You must log in or register to comment.
You can tell who the introverts and who the extroverts were during the pandemic. For those that got to stay at home:
Extroverts: "My mental health is crumbling! I'll never be the same after this. Literally the worst thing that's ever happened to me!"
Introverts: "I just beat a handful of games in my backlog, read 4 books, started learning how to make Chinese food at home, and I just started learning Spanish on Duolingo. I'll never be the same after this!"
Is there a third thing besides extroverts and introverts? Because I hate being around people and I also hate being alone.
Maybe just don't try to to label yourself then, that's great actually
Welcome to the world of ambiverts! Not always a fun place to be hahaha
I'm the opposite of you. I like being alone and I like being around people.
Based on my quick Google search, it seems like ambivert more closely resembles your situation than mine. I may in fact be a fourth thing, which doesn’t even have a name: ;_;
Depressed? Antisocial? Grumpy?
Ambivert maybe?
Avert.
In case you actually care, you might look up what those terms really mean. It’s not always simple and takes some effort to understand your own nature. A lot of people don’t bother or care.
Otherwise the advice of not trying to label yourself too much is good.
As an introvert, I did a lot of things like that. But the tendency to be online more during that time started to result in depression. I don't have many friends but I do have close friends. Not seeing them kinda ate at me. Things still feel weird.
I'm introverted but I also hated being trapped inside for months. Am I a freak?
Right? I don't know what those people are smoking but it's cool to be able to meet my friends a few times a month and grocery shop normally. Being stuck inside too long makes you go funny in the head.
I'm an introvert who was afraid to do things I wanted to do outside the house. You are not a freak.
I never stopped Duolingo. Started in Day 1 of the lockdown and I'm over 1100 days in a row.
Also learned that I have a passion for cooking. I've been learning all sorts of fun recipes. :)
I thought it was more like:
Introverts: Nothing has changed.
I've historically been rather extroverted but has spent the last decade doing WFH and years leading up to the pandemic doing so without any of my previous friends group nearby. For me, nothing fundamentally changed, except for managers trying to pressure me into going into the office and be telling them "no".
I work in a hospital. I continued to commute to work and do my job through all of the shortages and all of the uncertainty. I died a little each day I had to stop my then 3.5yo twins from rushing to hug me at the door so I could change, drop my clothes in the wash, and wash my hands before they touched me. Then they stopped trying. It was a year before I was greeted at the door with a hug. I knelt there crying the first time they did it again.
I saw all my friends doing all the lock down things and knew that society and employers would never make it up to those of us who worked through it all. We didn't even get pizza parties because my hospital had a no shared food policy for infection prevention.
I walked past maskless protestors outside my hospital accusing of us every ludicrous talking point there was. For the first time in my career I questioned why I did it. Why was I risking my family's health and my own to take care of THEM.
Yes… #blessed
i worked more than i ever did during pandemic and made less than the people who didnt work :/
As long as you recognize that the thing to be mad at is exploitative labor laws that allow for "bare minimum to support yourself during these trying times" to be MORE than what you normally make.
it just sucks i could have been at home for 2 years instead of going to a shitty job lol
I still think the most eye opening part was watching the smog clear up in real time in India where the Himalayan mountains became visible again to many parts of the north
The visibility in Bangkok was nuts. Normally I expect to see smog rising up by 7 every morning, but the skies were like Montana clear.
From where ?
Must have been nice. I was an "essential" worker so I spent the entire time busting my ass in the middle of a packed grocery store, terrified of being assaulted by some angry dicknosed moron and bringing their lethal infection home to my elderly parents. I started having panic reactions to seeing unmasked faces, even those of close family members I was living with. Meanwhile, I kept hearing all these people talk about being paid twice my wages to sit at home and learn new skills like I had always wished I could afford to do.
And what did I get for all of my hard work? A fancy pin from my employer with a letter patting themselves on the back for protecting us. They didn't protect us at all! They actively defied the mask mandate and told us it was our own fault if customers threatened or attacked us for wearing one!
I was and am still blown away people worked through all that without getting/demanding hazard pay.
I mean, considering all the unions going on strike nowadays I'd have been furious if my union didn't seize the opportunity to demand better wages and working conditions.
