Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson speaks at the "State of Downtown" event hosted by the Downtown Seattle Association at the Seattle Convention
“The vibe is totally different. We can be more productive. People are getting to know each other. It’s just a lot more fun.”
Weigh that against individual autonomy of schedule, commuting cost/hassle, environmental impact and it’s a no brainer— the downtown office model is dead.
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Loans are fucked and her bosses know it— and they sent this lady out with a dixie cup to bail out a sinking supertanker.
You can write those bad bets to zero boys, that money is <poof> gone.
The fuck? How is that a rationale for forcibly fighting a natural change in work culture? We’re going to force people to relocate, force people to spend a ton of time and money commuting, force people to unnecessarily damage the environment, force people to spend time away from their families, because she prefers a different vibe?
Translation: “I don’t have any stats on lowered productivity so I’m going to make meaningless ‘vibe’ statements to justify my anti work from home bias.”
When you look at actual studies, the numbers are all over the place. Some say 30% of people are introverted, some say 50:50, some say 57% introverted.
My opinion gets weighted by these 2 observations:
There are 10-20 people on the stage, and thousands in each audience. There is a difference between social neediness and extroversion. Even center introverts will have their thing they enjoy doing to be social from time to time, like going to a play, sporting event, or movie. The extroverts are on the stage. Only a small percent of the audience is actually extroverted.
Depending on how the data is collected, extroverts, or people who still try to convince themselves they are extroverts, are the ones who are going to approach the study and answer, so naturally, any figure you get in this kind of study, double your figures for introvert so you can factor for all the introverts that ducked your survey.
Being fun has nothing to do with being productive. Do you know what’s not fun for everyone who lives on the Eastside? Sitting in dead stop traffic on the 520 for 2 hours every day, just so they can sit alone at a desk in an office in Seattle and telecommute with their team in other parts of the country. This lady can fuck right off with her bullshit lies that pander to the city’s sales tax, tolls, and parking revenue. She doesn’t give a fuck about vibe, she cares about the city income, and the profitability of the commercial real estate tycoons that pad her pockets.
These are her reasons:
“The vibe is totally different. We can be more productive. People are getting to know each other. It’s just a lot more fun.”
Weigh that against individual autonomy of schedule, commuting cost/hassle, environmental impact and it’s a no brainer— the downtown office model is dead.
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Loans are fucked and her bosses know it— and they sent this lady out with a dixie cup to bail out a sinking supertanker.
You can write those bad bets to zero boys, that money is <poof> gone.
The fuck? How is that a rationale for forcibly fighting a natural change in work culture? We’re going to force people to relocate, force people to spend a ton of time and money commuting, force people to unnecessarily damage the environment, force people to spend time away from their families, because she prefers a different vibe?
Translation: “I can’t get my rocks off unless I’m bossing people around and making them miserable in person.”
Translation: “I don’t have any stats on lowered productivity so I’m going to make meaningless ‘vibe’ statements to justify my anti work from home bias.”
I’m an extrovert, so even though there are far more introverts than extroverts, I demand that everyone be extroverted.
Citation needed. Badly. I’m an introvert and it’s pretty obvious from where I stand that the world revolves around the needs of extroverts.
Sadly, my statement is a confident opinion.
When you look at actual studies, the numbers are all over the place. Some say 30% of people are introverted, some say 50:50, some say 57% introverted.
My opinion gets weighted by these 2 observations:
There are 10-20 people on the stage, and thousands in each audience. There is a difference between social neediness and extroversion. Even center introverts will have their thing they enjoy doing to be social from time to time, like going to a play, sporting event, or movie. The extroverts are on the stage. Only a small percent of the audience is actually extroverted.
Depending on how the data is collected, extroverts, or people who still try to convince themselves they are extroverts, are the ones who are going to approach the study and answer, so naturally, any figure you get in this kind of study, double your figures for introvert so you can factor for all the introverts that ducked your survey.
Being fun has nothing to do with being productive. Do you know what’s not fun for everyone who lives on the Eastside? Sitting in dead stop traffic on the 520 for 2 hours every day, just so they can sit alone at a desk in an office in Seattle and telecommute with their team in other parts of the country. This lady can fuck right off with her bullshit lies that pander to the city’s sales tax, tolls, and parking revenue. She doesn’t give a fuck about vibe, she cares about the city income, and the profitability of the commercial real estate tycoons that pad her pockets.