For people that don't want to work 8 am to 5 Pm and want to work from home, what stops you from working at a business? What are your reasons?

[sage2021]

Before COVID, it was the norm that people worked 8 hours and more for their employees at the place of business.
Elon Musk is trying to get people back into work the way it used to be. His way is normal. Working at home isn't normal. And he said if you can't come into the office, then you can't work for him. People, you got spoiled working from home. That's not the way to run a successful business.
Customer's (me being one of them) would call my insurance company and voicemail would come on, not a person! They continue this practice to this day. We need people to go back to work so when we need you, you'll be there for us instead of calling us back at YOUR convenience.

[FunkyMonkee]

I need to know for sure that I have a stable place to live before I'm gonna bother getting into a job. My greedy ex-cousins are trying to take this house away from me. They each already have their own house and, Patrick, the one that wants it the most, still owes my aunt (the previous owner of THIS house) shitloads of money for her old house, where he's been living for the past 20 years! He was SUPPOSED to have made a payment every so often but never made more than 2 or 3! He CLAIMS he's worth a few million! If that's so, why hasn't he paid for that house long ago?
After we get that shit settled, there's ANOTHER court battle with the bank that my aunt STUPIDLY mortgaged THIS house to 3 weeks before she died so she could give her fucking scammer buddies even MORE than the the $11,000,000 she'd already given them!! If I win that battle, I'm gonna have to give everything I've got and about $10,000 more than that to the bank (at least eventually) to pay them back her mortgage!
Had it NOT been for all these fucking greedy, evil assholes in my life the past 7 years, I could've had my second solo album recorded, a steady daily job, and at least continued doing my voice acting work!! I'm not about to bring all that gear up here only to have the sheriff or the bank lock me out of my house and risk losing it all to them!!
In the meantime, I'm stuck with having to pay a storage unit close to $500 a month to keep my things that I WAS able to rescue from my house that my greedy ex-sisters kicked me out of 4 years ago and I'm only getting just under $500 a month from my SS checks!! I get to keep about $30 from that check every month! I figure, I've given them about $22,000, so far. If I could've kept all of that, I could've used THAT to pay off the bank!! But, if I'd have been allowed to stay in MY house, as mom intended, I wouldn't have had to deal with this mortgage, anyway!!
So, the short answer to your question is, GREED!!

[Likes2drive]

They don’t want to commute I guess if it’s something they can do from home like answering phones or working on the computer then I guess 8 hours of that would get boring really fast. Laziness is definitely a part of. I work 50 hours a week and I’m in a truck making many stops so that’s impossible to do my job at home anyway

[sage2021]

@Likes2drive
What did these people do at a 8-5 job when they were at work all day? Work maybe?
And now they want their cake and it it too!
No, they cannot do office work from home unless the build an office at home that has everything a real office has.
I called so many businesses since COVID needing to get copies of stuff I needed and the couldn't do it. They wanted to email them to me. But I don't have a frickin computer to receive them. And I don't have a fax machine either.
I am tired of everything being pushed back on me to do.
My doctor wants me to use the portal to communicate with their office. I only have a cellphone and the lettering is so small even with my glasses on and a magnifying glass I still can't read it.
My apartment manager emailed my new lease to my cellphone 📱. It was 65 fricken pages! Now my place is running out of storage.
So, don't anyone try to tell me they don't want to work outside of the house.
I'm doing all the work sitting in my living room everyday on hold for Walgreens who tells me there are 100, yes, 100 prescription's ahead of me and I will have to wait!
Get back to work people and quit telling us you can't, because we can't keep doing your jobs from our living rooms.

[Likes2drive]

No wonder your pissed at them, yeah my stepdad is the same way and won’t even deal with places that only do things through the internet, I don’t have a fax machine either or a landline to use one and printer always needs ink to print anything from a email so I have to go to the library to print things out. I do feel like we are doing their work and unless they work in a real office they can’t even mail anything to us

[sage2021]

@Likes2drive
Thank you Hun! I knew you would understand me. And you are always here for me. I guess you don't realize how much I appreciate you and your support 🙂😘

[Likes2drive]

You’re welcome

[laly520]

working from 8 to 5 isn't in our human nature n its the new age slavery but we do it anyway cuz forced to
as for rest of what u said, it does make some sense

[Anonymous]

Probably laziness. Seriously there are people put there on videos bawling their eyes out cause they have to work 40 hours per week. I'm like wtf man I work 50 to 60 hours per week..

Fun fact it's almost entirely young women crying about this, not men, who understand the need to work.

[Redstang88]

To be fair your standard paper pushers can do the job just as effectively from home as from a desk. I want nothing to do with that lifestyle though so I know nothing about it

[sage2021]

@Redstang88
The problem with pushing papers at home is that you don't even have any paper, printers, ink, envelopes, or a real person that answers the phone ☎️ for the company.
It's 2024 and screw letting business' letting their customer that need something roll over to a damn machine, then have us, the customer have to wait for you to call us back because you were out walking the dog or having sex when the phone rang.
Customer's are tired of people answering the phones and talking to a person! Our time is important too!

[Redstang88]

Email and call forwarding? You can do 90% of most desk jobs from your phone

[sage2021]

@Redstang88
Why don't you come over here and do it for me like the way they did before COVID.
I guess you're one of the one's that wants to hold your cellphone and do all your work from your phone and stay home. Ahh, need a 🧸 teddy 🐻 bear and your favorite blankie too?

[Redstang88]

No I work on a tugboat. But I do all my paperwork on my phone, and see no difference in calling or receiving an email from someone in an office or their kitchen table. If working from home makes a shitty office more tolerable I have no complaints and that just means less people on the road during my commute

[NathanDavis]

I work at my own business... from home

[Anonymous]

The paragraph was too long so I didn't read it.