Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Is it bad that I miss going to work? That I miss seeing my coworkers?
The working from home thread
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mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
No it's not.
It's not bad, either, that I don't miss going to work, and only miss seeing colleagues a little bit!
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Some days I feel like that too. Just a matter of what day you ask me.
Oh, and I'm never going to miss the lady who comes into my office and natters on about nothing for an hour every day.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
Not bad at all.
I really miss my coworkers too, they're the best bit about my job
Sapphireblue
Well-Known Member
i discovered that exact thing the other day! oddness
No, I'm finding the same thing. I actually want to see the inside of my office again, if only for a change of scene!
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Not at all, I understand where you're coming from.
For me though, it's more than compensated by how much more free time I have in the evenings, thanks to cutting out the two hours of daily commuting on the bus. I also greatly appreciate how this means that I no longer have to get up at 5:30 in the morning to get to work.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
I don't miss the people at all. Not at all. Not even a bit.
However I miss the two and a half hour commute to head office and then staying over for one or two nights. It means I have nothing else to do apart from work (and eat/sleep)
I get sooo much more done than when I'm working at home.
I realise this probably means you may think of me as a little strange.
However I miss the two and a half hour commute to head office and then staying over for one or two nights. It means I have nothing else to do apart from work (and eat/sleep)
I get sooo much more done than when I'm working at home.
I realise this probably means you may think of me as a little strange.
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BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
I actually went into my office today today pick up an office chair and rescue my plants.
It made me sad
That hadn't occurred to me, but oddly it doesn't surprise me either. I'll stick something over the camera when I'm not in meetings, and maybe stick Metal Machine Music on repeat tomorrow.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
You can also go into the settings and tell it not to start up automatically. At least, on Linux.
Ah, we have to have it start automatically, as the management line is that we use it for everything.
One very minor thing that nonetheless really grates is that when it auto-starts it covers the control bar at the bottom. I need to press the box in the top right to get it to just cover the active screen, so I can then load up Outlook, IE and any Office files I need.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I don't miss the commute, the office, paperwork or even the people.
What I miss are piles of cables. Speakers. Noise. Fixing a problem with minutes to go. The lights going down and a voice saying "...go" in my ear. You really can't do that bit of my job from home
What I miss are piles of cables. Speakers. Noise. Fixing a problem with minutes to go. The lights going down and a voice saying "...go" in my ear. You really can't do that bit of my job from home
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Yeah, a pain in the arse. And, from the various informal attempts I've had at trying to help people make it work, it's as flakey as fuck. And god help you if you use it and then need to switch to another platform...it doesn't like to let go of the camera.
I actually went into my office today today pick up an office chair and rescue my plants.
It made me sad
We were banned from doing that a few weeks ago, on the very day I was considering asking security if they'd let me in to pick up some papers and a chair that's way better than the backache-inducing old thing I have in my study at home....
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
My employer have been delivering chairs from empty offices to workers at home whose backs are complaining. But they have the resources to do that as they have a big workforce
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I miss my colleagues so much I miss the students, going to visit our schools and college centres. I miss my office, the atmosphere and the 8th floor views.
This Friday we were supposed to be having our development day for Principals. It's an all day thing that I'm very involved with, and afterwards we all go out to the pub and invariably end up getting smashed. I shall miss that.
I miss the students, going to visit our schools and college centres. I miss my office, the atmosphere and the 8th floor views.This Friday we were supposed to be having our development day for Principals. It's an all day thing that I'm very involved with, and afterwards we all go out to the pub and invariably end up getting smashed. I shall miss that.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I miss my commute. I really value that hour in the car every morning and evening when I can be completely alone, with time to think through whatever is on my mind.
cybershot
Well-Known Member
Go for a walk instead.
I actually miss this too. Although I dumped the car a year ago in favour of taking the train. Are you mad you might think. I never expected to fall out of love with driving, but the standard of other peoples driving gets worse by the day, almost blowing the horn every day and the councils war on cars by turning most of my short cuts into one way or cycle roads only just made the whole thing way to stressful. I'd get to work wound up, and I'd get home wound up. So the councils tactics paid off, annoyed me so much I started using public transport.
Instead taking 15 mins to walk to my local train station, listen to tunes, read the news once at station and on the train, then do another 15 min walk the other end after 15 mins on the train was so refreshing and especially helped me just be so clear minded and chilled by the time I got home that most of my work worries were at least once again at the back of my mind until I was back at the desk the following morning. It also takes me no longer doing the commute this way than it does in the car sat in queues.
So I make sure I still do my 30 minutes of daily walking to clear my mind and just zone out.
Driving during lockdown has actually been pleasurable again when I have needed to go out and pick things up, although Saturday just gone felt like a normal Saturday, the roads were very busy again!
Steel Icarus
we move
Finding getting going in the morning very difficult. Every morning wake up feeling like I've been hit by a train. I think it's cos I'm not having enough time away from the PC. At work I break things up by going for a wander to find students or see staff members in person, or just get a cuppa and look at something different for ten minutes.
