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San Francisco Vacancy Rates and Donna Getting Slashed
from The Chinese D’Amelios | The Tim Dillon Show #371 · #371
6 min
Tim cites vacancy rate statistics for NYC and San Francisco, then invents a bit about an office worker named Donna getting slashed with a pen on her way into a nearly empty San Francisco office building.
- Remote work is becoming the norm as people abandon traditional offices.
- Office culture represented a core piece of American life: the secretary, the boss, coworkers, fantasy football.
- Trading office Americana for Zoom culture means disheveled people logging into a hellscape from home.
- Tim defends work and offices despite socialist complaints about the meaninglessness of labor.
- The pandemic showed that when nobody worked, life wasn't actually peaceful or ideal.
- People in developed countries would happily take data entry jobs in a Long Island office with coffee and purpose.
- George, a mail carrier with melanomas, found happiness delivering to the office because people knew his name.
- People like Natalia derived purpose and belonging from their job in the office, even if they weren't special.
- Everyone thinks their job is keeping them from their passion, but many actually find fulfillment in office work.
- Eliminating office spaces sends people back to kitchens and creates isolated, disaffected unemployed people.
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