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The working from home thread

We haven’t had our weekly catch up yet, it’s usually today.
I’m so fucking busy, there’s shitloads going on and I’m exhausted. It’s definitely better to be busy as the day went really quickly but I really need it to settle down or I might crash soon. I just can’t keep up.
 
So, today marks the end of my first half-month of working from home. Had some concerns about distractions and productivity at the beginning, but I think I've gotten into the groove of things by now. One unwelcome thing is the fact that I still get struck with post-lunch fatigue which makes working in the afternoons a bit of a drag. Some occasional connectivity issues with the company database have slowed work down a bit, but otherwise things have gone smoothly on the technical side of things.
 
Orang Utan said:
Boss to team today: "don't worry everyone - everything is changing every day"
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT!
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We got a message from on high too.
Expectation is we won't be back to previous levels of activity till January 21.
Bosses taking a 25% pay cut - fair play.
1st year trainees, and other people furloughed on the govt thing.
Rest of us - keep working hard. If you want to cut your hours, just ask.
No pay rises or promotions this year.

No promises that there won't be further changes.

Worrying, but then we were worried before.
 
Bit of a quiet one at the moment. Took all morning to do two hours work.
I've got three projects out there waiting for others to comment/sign off. Until one of them comes back to me, I'm twiddling my thumbs.
Tuesday I was run off my feet. Yesterday, I worked till 6.30.

But the rain has stopped and the sun is out!
 
A customer called to say they'd been given too much food in the emergency parcel my employer distributes - makes a change from the mouldy out of date shite that the government are distributing to the extremely vulnerable
 
Stressed 😡
And angry.
I've been teaching my class online since mid March. Sorted out google classroom. Worked away oblivious to what the rest of the school was up to. .over the hols the school set us up with school email accounts linked to outlook365. Great!!
They didnt link the pupils in...Not Great. So basically its an expensive email system between staff.
Now...someone told the vocational subject teachers to send their work via email to the class teachers so that we could email all that work on to the kids.
So in a nutshell I was being asked to send on 66 separate emails on behalf of individual vocational subject teachers...when they all have their own email system and access to the families' emails.
It was decided on without consultation.
So I said no.
And now I'm the bad one
I am pissed off that my Saturday was fucked up by this nonsense.😡
 
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I'm not happy with work/life balance atm. Not the content of the work itself but in terms of community and social stuff. Everyone has 0 fucking boundaries right now. I'm STILL not an unpaid therapist idk why people (single men) reckon that's changed now I work from home
 
I started a new job 2 weeks ago. The managers I've spoken to seem ok and both have said I'm not expected to put in a full shift. For the first week I was using my.own laptop to get emails etc but it won't run Citrix or the hangouts meetings so on Wednesday I collected a work laptop.

Got it working in the afternoon then did a bit Thursday morning before the system crashed and wasn't accessible the rest of the day or the following day. If I'd had stuff to do it might not have been so bad but fuck sitting around pressing refresh every so often. This morning I got a missed call asking me to ring and let them know I'd turned the laptop on so they could do a remote fix....fuck. that....I'll ring in the morning.

I'm currently living with my ex after the death of our eldest son 19 months ago and it's been manageable so far, we've not gotten under each others feet until now because we're used to being out at work. Being tied to the house all day is already driving me mental. Gonna speak to my manager tomorrow and suggest I need somewhere to work from because it's gonna destroy everything if I have to work from home.
 
So we've had over half the staff on our team put on furlough. But the work has only reduced by a third.

Maybe it would be manageable if we were working in ideal circumstances (we're not) and none of the staff left behind go off sick (they have).

If the directors start moaning at the end of the month that we haven't got our work done, I'm not sure how polite I will be in asking them to rethink who they're furloughing.
 
Getting more used to WFH now, a bit isolating as I also live alone.

It is quite cold in my home office and I feel it sat all day at my computer. Today I wore a polo shirt, a thick fleecy sort of jumper, a thinner large zip up shirt sort of thing and a thick dressing gown, quite snug and luckily as no one has asked me to do any video calls, it doesn't matter what I look like.
 
