Exactly. Pay me enough, and treat me well, and I will weave my personal and work life together.
But tell me that when I’m at work, my personal life disappears? That’s a different kind of balance, and that means that when I’m not at work, work disappears. Travel, no. Dinners, no. Special events, no. Conferences, no. Don’t even ask, the answer is no.
But that wouldn’t happen. I’m not working anywhere that doesn’t recognize my basic humanity.
I had a manager collect phones once about ten years ago. I told him if he took my phone I would quit.
He did not take my phone.
I cant work if I don’t have something to listen to. I need to drown out the office noise.
If you don’t trust me to get my job done, you didn’t hire the right person.
This needs to become a human right. Fuck asshole coworkers who think they can monopolize your attention to fuck with you
I’ve never thought about it beyond questioning why they think your real life stops when your work life starts, but yes, it does.
Not only that, but locking down your communication with your family and friends outside the monolithic “workplace.” Screw that!
“I didn’t know my family urgently needed me because my boss took my phone :(”
“11 and counting wounded or dead in workplace violence incident, help was delayed because employees weren’t allowed phones.”
Jobs trying to be your parents, warden, spouse, or god, need to be put in their place. Draw that line hard.
Exactly. Pay me enough, and treat me well, and I will weave my personal and work life together.
But tell me that when I’m at work, my personal life disappears? That’s a different kind of balance, and that means that when I’m not at work, work disappears. Travel, no. Dinners, no. Special events, no. Conferences, no. Don’t even ask, the answer is no.
But that wouldn’t happen. I’m not working anywhere that doesn’t recognize my basic humanity.
Is this a desk job we’re talking about?