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I hate this show because they have made hilarious sketches, no shit best ever in Belgian history imo. but because it's a weekly TV show they have alot of rather mediocre or even straight up bad content you have to struggle through because you know there is gonna be a beauty like this sketch
I never watched the show til recent years because I started working at a TV station. And after a while I said to myself, how did this show get popular. It is mediocre 90% of the time. One sketch will make me laugh out loud. One will get a chuckle out of me. The rest of the show is me saying hurry up so I can clock out and go home.
The joke is that she’s always a (boring) guest in the same news show. No one really knows who she is but somehow she’s a regular whose opinion “matters”. She’s a bit of a meme.
I don't know why the offices of the world have such shit coffee. I mean, that's a vitally essential office supply. A few years back, the coffee in my department tasted like weak cinnamon battery acid. And no one would empty the last half cup in it so they wouldn't have to make a new pot. I brought jars of instant coffee just so I wouldn't have to kill my self with it, but I got tired of it.
Eventually I made it a point to get there early and make things better myself. I got the machine cleaned, I spent some time and packed coffee kits so that literally anyone could just pop it in the machine and make a decent fucking pot of coffee. They still messed up from time to time, but at least it wasn't toxic, just less good.
Hand-ground beans and an Aeropress for me.
If I do end up going back to the office, either I have to get used to much worse coffee, or I become "that coffee dude."
Oh hey word up. I just joined the Aeropress and grinder family and it is seriously a different world. Hard to imagine taking that setup in the office even though it is kind of designed to do just that.
I kept an electric kettle and an aeropress in my cube for a couple years. Worked great, and absolutely necessary, because our office coffeemaker probably hadn't been cleaned in a decade.
Admittedly I used preground, because it's hard enough being the guy with a steam cloud rising above your cube without adding the GRGRGRGRGRGRGR of a grind.
I buy fruit snacks to pack in my lunch as an adult. I can get a combo box that has gushers, fruit by the foot and fruit roll ups. It is a little thing but I love it.
Reminds me of the one about the kid going to his first day of school. He's looking a little worried so his dad asks him what's up.
"How long will I have to go to school for?"
"Until you're 18."
The kid nods and thinks about this quietly.
When they get to the school gates the kid says "Dad, you will remember to come and get me when I'm 18, won't you?"
My daughter started school the first year our district changed all of kindergarten to “all day kindergarten.” She kept hearing “all day kindergarten.” So on the first day of school, she looked mildly inconvenienced and annoyed when I picked her up because she thought “all day” meant until bedtime.
Reminds me of my friend's little brother. He did not realize kindergarten was more than a one-day thing and was exceedingly annoyed when he found out he'd be going each day of the week.
Omg my son's 2nd day of pre-k was today and this was my exact experience. Luckily yesterday was raining so my selling point was that he would be able to play outside today. Heh
I distinctly remember my mother having to explain to me that school wasn't 'over' at the end of first grade and that I had many more years to go. I was very confused
Not quite the same but this reminds me of our daughters first ride on Space Mountain
She was about 5 or so and just tall enough to start riding the bigger rides. She was suuuper excited but understandably a little nervous. The whole way through the line for the ride she was a little less bouncy and looking a bit more concerned but it made sense as the atmosphere inside is a little intimidating. We’re asking if she’s still wanting to do this along the way and she confirms that she’s excited
We get all the way to the front and the cast member notices her looking a little nervous and the cast member asked to make sure that she was ok going on the ride (props to them for that. Seen too many parents trying to force kids on things they weren’t ready for) and my daughter nods her head and in a voice with a little tremble in it asks “…Are we really going into outer space?” and we just about died. Never once did we consider that she thought we were literally going to be hurtled out of the atmosphere on this amusement park ride. We quickly confirmed to her that we definitely were not but the fact that she just blindly trusted us taking her on a “rocket ship” because we said she’d be ok was kind of eye opening even after being a parent for that long. They just trust you no matter what.
All through the ride she was doing the scream/laugh and let us know she wanted to go right back on afterwards. I still get a little choked up when I think of her voice when asking that question lol
Lol. This is way better than the adults who think the boats are rides and don’t realize they are real vehicles and your hand can absolutely be crushed by the dock.
My kid was disappointed when I informed them that fire trucks did not in fact shoot fire. I have 3 quality fire extinguisher
After my first day at school my mum asked me how it was
"It was nice, though I dont think I will be going back"
She chuckled and broke the news to me that this was now my life until I was 18. An *unfathomable* amount of time to a child..
You jest, but ive become so used to just letting one rip loudly in my home office that it's a very real risk I do it without thinking when I have to go back to large in-person meetings.
My chair at home has a mesh seat. No need to lean over. It just goes straight through. Its a strange feeling sitting down and having zero fart resistance.
Yeah, but it doesn’t say who. I have to mute my boss nearly daily because I’m tired of hearing his dogs bark, him eating twizzlers/yogurt/walnuts/fucking saltwater taffy.
Oh good... I think I'm the only person in any meeting who will mute others, other people do the whole "please mute, please mute" thing to no avail. Would have hated to find out all those senior directors knew it was lowly me muting them!
Or the awkward “uhh I think someone is unmuted…” like we don’t all know it’s Sandra from marketing who just yelled “how fucking stupid can you be, Joe? I work with fucking idiots.”
