If you can telecommute to your job, that means that someone else can also telecommute to your job. Like, from India or something.

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.

The painting totally counts.

If you can telecommute to your job, that means that someone else can also telecommute to your job. Like, from India or something.

I'd like to see them telecommute one day a week.

Or, really, do the job as well as I do. I'd be pissed to lose my job to someone who does it as well as I do, but for less. But it makes sense.

The idea that doing a job a little less well for a lot less money is okay--that bothers me.

I hear people bitch about Indian outsourcing tech support for instance, and honestly if the person on the other end of the phone understands me easily, makes themselves easily understood AND SOLVES MY FUCKING PROBLEM, I'm good with that, and don't care from a consumer-pov where they're located (global and national economy is more complex, natch).

And the number of documents I have to redo from native English speakers, well, poor English is hardly just a foreign problem.

Which has nowt to do with nowt. It was just waiting to boil over.

If you send out your weekly status report at 3:00, isn't that tacit admission that nothing important's going to happen in the next two hours?

I totally forgot, we do have one employee, who handles our Intranet and some of our in-house web-based programs who moved to Ohio and now telecommutes full-time with only a handful of on-site visits a year.

ION, this is kind of bizzare: [link]

It's a listing of a bunch of sword-related crimes from the last 20 years, though the majority are from the last few years. Apparently, much like sex with robots, sword attacks are more common than people think.

ETA: So far this one is my favorite:

Rocky Mount, North Carolina. December, 2004. A neighborhood duel between two moms arms with a machete and a sword erupted at a morning bus stop after their two small children had a minor spat. The women, ages 29 and 19 were later released on bond from police custody. One woman came armed with the machete and a person standing by went and retrieved the sword to arm the other. The combatants reportedly faced off and attempted to strike each other until police arrived. A man was also arrested for encouraging and cheering on the fight (Source: Rocky Mountain Telegram).

I'm more productive at work, if only because of the threat of supervision. If they can supervise you in other ways (lots of deadlines, lots of customer feedback), perhaps it's easier. But I have so much discretion over my work day that sometimes the only way they know I'm working is to have me here.

Oh, and the part where I have to account for every tenth of an hour, but that's not necessarily foolproof.

And the number of documents I have to redo from native English speakers, well, poor English is hardly just a foreign problem.

This. Oh my stars, this. Remind me again why I decided being a technical editor was a good career move?

Theoretically, I can telecommute if I need to. It involves me remembering to take the work laptop home so I can connect remotely to my work machine.

Okay, this one cracks me up:

Arendal, Norway. April 2004. A downtown gas station was robbed about 5am by a man dressed as a ninja and armed with a sword and knife. The perpetrator, allegedly of foreign decent, fled on a bicycle. (Source: Norwegian news bureau NTB).

The whole escaping on a bicycle thing seems so anti-climactic.

And this one seems rather unfair:

Manchester, England. March 2004. A 25-year-old man who killed an armed robber with a samurai sword was sent to prison for eight years. The man made the attacked after finding four men armed with a gun at his front door. The victim was stabbed four times and died at a hospital. Three men were charged with robbery and firearms possession. (source: The Daily Record).

8 years in prison for killing someone who broke into your house with a gun?

I'm more productive at work, if only because of the threat of supervision

Yeah, the threat here's not that strong unless my co-workers tattle. And they'd better not. I think it's a comfort thing.

eta:

The whole escaping on a bicycle thing seems so anti-climactic.

My mother was mugged by a guy on a bicycle. She got fed up with his demands and told him to get stuffed before he'd gotten everything. I think she tried to chase on foot, or perhaps she just wanted to wave a fist menacingly from full standing position.

My mother was mugged by a guy on a bicycle.

But was he dressed as a ninja? That's what made it anti-climactic for me. I mean, if I was ever to go through the effort of robbing people while dressed as a ninja, my escape would involve smoke bombs and leaping from roof top to roof top.

But was he dressed as a ninja?

I admit--I didn't ask.

That's what made it anti-climactic for me. I mean, if I was ever to go through the effort of robbing people while dressed as a ninja, my escape would involve smoke bombs and leaping from roof top to roof top.

No! Ninjas use all tools, even the tools we disdain. That is why they are so invincible.