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  Now that we find ourselves, or will shortly find ourselves, quarantined to our lovely hovels for the foreseeable future, our corporate overlords have decreed that those of us who are able to continue to being exploited as wage slaves must do so in the interest of Number. This will likely be a new experience for the majority of goons! This is the thread to share your WFH experiences, questions, tips, ways to make it look like you're being productive while you're playing Doom Eternal, advice on how to be absolutely loving sure you're not screensharing before you open a porn tab, etc. As for myself, I have been working remotely for about 5 1/2 years now. Our entire computer touching team is distributed across multiple timezones and continents. By most metrics we've been successful, insofar as people seem to generally enjoy working here, our turnover is usually pretty low, and our company revenue has grown by an order of magnitude since I started. I am happy to answer whatever questions I can! Some general, broad tips:
Good luck out there. Wash your hands.
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I'm here for this tangentially. my wife is wfh and I'm about 15% right now as I burn my vacation as slowly as possible. two kids (one in kindergarten and one in preschool) bouncing around all day so I mostly deal with that while my wife works. it's been a week and so far I don't know what the loving gently caress
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Mar 17, 2020 06:43
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they gave me my headset so i can presumably continue to not take phone calls while i'm at home, i guess it's just so my boss can call me and be like sup
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Mar 17, 2020 06:49
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:I'm here for this tangentially. my wife is wfh and I'm about 15% right now as I burn my vacation as slowly as possible. wife & i both work full time from home (btw if you do this you absolutely must have separate offices holy poo poo you will drive each other insane otherwise) and we pulled our 2 year old out of daycare today to eliminate a potential infection vector and also bc we expect daycares will probably be closed by EOW it's going to be a nightmare, current plan is for wife to take mornings up until 12:30 or so and then i will take afternoons & early evening. at least we can still count on a 2-3 hour nap in the afternoon.
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Mar 17, 2020 06:50
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i gotta look at the back of my computer and see if i have the plugs to put a third monitor on.
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Mar 17, 2020 06:53
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ScrubLeague posted:they gave me my headset so i can presumably continue to not take phone calls while i'm at home, i guess it's just so my boss can call me and be like sup this reminds me, one of the most annoying things when people are doing distributed work is poo poo audio. your laptop mic sucks, i'm sorry but u need to accept it. my personal recommendation is to get your employer to expense you one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Wirele...bra%2Caps%2C165 i've had mine for the whole time i've been w/ this company and it has not failed me once
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Mar 17, 2020 06:54
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I already worked from home making hella buttons, in fact right now I am procrastinating making about 150 buttons. It's cool, I'm the boss, I'll do it tomorrow morning. I'm the boss and I get to decide that. Hell yea im the mother fuckin BAWS
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Mar 17, 2020 09:28
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empty whippet box posted:I already worked from home making hella buttons, in fact right now I am procrastinating making about 150 buttons. It's cool, I'm the boss, I'll do it tomorrow morning. I'm the boss and I get to decide that. Hell yea im the mother fuckin BAWS Make the buttons mother fucker. Make them
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Mar 17, 2020 11:20
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Mar 17, 2020 11:22
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god drat it I am currently looking for work but being a computer touching student and not having enough time with formal experience makes things hard, hopefully to be hired to do remote doesn't turn it harder
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Mar 17, 2020 15:15
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still waiting on an IT job to complete which will allow me to work from home. almost every computer on this floor has the thing done that would enable it except for mine, for some reason. everyone else i work with is already there.
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Mar 19, 2020 07:46
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Make the buttons mother fucker. Make them I made them. Six orders to do now that I'm putting off till I wake up tomorrow. Feels good to still make sales even now
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Mar 19, 2020 11:07
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all set up
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Mar 19, 2020 17:25
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i made a mock-up in RimWorld
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Mar 19, 2020 17:34
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Working from home sucks poo poo op. I basically feel like I get nothing done.