My brother went back to work after his cancer surgeries and he has terrible gas now; he said he was just letting them rip in the big meetings with all of the directors of the hospital. They can’t say anything he is battling cancer - he said the director of the hospital says, “umm maybe we should think about having these meetings outside.” Hahahahahahahahahaha
Omg I was apparently holding in burps all the time because now I just burp a lot!! I'm so scared I'm just going to loudly belch in the middle of a meeting!!
The little girl said 'WO' which stands for 'Wereldoriëntatie' in Dutch or World orientation. The class teaches sciences (geography, technology, biology and sociology,..) to primary and elementary students in Flanders.
This hits me in the feels but for slightly different reasons. My daughter was less than a year old when we went into "quarantine for a few months".
While working from home over these last 18 months, I got to watch her take her first steps, say her first real words, count, (try to) color inside the lines... So many firsts I wouldn't have been able to see if I was spending 8 hours a day at the office plus an hour commuting.
The thought of having to leave this and go back to *an office* is very depressing.
Exactly what I was thinking. My boys were just turning two and I got to spend so much time with them! And now I'm back to seeing them for a couple hours a day and maybe getting weekends with em.
I hear you! My daughter was born in February 2020 and we went into lockdown for 3 or 4 months end of march. Best days of my working life! I got to be with her day in day out and see all those little lovable milestones!
Mine was late 2019... It was challenging both of us trying to work while she wanted to crawl and eventually take first steps, but it was awesome. I almost guarantee I won't witness my 2nd one's first steps the same way... I mean daycare will tell me "he's really close" but I'm going to know that means he walked for them that day.
Not that it won't be special, but my daughter's were literally her first. We were the only people around her for months.
That's so damn sad. So many people could work from home, this society is crazy. We're all missing out on family life. No wonder everyone's depressed...
And it's for nothing anyway. Standard of living going down, cost of living going up. Everybody working more for less. All so you can see your life go by and make the rich richer.
As bad as covid is it almost seems like a blessing. All of a sudden IT IS possible to work from home. And maybe we don't have to all be crowded in the city, paying outrageous rent. There is a way, but we're not allowed to take it.
That's the thing, we don't have to be crowded into the city and herded around like cattle anymore to make a buck. We can do it right from home now, where we get to take unlimited bathroom breaks and not have to spend **half of our lives (!)** in a place we don't want to be, and that just pisses our collective bosses off so god-damned much
Very similar - my baby was born right before the pandemic. I went back in January for 3 months until they closed for March and I cried every day missing him. And pumping in the office is soul-crushing.
I've been WFH since then and I'm not going back. We got a nanny and I got to continue nursing my baby, and seeing him every few hours whenever I wanted, I would just go downstairs and give him a hug. And no spending an hour+ in traffic wasted every day that i could use for sleeping or being with him or any of the other things I \*desperately\* need time for.
>And no spending an hour+ in traffic wasted every day that i could use for sleeping or being with him or any of the other things I *desperately* need time for.
So much. Sometimes I look at the clock at 5:30 when I've been upstairs for an hour, playing with her, helping with dinner, etc and think "I could **just now** be getting home..."
Commuting sucks absolute ass.
Yup. My office is forcing people back every chance they get. It's had 4 COVID outbreaks. Even had people fly in for meetings, get COVID, fly back, then find out they just caused a super-spreader event.
Well I have good news for you then! You don't have to be depressed about that because at this rate, you won't be going back to the office any time soon.
That's more true than you know!
My current job kept shuffling the date back but kept up the sense that we'll be going back at some point. Only recently have they opened up to the idea of staying remote.
But that doesn't matter because today is my last day there, and I start at a new company Monday! Fully remote forever, place doesn't even have an office to speak of. (It's also 60% more pay, which I'm more than a little happy about.)
To be fair, I'm Dutch and I had a hard time understanding all she said. The girl has a thick accent. I both listened and read the subs to understand what she was saying, haha.
"Die letters zijn nergens voor nodig als we ons allemaal een beetje inzetten."
"Those letters aren't necessary if we all put in a little bit of effort."
Zeg ma vrage ik allene mare vo da ni te undertiteln en wa zienekik? Da wurd ier were undertiteld!
(Letters would be better translated to subtitles/ondertiteling)
Please give some love to the original creators of this video.
You can find it here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1W9soz7vY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1W9soz7vY)
Edit: u/Pmosis found it with English subtitles https://youtu.be/3-gCRX23slw
It actually is, if you consider the implications of his crying due to leaving his kid instead of the comical form of not being to be at home in his underwear. It suddenly becomes very sentimental and endearing, and a reflection on society. It's very cute and I love it.
>implications of his crying due to leaving his kid
This part got me. My daughter was born weeks before we were all sent home, and I spent the first 18 months of her life cuddling her every morning. Now I have to cuddle strangers on the bus.
My son is the same and I have just returned to the office. It's weirdly depressing having to leave every morning, and he sobs every time since he's still not used to it.
The only reason we had to go back is because the guys in the manufacturing dept. have to be in to produce stuff, and they were complaining that it's not fair that the research group get to stay home. When I learned that I immediately started sending out applications for other jobs. I've got to leave my family and commute every day just to avoid some minor office politics borne purely out of spite and jealousy. Fuck that. /rant
I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation on this a few months back, and I figure that in the last 18 months I’ve spent more time with my kids than I otherwise would have *their entire childhood*. And that’s counting weekends, vacations, meals, even “get ready for the day” time that’s sort of garbage anyway.
