Working from home rules!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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  1. I don’t have to commute.

1a. I can sleep in every day and still be at my desk before anyone else/

  1. I don’t have to share an office with anyone, especially having to go into meetings in people’s offices where the fart smell has seeped into every fabric surface.

  2. I have no excuse to go out to an expensive lunch instead of making it myself.

  3. My productivity is like 200% of what it was in the office.

  4. No idiots annoying me because they don’t feel like working.

  5. Much harder for people to pawn off jobs on me.

  6. Instead of having to pretend to pay attention to stupid impromptu meetings/conference calls, I can turn on the speaker phone, hit mute and surf the SDMB.

Now I just need to find a job that will let me work at home…

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Cool!

I found out today that there is a plan in place for me and my fellow operators to be able to work from home.

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Indeed it does. I’ve only recently been able to work from home once and a while, and I have also noticed that I am able to get so much more actual work done when nobody is waltzing into my office to discuss absolutely nothing for 45 minutes at a time.

I really wish I could do it more often.

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  1. (which should be #1, actually): “Casual Friday”? Pfftt! Try Nekkid Everyday!
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Not so much ‘rules’ as “why working from home is great…” :slight_smile:

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“Rules” as in… “Working from home rocks!” not as in “Rules for working from home.”

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Lucky you!

My company allows you to work from home only if you have some pressing need, like waiting for a repairman, or having your car in the shop.

I don’t know if it’s a general trend, but my employer has retrenched with regard to telecommuting. There used to be a form you could fill out to request a TC arrangement, but no more. A woman who for years had been allowed to work from home three days a week, due to a bad back that would be exacerbated by enduring a 100 mile commute, was told she had to start coming in every day or give up her job. She left the company. And many of us are secretly relieved at policies like this: If they think your job can’t be done at home in your bathrobe, then perhaps they also think your job can’t be done in Manila or Bangalore at one-fifteenth of your salary.

Unfortunately, this is a disaster in the wings in light of population growth and traffic increase. TC was going to be the cheap easy solution to save us from the grind of ever longer commutes, as well as our increasing demand for imported fuel. Offshoring–the trend that torpedoed the great telecommuting hope.

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grumble, grumble, grumble
evil grumpy look

That’s great, Chairman!

grumble

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It does indeed rule. I’ve been telecommuting since 9/11 (I always feel a bit guilty that I actually benefited from that event), and now I have two children who pretty much have no concept at all of a father not being home all day. I can program and rub a fuzzy little head at the same time. On the other hand, I wonder how much lost productivity there might be when every third minute I’m looking her in the face and squealing “You’re so cute!”

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In general, working from home is great. There are a few drawbacks to overcome, but considering the alternative, the drawbacks are usually tolerable.

  • I live alone, so after several days of working from home I forget what’s it’s like to talk to people face to face.

  • You need to get out, at least once in awhile, and see that there is indeed a sun in the sky, and trees in the woods.

  • You are always at work, there’s no commute to break up work from home.

  • Your neighbors think you are unemployed, or mega-rich.

  • The little bit of exercise you used to get by commuting is gone.

  • If you smoke, you will smoke twice as much.

  • It’s either daytime or nighttime, the hour-hand on the clock seems irrelevant.

  • It’s difficult to maintain a regular sleep pattern.

  • If you’re not self-motivated, it’s not going to work out, you will never get anything done.

Now, if I listed the things WRONG with working in an office every day, I think I would still choose working from home.

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:smack:

I knew that…

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Maybe a mod can change the title to “Working from home RULEZ!!!”

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I get twice as much work done in half the time.

I can listen to any music I want, and not be subjected to other people’s crap.

I can work all night if I want, and do other things during the day.

I don’t have to hear, every morning, an hours-long discussion of last night’s “reality” shows.

I don’t have to be civil to people I loathe.

I can have a kitty on my lap while I’m working.

I can fix my own lunch, rather than spending big bucks on food I shouldn’t be eating.

I rarely get sick anymore.

I don’t have to work in a room with no windows or ventilation.

I can grow orchids in my workspace.

Nobody else ever uses my computer.

There’s nobody looking over my shoulder.

I don’t have to shave and shower and dress every single day.

I don’t have to plan my vacations around anyone else’s schedule.

I save on car repairs and gas and parking.

I’m home if I’m expecting a delivery or repair person.

I can shop or go to the gym during the day, when it’s less crowded.

I don’t have to waste my time participating in religious or political debates, with people who will never admit that they’re wrong (and neither will I).