Working from home.....
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@dkf said in Working from home.....:
And not quite enough of them to really justify switching to code.
Yeah. In the moment it feels like, ugh, I should be able to automate this, but after they're done they sit there for months if not years with no change.
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@asdf said in Working from home.....:
You would be slacking off just as much in the office as well, you just feel more guilty if you do it at home.
Home slacking is so much more efficient, too! Honestly, depending on what task I'm working on (some things will just always suck) and how my mental ebb and flow is, sometimes I just get very little done and other times I'm super productive.
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@Bort said in Working from home.....:
I started a 100% remote job a couple of weeks ago and was just fired for not getting enough done.
Were you actually not getting enough done, or was that just the reason given to fire you?
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@blakeyrat For actually not doing anything. I'm actually that bad at this point.
My previous job had standards so low that I hardly had to work at all. My motivation is gone. Even hobby projects I used to be interested in. I'm not doing anything anymore.
I'll get another job. I just hope I don't screw that one up, too.
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@Bort Ah. Yeah, I worked with people at my terrible health insurance job who I'd sure had been there for probably 10 years without accomplishing a damned thing.
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@Polygeekery said in Working from home.....:
only for work
If the wife enters wearing only a bra and panties you blow her off?
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@Bort said in Working from home.....:
My previous job had standards so low that I hardly had to work at all
That's always hard to get over. My last job, I would literally go for weeks at a time saying in morning stand ups "I have nothing to do today. What do you have for me?" and being repeatedly told that they'd find something for me to do soon. It takes a while to get back into the swing of actually having work to do
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@Luhmann said in Working from home.....:
@Polygeekery said in Working from home.....:
only for work
If the wife enters wearing only a bra and panties you blow her off?
Shouldn't that be the other way around?
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@boomzilla
@Polygeekery in bra and panties? That smells like guacamole.
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@Jaloopa said in Working from home.....:
My last job, I would literally go for weeks at a time saying in morning stand ups "I have nothing to do today. What do you have for me?
Refactor shit. There's always shit to refactor.
Then again, in my experience, being left bored and with a refactoring job tends to create very... interesting solutions. Like writing your own DI container because something minor pissed you off in NInject.
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@Luhmann said in Working from home.....:
If the wife enters wearing only a bra and panties you blow her off?
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@asdf said in Working from home.....:
But don't worry: You would be slacking off just as much in the office as well, you just feel more guilty if you do it at home.
Yeah, that's a big thing. When you get the Spolsky day at the office, you might feel guilty, but hey - you were there for 8 hours, clocked in and out, so at least there's that. When you fuck your whole day away at home, no such luck, it feels like skipping school.
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@Luhmann said in Working from home.....:
If the wife enters wearing only a bra and panties you blow her off?
That's covered under the (mostly). I don't buy sturdy office chairs and lag bolt the work surfaces in to framing purely to have a secure place to put some monitors. ;)
And oh yeah...the office couch isn't just for napping...
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@Bort said in Working from home.....:
I even had to waive pay for the hours worked to avoid further unpleasantness.
The fuck?? Were you working for Illinois Nazis?
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@Yamikuronue said in Working from home.....:
I've still gotta paste server name
That's the very definition of when to use a macro recorder program!
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@Polygeekery said in Working from home.....:
The fuck?? Were you working for Illinois Nazis?
They disputed the value they were getting (nothing) for the hours worked. Client wanted to determine a more reasonable number of hours we could agree on. Felt weird to me, negotiating after the fact over how much my non-contribution was worth. So I waived the invoice.
So I didn't have to waive the whole thing.
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@Polygeekery Pretty much all of these. I had a separate workstation in another room, because I know I would fire up Quake or Counterstrike every other hour.
On particularly slow days I would play my PS3 anyway (I was basically a support dev and I didn't have to come into the office, maybe twice a month and there was no work).
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@lucas1 said in Working from home.....:
because I know I would fire up Quake or Counterstrike every other hour.
The key is to be productive enough that your slacking isn't enough to keep you from being the most productive member on your team.
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@cartman82 said in Working from home.....:
I often have similar problems when working from home or on my own. The ways I try to deal with them:
- 100% work computer. Shut down work-unrelated browser windows, remove games, etc.
- Desk and chair. The more comfortable they are, the less likely you are to think about that couch across the room.
- Work atmosphere. As hipsterish as that sound, take a laptop and go to a coffee shop or a co-working space. Being surrounded by working people can help.
I can't say I've been 100% successful with any of these. I still fail to consistently put in the level of effort I'd like to.
Also, wear business casual clothes like you do for work. No WFH in pajamas.
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@dse said in Working from home.....:
Also, wear business casual clothes like you do for work. No WFH in pajamas.
Problem: I go to work in shorts and sandals. And put on slippers while in office.
I guess no more nude WFH?
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@cartman82 said in Working from home.....:
@dse said in Working from home.....:
Also, wear business casual clothes like you do for work. No WFH in pajamas.
Problem: I go to work in shorts and sandals. And put on slippers while in office.
I guess no more nude WFH?
But you work in strip club, it is still business casual
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@boomzilla said in Working from home.....:
The key is to be productive enough that your slacking isn't enough to keep you from being the most productive member on your team.
Your team mates do their jobs even less than you?
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@boomzilla I did most of my slacking if I had to do "Web Edits". It was basically a day every other week where we had to do help out with web editing.
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We are casual in the head office, so i do wear shorts, t shirt, trainers - not slippers. Even though the weather in the uk has been hot the office is air-conned.
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@Jaloopa said in Working from home.....:
Your team mates do their jobs even less than you?
Not less than I do around here.
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@FrostCat said in Working from home.....:
That's the very definition of when to use a macro recorder program!
Today every single server I added with my new macro is wrong upon deploying. Crap.
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@Yamikuronue Pssst, it's important to QA the macro and make sure it works before deploying.
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@FrostCat It worked!
...but apparently swallowed one of the characters in the password >.> which I couldn't test until the boxes were built to connect to.