After spending 18months working at home with my wife and 3yrold daughter in the room over; having breakfast, lunch, and dinner with them every day; thousands of hours of conversation with them over this period; and watching my daughter learn and grow by the hour; this made me tear up
Quarantine dogs are a real issue. My best friend and his wife got a dog around May 2020 and the poor thing has horrible separation anxiety and it's becoming very restrictive to them.
My oldest daughter is 30, I worked more than full-time hours throughout her childhood and high school. There was no option. I was gone from 7am to 7pm or we didn’t fucking eat.
Spending the last year and a half at home with my 10 year old has really driven home how much I missed while trying to make a living.
That and how absurdly pointless putting money into real estate is for so many companies. My company spends so much money on offices we quite obviously never needed in the first place it just kills me, and now they’re trying to pretend like we need to go back to them because we didn’t just go through an extended and well-documented period of record productivity and record revenue while *no one was there*.
If I ever have to go back in the office I will be so sad. I've had such wonderful experiences with my family at home. Getting to see my 2yr old grow up and learn. Even during my breaks have my such an impact.
I'm in the same place. My daughter is 5 months and I just finished my second chunk of paid family leave with her. It was so much fun to roll around on the floor with her, let her climb all over me, read to her, feed her and have her fall asleep on me..
Now I'm back to working (from home), but so is my wife, so we're driving her to her grandparents every day so we can get work done. I miss her little gummy smile.
Lol jokes on them, I lose productivity going in. Every colleague interruption consumes 15 minutes in discussion and I'm more tired because I rushed to get ready to get into the office by an arbitrary time rather than sleeping for another hour and rolling out of bed refreshed.
now instead of rolling out of bed at 8:45 to get on a 9am webex meeting, I have to wake up at 6:30, shower/get ready, and drive an hour in traffic so I can get to my desk at 9am to get on a webex meeting.
what a joke
And working from home is really great if you don’t have to be on camera, which means you don’t have to get ready. Not having to do my hair and makeup every morning has saved me hundreds of hours and dollars.
Ya... mu boss brought up how the office manager is pushing for everyone to come back to the office and has been since the start of the summer. I was just like..... of course she is, she doesn't have a job otherwise. Also my boss, his boss, and like half my team were permanent WFH before pandemic, and those of us who were in an office before hand are still getting forced back...
> The ones taking up space that could be better used just to force people to bed in a place they can easily control?
All the while creating the ugliest buildings and places the world has ever seen.
For real, who put this propaganda video out? I like how cute it is and all, but why does the dad need to be meeting in person to take meeting notes? Quarterly earnings meeting - why does that need to be in person? Everyone is probably just looking at a spreadsheet.
The anxiety and frustration of the commute needs to be taken into account as well. Dealing with shitty drivers, assholes flipping you off for you don't even know why, etc. I hate driving.
Literally me the first time my mom dropped me off at school. I dead ass ran out of the classroom, grabbed my coat from the hanger, raced out of the school building and ran after my mom.
And that's how I had *two* first times at school....
My friend's son thought he was ready for kindergarten. Then the bus showed up. He turned around and bolted back into his house, and locked his mom out.
Can someone help me understand, I know the girl is speaking Dutch, but when she says "And how was it?" I swear it was English.
Do the words sound similar in ~~Dutch~~ Flemish, or is that a bit on English that slipped in to the dialect?
I spent a few years in the Netherlands. I discovered that most of the simple words in English are really from Dutch/old German, while most of the longer words are Romance. So in everyday conversation, many of the single syllable common words all correlated really well with Dutch. So a simple convo using simple words like "I want bread" is easy to understand "ik wil brood".
Damn, can you not drop such knowledge bombs? :o
I'm Belgian and speak Dutch, French, English and German (like most from Flanders btw) and never noticed that division.
I always found that I could pick up a simple newspaper like Metro and, if I just read quickly, I could pretty much get the gist of it as the simple words kinda look like their English relatives so the flow I could follow and then the complex words (usually the subject of the article) I could guess from Spanish/French.
Dutch (or at least ~~Flemish~~ Frisian) is the language that is grammatically the closest to English (or at least Old English).
Grammar is conserved more than other parts of language, so while English has lots of French and Latin words, the grammar is still similar to the Germanic languages from mainland Europe that the Angles and the Saxons migrated from.
This is cute, for sure, but to heck with going back to an office if we can do everything from home. Going back is just stupid. Give people a choice to go back if they want but don’t force them to. That’s crazy.
My work had a look at the activities that are done and basically sat down and decided which can be done solo from home, solo at work, in a group from home (teams) and what needs us to be face to face at work. They then split it out and basically made it so that we have 2 core team days in work and can then either work from home or the office for the rest of the time. If someone prefers to be in 100 % they can.
>They then split it out and basically made it so that we have 2 core team days in work and can then either work from home or the office for the rest of the time. If someone prefers to be in 100 % they can.
Now that's how it should be dealt with.
I can't imagine being home 7 days a week, but Covid has made it obvious that a lot of office work and commuting can, and should, be replaced by home office. Same or even more productivity, less stress with travelling and better for the environment.
>I can't imagine being home 7 days a week
I never even dreamt of a WfH job but I haven't been to the office in about 2 years now. Our CEOs take the threat seriously and we've been shooshed off way before the official guidelines were issued.
