'I can't come to the office because of
inflation!': Remote workers now claim
skyrocketing cost of gas and childcare
under Biden administration is making it
too expensive for them to commute as they
fight to work from home
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Natasha Anderson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/20/2022 10:46:49 AM
Remote employees are blaming Biden-fueled inflation rates and skyrocketing costs of gas and childcare for their continued to need to work from home. Now that coronavirus positivity rates are low, remote work proponents are no longer blaming their desire to stay home on safety concerns, but instead on the financial impacts of their daily office routine, which is far pricer than when the U.S. shut down in March 2020. Consumer prices reached 8.5 percent last month, nearly double what were in March 2021, and the highest inflation rate increase the country has seen since 1981.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/20/2022 11:09:02 AM (No. 1133404)
Well, that would keep demand for gasoline down and help with shortages and alleviate prices. Maybe even a lot.
Or they could follow obumbum’s idea and air up their tire and save millions of barrels of oil.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/20/2022 11:40:21 AM (No. 1133428)
6 of one and half a dozen of the other!! Obviously they do not understand that staying home, they will be using more electricity!!
3 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 4/20/2022 11:44:15 AM (No. 1133432)
I'm trying to retire and cant get my employee records straightened out because all of HR is "working from home", which means they arent working at all. Its a stupid concept.
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
msjena 4/20/2022 11:55:49 AM (No. 1133439)
They chose to live far from their jobs. No sympathy. In addition to using more electricity, they are using more heating gas or oil and causing wear and tear on their furniture and rugs. They also have to supply their own paper, ink, pens, etc. All of that assumes they are actually at home, working. I predict WFH will turn out to be one of the biggest scams to come out of the pandemic.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Daisymay 4/20/2022 11:58:34 AM (No. 1133441)
I guess I'm too old to see WHY a person thinks it's ok to now demand they be allowed to stay home from the Office and still keep their job. Do they think any of us LIKED driving in the sleet and snow to our job in the winter? Or that we would have loved being able to sit around all day in our PJ's and then clock in eight hours? I know there is a huge difference between the Two scenarios! One, you work at your desk, in the office, all day. The other you take your coffee to your laptop, chat with your Spouse, chase your Little Ones around, go out and cut the Grass, throw in a load of Laundry and maybe wash the Car. In between, you check your Laptop to see if anyone notices you're gone! Great if you can pull it off! I would suspect there are lots of Folks who would happily do it the Old Fashioned way and show up at the Office who would like YOUR Job!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Scrubber 4/20/2022 12:19:26 PM (No. 1133452)
“…skyrocketing cost of gas and childcare
under Biden administration IS making it …”.
Whatever happened to English?
4 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 4/20/2022 12:34:23 PM (No. 1133457)
What are the Wokes going to do with all of the rented, and (in some cases), renovated office space… and no one to occupy it…?
#6, I’ve noticed in the last several days that the DM’s grammar has gone south. No English standards any more.
4 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 4/20/2022 12:42:07 PM (No. 1133464)
My son works from home for a big corporation. His nearby office closed. His commute would be over 70 miles if he had to return to an office. He does stay at his computer most of the time.
He lets the dog in and out. He's learned to maximize his break times.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/20/2022 12:49:25 PM (No. 1133465)
Here in Fla, State Farm Insurance sent all their corporate employees home to work, then immediately put their office complex up for sale. Working from home saves a lot of money for the employer, while passing on the costs to employees.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/20/2022 1:36:14 PM (No. 1133495)
"It's going to be even harder when you don't have a job!"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/20/2022 1:50:37 PM (No. 1133508)
Dam supply chain. Where Butt Gig when you need him ? Never mind, don't need him.
HEADLINE Failed Transport secretary and husband plan for 2024 presidential run.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2022 2:49:58 PM (No. 1133572)
"Well, if you can't come to work.....we can't pay you." would seem to be a likely response from employers.
5 people like this.
I don't know about those workers. I was a person doing analysis and writing reports. My experience, was that my productivity increased drastically and enabled me to complete long difficult analyses and reports when I worked from home. I was spared colleagues dropping by my office interrupting my work with idle gossip—particularly when there was something controversial, like a change in management going on. I kept in contact with my secretary, came by to pick up mail and talk to colleagues as needed. I know of a few others who have had comparable experience. That was back in the 1960's and '70s and had nothing to do with inflation or COVID.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/20/2022 3:12:51 PM (No. 1133593)
#6
A peculiarity of British English that annoys me to no end.
"…skyrocketing cost of gas and childcare under Biden administration IS making it …”.
They are treating cost as the singular.
The do just the opposite on names of bands and sports teams.
They say something like, "Led Zeppelin are a great band" or "Liverpool are a great team,"
where Americans refer to them in the singular, "Led Zeppelin IS a great band" or "Liverpool IS a great team."
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