I miss working in an office, getting the train to work, seeing the sky, banter with my colleagues, the odd drink after work, having a normal relationship with my boss.
WFH is torture for me. I don’t leave the house because I don’t need to. I rarely see my colleagues except on Teams, and my interactions with my boss are strained across several slightly passive-agressive (or not! they could be fine!) emails
I wake up in the morning and the only interaction I get is a green dot on my colleagues faces. I literally strike up conversations with the postman because I’m so starved of contact
Sounds like you’re confusing your work life with your fun/personal time. Like some sort of Stockholm victim to your workplace. You need work life balance and interactions outside of work. Work is not socializing.
It’s hard making friends as an adult though (read: people have kids or other dependents), and the most meaningful relationships I’ve had have been where we’ve all been bonded under the same circumstance. Yes it does sound Stockholm syndromic, but as someone who doesn’t actively seek sociability by default, being automatically inaugurated into the company of others is a huge passive social benefit for me.
Work is definitely socializing by sheer osmosis of being around others with common goals
I miss working in an office, getting the train to work, seeing the sky, banter with my colleagues, the odd drink after work, having a normal relationship with my boss.
WFH is torture for me. I don’t leave the house because I don’t need to. I rarely see my colleagues except on Teams, and my interactions with my boss are strained across several slightly passive-agressive (or not! they could be fine!) emails
I wake up in the morning and the only interaction I get is a green dot on my colleagues faces. I literally strike up conversations with the postman because I’m so starved of contact
Sounds like you’re confusing your work life with your fun/personal time. Like some sort of Stockholm victim to your workplace. You need work life balance and interactions outside of work. Work is not socializing.
It’s hard making friends as an adult though (read: people have kids or other dependents), and the most meaningful relationships I’ve had have been where we’ve all been bonded under the same circumstance. Yes it does sound Stockholm syndromic, but as someone who doesn’t actively seek sociability by default, being automatically inaugurated into the company of others is a huge passive social benefit for me.
Work is definitely socializing by sheer osmosis of being around others with common goals
Unfortunately this stance is not uncommon. There’s a lot of people out there for whom work is the main or even the only social connection they have.
There’s a lot of loneliness in such statements.
I agree, but I’d argue that these are isolating times and that my story is more the norm than the exception