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Working From Home? (1 Viewer)

For those currently working from home

  • I've recently started and like it

    Votes: 35 17.5%

  • I've been doing it for a while and like it

    Votes: 68 34.0%

  • I've recently started and don't like it

    Votes: 14 7.0%

  • I've been doing it for a while and don't like it

    Votes: 14 7.0%

  • N/A

    Votes: 69 34.5%
  • Total voters
    200
My group is only allowed in the building if approved by a manager (and there needs to be a damn good reason) until further notice. 

I can do my job anywhere there's WiFi and I've been working from home 90% of the time anyway, so this is no big change for me.

As long as the results are there, the bosses don't have any issues with me (us) working from home most of the time.

 
I prefer to keep work and home separate. Just found out a couple of our sites now require everyone to wear surgical masks everywhere,  not just clean rooms. Got an email saying that once the supplies are secured, this will be required in all of our facilities. WFH now looking more attractive. 

 
Working from home starting today.  This is going to suck.  I'm currently set up on the kitchen table as I don't have a desk, or office, etc.  I have my keyboard from my old home CPU plugged in so I don't have to use the laptop keyboard.  It is different than my work keyboard, so I have to get used to the new/old layout.  My table is higher than my desk at work, so it is going to wreck my shoulders.  My chain is a solid wood chair, so definitely uncomfortable.  I'm going to need to file a workers comp claim by the time I get back to the office.

 
Bull Dozier said:
Working from home starting today.  This is going to suck.  I'm currently set up on the kitchen table as I don't have a desk, or office, etc.  I have my keyboard from my old home CPU plugged in so I don't have to use the laptop keyboard.  It is different than my work keyboard, so I have to get used to the new/old layout.  My table is higher than my desk at work, so it is going to wreck my shoulders.  My chain is a solid wood chair, so definitely uncomfortable.  I'm going to need to file a workers comp claim by the time I get back to the office.
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Bull Dozier said:
Working from home starting today.  This is going to suck.  I'm currently set up on the kitchen table as I don't have a desk, or office, etc.  I have my keyboard from my old home CPU plugged in so I don't have to use the laptop keyboard.  It is different than my work keyboard, so I have to get used to the new/old layout.  My table is higher than my desk at work, so it is going to wreck my shoulders.  My chain is a solid wood chair, so definitely uncomfortable.  I'm going to need to file a workers comp claim by the time I get back to the office.
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Not sure on your occupation, but can you get stuff from work? I grabbed an extra monitor, cables, stands etc to try and set up a "better" work from home setup. Our IT guys were just handing stuff out like candy last week.

 
Bull Dozier said:
Working from home starting today.  This is going to suck.  I'm currently set up on the kitchen table as I don't have a desk, or office, etc.  I have my keyboard from my old home CPU plugged in so I don't have to use the laptop keyboard.  It is different than my work keyboard, so I have to get used to the new/old layout.  My table is higher than my desk at work, so it is going to wreck my shoulders.  My chain is a solid wood chair, so definitely uncomfortable.  I'm going to need to file a workers comp claim by the time I get back to the office.
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I was almost right there with ya... and at some point I probably will be.  My County sent out a shelter-in-place but rescinded it last night.  

 
I wont judge as i have a drink at lunch when I go out and SERIOUSLY adding some whiskey to my sprite at my desk.

How many of you guys drinking on the job? 

 
Working from home starting yesterday. I was a full time telecommuter for about 10 years, pulled back into the office last spring along with most others within shot of an office building. Now I'm back home for the foreseeable future.

 
We are being encouraged to work from home, but can work at the office with office director approval and as long as we stay 6 ft away from coworkers at all times.

 
I need to setup a home office to try and be productive working from home. I am buying at least a desk, a desktop PC, two monitors, and a printer. 

I will be writing a lot, probably a bit of coding, and the normal web and email. 

I would welcome suggestions for good buys.

 
Has anyone purchased a mouse jiggler?  I think my fan is becoming off balance from tying my mouse to the blade.  I also tried tying it to the back of the Roomba but it keeps getting stuck on my kids toys.

 
Both will be home starting on Monday and looking forward to some secret vacation time. Nothing gets done at home by most people who work at home that normally work in an office. 

-If you own a business, I'll just say you have a P&C Lic for insurance and you are responsible for your own pay check or you are a really disciplined person, maybe you can work out of your house or home office. I've found most can't make it or very little work gets done. 

