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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I grew bitter and resentful towards people who complained about how hard it was to work from home and all the downtime they had while I had to trudge into “critical” work everyday for low pay.

[–] Saff@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That does suck, I also grew bitter and resentful to all the people with families being like “oh I got fit and healthy and spent time with my loved ones” while I went over 3 months without a single face to face conversation with anyone…

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

My cousin's wife divorced him after 6 months to move to her home country. Her stated reason was that during lockdown, she was isolated from her friends and family, and she couldn't handle being alone again.

It was hard on all of us but...uh...what does she think the rest of us single people did?

[–] Alice 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These comics always confuse me because I forget anyone other than children had to stay home (and even that didn't last too long)

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People stayed home for like a year where I was.

[–] Alice 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That must have been miserable for opposite reasons than my experience. :( Not fair that some people had to do that, but not enough to actually keep the numbers down.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Oh no it totally kept the numbers down and most of the country never saw Covid during the pandemic.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

A shutdown very well spent!

[–] cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The full remote time during the pandemic allowed me to slowly update my profile pic for work until people started asking me what my pronouns were.

[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was getting ready to come out to my sister in like late 2021, she had a really bad motorcycle accident and we were catching up and it seemed like the right time to tell her.

then she started talking about how a near death experience made her start re-evaluating some things, and then she came out to me and it was the fucking spiderman pointing meme. Both of us moved to WFH after covid hit so the timing makes sense, but it was such a wonderful coincidence.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 7 points 1 month ago

I knew someone at university with a twin sibling. One was afab and the other was amab. Both came out as trans. We used to joke that instead of getting top / bottom surgery, they should just get head transplants :-)

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 12 points 1 month ago

I started transitioning 2 years before the pandemic, but it was still nice to be at home and not having to deal with people in person. Lots of people were and still are not very accepting of my transition.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 47 points 1 month ago

Where's the "I started half a dozen hobbies and projects and didnt really stick to any of them" character?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Furry guy needs more confidence.

[–] Draconic_NEO@pawb.fun 9 points 1 month ago

@unexposedhazard
Agreed, he definitely needs more confidence.

@jojo

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I always struggle with the "shutdown" timeframe. Partly because I have a shit sense of time, but mostly because nothing really changed for me.

[–] xuxxun 3 points 1 month ago

I am also still in a "shutdown".

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Only thing that changed for me was the workload got higher due to coworkers getting sick and a nice reminder of my own catching the virus with what seems like chronic asthma

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 1 month ago

Oh my gosh, I had 2 kids, went back to college, rocketed my fledgling IT career forward and gained a mortgage during the pandemic. Granted I probably would've done all those things without the pandemic, but many of the pandemic era policies helped make each of those steps much easier than they normally would have been

[–] Draconic_NEO@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

I joined the furry fandom quite a bit after the pandemic lockdown was lifted.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 month ago

I got diagnosed with ADHD, BPD, and autism. Then promptly lost my health insurance so I can't actually, you know, do anything about the above.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Nothing changed for me except the prevalence of masks. Everyone I worked with got stuffed into an off-site office instead of working from home, and I'm still bitter about it. Nothing we did required anything other than a computer and maybe a phone. Fully remote helpdesk.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Some people started businesses. Some people turned their entire house into a Lego garden.