Working From Home

that's abominable.

we already had lots of telework capability in place, this has really just been a stress check on our VPN + O365 cloud services to accommodate everybody teleworking at once, which it appears Cisco and Microsoft were already prepared to deliver per whatever ridiculously priced contracts we have with them. One particular network that only certain analysts have to use has been a PITA all week but aside from that our stuff all works like a charm, no fiddling required.

otoh you didn't get a text from your boss saying "I think you shouldn't show up to work anymore, maybe just go ahead and file for unemployment, K"

at least you know and don't have to spend the whole weekend not knowin

I guess. I was making a bad joke about another ilxor's coworker's situation, I should probably hush. I hope you get some proper tech support or at least some respectful communication from your employer in the very near future.

at this point I would be surprised if there was a single person on the planet capable of fixing this, given that I've talked to almost everyone

Did you talk to Ed?

I really don't know who you're referring to

(when I said "everyone" I meant the tech support arms of every involved product/party, i.e. generally several hours of being tossed from person to department to person to department, none of whom helped, and also everything I could find on google, which was almost nothing)

Ed is a smart ilxor that often knows the answers to things

but is it something that any of us could help with? given that i have never once been able to solve a problem on the Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no! thread, i doubt i could help, but maybe someone else can?

sorry to hear about it, either way. tech problems are just the fucking worst, especially given the circumstances

I'm self-employed and have worked from home for the past year and half, though in the past couple months, I've been moving towards possibly being part-time employee rather than contractor for one of my clients -- and it was kinda nice going into the office, taking smoke breaks with my colleague, having beers after work -- now it's back to the way it was.

i find it hard to focus. however, i am enjoying not being in the office with people i don't like that much.

don't you have a cool arts job?

i'm burnt out on it

my coworkers and i haven't ever really gotten beers after work. i loved jobs where that was the situation

ha i remember when i used to work for an art museum -- i uh, was disappointed to learn/feel like it was way too much like a corporate job except people talked about art and were more attractive.

Socializing with co-workers after hours is the fucking worst. When I worked for a major label, having to awkwardly hang around with people I'd spent all day in the office with, at shows by one of our bands, was easily one of the worst aspects. Especially when the head of the label would show up; it turned going to a metal show into a performance review. "Clap louder if you want that raise!"

I liked going for a pint with colleagues right up to the point where I was the boss, then it got weird, now I have nobody to go for a drink with, but it's ok because the pubs are closed.

Ed is a smart ilxor that often knows the answers to things

xp -- at this point I'm just going to backup/reformat the PC and start over, in hopes that nuking the PC will fix whatever it is that is causing the problem

this is really about the worst possible time to do this, but we don't really choose these things, do we

I liked going for a pint with colleagues right up to the point where I was the boss, then it got weird,

I got lectured by a drunken staff member at Christmas about how much "power" had changed me :)
He was all apologies on the Monday - I told him I was drunk and couldn't remember what he said.

I say that to my coworkers all the time

whenever a colleague came to me to complain about my demeanor after I got promoted i just told them they were part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor and spilled my drink on them

right now, only two of my teammates are even located in the same city as me. my boss lives in a different country (Canada), and his boss is in Texas.

we have to fly in to be in the same place at once to even do things like drink together.

"I'm going to backup/reformat the PC," she said, expecting it to be easy and not to require her to take apart the entire apartment looking for a flash drive to turn into bootable media because the easy method didn't fucking work

finally managed to get it to work; never want to look at another powershell window again; murphy's law says I have now guaranteed my job loss

i thought i had the adapter for my work laptop here but i don't and it is dead now and we are required to ration our contact with the office. so i have given up. on my first day of working from home. i'll go in tomorrow morning and get it.

you can probably find a universal adapter online

nah i need to go in eventually anyway, i just wasn't going to waste my opportunities making a trip today

thought i would enjoy hanging out with my cats all day and taking it ~easy~ but my brain hates this, like it's constantly being pulled in two directions. an unholy thing has been let in my apartment.

