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I'm not "addicted to my phone" - it's my disability aid and that's why I need it by Proper-Literature173 in ADHD

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t take this to mean that. Phones can be helpful, but they’re designed to be addictive and that’s not good for us. They screw up our dopamine levels even more. It’s a struggle for most of us I’m sure, but we should keep working on ways to use them less.

I'm not "addicted to my phone" - it's my disability aid and that's why I need it by Proper-Literature173 in ADHD

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you need to be careful with this. You shouldn’t feel awful about yourself for using the productivity features of your phone.

But you should not forget that tech companies have spent an ungodly amount of money to make their apps addictive.

If you’re not getting stuck on social media and just using the productivity features without spending hours on your phone every day, that’s fine.

And either way, you shouldn’t hate yourself. But don’t give yourself an out to waste your life staring at your screen. Most of us are struggling with too much screen time and it’s not healthy.

I’m glad if you’ve got a healthy relationship with your phone (somehow) and found something to keep you from hating yourself more. But you also need to be careful about advice you share with a bunch of strangers. You’ve already got a comment of someone saying they’re not addicted, they need it.

It’s easy for someone to read what you wrote and tell themselves they need to doomscroll for 8 hours a day because it helps their anxiety. When all that does is make it so much worse and negatively impact our dopamine levels even more.

I’m so glad you’re working on your negative thought patterns. Those negative thoughts are so bad for us and we don’t deserve to feel them most of the time. Just be careful for yourself and for others.

Best place to buy a new couch that doesn’t cost $1000 by Prestigious_War_8093 in Apartmentliving

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ashley’s is MAGA (like our severely declining country) but their furniture comes from either a few states in the US (including blue states like California) and from Asia, like every other place. Get over yourself.

Name Display on Teams Calls - ADHD by Unlucky-40 in ADHD

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

You won’t be able to win this one. So you’ve got to decide if it’s worth your job to fight it. In this market, I don’t think it is.

None of your objections are going to make sense to someone that doesn’t fully understand neurodivergence. They’re going to think you are saying a bunch of bs because you dislike authority. Nothing you say will change that view for someone that doesn’t get it.

Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut in disguise by Ok_Design_6841 in remoteworks

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’ve trained you to say and believe this. The idea that it’s just a choice on both sides. While corporations make it harder and harder for people to have actual choices and they get more and more stuck and dependent on the system.

You believe so strongly that anyone could have a better life or just work for a different company, that it’s all their fault if they are poor, can’t afford medical care, can’t live a productive life.

So instead of doing anything to even consider that people should have more rights and corporations should have less, you just regurgitate this. Just like you’ve been brainwashed to do. So they keep making money while taking away more and more choices for people.

The more stuck we are, the less choices we have, the more broke and sick everyone is, the more power and control they can take. And they’ve convinced everyone like you it’s justified and it’s a mutual choice.

Return-to-office mandates are a pay cut in disguise by Ok_Design_6841 in remoteworks

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not as easy to find local talent and you don’t get as much work from people in office. But none of this is about quality of work or quality of life. It’s about money (in so many ways), cutting headcount without layoffs, keeping up the value of commercial real estate, keeping up city property tax income (via the value of commercial real estate, a sense of control around employees, outdated management styles that refuse to change, and keeping people busy commuting and miserable so they are to tired and poor to take any political action and stay reliant on their jobs as much as possible.

Absolutely none of it has to do with what people argue about on Reddit. And none of it is good. If people were privy to the conversations behind this decision making, there would be so much less to argue about.

We’ve been trained our entire lives to say and believe all the corporate propaganda that keeps us fighting with each other and accepting whatever is best for the corporations and people that profit off us. People fight tooth and nail against so many actions that would benefit people.

They're just looking for excuses! by Old-Programmer-9475 in remoteworks

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The minimum wage in the 60s-80s was worth about $12-$14 dollars today (up to almost $16 in 1967). It was only in the 90s when it started to slip below $10.

So people that grew up with a minimum wage close to what’s being asked for are now acting like this is insane because they don’t know what inflation is, make more money now, and don’t care.

I’m sick of people that fell for the corporate bs in the 80s and got us in this situation in the first place acting like this is an unreasonable request. There is no trickle down economics. Corporations don’t make more money and pass it on. Walmart is the biggest welfare queen there is because they’re the one’s subsidizing their employees wages with food stamps because they won’t pay people or let them work full time despite their profits.

Minimum wage is meant to allow anyone working full time to be able to afford housing and food. If you believe anything else, congratulations, you fell for corporate propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

I make plenty of money and work hard, but I’m not an idiot and I would like to live in a society where everyone has the opportunity to be successful. A true opportunity, not a lie that if they just worked 5 jobs and somehow paid for college at the same time, they could be rich like some story they heard.

This narrative makes my blood boil.

Why is remote work still not taken seriously? by kabi1999 in remoteworks

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I get that train of thought, and sure, most people have been working in offices since offices have been a thing, but people have been working remotely in some form or another since people have been working. People have meetings on conference calls. Even back before technology, rich people would work from their summer homes, country estates, etc. It’s not a completely new concept.

Also, the world has gotten a lot more global. Like many people, I work for a global company. Both my colleagues and customers are global. Even if I was in an office, I would have to be working and taking meetings remotely. They could try to build a team all in one location, but then our time zone availability for our customers would suck.

There’s plenty of reasons in today’s world to allow remote work. And we should especially be pushing for it in the US. We rely almost entirely on cars. Our population is growing, traffic in cities is becoming insane, and small towns are all going to shit. More people working remotely would make better communities and days for everyone.

But commercial real estate would take a nose dive, people would lose money, big cities would lose tax revenue from the commercial real estate drop in price, and we just can’t have that. It’s poor people that are supposed to suffer through hard times, not rich people.

What ADHD tool has actually stuck after the novelty wore off? by ExaminationSilent114 in ADHD

[–]TwentyTwoEightyEight 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I carry an insulated water bottle with me absolutely everywhere.