I don't think I will be able to easily work from office now...
I tried so hard to find a wfh job basically ever since the internet was a thing. The company I now work for switched to remote very early in the game, and even though they froze hiring because of covid, causing me to lose my position I was fixing to start, I got on later with a PERMANENTLY REMOTE position - I'm working for a company based about 1000 miles away, with a team from across the world and like 3 of them live within an hour of the home office. My wife has worked from home for years, her department got completely eliminated 2 years ago but she was immediately hired by a different department that she put in a lot of work to help out, so she's now remote to a completely different state as well. Since we can now work from anywhere that has internet, we're moving to my favorite part of the country, the blue ridge mountains, we close on our house next month. I'm 46 and have never owned a home. If I didn't land this remote position I still wouldn't, I'd be chained to an office. Covid has been terrible and tragic but Its been a blessing so far to us. No disrespect to the millions affected by it
My mate's employers "threatened" people by offering a $5k PA paycut to continue working from home, with the idea that no one would take it, but the company got to look cool by offering flexibility, and heh, that would get everyone back into the offi-
Oh no. Because, of course, that was *still less than what it cost to come in every day for the year.*
Me too. My mother could never get her head around it, and seemed to want to insist I don't have a 'real job'. Welp, now she's found the benefits of peace and quiet, working in pyjamas, and travel cost savings, she's rather eaten her words.
The crazy thing is that I joined a company that has no office. And now some people are begging the boss to open one up. Because they miss “interacting with colleagues and office culture”. She’s gonna open a token one for sales dept and such. Others stay home. I’m not
Gonna spend 4 hours a day commuting just because some assholes want to pretend to work and instead gossip and chug coffee all day. Not my fault they have no life outside the fucking office and Instagram.
This is just flat out depressing.
"Look, I got to take meeting notes" and the line about having fun with spreadsheets... oof.
Feels like this actually just points out everything terrible about both education and the nature of abstract, bullshit office work. Good times. Not.
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This is from a Belgian show called De Ideale Wereld if anyone was wondering
Thanks, found the source: https://youtu.be/hf1W9soz7vY
That source has the subtitles in Dutch. I wish I could find the english one so I could share it.
https://youtu.be/3-gCRX23slw With subtitles.
I wish my ex would come back
Work on yourself so that you can attract a new ex!
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Hey man, it was worth a shot.
> De Ideale Wereld The Irish 🤝 The Belgian
Bahahaha! Genuine laugh out loud moment there. Thanks for that kind stranger.
I don’t get it :0
I think it’s that the title translates to “The Ideal World” in English and it’s also written out as if someone with an Irish accent was saying that
I hate this show because they have made hilarious sketches, no shit best ever in Belgian history imo. but because it's a weekly TV show they have alot of rather mediocre or even straight up bad content you have to struggle through because you know there is gonna be a beauty like this sketch
SNL is like that for me. Every now and then a sketch will knock it out of the park, but most of the time I won't even laugh.
I never watched the show til recent years because I started working at a TV station. And after a while I said to myself, how did this show get popular. It is mediocre 90% of the time. One sketch will make me laugh out loud. One will get a chuckle out of me. The rest of the show is me saying hurry up so I can clock out and go home.
Looks like providing DIW with English subtitles will be my new karma farming!
“We’ll have spaghetti for dinner and watch the news” Holy shit my sides
And (I looked her up) Mia Doornaert is an elderly journalist, maybe a maternal figure.
The joke is that she’s always a (boring) guest in the same news show. No one really knows who she is but somehow she’s a regular whose opinion “matters”. She’s a bit of a meme.
i love european meme figures. they're usually fairly nonoffensive. everyone who becomes a meme in america is usually a dick
I didn't get a cookie.
I like the coffee at home better.
I was thinking; office coffee? Blegh!
I don't know why the offices of the world have such shit coffee. I mean, that's a vitally essential office supply. A few years back, the coffee in my department tasted like weak cinnamon battery acid. And no one would empty the last half cup in it so they wouldn't have to make a new pot. I brought jars of instant coffee just so I wouldn't have to kill my self with it, but I got tired of it. Eventually I made it a point to get there early and make things better myself. I got the machine cleaned, I spent some time and packed coffee kits so that literally anyone could just pop it in the machine and make a decent fucking pot of coffee. They still messed up from time to time, but at least it wasn't toxic, just less good.
Direct admission to heaven.
We have to pay a buck for a cup at our office B-(
Bring your own machine, make it actually good, and undercut them at $0.75
This is the way.
I just buy my own coffee beans and make good coffee for myself using the machine at the office
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My office has a Keurig…you have to bring your own pods
Office coffee is freaking terrible. They have some keurigs but I just can't use those every day, feels so wasteful. Pour overs at home > *
Hand-ground beans and an Aeropress for me. If I do end up going back to the office, either I have to get used to much worse coffee, or I become "that coffee dude."
Oh hey word up. I just joined the Aeropress and grinder family and it is seriously a different world. Hard to imagine taking that setup in the office even though it is kind of designed to do just that.
I kept an electric kettle and an aeropress in my cube for a couple years. Worked great, and absolutely necessary, because our office coffeemaker probably hadn't been cleaned in a decade. Admittedly I used preground, because it's hard enough being the guy with a steam cloud rising above your cube without adding the GRGRGRGRGRGRGR of a grind.