One thing my firm has been doing is training courses - which isn't a bad idea given that a lot of people have time on their hands. My office is the kitchen table. The kitchen faces south east, and we have french windows. This morning I set the laptop up so I could watch/listen to the lecture whilst sitting in the sun for an hour with a cup of tea, with birdsong in the background.

If only work were like this all the time.
 
I've "attended" 2 training courses, to explain new tech. Introduced earlier this year. More training and first aid refresher to come.
 
I am teaching from home. Doing the best I can to support my students. Started up a google classroom. Sent different work to those who don't have access to the internet.etc.
Set up outlook teams for colleagues and helped people out with IT issues. School policy is that we have short term plan and send a monthly report. That's the department of ed
Management decided to "assess" the work I sent out. And gave me feedback in the form of asvice about using a programme I asked us to use 2 years ago. I'm not using it because I am using google classroom
Having explained this to management, I received another email at 9.45 pm tonight telling me how he understood that I waa using xyz but oh look how great the other program is because his wife uses it!
At that stage I had had it. I replied that I wanted management to respect my personal time and not contact me out of working hours unless it was an absolute emergency. No response. I am sure he has forwarded my message to the principal.
Place is fucking shite. They cant control us now we are workinf from home but they'll do their damndest to make life unconfortable. Small minded ignorant pricks.
 
Do our employers still have a duty of care and all that? You may have read my meltdown in the "would you grass" thread and my neighbours are making working from home just so stressful I've actually been ill through it. I've tried the authorities but they're not interested nor are the housing association. Next door are in their garden right now with some of their friends and kids round. Yknow it's a nice day for a party. This will be their fourth this week alone. The stress of the huge increase in workload ( I work in benefit system) is bad enough.
 
krink said:
Do our employers still have a duty of care and all that? You may have read my meltdown in the "would you grass" thread and my neighbours are making working from home just so stressful I've actually been ill through it. I've tried the authorities but they're not interested nor are the housing association. Next door are in their garden right now with some of their friends and kids round. Yknow it's a nice day for a party. This will be their fourth this week alone. The stress of the huge increase in workload ( I work in benefit system) is bad enough.
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wellbeing should very much still be taken in consideration.
 
I’ve been way busier than usual because 30 April is the key deadline for a project that I’ve been working on for two years — crunch time. And then there is C19 work to do on top. So working from home full time has been both a blessing because it’s much more efficient (even the inevitable endless meetings are ploughed through more efficiently through WebEx) and a curse because there’s nothing really stopping me working from 6am to 10pm without noticing that’s what’s happening.

After May, it should quieten down a lot. Mind you, it looks like (without wanting to jinx it) I’m about to get promoted to a whole different role in the summer. Not really sure how I’m going to get to grips with that whilst not being able to actually see people face to face (WebEx notwithstanding) and just generally wandering around the office.
 
kabbes said:
I’ve been way busier than usual because 30 April is the key deadline for a project that I’ve been working on for two years — crunch time. And then there is C19 work to do on top. So working from home full time has been both a blessing because it’s much more efficient (even the inevitable endless meetings are ploughed through more efficiently through WebEx) and a curse because there’s nothing really stopping me working from 6am to 10pm without noticing that’s what’s happening.

After May, it should quieten down a lot. Mind you, it looks like (without wanting to jinx it) I’m about to get promoted to a whole different role in the summer. Not really sure how I’m going to get to grips with that whilst not being able to actually see people face to face (WebEx notwithstanding) and just generally wandering around the office.
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You will have to invent a radically new style of management. I am sure you will come up with something very workable...:thumbs::D
 
My employer hasn't yet bought the option to phone using Teams, and my plug-in phone no longer dials. After much investigation I realised I could still phone on Skype, despite the official line being to dump that and use Teams.
 
stavros said:
My employer hasn't yet bought the option to phone using Teams, and my plug-in phone no longer dials. After much investigation I realised I could still phone on Skype, despite the official line being to dump that and use Teams.
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I installed Teams on my Linux box to help a friend out in trying to configure the flaky, unreliable piece of shit. I learned two things: one, Teams doesn't like to let go of the mike and camera when it's closed, which is a cunt's trick in my book...and, worse, the bloody thing decided, without so much as a by-your-leave, to install it into my startup-on-login list. For that, there is only one sentence.
 
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