'Why are we commuting for an office job?': Journalist sparks uproar for weekly 'supercommute' from Ohio to New York

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Mar 28, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

The horrors of the internet may be many, but it has its good points. One of the most practical of these is that for many jobs, companies no longer need every employee to be in the same place for things to get done. While the finer points of working from home are up for debate, it's great that we have the freedom of choice.

In theory, we are in the age of the anti-commute. However, for every few people who are committed to the WFH lifestyle, there seems to be a bozo who is doing their best to make up for all the time and pollution that others are saving. This was the conclusive response to one viral video in which a Wall Street Journal journalist revealed how he made a weekly, several-hour-long commute into the New York office from Columbus, Ohio. Surely, the face-to-face colleague time can't be that essential. 

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    herbal left enjoyer @SlurricaneH This should be illegal Follow
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    Portrait of the Postman... @realerjoetalley Replying to @SlurricaneH Follow "I went overbudget by 15% of $3200" equates to "I spend nearly $500 a month more than I would living in New York to live in Ohio and also have to wake up at 4 AM once a week to go to work (I still live in NY 5 days a week)"
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    herbal left enjoyer @SlurricaneH. 1d Yeah completely insane decision. Especially considering he's just bumming it with friends most of the time
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    Tom Wallen @Cereaza2.1d Replying to @SlurricaneH Wait, so he literally flies to NY every week and just sleeps on his friends couches? This mans' job cannot be important enough for this. Q1 173 1.5K ili 123K ☐ ∞ herbal left enjoyer @Slurricane H⚫ 1d He works for the WSJ, probably 95% of what he does is on the computer
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    Livylivliv @loulivia138 1d Replying to @SlurricaneH He's getting paid to literally do this, it's part of his job so I wouldn't feel bad at all Chip Cutter Reporter, The Wall Street Journal Follow Chip Cutter is a reporter covering workplace, management and leadership issues in The Wall Street Journal's corporate bureau in New York. His stories often explore how work is changing today. He writes frequently on return-to-office efforts, hybrid work and related challenges in the pandemic. His featur
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    Alex Z @AZinCLE • 1d Replying to @SlurricaneH What kind of job requires you to be in the office but doesn't care if you don't show up until 10 AM? 33 277 927 176K herbal left enjoyer @SlurricaneH. 1d He's a journalist
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    streetcar licker @StreetcarLicker ⚫ 1d Replying to @SlurricaneH that explains it مل TikTok @wallstreetjournal GA 3M ir Columbus BO 271 herbal left enjoyer 182 ılı 85.3K @SlurricaneH⚫ 1d Some people from Columbus, I'm sure, are fine people...
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    normie girl @lilwishingwell . 1d Replying to @SlurricaneH I just met some people who do this from charelston to nyc
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    thot choc @shreyabasu003⚫1d Replying to @SlurricaneH How do taxes even work 27 28 ili 50.4K ∞ herbal left enjoyer @SlurricaneH + 1d He probably pays Ohio income taxes but that's kind of bs
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    CTO of the Trans Agenda @SydZee99 Follow Replying to @SlurricaneH This would be fine if we had HSR
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    VANNIALL ♥ U=U @Vannialll · 22h Replying to @SlurricaneH the rent prices is what should be illegal
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    wooter @Wouter Hermans ⚫ 18h Replying to @SlurricaneH The logical conclusion should be: why in the are we commuting anyway for an office job?!
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    FREE marcus@marcusjdl. 17h It's cute in a Tik Tok but the effects of a long commute will wear you down over time even if it's a couple of days a week. Ask me how I know
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    herbal left enjoyer @SlurricaneH. 1d The knowledge of someone commuting weekly from Ohio to New York would put a 19th century American into a coma
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    JoyJoy @happyhappywho. 21h There is no reason that a person who clearly managed to perform their job remotely for years should ever be required to report to an office building & the fact that it's still cheaper for him to live thousands of hours away is a sign of societal collapse.
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    guava @guavavenezolana - 21h ..: how many people are doing this nationally at any given time i wonder
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    NA Max @EPM106.21h Kind of insane how bad Buddy is at pitching this lifestyle. "I spend $4000 a month to live like Llewyn Davis 5 days a week so that I can spend weekends in Ohio"
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    Reverend Mother @youdoingtoomuch If he don't get a new Follow job or move back to the tristate area. I know ppl who commute from Connecticut and Pennsylvania and even that is alot but flying from Ohio to nyc once a week is insane.
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    Gol D. Ross @DoNotBan Ross . 1d Corporations will see this and just be like "look we just really need you here" before laying off 13% of the staff
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