-More gets accomplished at the corporate office with people being watched in some form or fashion like a prison vs sitting at home watching TV and drinking mimosas. 

I would encourage you to use a strict schedule if you actually are going to work from home and not just make brunch and watch the stock market free fall. 

I would love to hear what folks use as a time management/schedule that actually works. 

-Do take 2 hour lunch breaks, you deserve them.

 
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huthut said:
I feel like working from home would be great if I did not have kids, but it is terrible because I do have kids. 
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This. With older kids or no kids this would be cake. With a bunch of small kids it’s sort of horrible. 

 
Otis said:
This. With older kids or no kids this would be cake. With a bunch of small kids it’s sort of horrible. 
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Yep, 2 kids under 5, not old enough to occupy themselves, but old enough that they are bored and want to do stuff. 

 
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Ministry of Pain said:
Both will be home starting on Monday and looking forward to some secret vacation time. Nothing gets done at home by most people who work at home that normally work in an office. 

-If you own a business, I'll just say you have a P&C Lic for insurance and you are responsible for your own pay check or you are a really disciplined person, maybe you can work out of your house or home office. I've found most can't make it or very little work gets done. 

-More gets accomplished at the corporate office with people being watched in some form or fashion like a prison vs sitting at home watching TV and drinking mimosas. 

I would encourage you to use a strict schedule if you actually are going to work from home and not just make brunch and watch the stock market free fall. 

I would love to hear what folks use as a time management/schedule that actually works. 

-Do take 2 hour lunch breaks, you deserve them.
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It’s not as black and white for me. Depends on what’s going on that day/week. I’m in sales leadership, so my calendar is pretty much meeting to meeting, and now no onsites (all zoom). If I have open space on my calendar, I prefer to work from home as I can focus on getting work programs and projects built.  If it’s nothing but meetings where I would be face to face with people, the office is better. 

 
huthut said:
Yep, 2 kids under 5, not older enough to occupy themselves, but old enough that they are bored and want to do stuff. 
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3 kids 8 and under, all of whom want to be entertained all day, every day. Except Mrs O can’t take them anywhere. Getting old pretty quick. There are some sweet moments in it all that I’m sure we’ll look back fondly on, and it’s making us closer than ever in some respects, but there are other moments that make us both stabby. 

 
Ministry of Pain said:
Both will be home starting on Monday and looking forward to some secret vacation time. Nothing gets done at home by most people who work at home that normally work in an office. 

-If you own a business, I'll just say you have a P&C Lic for insurance and you are responsible for your own pay check or you are a really disciplined person, maybe you can work out of your house or home office. I've found most can't make it or very little work gets done. 

-More gets accomplished at the corporate office with people being watched in some form or fashion like a prison vs sitting at home watching TV and drinking mimosas. 

I would encourage you to use a strict schedule if you actually are going to work from home and not just make brunch and watch the stock market free fall. 

I would love to hear what folks use as a time management/schedule that actually works. 

-Do take 2 hour lunch breaks, you deserve them.
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Not really the case for me. I work for a financial company and work has been busy.

 
Finding it harder and harder to motivate. I work in a museum. We are projecting a loss of 750K in revenue, and that is just if we are closed through April. Even if we do open after that, our forecast is grim.

So...all these budget forecasts I am doing, all this design work on new exhibits, all this planning out a fabrication schedule, is likely all for naught, or at the very least, off by a factor of X.

 
the moops said:
Finding it harder and harder to motivate. I work in a museum. We are projecting a loss of 750K in revenue, and that is just if we are closed through April. Even if we do open after that, our forecast is grim.

So...all these budget forecasts I am doing, all this design work on new exhibits, all this planning out a fabrication schedule, is likely all for naught, or at the very least, off by a factor of X.
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Sorry to hear moops. It is one of my largest concerns, how badly this will affect the labor force. I worry about small businesses that can't survive. I worry about their employees. I feel so fortunate that I am in well paying job that was already full-time WFH and the shutdowns barely affect me from a work perspective.  But I feel so bad for so many others because I KNOW this is having short term effects that will certainly lead to many more long-lasting effects. It's just depressing on a national scale.

 
huthut said:
I feel like working from home would be great if I did not have kids, but it is terrible because I do have kids. 
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Yeah, same. I have one 3 year old. I've been setting my alarm to get up at 5:00am to knock out a couple of hours of work while the house is as quiet as it will be all day.  My wife and I then tag team between work and making sure our son is not destroying the house.  I think it would be easier if he had a sibling to play with.  I then knock out more work at night after he goes to bed.  Only thing that has been on my TV since Monday has been Nick Jr. or random cartoons on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/etc.

