The working from home thread

[Yuwipi Woman]

I thought I might be out of a job, but I've been buried. I have people playing games to get a quick turn-around time, which annoys me.

I'm missing out on the workplace news. I didn't know until today that they'd briefly shut down the bindery over fears of Covid-19. Someone got really sick last week and ended up being tested, so the whole plant shut down. Turned out it was something else so they opened up again. Near as I can tell, its just a small bindery crew in the office. Anyone else who can be working remotely, is working remotely. The boss wanted to spread out the workforce so that even if we weren't able to do anything else, some customer outreach would still be happening.

 

[muscovyduck]

I'm really struggling why does all the stressful stuff need doing right now in the middle of a pandemic, I can barely even get up and walk away from it when I need space

 

[Numbers]

Had y/day off, Mrs Numbers was busy all day in multiple Teams meetings.

Gonna see if I can do a bit more than fuck all today.

 

[moose]

People wandering into shot, and untidy backgrounds are just treated as a laugh with our skype calls. One colleague has a six year old who likes to say hello and show us her latest drawing.
But if your lot are miserable, just mess around with the camera angle, and sit close to it so you fill the screen.

Maybe I'll sit so close they can see my pores.

 

[5t3IIa]

Worked at the kitchen table yesterday and now my hips hurt from the chair. In the office 10-3 today so I’ll take a swivelly chair home

 

[High Voltage]

'Twould appear that you can now be "furloughed" in blocks of 3 weeks but no less

I shall be working a month and then being put into furlough for a month, alternating with a colleague on the other "shift"

So, back nearly working on my own (one other chap working in another department) but not working from home . . . he has his "reasons" - which I may try to find out

And the "junior" has been put on permanent furlough - which makes sense

I know what's going to happen though . . . I'm going to work "my month" and then my colleague, who's not got the best attendance record, is going to not show up so I'll end up coming in for some of his time as well

 

[May Kasahara]

I miss being in the office and I miss my chair!

 

[5t3IIa]

I miss being in the office and I miss my chair!

Can you nip in to the office and take yours away? My place is flinging chairs and monitors at us!

 

[baldrick]

I haven't yet had to experience the torture of video calls with colleagues. my husband does though and he never has the video on - he got moaned at but he told them if he did it would kick me off the internet. I've set myself up a desk in the front room facing the window. I can see what's going on in the street, which isn't a whole lot tbh. Being nosy during a pandemic isn't that satisfying.

 

[May Kasahara]

No, the whole building is mothballed It would never fit in the bedroom anyway.

 

[Hollis]

Grr, we are all being asked to go in once a week for a meeting "in person", which could easily be conducted by video... my boss is abit of a dinosaur when it comes to video conferencing. As well in that we get emails asking for 'volunteers' to come in, which is then followed by a separate email telling us what the 'expectation' is in terms of how many days we'll "volunteer"...

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

My working from home on full pay story:

I've done maybe two hours work the past week. Most of my job is face-to-face, and the balance is admin and IT stuff that really only needs done when the Centre is actually open. When I first had the inkling that this thing might escalate and lead to us closing the doors, I started giving out my personal mobile number (no work mobiles here) to most of my regulars, but I've only had a couple of calls and those were for easy things to sort out. Updated the website and FB page, but that's trivial.

Full pay for two hours actual work sounds good in theory, but I'm not enjoying the reality. And this is only the first week.

Some cunt One of my clients called me just after 7 this morning, the fucking arsehole I dealt with his query in a timely and professional manner.

So that's a good 15 minutes of work done this week already. I'm going back to bed.

 

[weltweit]

..
Gonna see if I can do a bit more than fuck all today.

Yup Monday was not productive for me WFH, I am going to try to make Tuesday count!

 

[cybershot]

Got no motivation this morning. Had a terrible nights sleep thanks to the twat neighbour 2 doors down getting kicked out by his mrs again yelling his head off for about 2 hours, for the second night running, tempted to call the plod out if it happens again tonight, I need my sleep.

 

[May Kasahara]

Some cunt One of my clients called me just after 7 this morning, the fucking arsehole I dealt with his query in a timely and professional manner.

So that's a good 15 minutes of work done this week already. I'm going back to bed.

I somehow managed to sign up for a webinar tomorrow that starts at 8am

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I somehow managed to sign up for a webinar tomorrow that starts at 8am

Schoolboy error. I once signed up for a two-day training course, months in advance, on the topic "An introduction to accounting for non-profits" or something like that.

I basically forgot about it until I got sent the registration and welcome pack. Guess which two days of the week the course was on?

 

[Badgers]

Might get up soon

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh no, my skype appears to be borked. My status is ‘busy’ but i can’t switch it back to ‘available’. I suppose I should call somebody. <yawn> might have a nap first

 

[Supine]

Have gone onto half days supporting a pharma client. Keeping away from site to protect the shop floor staff.

I need a proper office chair. My back is killing me and this is only the second day of wfh.

 

[May Kasahara]

Sympathy like there, Supine.

 

[Orang Utan]

Have gone onto half days supporting a pharma client. Keeping away from site to protect the shop floor staff.

I need a proper office chair. My back is killing me and this is only the second day of wfh.

Me too. I do have a desk at least but it’s too low using two computers is hurting my neck too

 

[existentialist]

Grr, we are all being asked to go in once a week for a meeting "in person", which could easily be conducted by video... my boss is abit of a dinosaur when it comes to video conferencing. As well in that we get emails asking for 'volunteers' to come in, which is then followed by a separate email telling us what the 'expectation' is in terms of how many days we'll "volunteer"...

I think a lot of people are going to be squinting pretty hard at their employment options, once this is all over...

 

[existentialist]

I bought a wedge cushion from eBay just now. Although I have an office chair, and it's pretty good, I'm just feeling that the seat is a little too "flat" and needs some tilt...

 

[hash tag]

Just noticed this on Mrs T's mood board. If only

 

[Badgers]

Might get up soon

Still a work in progress

 

[weltweit]

Had a good morning, getting set up for the afternoon shift now.

 

[mx wcfc]

Had a good morning, getting set up for the afternoon shift now.

Had a rubbish morning. I think I'd better turn off and stick to the work laptop.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I need a proper office chair. My back is killing me and this is only the second day of wfh.

Buy a gamer chair. They're about half the price of an ergonomic office chair, but have all the same features and bells and whistles that the fancy black office ones do, plus a nice headrest. You just have to put up with looking like you're sitting in a child's car-seat.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Buy a gamer chair. They're about half the price of an ergonomic office chair, but have all the same features and bells and whistles that the fancy black office ones do, plus a nice headrest. You just have to put up with looking like you're sitting in a child's car-seat.

There's an element of you get what you pay for though.

Office chairs from a proper business supplier by default tend to assume that Ben Nevis is going to be sitting on it, so the load-bearing piston thingy tends to last a lot longer, things that are plastic in cheaper chairs are metal, the material and stitching is higher quality etc It's the rich man/poor man shoes thing, but in chair form.

Having said that, I'm currently sitting on a gamer chair I got from B&M. It's perfectly comfortable and was really cheap. But I know there's a day coming, perhaps not too far away, where I notice that I am slowly sinking to the ground.

 

[smmudge]

I've got a work laptop but the sleep /display lock settings are hidden so I can't change it. Trying to figure out how to trick it so it stays on (I get about 3 minutes inactivity before it locks). I'm thinking something resting on a key, maybe back space or an arrow key. Not enter or space bar or anything like that...