that's all i'll complain about it though, anything is worth getting my commute time back

whenever a colleague came to me to complain about my demeanor after I got promoted i just told them they were part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor and spilled my drink on them

I missed this, but lol.

today was so dead i watched Desus & Mero clips all morning

kinda loving this whole WFH gig

ha

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truthfully though i thought i would hate working from home. but it is pretty good so far. even when it’s busy, just having a quiet space makes it easier to handle stress etc. i may go insane if this lasts months or just collapse from carpal tunnel paralysis but otherwise i dig it

i am kinda naturally not-social/chatty though so this kinda suits my personality

Once I got into the office it wasn't that bad. But boy did I hate having to "get ready" for work in the morning and then commuting. Every fucking weekday. Rain or shine, cold or heat. That was the worst part of school for me too. Just not a morning person. Was thrilled with myself one semester in college for structuring my class sched to start after 10am.

I had a two hour WebEx call this morning (9-11), and another one at 1 PM that was supposed to be an hour but we managed to resolve all the issues in half that time, thank fuck.

I have to fill out a Google Pages form listing what I did each day now.

all of us have been thrust with a heavy workload (which isn't that bad cos it's training so there's no chance of it lasting late into the night - it ends when it ends). means PTO might be limited for a bit, but they also don't want us to go into December not having used any, so I may just keep the dates I had in May that I don't TECHNICALLY need anymore.

on the plus side, I'm getting mass OT this month just for the 30 minutes before training and 30 after.

aside from the aforementioned computer fuckup I've freelanced long enough that I'm used to working from home; it's also nice to get back the 1.5-2 hours' worth of commute

I have to fill out a Google Pages form listing what I did each day now.

I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum right now - no oversight, no one paying much attention, left to our own devices (literally, for most/many of us I assume, me included). I wish I could relax and enjoy it but I am utterly incapable of doing so. I would actually like a *teensy* bit more pressure.

it's also nice to get back the 1.5-2 hours' worth of commute

this I agree is an unabashed Good Thing

yeah prior to working from home I used to just not bother making plans cos I'd get home late and had to be up much earlier. it's very nice.

I would enjoy that aspect except that, y'know, making plans is mostly over for now lol

well right. now I actually prefer days with less free time in them :/

fuckin love not having a 30 min commute there & back every day

also cut down on my speeding tickets significantly

I miss my commute because it was 90 minutes of cycling every day, but I am really not feeling the desire to replicate it without the need.

my commute was 90m-2h of toddler-uninterrupted reading time every dat, idk where to get that time in the wfh situation

I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum right now - no oversight, no one paying much attention, left to our own devices (literally, for most/many of us I assume, me included). I wish I could relax and enjoy it but I am utterly incapable of doing so. I would actually like a *teensy* bit more pressure.

― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Monday, March 23, 2020 10:48 PM (yesterday)

i'm in the same situation. i need structure. i was having trouble getting out of bed when i did have to go to work, so now i'm just giving in and it's not making me feel any better. i know it would be a good idea to write down a plan but something being a good idea is not making me actually do it.

not surprising or anything but i believe we're about to get word that this will be formally extended through the month of april soon, so i need to get some kind of system going soon or i will lose my mind. may be worth it to spend some of my "work" time today cleaning my dining room so i will stop working on my couch or bed like a lump

I'm grateful my job is still running virtually but I don't think our leadership got the memo we're in a crisis.

Just heaped the aforementioned insane workload on us, but they seem to have forgotten everything is slower.

Dumped 90+ new hires on us, knowing the technical issues at the partner site would be massive. However, the IT line, due to absenteeism and volume, has a 75 minute wait just for web chat. Our HR is pushing service requests back a week.

And leadership constantly breathing on us asking how it's going, it's like CHILL THE FUCK OUT, we're already stressed by what's going on outside.