I was on a call with older partners yesterday (whose kids are all adults) saying that they are going to judge people during the annual review in part based on how far they "lean in" to taking on extra nonbillable, internal training-type of work over the next month or two, when I'm already putting in 10 hours of billable work plus co-parenting a 3 year old each weekday. I felt like telling them to **** off, but that would probably just have made the review process extra bad.

 
huthut said:
Yep, 2 kids under 5, not older enough to occupy themselves, but old enough that they are bored and want to do stuff. 
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Yup - I have a 5 & 3 year old.  Both my wife and I are being "reminded" that we need to put in full days teleworking, but we're also supposed to be simultaneously watching the kids and providing them the instruction/enrichment that they'd be getting in kindergarten and preschool.  The math in terms of the number of hours in a day doesn't add up.  My boss sent out an email yesterday telling us to enjoy all the extra time we're getting; I had to delete couple of draft replies.

 
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Yup - I have a 5 & 3 year old.  Both my wife and I are being "reminded" that we need to put in full days teleworking, but we're also supposed to be simultaneously watching the kids and providing them the instruction/enrichment that they'd be getting in kindergarten and preschool.  The math in terms of the number of hours in a day doesn't add up.  My boss sent out an email yesterday telling us to enjoy all the extra time we're getting; I had to delete couple of draft replies.
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Honestly, I have been a pretty bad parent over this. I am totally just sitting them in-front of the TV as much as possible. Between both of us being expected to work full time, and not being able to work efficiently when the kids are up, I am pretty much working from 7am until 10pm and barely getting anything done. It is absolutely miserable. The cherry on top is that daycare is still charging us full price.

I almost lost it at someone on facebook talking about "now you know how stay at home moms feel". Like, I watch my kids all day on weekends and such when my wife is out and it is no problem, the hardship is being expected to work full time during it, not taking care of kids. 

 
huthut said:
Honestly, I have been a pretty bad parent over this. I am totally just sitting them in-front of the TV as much as possible. Between both of us being expected to work full time, and not being able to work efficiently when the kids are up, I am pretty much working from 7am until 10pm and barely getting anything done. It is absolutely miserable. The cherry on top is that daycare is still charging us full price.

I almost lost it at someone on facebook talking about "now you know how stay at home moms feel". Like, I watch my kids all day on weekends and such when my wife is out and it is no problem, the hardship is being expected to work full time during it, not taking care of kids. 
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Exactly.  I'm not being a 5 star parent either; my wife and I have been taking shifts, and we're trying to implement a schedule with some education activities sprinkled in.  But I don't know what I'd be doing without the Lego cooperative games on my Xbox.  My kids, especially the 3 year old, are probably too young for video games, but at least there's are teamwork/puzzle solving/fine motor skills elements to it that they don't get out of watching cartoons for hours on end. 

 
My wife starts working from home on Monday. Going to be interesting.

I'm set up for working from home in the office, so I am going to need to set her up on the dining room table. Key will be training the kids again that just because she is here, she needs to be working so do not disturb here - here job needs to usually be done at certain times, I have a lot more flexibility (working now for example since a good piece of yesterday went to being "teacher")

I've got a pretty good routine with the kids right now as well, so hopefully she can just "let it be" so that the routine does not get thrown off.

I give it about 3 hours before the first blow up..........

 
acarey50 said:
My wife starts working from home on Monday. Going to be interesting.

I'm set up for working from home in the office, so I am going to need to set her up on the dining room table. Key will be training the kids again that just because she is here, she needs to be working so do not disturb here - here job needs to usually be done at certain times, I have a lot more flexibility (working now for example since a good piece of yesterday went to being "teacher")

I've got a pretty good routine with the kids right now as well, so hopefully she can just "let it be" so that the routine does not get thrown off.

I give it about 3 hours before the first blow up..........
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I'll take the under.  

 
Yeah...it’s not easy, we have an 8 year old and my wife’s job is much more important financially than mine, so I took the brunt of it this week.  It wasn’t fun.  Having a written schedule helps somewhat, but I’ve found you have to have everything ready for that schedule out and ready at the beginning of the day.  Deciding what to do in real-time leads to fights.  He also needs to get out for breaks every 90 minutes or so.

I’ve also found that just letting them choose lunch works wonders.  