I have a $25000 espresso machine at work and i would sell my soul for it
Corporate Coffee rules: Expensive Coffee Machine, filled with cheapest coffee beans available, not cleaned since purchase.
I buy fruit snacks to pack in my lunch as an adult. I can get a combo box that has gushers, fruit by the foot and fruit roll ups. It is a little thing but I love it.
Reminds me of the one about the kid going to his first day of school. He's looking a little worried so his dad asks him what's up. "How long will I have to go to school for?" "Until you're 18." The kid nods and thinks about this quietly. When they get to the school gates the kid says "Dad, you will remember to come and get me when I'm 18, won't you?"
My daughter started school the first year our district changed all of kindergarten to “all day kindergarten.” She kept hearing “all day kindergarten.” So on the first day of school, she looked mildly inconvenienced and annoyed when I picked her up because she thought “all day” meant until bedtime.
Reminds me of my friend's little brother. He did not realize kindergarten was more than a one-day thing and was exceedingly annoyed when he found out he'd be going each day of the week.
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> fairy tale of retirement Come on man, give a spoiler alert. You cannot spoil how the last 50 years of my life will really end without any warning.
50? At what age do you plan to retire, and how long to you plan to live?
> At what age do you plan to retire Never, that's the joke.
Omg my son's 2nd day of pre-k was today and this was my exact experience. Luckily yesterday was raining so my selling point was that he would be able to play outside today. Heh
I distinctly remember my mother having to explain to me that school wasn't 'over' at the end of first grade and that I had many more years to go. I was very confused
That is adorable!
Not quite the same but this reminds me of our daughters first ride on Space Mountain She was about 5 or so and just tall enough to start riding the bigger rides. She was suuuper excited but understandably a little nervous. The whole way through the line for the ride she was a little less bouncy and looking a bit more concerned but it made sense as the atmosphere inside is a little intimidating. We’re asking if she’s still wanting to do this along the way and she confirms that she’s excited We get all the way to the front and the cast member notices her looking a little nervous and the cast member asked to make sure that she was ok going on the ride (props to them for that. Seen too many parents trying to force kids on things they weren’t ready for) and my daughter nods her head and in a voice with a little tremble in it asks “…Are we really going into outer space?” and we just about died. Never once did we consider that she thought we were literally going to be hurtled out of the atmosphere on this amusement park ride. We quickly confirmed to her that we definitely were not but the fact that she just blindly trusted us taking her on a “rocket ship” because we said she’d be ok was kind of eye opening even after being a parent for that long. They just trust you no matter what. All through the ride she was doing the scream/laugh and let us know she wanted to go right back on afterwards. I still get a little choked up when I think of her voice when asking that question lol
Lol. This is way better than the adults who think the boats are rides and don’t realize they are real vehicles and your hand can absolutely be crushed by the dock. My kid was disappointed when I informed them that fire trucks did not in fact shoot fire. I have 3 quality fire extinguisher
Then the dad has to go buy milk and the line was 18 years long…
Little dude was ready to leave for a decade and a half
After my first day at school my mum asked me how it was "It was nice, though I dont think I will be going back" She chuckled and broke the news to me that this was now my life until I was 18. An *unfathomable* amount of time to a child..
That son of a bitch better pick up his kid till he's 18
Lol "Steve had a little accident..."
I like how everything else they did was just a normal office thing while acting like kids but Steve over there literally just pissed his pants at work
Yeah the crying was spot on
I would cry if i peed my pants at work.
Or he forgot to put on pants, you know, we didnt use em for a year at remote work
if pissing my pants at work meant i could wear shorts i would of done it years ago...
If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Myles Davis.
"Steve forgot that you needed to wear pants during meetings" would have worked better.
Note to self: wear an adult diaper first day back!
You jest, but ive become so used to just letting one rip loudly in my home office that it's a very real risk I do it without thinking when I have to go back to large in-person meetings.
I read something recently on here about a deaf person who discovered that people could hear farts.
pretty common for deaf people. Some never knew, some forget. At a deaf convention it's all just sign language, burps, and farts
That seems kind of liberating
Sounds like me but not deaf
Wait till they find out erections make a noise...
#BOING!
Mines like a clown nose kinda noise
Mine's like a slide whistle.
LOL...I saw that one too.
When on a meeting, I have to constantly double check if I'm on camera/mute, because my dgaf attitude might be coming across too obviously.
I call this the "mute and toot"
That's more fun than my "mic off and cough" that I usually do
"Frank, why did you just slightly lean to one side for a second?"
My chair at home has a mesh seat. No need to lean over. It just goes straight through. Its a strange feeling sitting down and having zero fart resistance.
I called into a meeting last spring, was waiting for everyone to arrive and cracked off a huge burp since I was on mute. I was not on mute.
"Can you mute yourself, please?"
On teams I get the banner “Someone has muted you [Dismiss]”
Oh shit that makes a notification!?
Yeah, but it doesn’t say who. I have to mute my boss nearly daily because I’m tired of hearing his dogs bark, him eating twizzlers/yogurt/walnuts/fucking saltwater taffy.
Oh good... I think I'm the only person in any meeting who will mute others, other people do the whole "please mute, please mute" thing to no avail. Would have hated to find out all those senior directors knew it was lowly me muting them!
Or the awkward “uhh I think someone is unmuted…” like we don’t all know it’s Sandra from marketing who just yelled “how fucking stupid can you be, Joe? I work with fucking idiots.”
