The Fair Work Commission is considering basic rights to work from home. Here’s what the evidence says about the impacts of working from home on physical health and mental wellbeing.
My gf basically does 3-4 hours of work a day including meetings and then literally naps or watches TV all day. She’s taught herself how to crochet and she’s done like half a cardigan in a week because she has so much down time
Boy i sure fucking wish I could get a gig like that. Instead i’m paid 2/3rds as much to sweat my dick, balls and ass off in a kitchen, standing all day, one unpaid break that i’m forced to take. 30 minute commute each way.
I can’t even look for work like that because even if I could find a job i couldn’t pass a drug test. I want endless, hell like torment for the people responsible for marijuana drug tests precluding people from employment in fucking 2025
they drug test for kitchen work now? fuck me when i was young restaurant work was the best place to find a drug dealer and half the people were high on the job wtf happened
They probably do test at some places but no i meant i can’t look for work-from-home work because of it. And although I love cooking for people, commuting sucks, not being in control of my environment sucks (the A/C breaks all the time, the school Im at apparently has literally only 2 maintenance guys), putting on clothes sucks. I’m just insanely jealous of my partner, her biggest complaints are just that her coworkers do dumb shit and she’s frequently bored. She also gets bonuses and shit, i’m staggered by how jealous i am
I think the only way I could work from home is if I manage to not smoke weed for 3-4 months (i’ll want to die because i’ll be unable to sleep and even if weed doesn’t always put me to sleep it at least helps me not feel like i’m sitting in bed uncomfortable trapped inside my own thoughts) and i manage to find something that doesn’t care I have 0 on paper office worker qualifications, or if I do some streamer shit but let’s be real, I’m not knowledgeable enough to teach anybody cooking info they couldn’t get elsewhere and while I’m ok looking i’m not charismatic and i’m an asshole, i’m not getting that hasan piker mega fan base even if i could tolerate the public scrutiny (i couldn’t)
I have a friend who’s a cook. For a long time, he hid his depression and didn’t know he had adhd and self medicated with weed. But it stopped working at some point. Luckily, he got into therapy, before something worse happened, but it got close. Now he’s got a family and is doing great. Not saying this is comparable and of course, in an ideal world, they just wouldn’t do those stupid tests. But maybe you can find something else for your sleep and your thoughts? Medication/therapy/exercises/meditation/journaling or anything? Wish you luck.
White collar jobs are way less likely to drug test, fwiw. Entry level still might, for anything above that it’s very uncommon, outside of specific roles.
3 days a week. Only plus is that I leave at like 3 and travel on “company time” since we don’t have any card punching mechanism in place. I just have to show my face in the morning and attend teams meetings.
My gf basically does 3-4 hours of work a day including meetings and then literally naps or watches TV all day. She’s taught herself how to crochet and she’s done like half a cardigan in a week because she has so much down time
Boy i sure fucking wish I could get a gig like that. Instead i’m paid 2/3rds as much to sweat my dick, balls and ass off in a kitchen, standing all day, one unpaid break that i’m forced to take. 30 minute commute each way.
I can’t even look for work like that because even if I could find a job i couldn’t pass a drug test. I want endless, hell like torment for the people responsible for marijuana drug tests precluding people from employment in fucking 2025
they drug test for kitchen work now? fuck me when i was young restaurant work was the best place to find a drug dealer and half the people were high on the job wtf happened
They probably do test at some places but no i meant i can’t look for work-from-home work because of it. And although I love cooking for people, commuting sucks, not being in control of my environment sucks (the A/C breaks all the time, the school Im at apparently has literally only 2 maintenance guys), putting on clothes sucks. I’m just insanely jealous of my partner, her biggest complaints are just that her coworkers do dumb shit and she’s frequently bored. She also gets bonuses and shit, i’m staggered by how jealous i am
I think the only way I could work from home is if I manage to not smoke weed for 3-4 months (i’ll want to die because i’ll be unable to sleep and even if weed doesn’t always put me to sleep it at least helps me not feel like i’m sitting in bed uncomfortable trapped inside my own thoughts) and i manage to find something that doesn’t care I have 0 on paper office worker qualifications, or if I do some streamer shit but let’s be real, I’m not knowledgeable enough to teach anybody cooking info they couldn’t get elsewhere and while I’m ok looking i’m not charismatic and i’m an asshole, i’m not getting that hasan piker mega fan base even if i could tolerate the public scrutiny (i couldn’t)
If your biggest concern really is just a piss test weed there ways to pass it even if you only take a couple days off smoking.
It’s even easier if you can get clean piss from someone and just smuggle it in. It’s hilariously easy to do as long as you keep it between 90-100F
I know someone who got a job at a prison (medical, not a guard) and successfully used synthetic piss they bought somewhere
I have a friend who’s a cook. For a long time, he hid his depression and didn’t know he had adhd and self medicated with weed. But it stopped working at some point. Luckily, he got into therapy, before something worse happened, but it got close. Now he’s got a family and is doing great. Not saying this is comparable and of course, in an ideal world, they just wouldn’t do those stupid tests. But maybe you can find something else for your sleep and your thoughts? Medication/therapy/exercises/meditation/journaling or anything? Wish you luck.
Get your partner to get you some entryish level office role
White collar jobs are way less likely to drug test, fwiw. Entry level still might, for anything above that it’s very uncommon, outside of specific roles.
drug testing is another form of class warfare and turning societal ills into individualistic moral failings.
Lucky. My commute is 2-3 hours one way.
if that’s every day idk how you even have time to eat and sleep
3 days a week. Only plus is that I leave at like 3 and travel on “company time” since we don’t have any card punching mechanism in place. I just have to show my face in the morning and attend teams meetings.
is it at least a well-paid job? or do you have to make that commute to like, work at starbucks?
450$ per month in India. Not great not terrible.