I also accelerate through the day, as pretty much all my job is now is emailing and phoning students, and they get up much later than usual during lockdown
Thought I'd share this, too. Good to remember.
I also accelerate through the day, as pretty much all my job is now is emailing and phoning students, and they get up much later than usual during lockdown
Thought I'd share this, too. Good to remember.
I'm having to do a week-long online training course. No problem with that in principle and I can see that it will be of real benefit to some people, but I'm finding it pretty much a complete waste of time. In technical terms - it's about working online - it's pitched for people who have difficulty sending an email, whilst in other respects it's not covering much we didn't look at when I took a formal qualification in this sort of area only a couple of years ago. Being difficult and refusing to participate wouldn't achieve anything aside from making me unpopular, so instead I'm doing the minimum I can get away with, and leaving the videos playing in the background whilst I get on with other important jobs. Such as tidying the kitchen cupboards.
Actually, following on from this, what is this obsession with providing instruction via video these days? I don't mind its being there as an option, but personally I find a step-by-step written guide, with pictures to illustrate where necessary, much more helpful and much easier to refer back to. It's one of the things about this course that's actively frustrating rather than being simply pointless. Same applies to recipes, DIY tips, and the rest of it. Shove your videos up your arse and write some proper text FFS.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
This. A thousand times this.
I cannot learn anything by listening to someone talk. I have to read, then do.
Yes! The concept of 'learning styles' has slightly fallen out of pedagogical fashion recently but I still think there's a lot in it, and videos just don't suit my way of learning. Watching a video is too passive and my attention wanders: I prefer some nice, clear, written instructions to read through and then try to act upon, and which I can keep by me to refer back to if something doesn't work as I expected. Obviously that doesn't go for everyone and the sort of 'passive learning' that videos foster works well for some people, but surely the solution there is to provide both text and video?!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I can’t even listen to someone reading an article or story - I have to have it written down and read it for myself. Audio books are utterly pointless for me.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Today is fucking dragging because the Ford Motor Company apparently thinks that engine data and towing weights are just too boring to put in their brochures. The data that is present comes in a jumbled arrangement that is hard to read and is scattered across several PDF pages.
These documents are relating to commercial vehicles. It makes no god damn sense that the availability and presentation of such vehicle data would be so poor. One would have thought such data would be more important in the commercial market, as such data would be useful for business planning.
Or maybe Ford just sucks at documentation and data handling, with their stupid password-locked Excel files and unsearchable PDFs.
These documents are relating to commercial vehicles. It makes no god damn sense that the availability and presentation of such vehicle data would be so poor. One would have thought such data would be more important in the commercial market, as such data would be useful for business planning.
Or maybe Ford just sucks at documentation and data handling, with their stupid password-locked Excel files and unsearchable PDFs.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Solidarity fist bumps to Roadkill and beesonthewhatnow
That’s one of the reasons I hate meeting. They’re often just to go over stuff that’s already been said in an email, but people don’t seem able to read them or understand them, so we have to go over them again
That’s one of the reasons I hate meeting. They’re often just to go over stuff that’s already been said in an email, but people don’t seem able to read them or understand them, so we have to go over them again
cybershot
Well-Known Member
We do the same. in my IT Services team there's 4 optional 'tea breaks' and 1 wider mandatory Wednesday to just check in with everyone and do any necessary updates from the business.
Then the college team I'm alligned too is 2 Tea breaks a week and 1 mandatory meeting.
I check in with the people I line manage at least once a week to make sure they are ok, and then also group meet with them once a week too.
The only downside is all the mandatory stuff tends to be on a Wednesday so 4ish hours of my day is took up by just meetings, but have to stay aware during them, 1 i lead and the other I have to input into.
I don't always attend the tea breaks but they are useful.
We also keeping the 'Thursday after pay day drinks' thing going virtually on Zoom as well, which is good as see some other faces sometimes in the wider IT Services team that I don't normally see unless I physically bump into them so that's been good, also allows break out rooms so some people can play board games (somehow) and other crap.
Think it's really important business' and teams do these sort of things to be honest. It's probably then a bit easier to spot the staff that are not joining in and maybe struggling and give them an extra bit of care and attention, without digging in too deep, but peoples mental health and wellbeing is more important than anything. That NHS slide above is spot on.
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Gah. All these people droning on about how video-conferencing is going to replace face-to-face interaction and the future is all online. Is it fuck. I've just come from yet another Zoom meeting that consisted largely of people saying 'I can't hear you,' 'your picture has frozen up,' 'can you repeat that?' and 'my internet connection is wobbling again.'
IME the only thing that guarantees clear sound on a video-conference call is to say something you shouldn't, which through the inexorable operation of Sod's Law will come through fine. In this case, my 'oh for fuck's sake' when it froze up for the twentieth time was probably the clearest point of the meeting.
IME the only thing that guarantees clear sound on a video-conference call is to say something you shouldn't, which through the inexorable operation of Sod's Law will come through fine. In this case, my 'oh for fuck's sake' when it froze up for the twentieth time was probably the clearest point of the meeting.
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