Working From Home

six people were let go from WFH positions for not, well, doing ANY work during their training class. they were saying 'hello' during role call and disappearing for the rest of the day.

every time I see this I secretly think "you're going to get WFH taken away from us, jerks". there's already talk about possibly moving some training back to in-person because of things like this, but I don't know how that would work as we stopped hiring people based on proximity to our offices in 2020. nevermind that it's a tiny number of people that are the problem.

I fortunately don't think I'd ever be forced to go into the office as our Orlando office has sold off so many floors to other companies, there's barely any room to conduct trainings there.

(I've been WFH for 12 years, so...not exactly pining for a change)

My contract for my part-time job expires next Friday, and the vast corporate hydra for which I work has a policy that you can only be a contractor with them for 18 months. Somehow I managed to dodge auto-culling for a while (probably because they kept firing my supervisors, ha ha) and stayed with them for two years and change, but now the axe has finally fallen. It's not a grievous loss; I was only billing them for 15 hours a week and have a full-time job as well. But funnily enough, I got an email today from a different recruiter than the one who got me the job offering me... the same job! Except it's a dollar less an hour, and they've added a requirement that the candidate must provide a weekly report accounting for their time, including listing which projects they've worked on. Hahahahaha, good luck, whoever gets my old job!

work message board:
> I may not be able to attend the early meeting as I will be commuting to work

this is how things have changed. people used to be expected to be here for 9:30 every day but after 3 years of mostly wfh, commuting now feels like something done on the company's time, not the employee's.

I meet 'em halfway

After 2.5 years of being managed out of N America, I'm back to having a UK based mgr. He goes into the Z1 hub most days and while there's "no pressure" to come in, he is running 60min workflow meetings once a week from the conference room at that facility and I'm the only London person dialling in remotely. At far end of the room he makes notes on a whiteboard which, of course, I cannot possibly read from a webcam 5m away. So time to start frequenting Bond St Crossrail.

(I have been to the Z1 facility once this year; it's a hot-desky single-floor remnant of a previously warren-like cinema production house (and in that form it was my regular place of business for two very strange weeks in summer 2018). Was fine but not a single power supply fitted my ancient laptop; went rooting through cupboards for an old PSU after the old fella's battery shut down mid-morning. IT support does not exist.)

I normally get to wfh 2 days a week but this week it will be 4 days and I am overjoyed. Lot of laundry gonna be getting done.

man this is rich coming from Wells fuckin Fargo

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/business/wells-fargo-staff-wfh-nightcap/index.html