Working From Home

(that said the dissonance between the force of the flood of "if you care about the economy right now you are basically hitler, satan, and trump as one individual, and support murder, slavery, and eugenics" and the terror I feel every morning around 9 and every afternoon around 5 at whether my income will exist for another day is making me lose my mind)

everyone deserves protection from the consequences of this thing - medically, and financially

also, trump is a moron

these things can be true at the same time

I will say this positive thing which is that my roommate and I have so far managed not to murder one another after suddenly being together 24/7

some idiot clicked on a malware link overnight and our whole network is now shutdown. we have also been blocked from another network we need to use. whoops. we have been told for MONTHS not to click links in emails due to repeated phishing attempts, such as "your sexual harassment training is going to expire in 24 hours." great job, everyone.

It's now prescribed that whenever someone coughs on a video call, they have to say "don't worry guys, it's not coronavirus!" and everyone else has to laugh at the joke.

civil service has initiated split shifts for working from home because load on the network or w/e i dunno

wife is on earlies, im on lates, this has plusses this has minuses in a one bed, one living space apartment

lucky we back onto the park, as long as the hysteria around people going outside at all doesnt get that closed too.

my worksite computer is the USS Enterprise, i'm flying the Galileo shuttlecraft here

all alone

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 24, 2020 9:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hang in there morbs, we're here

I'm glad you're not going in any more, deems, but sorry yr employers have found a way to complicate things yet again

went back to office to retrieve my ergo trackball mouse & facilities mgr let me bring my chair home too
fkn YES finally bloody comfortable again

xp ty, we'll take the good from it to start.

one person on calls or w/e at a time, our preferred exercises arent mutual, leaves one guilt free to cook each meal, and we both have v v good noise cancelling headphones. we'll survive it.

Hooray for good chairs

hip hip support

Three chairs

ergonomic me conseated

How much would someone want for a set of ergonomic chairs?

if you backed me into a corner?

Two adults - who work in very related jobs at the same university - and two kids under 5 = neither of us getting masses done. Snatching the odd hour or two each day to answer emails and do video conferences. Thank god we turned on microsoft teams at the end of last month.

if you backed me into a corner?

Ach, it was a Castle reference. Tell him he's dreaming...

Glad I remembered to take off the creationist tshirt I was wearing ironically before teleconference

Ach, it was a Castle reference.

ach it was a reference to why one might need an ergonomic chair ;)

My partner has made me set a timer for every 1/2 to get up and stretch, which has been essential tbh.

thank you, I'm gonna do the same rn

ach it was a reference to why one might need an ergonomic chair ;)

Ach, wasted on me, lad ;)

stop

i really will get conseated

You're off your rocker, mush.

seriously d'Eames

the best thing about working from home is that if i randomly decide i want some toast, i can just go to the kitchen & make some

the worst thing is too many goddamn meetings

anybody use WebEx and have it be really terrible with sound quality for people dialed in thru internet this week?

anybody's VPN get toasted?

otoh i am kinda loving that I'll get paid time and a half solely because of how bad things are.

I don’t actually need to use the VPN for anything it turns out, can get by with our internet-facing ssh bastion and port forwarding, and none of the web-based stuff i need to deal with has any IP-range restrictions. An upside of the web SaaS era I guess.

i can do a significant part of my job without VPN, but they're putting us on Workday soon instead of Peoplesoft for time card and we're entering a blackout period, so I decided to be safe and filled out hours through 3/31 today

both my work vpn and my lol just for fun home vpn are doing fine

teleconferencing has been a struggle, we don't actually have enough licenses for everybody to be talking to each other all the time through conferencing it looks like?

im rather staggered that our citrix system not only worked first time and flawlessly all day

well i say all day but look

but that it has an android app and that also works p well on my moveable phone well cya offive it was nice knowin ya but i think our relationship has moved on bye now bye

ms teams working good so far
vpn still good

I haven't had to sign in to the university VPN yet. I had two meetings today, one on WebEx, one on Teams. They both worked OK. Teams was a little better in terms of sound/video quality but my laptop's fan was blowing so hard I thought the machine was gonna burst into flames.

our VPN is fine but it's a good thing my work hasn't required any audio/video meetings since I still haven't figured out how to get my mic to work again after the wipe

Do any of y'all who use VPN also use Jabber? Got sent a headset to use on calls but you need to have calls routed thru Jabber to use it and it seems like that option isn't viable if I use VPN.

Set up my home router to use its 5GHz antenna, then got my Airport Express to use that signal to extend the network a bit - gamechanger for Zoom - you don't want to be the one always dropping out / breaking up. You don't want to be that guy.

Because if you are that guy, I know another guy who will find you and mute you: me!

The weekly conference calls and multiple times weekly check-in calls from management have been fine. Just fine. Why the goddamn fucking motherfucking fuck do we need to start doing video chats next week, you goddamn stupid fucking motherfucking fucks.

I'm just gonna tell 'em the cameras on my phone and laptop are broken. Fuckit.

the best thing about working from home is that if i randomly decide i want some toast, i can just go to the kitchen & make some

I'm somewhat alarmed at how much more I'm eating during the day now that I'm home, especially since the only regular exercise I'm getting (aside from a quick bike ride after breakfast) is the walk upstairs from the basement office to get a snack.

Why the goddamn fucking motherfucking fuck do we need to start doing video chats next week

Last week I and most of my coworkers were leaving our cameras off on the calls we've been doing, but this week without prompting more and more of us are turning them on and I must say it's been nice to see their faces. I genuinely like the people I work with though.

My wife has to sit through a freaking daily check-in call with the rest of her office. I’ve been lucky enough to only have to endure three meetings since lock-in started here two weeks ago

this suuuucks!

had a meeting yesterday that lasted an hour, probably could've been dealt with in an email and a little bit of slack back and forth. I really needed to pee during it but 1. standing up would have shown that I was in my underwear and 2. the meeting was on the brink of winding up for about 25 minutes so it was easy to think I just had to endure a little more.

working in my office today. I am walking distance from my office and there is no-one here, so this is a lot less fraught than going to buy groceries, which I have to do every couple of days because I don't drive.

ergonomically my office is soooo much better than working at home. good chair, two big monitors at eye-height vs a MacBook Air on the kitchen table, etc.

Yeah, I often complain about what an ergonomic nightmare my workplace is, but it's only taken two weeks of WFH to turn me into Quasimodo.

like 3 years ago my boss said he was going to get me a camera for video conferencing and thank god the motherfucker is forgetful cause I still don't have one

I've had the same relatively cheap office chair for 7+ yrs but addition of a bed pillow to it makes it extremely comfy

the meeting was on the brink of winding up for about 25 minutes so it was easy to think I just had to endure a little more.

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