All week, no lemon bars in the caf. Today, not even any brownies.
Plus an arseload of rain. Today is no fair.
Who here telecommutes? Ever, or occasionally, or regularly? Is anyone living the dream?
In my group, we have all the pieces--I can take my laptop home and connect via broadband (which they even used to pay for) to the company network just as if I were here, but slower. Or I can connect to my laptop from home, and remotely use its applications.
Yet-no. No telecommuting without a reason, like illness/injury, or some sort of appointment. My managers have been very good about allowing us to do so with a valid excuse, but still. The idea that I could stay home and wrangle five conference calls and update documentation once a week--no go. Much of what I have to do can be face to face, but when you consider how many facilities we have in how many states, remote meetings aren't unheard of, by a long shot.
Yet, outside Polgara or people who work from a home office primarily, I just never encounter folks even in IT who get to take advantage of the technology.
Also, I want chocolate.
We have folks here who work from home occaisionally. There was a time where people at our corporate office were doing it constantly, but then folks outside the department started complaining they could never locate people (mostly because said people preferred to walk into the IT department and do the potty dance at their desk until the IT person noticed them instead of picking up the phone) and the rules got changed to require a certain amount of rigamorole in order to do it.
It's never been an option for me. It's rather difficult to do hardware support remotely. I suppose I could do it now that I'm on the help desk, but I only live 5 minutes from work and it just doesn't seem worth the hassle and it'd be hard to justify.
ita, I'm sure I shared my trauma when I saw two girls wearing those velour tube dresses over jeans.
Ooh. I get to leave.... 50 minutes early....
I think there will be napping....
Ooh. I get to leave.... 50 minutes early....
Whoo?
It's back up to 78 here and sunny. I so do not want to spend the next 1 hour and 50 minutes staring at this non-ringing help desk phone.
Who here telecommutes? Ever, or occasionally, or regularly? Is anyone living the dream?
Scott's job is moving out of state (but only about 40 miles away) effective Monday. He just got a brand new laptop and connects to the company's network. However the laptop is configured--it's exactly like his work PC, so it's better than when he was working from home, using our regular PC. His plan after he's settled in from the move, is to telecommute twice a week. He has worked from home occasionally. If there is a meeting, he can connect via an audio-bridge. One of his co-workers almost always telecommutes.
I have a part-time telecommute job right now but I don't think it's applicable to your situation. However, I have a friend who's a UNIX sysadmin for juliana's employer and she telecommutes maybe like 50% of the time. At my old employer (a computer book publisher), editors and others telecommuted a decent amount. We had people who'd gotten the sweet deal of being hired wherever they were. So they were the company's only employee in, say, Buffalo. They had to fly out to headquarters a couple times a year, but most of their work was done via telecommuting, email and conference calls.
Mutant Human Species Imminent
Or so warns this December, 1953 Mechanix Illustrated article ” How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race” with nice opening spread illustrated by the late comic artist Kurt Schaffenberger.
An atomic war could produce an entirely new species of man. Would he be friend - or foe?
“Now hear this Earth! I am Mutant Man, Homo Superior! I have been created by radiation forces out of the loins of you, the human race, after your great terrible Atom War. Yes, I am a step up and beyond you, and I am now your master for better or worse. You created me in your blind, savage, senseless war of atomic radiation. You have only yourselves to blame if I turn out to be your — Frankenstein Monster!”
Will this voice someday thunder ominously over the World from a Mutant Man, not a human being, but as far beyond us as we are beyond the ape man? Will a new race, spawned out of the hellish radiation of a World-Wide Atomic War, go on to challenge Man’s supremacy on Earth?
The comic-book style pictures are awesome!
Who here telecommutes? Ever, or occasionally, or regularly? Is anyone living the dream?
My husband does, kinda, if the dream includes doing laundry, taking his mom to the hospital, and painting the kitchen between emails and remote logins.
I only live 5 minutes from work and it just doesn't seem worth the hassle
WWN¹! Okay, maybe not so much. Or not so much with the putting it on a form for permission to work from home.
Cindy, what does Scott do?
¹: Working While Naked