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Mar 19, 2020 17:35
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been WFH since last wednesday. first few days sucked. Getting used to it now. Shitposting is easier on a computer than a phone. I have 3 monitors set up 2 for work and 1 to 
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Mar 19, 2020 17:37
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Lawman 0 posted:Working from home sucks poo poo op. It owns actually, outside of phone issues (we remote into our desk phones from our laptops and latency is poo poo) I find myself being more productive in my apartment than in my office. Ive closed like 7 tickets already this morning I absolutely do need a second monitor though, I need to be even more productive, by farming maps while I close tickets
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Mar 19, 2020 17:40
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i might commandeer the monitor the company sent me home with for my personal computing and leave the TV as my animal crossing and movies device, i'm not sure yet. i don't know, i work in number so the last month has been the busiest it's ever been, i probably won't have a whole ton of time for dicking around
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Mar 19, 2020 18:03
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what's fun about my wife working from home is I finally have an idea of who the gently caress these people are that she tells me about when she gets home. and, yeah, I agree: Matt is a complete waste of time and he sucks. the other funny thing is how much this situation reveals about the higher ups and how much they can get away with. the COO of her company telecommutes from her house in Georgia because she was poached from Walmart and she doesn't want to move. they did a virtual all-hands meeting and they went to the COO who was sorta lounging in her living room talking into her laptop from the couch and it's painfully obvious that she doesn't even have a dedicated tele workspace and I guarantee she pulls in p deece six figgies. like even we have a dedicated home office and we are peons DR FRASIER KRANG has issued a correction as of 18:30 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 18:26
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Lawman 0 posted:Working from home sucks poo poo op. are you sure that it isn't because you do things on your own pace and you do your job like in two hours and then you are doing others things in what is supposedly to be "work time"
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Mar 19, 2020 18:29
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just learned the job i was supposed to start monday is 'delayed' by 4-6 weeks if not more. a lot of time to curse and eat cheap food.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:27
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:just learned the job i was supposed to start monday is 'delayed' by 4-6 weeks if not more. a lot of time to curse and eat cheap food. I applied for a new job (within my company) the week that all of this started (we joked about bumping fists instead of shaking hands). I'm guessing it ain't happening.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:39
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Been working from home for a two weeks now because my company doesn't suck (for the most part) but it's the first day with my kids also here. They know the rules (if Daddy has his headphones in then he is on a call and you have to be quiet) and it's been pretty easy. I am wondering how this is going to change expectations around children in the workplace. My boss has his kids in the house and so do a few of our co-workers. Why cant this just be the norm and I can save a shitload on daycare.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:54
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Not 'teleworking' as my management keeps calling it yet, but we've been getting emails about it all week and filled out request forms for it. my entire section has chosen not to route our phones to another as we're public sector and this dont want our phones to be evidence in am information request. this'll rule, I predict this hitting sometime next week.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:56
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so I have a macbook air that I broke the screen how do I get the stupid thing to mirror its video on an external monitor. pretend I have the wire that plugs in both sides already and it doesn't do poo poo unless I close the lid making it impossible to type poo poo.
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Mar 20, 2020 00:03
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do you have a spare keyboard?
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Mar 20, 2020 00:04
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WFH loving rules if you're a computer toucher. i did like an hour of work max on any given day in the office and then had to dare the internet not to bore me for 7 hours at a clip. now i just turn on my laptop, set it on the couch next to me, and play video games all day. there's still only about an hour's worth of actual work to do, but it's way easier to amuse myself at this pace honestly i hope all of our jobs become permanent WFH even after corona is resolved (in a year or however long). after knowing this promised land, i can't go back to an office cube again
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Mar 20, 2020 02:51
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want to save money in getting a home office set up if you don't have one? Just rearrange your toilet paper stockpile into whatever furniture is needed!
