They weren’t bizarre. He was doing it because all he has to offer are dumb gimmicks like the ridiculous outfits that get him out of doing any housework or childcare at home and get him Boomer votes from people who are frightened of the modern world.
The Daily Mail was 100% behind him and still publishes anti-work-from-home articles regularly because people who work from home don’t buy the Daily Mail to read on the train. Some other paper published an article a few months ago about what working from home has done to Daily Mail circulation figures.
It’s yet another sign of the shocking and unchecked decline that’s happening in the UK that the solution to outdated, overcrowded roads and unaffordable, overwhelmed, outdated, and unreliable public transportation is for people to stay home, but that’s where we are.
I had to move into an overpriced, cramped city centre studio before the pandemic because I was spending over £100 per week to get home in taxis late at night after waiting hours for buses that didn’t show up (we’re talking buses scheduled to come every 10 minutes that would not show up for over three hours). Working from home has give people lives and disposable income.
hobbityone on
It was always a way of just making people’s lives needlessly more stressful.
Their attacks weren’t based on any evidence or the need to meet specific objectives. It was just a small measure of arbitrary control they could exert.
The fact the haunted pencil felt the need to go around departmental offices leaving stupid notes when there was an empty space solidifies
ucardiologist on
Jacob Rees mog is a scrounger that has wasted taxpayers money like many other people on benefits I see the politicians in England as waste of tax payers money for producing nothing but some mumbled posh words from his high education childhood paid with slavery trade money by people that have probably never worked in their lives
kahnindustries on
I dont think his attacks were based in anything related to the world of work
He was courting the boomer votes. He saw them grumbling about it during/after covid and grabbed it as a way to pander to them
“In my day we used to walk 25 miles up hill each way to get to the office, where we were beaten with sticks for 8 hours” – Boomers
Boomers hate that future generations may be better off than them in some small way, every decision they have made in their life was to horde wealth and punnish everyone else in the community
Dull-Equipment1361 on
Government services were more efficient and useful when it’s workers had to go in. We didn’t have to wait so long for a new passport in the past like now.
WFH has its place but in the public sector it’s led to a lower quality service – clearly they don’t know how to monitor their staff from home
stesha83 on
I’ll never forget him going office by office counting bodies for “efficiency” when he could have just asked every building in the country to report their stats via the fire register.
Careful-Swimmer-2658 on
The anti WFH hysteria from the right is doubly stupid given that we all did it for over a year during COVID and not only did the sky not fall in, productivity went up in a lot of cases and pollution levels fell dramatically. Although to be fair, there’s a lot of rich people with commercial property portfolios and we wouldn’t want them to lose money would we.
blackleydynamo on
Everything about JRM is bizarre. I don’t understand how he ever got a single vote. Who the fuck looks at that haunted wardrobe and thinks “yep, that’s who I want representing me in the nation’s forum”? See also Michael Fabricant.and Liz Truss.
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They weren’t bizarre. He was doing it because all he has to offer are dumb gimmicks like the ridiculous outfits that get him out of doing any housework or childcare at home and get him Boomer votes from people who are frightened of the modern world.
The Daily Mail was 100% behind him and still publishes anti-work-from-home articles regularly because people who work from home don’t buy the Daily Mail to read on the train. Some other paper published an article a few months ago about what working from home has done to Daily Mail circulation figures.
It’s yet another sign of the shocking and unchecked decline that’s happening in the UK that the solution to outdated, overcrowded roads and unaffordable, overwhelmed, outdated, and unreliable public transportation is for people to stay home, but that’s where we are.
I had to move into an overpriced, cramped city centre studio before the pandemic because I was spending over £100 per week to get home in taxis late at night after waiting hours for buses that didn’t show up (we’re talking buses scheduled to come every 10 minutes that would not show up for over three hours). Working from home has give people lives and disposable income.
It was always a way of just making people’s lives needlessly more stressful.
Their attacks weren’t based on any evidence or the need to meet specific objectives. It was just a small measure of arbitrary control they could exert.
The fact the haunted pencil felt the need to go around departmental offices leaving stupid notes when there was an empty space solidifies
Jacob Rees mog is a scrounger that has wasted taxpayers money like many other people on benefits I see the politicians in England as waste of tax payers money for producing nothing but some mumbled posh words from his high education childhood paid with slavery trade money by people that have probably never worked in their lives
I dont think his attacks were based in anything related to the world of work
He was courting the boomer votes. He saw them grumbling about it during/after covid and grabbed it as a way to pander to them
“In my day we used to walk 25 miles up hill each way to get to the office, where we were beaten with sticks for 8 hours” – Boomers
Boomers hate that future generations may be better off than them in some small way, every decision they have made in their life was to horde wealth and punnish everyone else in the community
Government services were more efficient and useful when it’s workers had to go in. We didn’t have to wait so long for a new passport in the past like now.
WFH has its place but in the public sector it’s led to a lower quality service – clearly they don’t know how to monitor their staff from home
I’ll never forget him going office by office counting bodies for “efficiency” when he could have just asked every building in the country to report their stats via the fire register.
The anti WFH hysteria from the right is doubly stupid given that we all did it for over a year during COVID and not only did the sky not fall in, productivity went up in a lot of cases and pollution levels fell dramatically. Although to be fair, there’s a lot of rich people with commercial property portfolios and we wouldn’t want them to lose money would we.
Everything about JRM is bizarre. I don’t understand how he ever got a single vote. Who the fuck looks at that haunted wardrobe and thinks “yep, that’s who I want representing me in the nation’s forum”? See also Michael Fabricant.and Liz Truss.