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Tomorrow I start working remotely

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Your job now is to complete your work as quickly as possible and spend the rest of the time making people think your actually working.
 
Cunth said:
this is gonna be awesome. No commute, no coworkers, can look at porn and no one can stop me. Remoters get in here
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Started about 3 years ago. Also worked from home between 2007 and 2012 or so.

You absolutely need to get a dedicated space/room with a door you can close. Working from home you an claim something like 12cent per day for the cost of electricity or so, so it adds up to at least 4-5 cups of coffee that you can claim back from tax every year!!!

You should try to set up a schedule where you have short but regular chats on hangout/video/...
say maybe 15 minutes or so every couple of days with work mates.

One of the harder things with working from home is the lack of social face-to-face time with colleagues.
Make sure you just have a quick chat with them often and regularely. Doesn't have to be work related, just to maintain the human to human interaction.
 
whos gonna be first to post a photo of their WFH space?
 
Been WFH 1-2 days a week for last 3 years, now its 5 days a week.

It is nice to WFH, i have my own office also which makes it better, but when i was WFH 1-2 time per week i did enjoying going into work and being in the office environment and interacting with people. 5 days a week will be challenging but needs must and all that.
 
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I worked from home for a year,

Make sure you answer emails or phone calls quickly so people think you are sitting at a desk. Turn that Email notification sound up real loud.

If there's a scheduled conference call, be there, be on time. Chances are someone or more than one wont be there and they'll reschedule anyway.

Wake up at the official starting time of your job and send out some emails, then go back to sleep. Don't worry about replys to any of these emails right away.

Save some emails until the official end of your working day. They don't need to have any importance and can just be fluff, they are only there to show you are working until the end of your day.

The rest of the day is yours to enjoy playing games, watching movies or whatever.

Your job is to make people think you are doing your job. Most people will fail to follow these simple steps and will be first against the wall when the staffing cuts are made.
 
My sister was complaining about having to work from home. She gets out of a 45 minute trip to and from and doesn't have to interact with coworkers. I asked her why that's bad and she didn't have much of an answer. I get the feeling she just feels less important if her entire job can be done from home.
 
nush said:
I worked from home for a year,

Make sure you answer emails or phone calls quickly so people think you are sitting at a desk. Turn that Email notification sound up real loud.

If there's a scheduled conference call, be there, be on time. Chances are someone or more than one wont be there and they'll reschedule anyway.

Wake up at the official starting time of your job and send out some emails, then go back to sleep. Don't worry about replys to any of these emails right away.

Save some emails until the official end of your working day. They don't need to have any importance and can just be fluff, they are only there to show you are working until the end of your day.

The rest of the day is yours to enjoy playing games, watching movies or whatever.

Your job is to make people think you are doing your job. Most people will fail to follow these simple steps and will be first against the wall when the staffing cuts are made.
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this stuff is gold, jerry. gold
 
I am working in home office the 2nd week now.
Cant be too lazy though, as I have to report the day's tasks every evening and if there is not enough project progress things would be hard to explain eventually.
 
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It's my second week too, starting to get bored. Hard to find something to do when all organization is frozen, waiting for the evolution of policies. Maybe we'll be put on "partial unemployment", or we'll be asked to take our paid vacations, ...
 
M1chl said:
What are you employed in Sudoku making company? : P
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I used to be a lineman now I'm a lineman dispatch. Basically I sit in an office and monitor the whole power grid for my area and send out lineman to do neccessary repairs and shit.
That schedule is for next month. It makes sense when you get used to it. 5 rows mean 5 people. 1,2,3 on the left are the shifts. 1 is from 6 to 14, 2 is from 14 to 22 and 3 is for 22 to 6 AM.
8/4 is basically a 12 hour shift. From 6am to 6 pm. Same goes for the night shift.
 
Kamina said:
Cant be too lazy though, as I have to report the day's tasks every evening and if there is not enough project progress things would be hard to explain eventually.
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This reminds me. Timesheets. Some of you might be asked to complete them to make sure you are "working" this policy is usually implemented spitefully by some manager who does not get to work from home in a normal situation.

What you need to do GAF is you should get one of these requests to complete timesheets is to have a full list written down separately of all the work related things you could possibly do. So when there is space to fill where you had nothing to do you populate the sheet with items from your pre-made list. Don't be afraid to bump up the time it took to do each task, everyone else will be doing it and it makes the task easier.

Once you have a couple of weeks worth of these completed and handed in on time (Again many people won't) then all you need to do is change the dates on each form and just fill in the actual work you did. Cut / paste and move things around so they are not 100% copies, just in case.

I looked for one of these old time sheets for an example but I no longer have them because they are/were bullshit and of no value.
 
Elektro Demon said:
I used to be a lineman now I'm a lineman dispatch. Basically I sit in an office and monitor the whole power grid for my area and send out lineman to do neccessary repairs and shit.
That schedule is for next month. It makes sense when you get used to it. 5 rows mean 5 people. 1,2,3 on the left are the shifts. 1 is from 6 to 14, 2 is from 14 to 22 and 3 is for 22 to 6 AM.
8/4 is basically a 12 hour shift. From 6am to 6 pm. Same goes for the night shift.
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Sure, that's very important job! Anyway you have same first letter for days as we are.
We have Pondělí, Úterý, Středa, Čtvrtek, Pátek, Sobota, Neděle...so I expect you have some variation of that, since we are Slav overlords : D
 
M1chl said:
Sure, that's very important job! Anyway you have same first letter for days as we are.
We have Pondělí, Úterý, Středa, Čtvrtek, Pátek, Sobota, Neděle...so I expect you have some variation of that, since we are Slav overlords : D
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Ours are -- ponedjeljak, utorak, srijeda, četvrtak, petak, subota, nedjelja
 
M1chl said:
Cool still it's remotely similar, but more in line with SK version of Slavic language.
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I've always considered Czechs to be out brothers. It's a very similar mentality to ours.
Plus my whole family drove Škoda cars. I myself had a felicia and a fabia. I remember when I was buying fabia, 1 gen fabia, I had a choice, 8v or 16v version.
8 v is basically the old Škoda engine just slightly redone and the 16v is german.
Damn straight I went with the 8v version.
 
Cunth said:
What's a Slav anyway
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People. Group of people, one of the oldest european residents.
And slav comes from the word Slovo, which is word when translated, meaning almost all slav people understand each others language.
That slave thing is just laughable, that's something uninformed Yanks concocted.
 
Cunth said:
this is gonna be awesome. No commute, no coworkers, can look at porn and no one can stop me. Remoters get in here
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We decided to work remotely since some weeks before everything happened to go downhill.

When i make a break over midday i just pick up the switch and play "Fire Emblem Three Houses". :D
 
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Be sure to stary every conference call with :
"You don't mind me being naked right?"

Works like a charm on my daily skype calls
 
Working at home starting today as well. Concerned about workload for the rest of my department and how to keep everyone working when there's nothing to do.

I think it is likely they will tell me to reduce hours overall. I'm already being told to make sure they clock out if there's nothing to do.
 
The trick is to wiggle your mouse every after every round of Lumines so people think you're still active in case they try and Lync you
 
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