 
Sammy3469 said:
Yeah...it’s not easy, we have an 8 year old and my wife’s job is much more important financially than mine, so I took the brunt of it this week.  It wasn’t fun.  Having a written schedule helps somewhat, but I’ve found you have to have everything ready for that schedule out and ready at the beginning of the day.  Deciding what to do in real-time leads to fights.  He also needs to get out for breaks every 90 minutes or so.

I’ve also found that just letting them choose lunch works wonders.  
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100 percent agree on lunch. And if there's a lunch option you are running low on then let them know beforehand that this may be the last time they have it for a while so do you want it today or later?  Give them a sense of the task and share it with them.  

Also if you're not used to working from home with a kid you can plan ahead for meetings.  If your wife is in meetings then you need to be quiet and as far away as possible.  Easy enough. If you're in a meeting and she isn't, then hey, go see mom.  But sometimes you'll both be in meetings or need to be head down at work at the same time.  When that happens, you want to give them the iPad or video game or TV or whatever. But if they've been watching TV all day that doesn't work. So if you know that's going to be an issue later, then start the day with no screen time, and let them pick an activity just before your meeting. They'll pick screen time and they won't come bother you because they think you might take it away. 

 
First full week of almost the entire company working from home.  It is exhausting.  Now almost every conversation needs to be a meeting or a series of 10 emails.  You have everyone sitting at home all day firing off emails left and right.  I can't keep up.

Last job I worked from home occasionally and it was a nice change of pace.  When you have everyone doing it, it sucks.

 
shuke said:
First full week of almost the entire company working from home.  It is exhausting.  Now almost every conversation needs to be a meeting or a series of 10 emails.  You have everyone sitting at home all day firing off emails left and right.  I can't keep up.

Last job I worked from home occasionally and it was a nice change of pace.  When you have everyone doing it, it sucks.
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Do you guys use Slack or any other messaging tool?   This will save your team or company a #### load of emails.

Luckily most of our company is completely remote so 75% of the communication takes place in slack and only 25% in calls/emails

 
I was set up at the dining room table for about two weeks. My wife and 3 kids never really got with the program. They would interrupt constantly and I was getting #### from my wife for not helping to “homeschool” the kids. Don’t want to get off-track but how in the hell are we supposed to homeschool our 3 kids when they all have hours of work each day? #### this school district.

Anyway, I am now set up at a card table in the corner of the basement. It is like heaven, though I do have on sweats and a fleece pullover because it is chilly down here.

 
urbanhack said:
Do you guys use Slack or any other messaging tool?   This will save your team or company a #### load of emails.

Luckily most of our company is completely remote so 75% of the communication takes place in slack and only 25% in calls/emails
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We use Skype and are transitioning to MS Teams.  It's often used for 1-to-1, but people are not using it for conversations with multiple people.

 
End of week two for me.  Got a full-sized keyboard and a 24" monitor this week.  So much better.  Now I'm waiting on a new chair to be delivered.  

Wife and I have been taking long walks every day in the morning or afternoon (around my meeting schedule).  I've also been playing some video games for a bit during lunch for a mental break.  

It's going to be a little slow at work for a while, so I rearranged the bedroom I'm using as an office so I can see the TV from my desk.  Will have to decide what to stream once I run out of work to do.  

I'm starting to get used to this 'new normal'.

 
Cold Dead Hands said:
I was set up at the dining room table for about two weeks. My wife and 3 kids never really got with the program. They would interrupt constantly and I was getting #### from my wife for not helping to “homeschool” the kids. Don’t want to get off-track but how in the hell are we supposed to homeschool our 3 kids when they all have hours of work each day? #### this school district.

Anyway, I am now set up at a card table in the corner of the basement. It is like heaven, though I do have on sweats and a fleece pullover because it is chilly down here.
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I have an eletric space heater under my basement desk, it is great!  

 
Since I use to work Full-time from home, my setup is just a bit better then a card table 😉 

ETA - On the far left you'll see one of my 3 Co-workers.. The 🐱 sits in that perch all day, while the two 🐶 lay in their beds near my desk.. Best co-workers in the world.. I can blame them for anything without any complaints.

 
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urbanhack said:
Do you guys use Slack or any other messaging tool?   This will save your team or company a #### load of emails.

Luckily most of our company is completely remote so 75% of the communication takes place in slack and only 25% in calls/emails
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We use slack but I had to turn off notifications...

Too many people treat it like a gosh darn  text thread almost Facebook like.... I don't give a #### about your kids woke you up at 4:30

We do have Skype for on network communication

 
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