Why do people assume everyone works in an office

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i noticed that too

when i was googling about how to deal with lethargy at work and one of the things said get up from your desk or something why do they assume everybody works in an office

Not everyone assumes everyone else works in an office

But plenty of people work in offices

the person that wrote the article about lethargy in the office, did not necessarily assume that everyone works in an office

then why they use words like desk and computer

you know if you dont specify what job you do in google the results seem to only give you advice that is only good for people that work in office

is an office a standard thing or one size fits all ?

I've never had a desk job too. All of my work have involved mops, buckets, shelves and workshop stuff.

It's difficult at times dealing with my current job. The hours can get very long and the work can be cold, hot, dangerous or on my feet all day long. The only real advice is from others face to face in the same job.

Only occasionally do I get a laptop out for work.

Goggle isn’t magic. If you do a search and do not find what you want you should change keywords and try again.
Try:
Workplace conflict
Workplace conflict warehouse
Workplace conflict service

Also read the first 10 hits, or 20 or 30. Most people read only the first 3 then give up.
After you trad the first 10 think carefully about what you found and what you wanted to find.
Google cannot read your mind, just your keywords.

I've never understood this either, as I have never done office work.

I also hear a lot about "working from home". I have never done a job that can be done from home, so the idea is a bit foreign to me.

Depends where you live and how good the public transportation is there.

The U.S.A. is notoriously more car-oriented than many other countries. But, even here in the U.S.A. not all places are equally car-oriented. Here in NYC, plenty of office workers travel by bus or subway.

The types of work the TV media and the government tend to do are all office jobs, or office related type jobs (E.g. paperwork, computers, meetings etc).
To these people this kind of work is "Normal" and as they are leading or influencing the thoughts and minds of the collective public, the public will naturally after spending years being influenced by the media and government brainwashing programmes, will start to think that office work is "Normal" and many of them just so happen to be in jobs that are different. It does not occur to them that office work is a very small segment of work that is out there and that as a percentage (Though muchhigher than it once was) it is still a minority line of work as the country goes. (By its very nature it HAS to be a small percentage because if it were not, both the government and the country would become bust in no time, as the office workers are generally not the ones (Apart from rare positions) that directly bring in their companies income. Normally most office workers will be sorting many employees masses of paperwork for them. (What I call "Unseen" work which must be done in todays crazy world, but in reality, if we did not live in a governmental system that is so power hungry and controlling, only a small portion of this is actually needed. (The average amount of paperwork issued since computers arrived went up between six and ten fold where computers were "Supposed" to have been labour saving devices which is why when each of us had to give our permission for the government and various companies to store our pefsonal information about us on a computer or a computer system, many of us fell for it and gave our permission thinking that it was a "Good" idea)).

Sometimes I wish I could work from home, because whatever job you have there will be cliques or someone you don't get along with, and while most NTs have the ability to not let it get to them, I lack that ability due to hypersensitivity, anxiety and RSD (RSD goes hand-in-hand with ADHD in most cases. If you don't know what that is look it up). So it isn't always easy for me, and it triggers depression. Also because I'm too nice all the time I am an easy target for people to take their issues out on, and I feel that if I retaliate or be tactless for once in my life I end up feeling really guilty and bad.
Only thing is I don't think I would cope working from home because of too many distractions, especially from the noisy neighbours and their constantly crying kid, and I'll probably have motivation issues. I get motivation issues when I am at work but being in the workplace environment where you're only there to work makes it easier to get motivated once you start.

If it weren't for Covid, I wouldn't have the job I currently have - sanitising offices, reception area and a kids gym at a place specialising in therapy for kids (although some adults use the psychology services).

Cleaning is very physical work and I admire anyone who does it. The closest I came to office work was doing a college certificate a few years ago. I learnt that sitting in an office chair in front of a computer for eight hours every weekday wasn't for me.

Retail would most likely be the worst category of work for me. Which is funny because I volunteer at a second hand store. But I try and stay in the area behind the shop where I sort clothes.

I couldn't work in retail, because I can't cope with noisy toddlers having tantrums. Also I get too sensitive to the moods of customers, so if someone talks to me in a certain voice I literally can't stop tears from forming and I have to go away and cry. Yes, sounds lame but it's true.

Once I was out in the shop hanging clothes on their appropriate rack when another volunteer came up to me to show me something on her phone. We were talking for about 30 seconds when a woman came up and said, "Well I was going to ask a question but you both are obviously too busy on your phone."

We just stared at her as she walked away. I felt guilty as anything!

If I can remember one little incident like that, imagine how I'd feel if those kinds of things kept occurring. Soon I'd hate the job and feel down all the time. I guess I'm quite sensitive too. Retail isn't for me either.

I take it much better when I'm not the only one being spoken to negatively. But when someone speaks to just me negatively on my own, I can't help feeling all vulnerable all of a sudden and start crying. I literally can't help it.

Retail is just a bad job for people on the Spectrum.

^ Is there such a thing as a good job for someone on the Spectrum?

For me, retail work worked out; well, it worked out well when I was doing retail toys, hobbies, pets, books, art supplies, since those were things I was interested in and actively did.

There was a time when I worked at a hobby shop the manager one day turned to look at me and said, "You know what you are, you're a Hobby Coach."

Hmm ...

There were a couple retail jobs I had briefly which were not about things I was personally invested in and where the emphasis was on sales goals and sales competition.
You will note that I had those jobs briefly.