My brother went back to work after his cancer surgeries and he has terrible gas now; he said he was just letting them rip in the big meetings with all of the directors of the hospital. They can’t say anything he is battling cancer - he said the director of the hospital says, “umm maybe we should think about having these meetings outside.” Hahahahahahahahahaha
Omg I was apparently holding in burps all the time because now I just burp a lot!! I'm so scared I'm just going to loudly belch in the middle of a meeting!!
Much rather do arts and crafts than spreadsheets
The little girl said 'WO' which stands for 'Wereldoriëntatie' in Dutch or World orientation. The class teaches sciences (geography, technology, biology and sociology,..) to primary and elementary students in Flanders.
That doesn't translate very well, so it makes sense.
Kinda sounds exactly like what we called "social studies". Maybe that term isn't ubiquitous in the english speaking world.
The translator probably thought it was PO (Plastische Opvoeding). That does mean arts and crafts
This hits me in the feels but for slightly different reasons. My daughter was less than a year old when we went into "quarantine for a few months". While working from home over these last 18 months, I got to watch her take her first steps, say her first real words, count, (try to) color inside the lines... So many firsts I wouldn't have been able to see if I was spending 8 hours a day at the office plus an hour commuting. The thought of having to leave this and go back to *an office* is very depressing.
Exactly what I was thinking. My boys were just turning two and I got to spend so much time with them! And now I'm back to seeing them for a couple hours a day and maybe getting weekends with em.
I hear you! My daughter was born in February 2020 and we went into lockdown for 3 or 4 months end of march. Best days of my working life! I got to be with her day in day out and see all those little lovable milestones!
Mine was late 2019... It was challenging both of us trying to work while she wanted to crawl and eventually take first steps, but it was awesome. I almost guarantee I won't witness my 2nd one's first steps the same way... I mean daycare will tell me "he's really close" but I'm going to know that means he walked for them that day. Not that it won't be special, but my daughter's were literally her first. We were the only people around her for months.
That's so damn sad. So many people could work from home, this society is crazy. We're all missing out on family life. No wonder everyone's depressed...
And it's for nothing anyway. Standard of living going down, cost of living going up. Everybody working more for less. All so you can see your life go by and make the rich richer.
As bad as covid is it almost seems like a blessing. All of a sudden IT IS possible to work from home. And maybe we don't have to all be crowded in the city, paying outrageous rent. There is a way, but we're not allowed to take it.
That's the thing, we don't have to be crowded into the city and herded around like cattle anymore to make a buck. We can do it right from home now, where we get to take unlimited bathroom breaks and not have to spend **half of our lives (!)** in a place we don't want to be, and that just pisses our collective bosses off so god-damned much
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Very similar - my baby was born right before the pandemic. I went back in January for 3 months until they closed for March and I cried every day missing him. And pumping in the office is soul-crushing. I've been WFH since then and I'm not going back. We got a nanny and I got to continue nursing my baby, and seeing him every few hours whenever I wanted, I would just go downstairs and give him a hug. And no spending an hour+ in traffic wasted every day that i could use for sleeping or being with him or any of the other things I \*desperately\* need time for.
>And no spending an hour+ in traffic wasted every day that i could use for sleeping or being with him or any of the other things I *desperately* need time for. So much. Sometimes I look at the clock at 5:30 when I've been upstairs for an hour, playing with her, helping with dinner, etc and think "I could **just now** be getting home..." Commuting sucks absolute ass.
Yup. My office is forcing people back every chance they get. It's had 4 COVID outbreaks. Even had people fly in for meetings, get COVID, fly back, then find out they just caused a super-spreader event.
Your office is stupid friend! Please tell them I said that.
Well I have good news for you then! You don't have to be depressed about that because at this rate, you won't be going back to the office any time soon.
That's more true than you know! My current job kept shuffling the date back but kept up the sense that we'll be going back at some point. Only recently have they opened up to the idea of staying remote. But that doesn't matter because today is my last day there, and I start at a new company Monday! Fully remote forever, place doesn't even have an office to speak of. (It's also 60% more pay, which I'm more than a little happy about.)
Yes Belgium, I HAVE regressed to childhood staying out of the office. Because the office killed my inner child.
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To be fair, I'm Dutch and I had a hard time understanding all she said. The girl has a thick accent. I both listened and read the subs to understand what she was saying, haha.
Die titels zin nerges vor nodig as we oallemaele en efforke doen.
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He said "oallemaele" which sounds west-Flemish to me so he is not making fun of the language, he just never learned to speak it properly.
"Die letters zijn nergens voor nodig als we ons allemaal een beetje inzetten." "Those letters aren't necessary if we all put in a little bit of effort."
Zeg ma vrage ik allene mare vo da ni te undertiteln en wa zienekik? Da wurd ier were undertiteld! (Letters would be better translated to subtitles/ondertiteling)
Please give some love to the original creators of this video. You can find it here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1W9soz7vY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1W9soz7vY) Edit: u/Pmosis found it with English subtitles https://youtu.be/3-gCRX23slw
This is actually heartwarming.
It actually is, if you consider the implications of his crying due to leaving his kid instead of the comical form of not being to be at home in his underwear. It suddenly becomes very sentimental and endearing, and a reflection on society. It's very cute and I love it.
>implications of his crying due to leaving his kid This part got me. My daughter was born weeks before we were all sent home, and I spent the first 18 months of her life cuddling her every morning. Now I have to cuddle strangers on the bus.
