@mehvid1@OnionSoup@PocketBrain I got a new job in March after a year long layoff due to a workforce reduction. I love my new job. It makes me wish I’d left the other one years ago. I look forward to going to work every day. Having a stable job you love is a real blessing. I should mention I don’t work from home. Our business is considered essential so we have only worked from home sparingly. Even then I was able to bring hardware home to do analysis on it. Not purely computer work.
@mehvid1@PocketBrain@tweezak I wouldn’t say I love my job, but I’m content with it. I haven’t loved work since I was a teenager working in a book store.
I have had jobs I hated and I’d never last more than a year or two before moving on. The current job I’m content with and have stuck it out eight years which is a record for me.
Still bad because I still have to get up earlier than I’d prefer and because I’m required to sit in front of the computer for 8.5 hours as opposed to all the romping and playing I do on the weekend
I look over at the laptop on Sunday. I notice the rod iron chair i brought in from the patio because it has arm rests. And the fluffy blanket and pillow I had to scrunch up to sit there for the longest time. I notice this makeshift desk on my dining room table not on Saturdays…just Sundays
the impending dread. I think it’s the job. Fresh hell that awaits me …water utility commercial customers paying their annual bills.
@ZeroCharisma Come on…adding zeros is arguably making no change at all. Sounds like you either aren’t trying or you aren’t very good at this creative accounting thing. After all, lots of people have gotten rich doing it.
What is this WFH you keep talking about? I have to actually go to work. On a schedule that is given to me. It’s as if nothing has ever changed.
/youtube There is no tomorrow, it’s all the same fucking day
WFH started for me a year ago and I still like it! I don’t even mind when it edges into my weekends. I do mind when home edges into my work time too much. Monday is a good day as are the rest of the days that end in Y.
Work in general has gotten more tolerable Wing FM. Mondays are still bad. Gotta take all the freedom and put it back in its cardboard box in the closet where you won’t accidentally think about it.
My husband has been WFH for a few months, I’ve been WFH since my son was born almost four years ago (you may debate the level of “W” FH that is, but I consider it such). My Mondays have changed, but they’re better now than they were, because there’s a second human adult around. Even if we don’t have heavy conversation, not having only to communicate with my toddlers (who I love, but who are not always pleasant) is a huge difference to my day. I don’t need much, but a shoutout to SAHPs out there who are primary caregivers without another adult around to offer a couple of moments of conversation; it’s hard. I’ll miss it once he goes back to work. Probably more than he’ll ever know.
I was doing the WFH thing before it was cool. Nothing’s changed for me except when I take a mid-morning break and take a walk I run into more of my neighbors taking a walk. They need to get back to their offices! :o)
Sunday nights were not nearly as depressing as it was when I had to go to the office the next day.
I had to go back to the office because my attention span and motivation were suffering due to the kids not getting along with each other or just coming in and wanting stuff while I was on a call.
Monday morning, 10AM is the all-hands Skype staff meeting where we have to justify our existence (and paycheck) by discussing the status of all the essential work we’ve been doing recently. After that, the week is free-range, smooth sailing. One more smaller project-specific meeting Tuesday afternoons but it is usually, both literally and figuratively, just phoning it in.
My husband retired in January. I don’t work. Now he can’t make fun of me when I don’t know what day it is! With the virus, nobody knew what day it was in march and april!
One thing that worries me about WFH is that while company’s are all hunky-dory about the similar (even increased) efficiency being discovered in many situations… I can’t help but feel things are being set up for companies to later realize… “Hmmm… you mean we don’t need to hire all of our folks in this expensive area near our offices???” “Wyoming has some people that we can train for half the local salary, you say?” followed later by… “There are trilingual PhDs in Bolivia that will gladly do this for 20% of what we pay??!”
Maybe a hybrid approach could be offered, where WFH can be used to augment work-life balance giving employees an option for when they need to be home (waiting for an electrician, staying off a sprained ankle, or whatever) but not requiring they use up PTO.
@jester747
The more likely discussion will be… “Wait, so we don’t need to lease all of this office space, heating/cooling costs, phone lines or internet, insure for workplace injuries, staff to clean the place, buy office supplies, maintain equipment, computers, printers and expensive printer ink, or even buy coffee, stock the break room, and we can cancel that catering/cafeteria contract. Our employees will provide all of that in their homes for free! With all the savings our bonuses will be insane!”
@jester747 It’s OK if the board is pissed at the CEO for screwing the pooch. At least he’s not as bad as POTUS. Oh, and they have a line on another old white guy and if we bump his offer over the CEO he’s replacing, he promises he will suck less. They better jump on it. Talent like that doesn’t just fall off the turnip truck.
Isn’t it still March?
@tinamarie1974 Feels more like groundhog day. Every morning the news sounds the same as yesterday. Maybe I’ll start taking piano lessons…tomorrow.
KuoH
@tinamarie1974 In just a few more years, 2020 will be over.
@awk @tinamarie1974 This year could’ve been something… but I still have some hope for the last 2 months.
/youtube Rainy days and Mondays
@IndifferentDude Loved her fantastic voice & still mad at her for her not taking better care of herself.
Every day is a Monday. Especially Monday.
@OnionSoup Double Monday.
@OnionSoup @PocketBrain Who are the people that like Mondays??
@mehvid1 @OnionSoup @PocketBrain I got a new job in March after a year long layoff due to a workforce reduction. I love my new job. It makes me wish I’d left the other one years ago. I look forward to going to work every day. Having a stable job you love is a real blessing. I should mention I don’t work from home. Our business is considered essential so we have only worked from home sparingly. Even then I was able to bring hardware home to do analysis on it. Not purely computer work.
@mehvid1 @PocketBrain @tweezak I wouldn’t say I love my job, but I’m content with it. I haven’t loved work since I was a teenager working in a book store.
