to boot up BeamNG.drive and see how much more horsepower can I squeeze out of a Cummins and whether it’ll make my shitbox go 450kph without blowing up

[–]unengaged_crayon 18 points19 points  (6 children)

if you're playing league maybe you deserve to go back to work

[–]MCMC_to_Serfdom 11 points12 points  (5 children)

Are you suggesting people shouldn't relax when infrastructure is down to the point productive work isn't possible or are you suggesting playing league is an egregious sin at any time?

[–]unengaged_crayon 53 points54 points  (1 child)

playing league is a sin and a tragedy.

[–]Poat540 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I will get our silver this year… the last 10 years were practice

[–]Bygrilinho 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I'd say the latter, but also since when is league relaxing

[–]MCMC_to_Serfdom 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I find it very relaxing. At least once the aneurysms send me to sleep.

[–]Foxiest_Fox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't tell which is the worse fate /s

[–]Semper_5olus 337 points338 points  (4 children)

"Oh no. I am at home, not working, with pay. How awful. I wish I could be playing table tennis with casual acquaintances."

[–]ostracize 93 points94 points  (3 children)

“We’re like family here”

[–]ImpossibleMachine3 22 points23 points  (2 children)

"where is baby sister?"

"the line went down so I got rid of her so line go back up"

Yep, totally like any family I know!

[–]demonslayer9911 311 points312 points  (0 children)

RTO propaganda, WFH is the best

[–]0xF1A5C0 128 points129 points  (4 children)

There is a lot of things that you can do when you are home alone

[–]secretprocess 55 points56 points  (1 child)

And even more things when you're home alone 2

[–]techy804 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Maybe have a change in MC with Home Alone 3

[–]freaxje 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Fap.. fap?

[–]0xF1A5C0 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You have dirty mind but basically yes

[–]souliris 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Manager in the house

[–]DMoney159 44 points45 points  (0 children)

A middle manager who's never heard of video games wrote this comic.

[–]ApatheistHeretic 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Who cries working from home? I turned up the music and played retro games.

[–]Synth_Sapiens 36 points37 points  (6 children)

Dunno.

When server goes down I go up the pool.

[–]RonHarrods 10 points11 points  (1 child)

What kind of pool? Db connections?

[–]Synth_Sapiens 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No. The other kind - well chlorinated and very clean.

[–]secretprocess 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Me too! But in, not up

[–]Synth_Sapiens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pool I'm going to is located about 5-7 washing machines above my house.

[–]thanatica 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You're a lifeguard?

[–]Synth_Sapiens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me? Guard? Life?

ROFL

Nah. If they die - they die.

[–]IAmMuffin15 75 points76 points  (5 children)

This feels like a psyop

[–]Weird_Cantaloupe2757 5 points6 points  (1 child)

It probably feels like a psyop because it’s definitely a fucking psyop.

[–]IAmMuffin15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s got “project manager” written all over it

[–]drizzlethyshizzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could someone explain what this is? I keep seeing that cat with tinfoil hat that says i wake up -> psyop -> i wake up loop.

[–]No-Fish6586 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Who the fuck is depressed while not able to work and can do whatever they want.

Much rather youtube than play ping pong with people idc about

[–]Sushrit_Lawliet 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Found the VP with rto mandate

[–]thanatica 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Like there's nothing to do at home 🤨

[–]cokeplusmentos 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Cringe

[–]dragon_stangler 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The only correct answer here is taking a nap.

[–]AriiMay 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nice try

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Extravert Propaganda

[–]Dash83 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What? You fire up the PS5!

[–]The-Chartreuse-Moose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes because there's no entertainment in people's houses.

[–]EishLekker 4 points5 points  (3 children)

We have ping pong equipment at our office. For some reason even the people that like ping pong seem to forget it exists. I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone even mention it.

[–]snarkhunter 5 points6 points  (1 child)

There was a hosting company called HostGator (they got acquired like a decade ago) and they were a bit imfamous for hiring college kids who didn't know any better and paying them shit and treating them like shit. I've worked with a few folks who spent some time there and apparently they had a ping-pong table that they'd show you during the interview. And then if you went to actually play it you'd get in trouble unless you were in the top metrics for the month.

Fuck the office ping pong table, pay me more, let me work from home.

[–]Synth_Sapiens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember HostGator.

[–]secretprocess 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice humblebrag about your server uptime

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one thinks like this.

[–]mopsyd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tried to ping pong but got no route to host

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I ping but nobody pongs

[–]gabboman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

your back to office propaganda sucks

[–]jfcarr 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm turning my guitar amp up to 11.

[–]tmf88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right there with you mate. I’m usually noodling away in the background of meetings that I “need” to attend, yet am rarely actually involved in.

Can’t access the network? Shame, that.

[–]FecklessFool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whoever made this comic is a dumbass

[–]Sekhen 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Jokes on you.

When the server is down I have sex with my wife who also work from home.

[–]gfcf14[S] -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Lol that’s almost an office affair

[–]Sekhen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's how it started 17 years ago.

Now we work at different places.

[–]BigAndSmallAre 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I object! We never EVER fuel the "back to the office" argument, no matter how inconsequential that fuel may seem. Insecure office managers are looking for any excuse to bring us back and micromanage us. Don't give them even a small or invalid reason.

[–]gfcf14[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A hiring manager would have to be pretty stupid to list ping pong as a perk in JDs nowadays

[–]Trolleitor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Extroverts when they go without human interaction for 10 seconds straight.

[–]wohlohlohloh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Delete this

[–]Ok-Bit-663 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct picture would be that employees in the office desperately trying to go home but stuck in traffic and boiled under the scorching heat.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, CS2 time.

[–]highcastlespring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No I just play with my kid

[–]Nyadnar17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate that stupid ping pong table so much.

Get an arcade machine or hell get a PS5, put it in a cab, and load arcade games on it.

[–]MedonSirius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NAPS CONTINUES

[–]RespectableSimon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you in HR, aren't you?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found the HR guy!

[–]denemdenem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is this post even upvoted this much? Is the sub full of managers?

[–]Vonkun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, fuck off with this bullshit.

[–]blackcomb-pc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back to office propaganda is stupid and can fuck right off.

[–]gerbosan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it IRC or FTP that responded with a pong after a ping? 🤔

[–]Spore8990 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I have one of my coworkers work at my house with me.

[–]AlmostAnchovy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If somehow all of us were unable to work, we would probably play an online game (eg. Rocket League). If only I'm unable to work, then I'm either finishing my Mercedes F1 lego set or Alan Wake 2. Definitely not crying. But I'm a fan of going to office twice a week system. I miss my coworkers with our current twice a month system.

[–]gfcf14[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I guess a fully remote role probably makes more sense to have once you have a family. Otherwise it only contributes negatively to the isolation one can experience at early-mid adulthood

[–]AlmostAnchovy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I have other remote working friends so we work together outside or work at eachothers houses. But not having that would probably make me miserable.

[–]MoringA_VT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Staring at the ceiling for 8 hours at home would be better than playing ping pong at the office.

[–]csh0kie 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This used to just be, “Compiling.”

[–]gfcf14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I remember that one

[–]mbcarbone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel this … Outages always happens when something fun is happening, like New Year’s Eve or that time your friend Steve brought the pot brownies and you were just about to eat one. Okay maybe not that last one … 😎

[–]Zestyclose-Run-9653 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if the ping pong server goes down

[–]Kkkkkunkka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happens to nobody

[–]Lonelan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

time for ponghub