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Mar 20, 2020 14:47
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Agean90 posted:want to save money in getting a home office set up if you don't have one? Just rearrange your toilet paper stockpile into whatever furniture is needed! cut out the middleman. work directly from the shitter
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Mar 20, 2020 17:21
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I've been electing to WFH since last Wednesday and my wife's company put everyone on WFH last Thursday to the end of the month. Definitely agree with everything outlined in the OP about preserving your usual work routines, having separate work spaces if you're co-habitating, etc. Even though my employer is considered an essential industry (they're in CA but I work in PA) my boss doesn't care where I work, and there's very little that I need to be doing right now; I have a daily check-in with another guy in my department at 9 AM each day but I was doing that pre-pandemic. Meanwhile it feels like my wife has non-stop phone meetings from 10-5 every day, I guess people really need their drug labels reviewed right away? This weekend we are finally going to move her desk into the guest room that she has been using as a makeshift office/storage locker for her start-up. E: Despite being WFH for a week+ and talking about having little to do, I've done maybe 30 minutes of gaming in that time. Feels wrong man! C-Euro has issued a correction as of 18:04 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 17:55
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I am in a role where I spend ~50% of my day answering other developers' questions. I loving love working from home - I can answer questions over text with much less interruption to the other work I need to do. It saves me literally hours a day. Plus I have way more motivation to keep my apartment clean, cook my own food, and just generally reduces my stress. I've been pushing for a decent WFH policy for years at this place now, I hope our clearly improved output during this time changes some minds.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:56
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My workplace rolled out even more flexible WFH (Doesn't require a annoying approval process) this week due to Coronachan. I'm still going into to work since I'm not sure I would enjoy WFH.
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Mar 20, 2020 20:18
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Good tips OP I find that 'getting dressed' for work helps me stay in a work mindset. not sure why. also, for lunch I made myself some yummy onion/garlic flatbread
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Mar 20, 2020 21:01
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C-Euro posted:E: Despite being WFH for a week+ and talking about having little to do, I've done maybe 30 minutes of gaming in that time. Feels wrong man! all profit is the result of theft from labor. don't feel bad at all about enjoying your life in your own drat house. in a just society, none of us should be working 40+ hour weeks just to keep a roof over our heads anyway play as much nintendo on the clock as your thumbs can handle
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Mar 20, 2020 23:55
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Freaking Crumbum posted:WFH loving rules if you're a computer toucher. i did like an hour of work max on any given day in the office and then had to dare the internet not to bore me for 7 hours at a clip. I’ve been thinking about this also. There is no way I can go back to the office now, the benefits of WFH are just too good to give up. It’s like I was given a raise.
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Mar 21, 2020 03:16
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wfh rules i get so much more poo poo done, all my reports get so much more poo poo done even though they're piped in over vpn. even with the world being completely sideways everyone is more chipper than they were in the office. once things get back to some semblance of normal i hope the stigma that wfh = less efficient than goes away. if we're soulless worker drones wasting away for the glory of number, might as well be from the comfort of our home
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Mar 21, 2020 03:38
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hallebarrysoetoro posted:wfh rules i get so much more poo poo done, all my reports get so much more poo poo done even though they're piped in over vpn. even with the world being completely sideways everyone is more chipper than they were in the office. once things get back to some semblance of normal i hope the stigma that wfh = less efficient than goes away. if we're soulless worker drones wasting away for the glory of number, might as well be from the comfort of our home Don't worry, your supervisors are noting the increase in productivity and adjusting your expected baselines appropriately for when you're required to report back into the office. When you don't meet them, don't worry. Amazon will be selling these great "productivity" bracelets they tested themselves. Number will be back up in no time!
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Mar 21, 2020 05:53
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SgtMongoose posted:Don't worry, your supervisors are noting the increase in productivity and adjusting your expected baselines appropriately for when you're required to report back into the office. The bracelets will give you a electric shock if you spend too long on the toilet.
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Mar 21, 2020 12:58
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:what's fun about my wife working from home is I finally have an idea of who the gently caress these people are that she tells me about when she gets home. do they also like doubling the length of every meeting with small talk
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So I borrowed all my IT stuff from work, really helps to have a full sized monitor, USB-C charging dock and actual keyboard + mouse. Really hate the WFH experience but at least it does have some more flexibility like take breaks for a walk in the neighborhood.
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