+1 for Pastoral; you can get plain and pepperoni slices at Frank Anthony's.

No place to grab a slice unfortunately. Surprised a shop hasn’t open yet with all the development going on. As someone mentioned, Pastoral is pretty good, and City Tap also has solid pizza. But those are both overpriced individual pizzas.

Also UX here, and I’d echo that. I’ve been lucky in the sense that my dev and product folks have typically been located elsewhere, so coming into the office was usually more of a culture thing a couple days a week.

That said, there was and still is a “butts-in-seats” culture around here too. I live in the city and once worked for a company outside Worcester who only let me have one remote day, despite a commute of about two hours each way, traffic permitting. Ironically, it was an IC role with all overseas teammates and stakeholders. 🤷🏻‍♂️

They were genuinely confused and surprised when I left for a hybrid role in the city.

Yep, $8.5M for 5 years was the contract.

It doesn't always update in time (it did us dirty last Friday) and honestly doesn't matter as I'm an SL3 commute. There is literally no way to avoid it.

I’ll throw my non-driving one out here:

When I ride my bike to work (South End, Mass/Cass) from Porter Square. Half the commute is ok, I ride in protected lanes to the river and then to Mass bridge where I only have to worry about pedestrians.

THEN DOWN MASS AVE from the bridge. Holy shit I almost die 3-4 times every commute.

My point, exactly. Will he be hobbled by bureaucrats or will he be allowed to improve our system. Time will tell. In the meantime, bring a book to kill time while waiting in the station.

I interviewed for a job at that building once. I ended up not getting it, but it would've been my dream commute.

I wouldn't worry so much about walking but parking my car? Higher chance than most of Boston it may get broken into.

Reading on it now! Thanks a ton.

Got it thank u!

Pastoral in fort point is an option.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/117ortv/now_that_transit_is_subscription_oriented_what/

There’s gonna be a hundred other people walking the same direction, it literally could not be safer. Walk across the lock if you don’t want to deal with chaotic traffic, plus a kind of unique experience

Uh what now?

There is no good pizza in seaport. Though, you can UberEats yourself a pizza from Ernesto's in the North End.

Not part of my commute, but trying to get down Brighton Ave or Harvard Ave in Allston at any time of day is always a nightmare

My wife works in municipal government and there does seem to be a mentality on the positive side that while you won't make as much, your job is very secure and you are entirely off the clock after 5pm (except for very specific days), but on the negative side some people take advantage of that and will not do any extra work no matter how minute and become almost completely useless but not quite useless enough to get fired.

And then there are things that I do or buy that I don't think twice about, whereas she would have to convince so many people for approval or it might technically be illegal to do the same thing.

Sometimes it feels like towns and cities could be so much better if they paid just a little bit more. Doesn't have to be the same as the private sector, but they'd open up themselves to such better candidates if they paid a couple grand more across the board.

Trackthet is the site i use

They have a huge block party for one of the holidays, it looks fun.

I was mostly hybrid in my software career before Covid since my teams were often distributed, so it wasn’t really necessary for me to be there. Most managers I’ve had wanted us in three days a week, but it was mostly just for culture, since everyone would just sit at their desks on calls with the folks that they actually worked directly with.

You think press conferences are for absolute truth and whining? Or maybe he's smart and playing optics and politics, which are both good for someone in his position.

i'm taking my life in my hands every time i go past the museum of science.

Salmagundi! Unfortunately the vintage place closed.

Salsa night is open to the public. I wandered in from the bar that used to be next door a few times and had a lot of fun.