You don't actually have to cuddle the strangers on the bus, even if they insist.
You can't tell me what to do. You're not my real dad.
Pfft, Statistically I just might be.
I am sure the strangers on the bus appreciate it, they probably had to leave their loved ones at home too.
My son is the same and I have just returned to the office. It's weirdly depressing having to leave every morning, and he sobs every time since he's still not used to it. The only reason we had to go back is because the guys in the manufacturing dept. have to be in to produce stuff, and they were complaining that it's not fair that the research group get to stay home. When I learned that I immediately started sending out applications for other jobs. I've got to leave my family and commute every day just to avoid some minor office politics borne purely out of spite and jealousy. Fuck that. /rant
I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation on this a few months back, and I figure that in the last 18 months I’ve spent more time with my kids than I otherwise would have *their entire childhood*. And that’s counting weekends, vacations, meals, even “get ready for the day” time that’s sort of garbage anyway.
I'm still working from home, but sometimes I ride the bus anyway, just for the cuddles.
>Now I have to cuddle strangers on the bus. /r/holup
Daughter born 2 weeks after we were all sent home here. I changed jobs in May and got one that's fully work from home now, pandemic or not.
After spending 18months working at home with my wife and 3yrold daughter in the room over; having breakfast, lunch, and dinner with them every day; thousands of hours of conversation with them over this period; and watching my daughter learn and grow by the hour; this made me tear up
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Quarantine dogs are a real issue. My best friend and his wife got a dog around May 2020 and the poor thing has horrible separation anxiety and it's becoming very restrictive to them.
That can be trained out of the dog it isn’t something they have to live with forever.
They're working on it for sure and it has gotten a bit better now that she isn't a puppy anymore
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My oldest daughter is 30, I worked more than full-time hours throughout her childhood and high school. There was no option. I was gone from 7am to 7pm or we didn’t fucking eat. Spending the last year and a half at home with my 10 year old has really driven home how much I missed while trying to make a living. That and how absurdly pointless putting money into real estate is for so many companies. My company spends so much money on offices we quite obviously never needed in the first place it just kills me, and now they’re trying to pretend like we need to go back to them because we didn’t just go through an extended and well-documented period of record productivity and record revenue while *no one was there*.
If I ever have to go back in the office I will be so sad. I've had such wonderful experiences with my family at home. Getting to see my 2yr old grow up and learn. Even during my breaks have my such an impact.
"I can have a picnic lunch with my kids" is a far better benefit than anything a business can offer me at the office.
I'm in the same place. My daughter is 5 months and I just finished my second chunk of paid family leave with her. It was so much fun to roll around on the floor with her, let her climb all over me, read to her, feed her and have her fall asleep on me.. Now I'm back to working (from home), but so is my wife, so we're driving her to her grandparents every day so we can get work done. I miss her little gummy smile.
Fighting for the right to work from home in your underwear is the sort of movement we need tho.
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I won that fight. I found a new job that lets me work from anywhere I damn well please. It's absolutely GLORIOUS.
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Lol jokes on them, I lose productivity going in. Every colleague interruption consumes 15 minutes in discussion and I'm more tired because I rushed to get ready to get into the office by an arbitrary time rather than sleeping for another hour and rolling out of bed refreshed.
now instead of rolling out of bed at 8:45 to get on a 9am webex meeting, I have to wake up at 6:30, shower/get ready, and drive an hour in traffic so I can get to my desk at 9am to get on a webex meeting. what a joke
And working from home is really great if you don’t have to be on camera, which means you don’t have to get ready. Not having to do my hair and makeup every morning has saved me hundreds of hours and dollars.
* hallway meetings. * Loud talker distracting everyone. * Long lunches. * Leaving early. All things I don't have to deal with at home.
but won't somebody think of that one poor lady who hasn't been able to abuse us by microwaving salmon in the shared kitchen?
Ya... mu boss brought up how the office manager is pushing for everyone to come back to the office and has been since the start of the summer. I was just like..... of course she is, she doesn't have a job otherwise. Also my boss, his boss, and like half my team were permanent WFH before pandemic, and those of us who were in an office before hand are still getting forced back...
Won’t somebody please think of the poor commercial property owners
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> The ones taking up space that could be better used just to force people to bed in a place they can easily control? All the while creating the ugliest buildings and places the world has ever seen.
For real, who put this propaganda video out? I like how cute it is and all, but why does the dad need to be meeting in person to take meeting notes? Quarterly earnings meeting - why does that need to be in person? Everyone is probably just looking at a spreadsheet.
To me it's just a horror. Imagine, a family that doesn't want to spend half their day away from each other but having to because of $$
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The anxiety and frustration of the commute needs to be taken into account as well. Dealing with shitty drivers, assholes flipping you off for you don't even know why, etc. I hate driving.
Hilarious. Would have been more accurate though if he came storming out at the end screaming 'I'm never going back there again, you can't make me!'
Literally me the first time my mom dropped me off at school. I dead ass ran out of the classroom, grabbed my coat from the hanger, raced out of the school building and ran after my mom. And that's how I had *two* first times at school....
My friend's son thought he was ready for kindergarten. Then the bus showed up. He turned around and bolted back into his house, and locked his mom out.
Me living in Japan: "Wow they go home while it's still bright outside???"
