Noobs working from home

[OldSalty]

Ive been working from home for about 15 years. Meh, it has its pros and cons...anyways...

Was talking to a friend and they are working from home for the first time ever. And management makes everyone get on a video call at 0800AM.

LoL...

Any noob work from home stories to share?

ETA: The matrix for frequently used con-call terms.

 

[hlee]

So true it hurts... It's only been about 10 for me. Seeing our CEO give a presentation from his breakfast table was a trip.

 

[Nik H]

Ive been working from home for about 15 years. Meh, it has its pros and cons...anyways...

Was talking to a friend and they are working from home for the first time ever. And management makes everyone get on a video call at 0800AM.

LoL...

Any noob work from home stories to share?

ETA: The matrix for frequently used con-call terms.
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15 years! That is pretty awesome. I have been doing it for three now and absolutely love the freedom I have. I do like visiting HQ once a month though. A week a month is decent but not in March or April probably. Funny thing is that I bitch about it when I have to do it and bitch about it now that I can't....LMAO

 

[OldSalty]

Haha, that is so accurate.

I can only imagine how my team looks in the morning.

Generally, for me its sweats in winter, shorts and tshirt in summer. Flip flops and a hat...whatever. I am sure its the same for a majority of my team.

Ive heard plenty of dogs, toilet flushes, snoring, babies crying, etc on calls. Even heard a guy going crazy screaming profanities at his wife or girlfriend slamming doors and shit.

Late night crisis calls are when the crazy stuff happens...

 

[isofahunter]

As long as the work gets done. 20 years WFH.

 

[OldSalty]

Yep about 15. Things have changed so much its pretty amazing to be honest. Work from remote has came a long, long ways. The new tools, although they have their fault are very effective. Lots of different tech to choose from, with like webex, skype, g2m, slack etc being some of the more well-know names.

When I started it was all dial-in conference through the corporate phone systems. Sending presentations beforehand via email ect.

Now I have a bad ass wireless headset with a range that lets me wander all through the house and part of the yard. Thing must have a 300ft to 400ft range.

 

[BytorJr]

Our Citrix connection has gotten almost 1200 baud slow since so many people are working from home now. Ahhh the memories of me being a badass with a 1200/2400 Baud US Robotics modem!!!

 

[7WSMShooter]

one of many many fuck ups working from the house

Being on a con call, on mute, I get asked a question, unmute and answer, thinking I put it back on mute and literally blowing a whole in the toilet. Call gets completely quiet, at which point I’m still safe, No one knows it was me, but I’m not paying attention Like a dumbass. At which point I start to critique said collosal dump, the back splash, and the putrid smell. Most of the men on the call are dying at this point, pretty Much everyone else was disgusted.I realized I wasn’t still on mute about 2 secs before my female manager was able to choke out , Dan, Please mute you phone.
I really pay closer attention to the mute button now.

 

[RRG]

I’m one an done, can’t handle
This work from home crap, first day was spent 3 hours trying to log into Remote Desktop , the second half of the day was bitches complaining that the Microsoft Team meeting that I was asked to join had a bunch of feedback and echos from my computer. So they muted me and wondered why I had nothing to contribute to the meeting.
Well shit, I’ll just go to the range tomorrow instead of joining their useless meetings, With any luck they’lle Lay my old ass off and they can figure out how to build the fricking refinery without me.

 

[OldSalty]

one of many many fuck ups working from the house

Being on a con call, on mute, I get asked a question, unmute and answer, thinking I put it back on mute and literally blowing a whole in the toilet. Call gets completely quiet, at which point I’m still safe, No one knows it was me, but I’m not paying attention Like a dumbass. At which point I start to critique said collosal dump, the back splash, and the putrid smell. Most of the men on the call are dying at this point, pretty Much everyone else was disgusted.I realized I wasn’t still on mute about 2 secs before my female manager was able to choke out , Dan, Please mute you phone.
I really pay closer attention to the mute button now.

LoL...I have heard lots of stuff like that. Weve all also messed up. Share wrong window, forget to mute.

You cannot hide now though. Most of the collaboration tools have an icon for when someone is speaking or has background noise...

I triple check my headset before going to take a leak haha.

Still though, it can be very productive if you have a team that is experienced in working remote and knows the tools.

 

[kenny1773]

I have been work from home for about 4 years or so now. I love it. I don't think I could ever go back to reporting to an office everyday.

The routine of getting up, getting dressed, driving to work is so depressing. I work in my underwear now (no one I deal with is big on video conference even though we have the capability) and don't miss that modern office interaction (which in my opinion has gone to shit anyway, not like 20 years ago office interaction where you could openly tell fart jokes and people laughed, now you get sent to HR for sensitivity training)

Don't have to deal with walking around the puddle of pee that always seemed to be on the mens room floor or deal with the stank ass old ladies nasty ass perfume stinking up an elevator for an hour after they used it (and that stank molecule attaching itself to you while you were in there). No idiots denting up my car doors in the office parking lot

Yes the remote tools can be annoying, and they do not always work, but fuck it, when the VPN is down, I have plenty at home I can get done until it comes back online (doesn't happen that often). I am happy to deal with remote work problems, instead of being in an office face to face with a bunch of morons.