My Union is banned from striking since I work in health care here in Sweden, yay us
I worked for the hospital system… I only remember dreading tomorrow and wishing for a moment to catch my breath. I didn't really get to work from home and I rarely got time off outside of my schedule.
It sucked! I didn't even get to enjoy other people's enjoyment 👎
No.
I was an “essential worker”. Nothing changed for me.
Samesies
Even if - as a software engineer - I got the long end of the stick.
Where does the flour for the bread come from ?
From the essential workers who don't get to enjoy this wonderful utopia everyone is so excited about. Ask healthcare workers how they liked the pandemic.
Right? This utopia is only for a select few who brag about how great it will be when they don't have to deal with anyone else and can just fuck around without having to think of others.
Some of us were laid of in states that didn't provide unemployment pay and suffered trying to find work, and being taken advantage of. They dream of a dystopia because they were on the good side of it.
Well obviously somebody has to toil so the rest of us can do fuck all, but if they're poor and far away we don't have to think about them too much.
I'd like to fully automate grain harvesting.
Fun fact: I once talked about this with a distant relative, and they replied "but wouldn't that imply a loss of workplaces for farmers?".
Funner fact: they basically have automated grain harvesting. Combine harvesters can use GPS positioning to drive themselves. They also come with remote controllers much like a model airplane, or drone does.
And yes, it does mean that the farmers aren't hiring as many farm hands as they used to.
Do you happen to have a link? I only find articles talking about attempting it, but not making it.
Unfortunately, no. I can't find the article that I read about it.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=825040354964874
That's the best I found
A lot of negative opinions on the tweet author here but there's one thing I'd like to note. My own experience during the pandemic was much worse than my average life, it was depressing to keep staying home at all time, I got infected, didn't get a proper medical attention for non-covid related stuff, etc. But after time passes the negatives look smoother and the positives get brighter, like that there were no useless meetings, much less pressure for doing stuff, and so on.
Also, I'm not sure that the author meant it to be 'pandemic isolation was great', more like 'it has shown us that there are things to be done at home'. Although for medical and essential workers it rather was time when they barely got home at all, but if we get to spend more time at home without the pandemic, then they will not be overburdened, I guess.
A lot of commutes going from an hour+ to the 45 seconds it takes to walk into the next room also opened up more time for your own activities
I remember how awesome it was isolating in my private life so I didn't share my heightened exposure with the people I loved, while I worked to transport people dying of covid from little podunk hospitals in towns that worked hard to pretend they didn't need to change a thing to any port in the storm.
I remember then getting broken up with, because the people I loved also wanted to pretend they didn't need to change anything while my work was filled with death.
Yeah. I remember what life is supposed to be like.
Ah yes, "everyone". I'm not even in healthcare, but as an "Essential Worker", I got to be exposed to the the virus before a vaccine was available as well as extra work, abusive people, and anti-vaxxer blame. The entitlement…
Yea, not many of us were so lucky.
I remember my brother suffering from depression because he just no way of getting out of his apartment
I remember people people dying and not being able to go meet/help them
I remember the working class suffering because they just couldn't work
I am not blaming anyone but it wasn't "singing and dancing" for most people except the most privileged
I know for many it was a nightmare, but as an introvert it was amazing. I was an "essential worker" so I still had to go into work a few days a week, but the office was most empty and wfh was amazing. Oh and the no traffic thing was chefs kiss.
When companies decided that COVID was costing them too much in profits, and workers couldn't be micro-managed from home or on a rotating office schedule, is when things went to shit.
There are plenty of industries where people are generally less productive WFH than in an office with other people. My coworkers distract me all day, but it's a lot easier to get or give help when we're in the same place. WFH was nice for a couple months, but I'm glad it's mostly over. Once we setup the capabilities to WFH we did keep them, so now we can WFH in an emergency or something.
What do you do? And don't tell me it's call center work because that's a lie, it's just management talk
Engineering design.
Maybe turn your hostility dial down a notch. Lol
Not sure about this. Normally i love staying at home for extended periods of time. Lockdown was a different kind of breed though. After a month i felt seriously depressed but i guess part of it was the pressure from the coming exams i had to write
"everyone"…
The poors: just another work day.