I have had jobs I hated and I’d never last more than a year or two before moving on. The current job I’m content with and have stuck it out eight years which is a record for me.
@mehvid1 the people who like Mondays are called retirees.
@mehvid1 @PocketBrain or retail employees.
Still bad because I still have to get up earlier than I’d prefer and because I’m required to sit in front of the computer for 8.5 hours as opposed to all the romping and playing I do on the weekend
@togle That’s right! I romp! I play!
@togle Own it.
@togle I love a hearty romp.
@togle … No I dont
/giphy sad
Thanks for reminding me
Mondays are great. I get to take a break from moving to sit at a computer.
The days were long ago blurred together
My job is considered essential, so Mondays still suck the same as usual.
Better if only because the commute rocks.
I could complain about the whole pandemic thing, but it’s not like it’d be better if one had to go into work too, would it?
I look over at the laptop on Sunday. I notice the rod iron chair i brought in from the patio because it has arm rests. And the fluffy blanket and pillow I had to scrunch up to sit there for the longest time. I notice this makeshift desk on my dining room table not on Saturdays…just Sundays
the impending dread. I think it’s the job. Fresh hell that awaits me …water utility commercial customers paying their annual bills.
@AZnatural1 is that like a wrought iron chair?
My vote should not count-I’m retired.
I don’t get to work from home because making billion dollar companies into trillion dollar companies is considered essential.
@ZeroCharisma Could you make a thousand dollar individual into a million dollar individual?
@tweezak Unfortunately I think you have to be a conglomerate in the multi-billion bracket before the multipliers kicks in.
@ZeroCharisma Come on…adding zeros is arguably making no change at all. Sounds like you either aren’t trying or you aren’t very good at this creative accounting thing. After all, lots of people have gotten rich doing it.
Monday starts the series of conference calls, and Friday ends the series. Sometimes I go outside to make sure my city is still there.
What is this WFH you keep talking about? I have to actually go to work. On a schedule that is given to me. It’s as if nothing has ever changed.
/youtube There is no tomorrow, it’s all the same fucking day
Still great because I’m not working anyway.
WFH started for me a year ago and I still like it! I don’t even mind when it edges into my weekends. I do mind when home edges into my work time too much. Monday is a good day as are the rest of the days that end in Y.
Mondays feel blue.
/youtube Oyl3XbxaKdw
I don’t mind mondays, honestly. Doesn’t matter if I’m working from home or in the office.
Work in general has gotten more tolerable Wing FM. Mondays are still bad. Gotta take all the freedom and put it back in its cardboard box in the closet where you won’t accidentally think about it.
In fact, I’m going to be late if I don’t hurry.
My husband has been WFH for a few months, I’ve been WFH since my son was born almost four years ago (you may debate the level of “W” FH that is, but I consider it such). My Mondays have changed, but they’re better now than they were, because there’s a second human adult around. Even if we don’t have heavy conversation, not having only to communicate with my toddlers (who I love, but who are not always pleasant) is a huge difference to my day. I don’t need much, but a shoutout to SAHPs out there who are primary caregivers without another adult around to offer a couple of moments of conversation; it’s hard. I’ll miss it once he goes back to work. Probably more than he’ll ever know.
I was doing the WFH thing before it was cool. Nothing’s changed for me except when I take a mid-morning break and take a walk I run into more of my neighbors taking a walk. They need to get back to their offices! :o)
Sunday nights were not nearly as depressing as it was when I had to go to the office the next day.
I had to go back to the office because my attention span and motivation were suffering due to the kids not getting along with each other or just coming in and wanting stuff while I was on a call.
Monday morning, 10AM is the all-hands Skype staff meeting where we have to justify our existence (and paycheck) by discussing the status of all the essential work we’ve been doing recently. After that, the week is free-range, smooth sailing. One more smaller project-specific meeting Tuesday afternoons but it is usually, both literally and figuratively, just phoning it in.
Working?
My husband retired in January. I don’t work. Now he can’t make fun of me when I don’t know what day it is! With the virus, nobody knew what day it was in march and april!
One thing that worries me about WFH is that while company’s are all hunky-dory about the similar (even increased) efficiency being discovered in many situations… I can’t help but feel things are being set up for companies to later realize… “Hmmm… you mean we don’t need to hire all of our folks in this expensive area near our offices???” “Wyoming has some people that we can train for half the local salary, you say?” followed later by… “There are trilingual PhDs in Bolivia that will gladly do this for 20% of what we pay??!”
Maybe a hybrid approach could be offered, where WFH can be used to augment work-life balance giving employees an option for when they need to be home (waiting for an electrician, staying off a sprained ankle, or whatever) but not requiring they use up PTO.
@jester747
The more likely discussion will be… “Wait, so we don’t need to lease all of this office space, heating/cooling costs, phone lines or internet, insure for workplace injuries, staff to clean the place, buy office supplies, maintain equipment, computers, printers and expensive printer ink, or even buy coffee, stock the break room, and we can cancel that catering/cafeteria contract. Our employees will provide all of that in their homes for free! With all the savings our bonuses will be insane!”
@mike808 yeah, can’t forget all of those “savings”… then cheaper and cheaper staff until:
“Hey, why are customers not buying our stuff anymore? The shareholders are going to be livid!!”
“Uh, looks like our customers worked for companies just like ours, boss. They’re broke now.”
@jester747 It’s OK if the board is pissed at the CEO for screwing the pooch. At least he’s not as bad as POTUS. Oh, and they have a line on another old white guy and if we bump his offer over the CEO he’s replacing, he promises he will suck less. They better jump on it. Talent like that doesn’t just fall off the turnip truck.
I’m ‘essential’, so Mondays are still Mondays. Hooray.