If you are working from home

I get it, I really do.

Can I add this though? If you are given the choice to come to work or to work from home I request that you don't do the following:

1. Don't come in the office and tell me about how it was such a nice day that you played golf.
2. Don't tell me "Sorry I couldn't answer the phone, I was recruited to jump on the trampoline"
3. Do not tell me that you might come by the office tomorrow but you have "So Much" gong on.

I get it, These are different times and we have to be safe. I was given the chance to work from home, but it is WORK from home, not fucking play golf or jump on the damn trampoline. Oh and I don't have to worry about if I can come by the office because I have "So much going on" Yeah I've got it going on, it is called work!

If you are going to work from home then work and don't tell me stories of what you are doing instead of working.

The above are all true stories from my fellow co-workers while I still do M-F 9-10 hours a day. I don't want to hear this BS.

Rant over

 

I generally work from home.
I also skive off and go to the beach - na na na xxx

 

I wonder what your job is.

 

We're pretty lucky here---we're still roofing and wearing masks while doing so.

 

Construction management

 

I’ll bet if you were working from home, you’d have the same stories.

 

Maybe, maybe not.

 

I’m not working from home... just drastically reduced hours... Barely making an appearance here and there this last month. But I’m still getting my full pay so it’s almost like a vacation.

 

My husband is working from home right now. I'm shut down so we are both home all day. He has set up an office in the basement and he's down there from 7:30-4 with the exception of about 10 minutes when he comes up to grab lunch and eat it down there. I'm not sure if he's actually working or just trying to stay away from me. Haha. Either way he's not out having a good time.

 

while it is generally true, that anything that can be done from an office, with the right technological facilities, can generally be done, every bit as well, from, well it depends somewhat on if there are others sharing the space and their natures. while this may be all well and good, most of what is really essential, that actually needs to continue being done, no matter what, for everyone else to be able to go on living and enjoying life, is actually, generally, not of a nature as to be capable of being done from an office either. the nurturing of living organisms and the transport of physical objects generally come to mind. in principal of course, these to could be attended to by mechanical assistants, but given suffcient advanced ment there of, humans need no longer become part of their loop, so the office then becomes superfilous there too. even the maintainence of the technology, requires actual hands on and not the mere shuffiling of paper to satisfy the great illusion of symbolic value.

 

aren’t you in england? You go to the beach in the current weather!
What kind of work do you do from home that allows you to head off to a cold beach in the rain? Are you close to the ocean?

 

looking at a map of england, i would estimate that everyone there is within about 75 miles of the ocean.

 

London is 52 miles from Brighton, the popular Sunday destination for people living in the south west of the city and Surrey during the last century. The popularity was largely due to the direct train service from Victoria, stopping only at Clapham Junction to pick up people living further south.
The famous all Pullman Brighton Belle, lost it's famous engine when the line was fully electrified in the 1960's, but the restaurant cars remained.

 

I have a desk and a small book shelf ... wood, from the caboose of an old steam engine, my grandfather drove them and had arms like you would not believe. Shovelling coal will do that. . Yes, a caboose had desks, chairs, and bunks as well as benches inside them.

any how, I would think that this is not really the time of year to head to the beach. I am a 5 minute walk to Lake Ontario and this is definitely not beach time. A lot of these shops there close down for the winter as well in the uk. Had a friend who worked at a fish n chip place that shut down after the season every year.

 

Travelled on the 'Belle' on many occasions with 'Larry' Olivier, Dora Bryan and many other 'theatre' people !!!

 

The famous "Flying Scotsman" burnt around 30 tons of coal on a single journey from London. I doubt that either of it's firemen headed off to the gym after work,

My mothers twin brother lived in Brighton, so I spent a lot of time there in my younger days. We avoided the crowded beaches and walked a 10 mile round trip under the cliffs to the 'Dean's'. Many times it was snowing, so to me a heavy overcoat, scarf and waterproof boots is my preferred beach wear.
In her younger days, my mother and her brother swam from the end of the banjo groyne back to the beach almost 365 days of the year (except in heavy storms).
Back in the 1950's every Christmas day, around 100 people took part in the swim.
When our son was born, my mother collected him from nursery and took him home until Jane got home from work. The journey from her home was 7 miles followed by 2 miles from the nursery to our home. Although in her mid 70's, she thought that I was crazy when I suggested using the bus for the first part of the journey. She lived until she was 97.

Undercliff walk...............................................In winter........................................................Banjo Groyne

 

Back on topic.

Jane is working from home paying all those lazy people working for the UK government. Her .gov.uk login is accessed via a network with more security than than NASA, her password changes every hour, a dongle fitted to our server transmits all the time and if she leaves her computer for more than 90 seconds without logging out, the whole lot shuts down.

One of the companies who I use all the time has 400 staff in their orders office. It took the company 48 hours to get them all working from home. The biggest problem was getting the telephone call distribution network to recognize their home telephone numbers and distribute calls to available staff who are on duty. Since one of their major customers is the NHS, the system operates 24/7

National Express, the UK's largest coach company have a telephone booking office. However their is no office and the entire booking office staff work from home. This system was introduced around 1985. It has been kept secret and staff can loose their job for telling a customer that they are working from home.

I thing that we will see major change in how people work following the corona crisis. It will solve rush hour congestion and reduce pollution. It is my guess that in future thousands of people will work from home 3 or 4 days a week.

 

In the past I had a job that was entirely home office. My current gives me the option to work from home from time to time. Obviously in the midst of this virus madness I am working from home and have been doing so since the latter part of March. In my prior work from home job and currently I have to admit I do miss going to the office specifically the social and professional interactions I have with my coworkers.

I have to admit I do like the commute and dress code when you are working from home.

 

I worry that too much isolation will adversely affect relationships in the future.
Nearly all of the people I know met their partner through the work environment. I am not saying that they all worked together, some of them met their partners simply be meeting people from other companies, or at a coworkers party or in one case his wedding.
Relying on bars and clubs to meet people rarely works, particularly if you do not drink and have 2 left feet (like me).

 

good point to ponder wils. I have been in the workforce for a long time and have seen a few work related relationships blossom and make it long term. its still important though, and maybe even more when you are a work from home employee to be sure you maintain your social activity in your non working hours - of course with the caveat that the pandemic has passed