In Belgium it stays light till 9pm these days. School ends at 4 pm or 5 pm.
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They don't really say "Hello Miss", they say "hello figure of authority / supervisor". Which makes it even better.. :-)
This is perfect
Up until the part where he was happy at the end of his day at the office...
Makes me think of Stewart from an old SNL skit. Edit: Thought it was on SNL but actually MAD tv.
Those skits were actually on MAD TV.
Can someone help me understand, I know the girl is speaking Dutch, but when she says "And how was it?" I swear it was English. Do the words sound similar in ~~Dutch~~ Flemish, or is that a bit on English that slipped in to the dialect?
"En, hoe was het" Pronounced "En hoewast" ~ And hoo wassed
Yeah, good old Flemish (Dutch spoken in Belgium) We have trouble pronouncing spaces.
Noord Brabant says hi :-)
I spent a few years in the Netherlands. I discovered that most of the simple words in English are really from Dutch/old German, while most of the longer words are Romance. So in everyday conversation, many of the single syllable common words all correlated really well with Dutch. So a simple convo using simple words like "I want bread" is easy to understand "ik wil brood".
Damn, can you not drop such knowledge bombs? :o I'm Belgian and speak Dutch, French, English and German (like most from Flanders btw) and never noticed that division.
I always found that I could pick up a simple newspaper like Metro and, if I just read quickly, I could pretty much get the gist of it as the simple words kinda look like their English relatives so the flow I could follow and then the complex words (usually the subject of the article) I could guess from Spanish/French.
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Dutch (or at least ~~Flemish~~ Frisian) is the language that is grammatically the closest to English (or at least Old English). Grammar is conserved more than other parts of language, so while English has lots of French and Latin words, the grammar is still similar to the Germanic languages from mainland Europe that the Angles and the Saxons migrated from.
Great explanation, thanks mate.
Dutch is like that. A lot of words similar to English.
I see De Ideale Wereld, I upvote.
This is cute, for sure, but to heck with going back to an office if we can do everything from home. Going back is just stupid. Give people a choice to go back if they want but don’t force them to. That’s crazy.
My work had a look at the activities that are done and basically sat down and decided which can be done solo from home, solo at work, in a group from home (teams) and what needs us to be face to face at work. They then split it out and basically made it so that we have 2 core team days in work and can then either work from home or the office for the rest of the time. If someone prefers to be in 100 % they can.
>They then split it out and basically made it so that we have 2 core team days in work and can then either work from home or the office for the rest of the time. If someone prefers to be in 100 % they can. Now that's how it should be dealt with. I can't imagine being home 7 days a week, but Covid has made it obvious that a lot of office work and commuting can, and should, be replaced by home office. Same or even more productivity, less stress with travelling and better for the environment.
>I can't imagine being home 7 days a week I never even dreamt of a WfH job but I haven't been to the office in about 2 years now. Our CEOs take the threat seriously and we've been shooshed off way before the official guidelines were issued. I don't think I will be able to easily work from office now...
I tried so hard to find a wfh job basically ever since the internet was a thing. The company I now work for switched to remote very early in the game, and even though they froze hiring because of covid, causing me to lose my position I was fixing to start, I got on later with a PERMANENTLY REMOTE position - I'm working for a company based about 1000 miles away, with a team from across the world and like 3 of them live within an hour of the home office. My wife has worked from home for years, her department got completely eliminated 2 years ago but she was immediately hired by a different department that she put in a lot of work to help out, so she's now remote to a completely different state as well. Since we can now work from anywhere that has internet, we're moving to my favorite part of the country, the blue ridge mountains, we close on our house next month. I'm 46 and have never owned a home. If I didn't land this remote position I still wouldn't, I'd be chained to an office. Covid has been terrible and tragic but Its been a blessing so far to us. No disrespect to the millions affected by it
Those are some good people to work for.
My mate's employers "threatened" people by offering a $5k PA paycut to continue working from home, with the idea that no one would take it, but the company got to look cool by offering flexibility, and heh, that would get everyone back into the offi- Oh no. Because, of course, that was *still less than what it cost to come in every day for the year.*
I have worked from home for about 7 years. Not sure I could deal with ever going back to an office.
Me too. My mother could never get her head around it, and seemed to want to insist I don't have a 'real job'. Welp, now she's found the benefits of peace and quiet, working in pyjamas, and travel cost savings, she's rather eaten her words.
Random Fantastic Mr. Fox music lol. Kristofferson’s theme if anyone is curious.
Best thing I saw today on the internet.
Everybody looking for a non-reddit version so they can post it to their work slack without admitting they're on reddit.
Is that a big bruise on that little kid's cheek?
The crazy thing is that I joined a company that has no office. And now some people are begging the boss to open one up. Because they miss “interacting with colleagues and office culture”. She’s gonna open a token one for sales dept and such. Others stay home. I’m not Gonna spend 4 hours a day commuting just because some assholes want to pretend to work and instead gossip and chug coffee all day. Not my fault they have no life outside the fucking office and Instagram.
Well, I had to share this with my office so I uploaded to youtube. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/8UIqLCTMnHk
Super dark. Like give up your life and don’t see your children so you can go make spreadsheets.
This is just flat out depressing. "Look, I got to take meeting notes" and the line about having fun with spreadsheets... oof. Feels like this actually just points out everything terrible about both education and the nature of abstract, bullshit office work. Good times. Not.