It's also fun to have side chats going with co-workers that are friends during meetings, just make sure not to type your smart ass comments in the wrong window

Being remote and having a remote team has been a breeze during the recent events, for us it's just business as usual.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

I WAS working from home until 1830 hrs. Minion 1 called and said we suuuure could use you to watch Scada tonight with the high flows.
I told him to call my interim boss(another whippersnapper, and long story). The Schnauzer gave the ok so I had the wife drive me to work(another long story).

What a mess.

 

[SilentStalkr]

I worked from home for years on the last gig and then of course got laid off and landed the new gig. New gig doesn’t allow people to work from home normally, but due to this COVID crap we have been working from home for 2 weeks. I love the freedom that working from home gave me. Extra time to go to the gym, extra time for house crap, extra time with the kids and so on. Yes, getting up and having to spend 3 hrs a day going to and from work sucks. I don’t miss that crap at all. Unfortunately, I’m having to do it again , but at least I’m working. I can at least share a ride with my wife into town. So there is that. We will see how it goes.

Frankly, I don’t see why more companies do not allow working from home. It would be cheaper for everyone. However, it does take discipline as it’s easy to turn on Netflix or some other crap and waste hours getting into something. I’m not one of those people but many are and I can see how it would be easy to fall into. If global warming is actually a thing, less travel would help ease some of that to. Come to think of it, it has a shit ton of positive effects except for those working the gas industry. Hell less gas, less wear on a car, less maintenance intervals, less people driving on roadways which means less maintenance on said roads, less traffic for those that do have to travel the highways. I can go on and on and on.

 

[QuickNDirty]

Ive been working from home for about 15 years. Meh, it has its pros and cons...anyways...

Was talking to a friend and they are working from home for the first time ever. And management makes everyone get on a video call at 0800AM.

LoL...

Any noob work from home stories to share?

ETA: The matrix for frequently used con-call terms.
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I've been working from home about 2 years. I hear that whole grid almost every day.

 

[Schroedernd]

I love this working from home. I take the kids to daycare then go home and start drinking and working!

 

[armorpl8chikn]

I love this working from home. I take the kids to daycare then go home and start drinking and working!

Yeahhhh....
I had just took two sips of Bowman Brothers when I got the call from my minion. I wasn't anywhere close to lit, but I won't even sniff a bottle of whiskey and drive. So the wife drove me to work. I felt quite cheated. She texted me later, "You barely touched this drink, the ice is melted, so I'll just dump it."
NO! I'll drink it in the morning!

 

[Maser]

I wish it was legal to beat the shit out of people who refuse to use headphones or earbuds while in a conference/Skype call and use speakers instead and then wonder why they're hated so much in the call!

 

[Maser]

For those who don't know what I'm talking about with the speakers thing, just watch this because it's pretty much what happens when you're in a call with someone who uses speakers. Start the vid at 4:20 if it doesn't start there by itself.

 

[WestDesertPRS]

I've been doing working from home for about 16 years. Some parts I like...some not so much. One day I'm sitting there on a conference call with our project management team, my boss (senior director) and a couple VPs. Somebody else is talking and i'm fucking around with a Harris bipod I had sitting on my desk. Just opening/closing the legs, bored shit.

Not paying attention, I close the leg down and caught my finger tip in the hinge area, which cuts right in. Right about that moment somebody asks a question so i'm answering with my teeth gritted, the bipod pinched down on my fingertip and i'm bleeding all over my desk...

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[E. Bryant]

I've been working remotely/from home for about 15 years now. It's simply a matter of what Jocko calls Discipline Equals Freedom - if I've got the discipline to get my work done throughout the day, then I get the freedom to do what I want (workout or ride bike at lunch, fuck around with a gun project while on a useless conference call, handle the occasional domestic task that needs to be done during the day, etc.).

I've found that I do certain tasks better at different times of the day, and so I can achieve higher efficiency by scheduling my day accordingly.

And, yeah, make sure to mute the phone in the bathroom

 

[seansmd]

 

[Nik H]

Haha, that is so accurate.

Even heard a guy going crazy screaming profanities at his wife or girlfriend slamming doors and shit.

Late night crisis calls are when the crazy stuff happens...

HAHAHAHAHAHA...you do hear all sorts of shit but people are getting the hang of it.

Quite honestly it will now lend credence to the whole concept of WFH. Cheaper to keep you home as long as your work allows it and you get your tasks done so you don't bottleneck upstream or parallel activities

 

[P-Squared]

MUTE is your friend. Most time Un-Mute is like flying your zipper at half mast. Just saying.....

 

[E. Bryant]

MUTE is your friend. Most time Un-Mute is like flying your zipper at half mast. Just saying.....

Agreed. Not everyone else wants to hear you resizing brass while Steve from Accounts Payable blabbers.

 

[DarinC]

Been working from home about 6 years.
Would be very hard to go back to the office at this point, although it can be very tough At times with little kids in the house.

I swear my 2x/week morning conference call is like my body’s signal to take a shit.

Shortly after going full time at home, we were all called in for a meeting, after the useless meeting, on our way out, one of the guys who had been around quite a while grumbled “I put on pants for this...”

Hilarious at the time, but little did I know how true that comment was!