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Colleague competed with me about how they have a longer commute.

Seriously? We're in the same team and sometimes we travel to the client office for work. Right now it's not an uncomfortable distance for me and we get to work remote most of the time anyway. So during one such remote meeting we were discussing how the client would be moving to a different office soon. I remarked that I wish they move closer to the city so my commute can be shorter, else I might just opt to work from home more. In fact, I do like to go into work, it's nice to meet people sometimes and have fun with them. Colleague immediately responds with how they used to travel over an hour at their last client, this client is still about 40 minutes one way; and a long commute is not such a big deal. They went on a small tirade about how people can't always complain…


Seriously?

We're in the same team and sometimes we travel to the client office for work. Right now it's not an uncomfortable distance for me and we get to work remote most of the time anyway. So during one such remote meeting we were discussing how the client would be moving to a different office soon. I remarked that I wish they move closer to the city so my commute can be shorter, else I might just opt to work from home more. In fact, I do like to go into work, it's nice to meet people sometimes and have fun with them.

Colleague immediately responds with how they used to travel over an hour at their last client, this client is still about 40 minutes one way; and a long commute is not such a big deal. They went on a small tirade about how people can't always complain about having to travel because they themselves are so used to travelling long distances to and from work and I was like ??? First of all, if you wanna go, then go. But don't assume people are willing to give up two or more hours every day ON TOP of their 9 hour work day to travel to and from the office. I would understand if this came from some older professional but this person is younger than me. I was just listening like “Uh…. okay yeah sure haha”

These people are ruining it for the rest of us, I tell you.

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