The working from home thread
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I bought a 4K 32 inch monitor at the weekend. It’s brilliant
£200, which I found incredible because I‘ve not had to actually buy a monitor since the days when we all had 15 inch CRT ones and my mate pushed the boat out for a heavy as fuck 17 inch one for £1000.I also have an Aeron chair and a proper work desk because the kabbess used to walk full time from home. So I’m well set at this point.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It'll be depressing as hell having to use the shitty small monitors in the office when I eventually go back. 
Numbers
an ting!
13lbs gain for me. Have completely stopped training, started drinking far too much daily (haven’t had a sup since Sunday and we’re only going to drink (less) on Friday and Saturday) + have been eating biscuits and ice-cream aswell as usual breakfast, lunch and dinner. I plan on starting training again next Monday and maintaining the 5 days no booze.
Since we’re collecting the data: I’ve lost 2lb since lockdown, and lockdown came at a point where I’d just finished a session of the 5:2 diet that had already lost me 8lb. Being at home has meant more walking, some regular resistance training and generally much healthier eating. No going out to pubs has certainly helped a lot. I have a rule to never drink alcohol except when with friends, so I’ve drunk very little indeed these past 18 weeks, albeit a bit more in the last 2.
Cloo
Banana for scale
My weight seems to have stayed the same - I'm snacking a bit more, but then I am also exercising every day (it's only 20mins of that, plus a long walk every few weeks and a shorter one or two per week) so it's keeping things in check.
I'm not imagining I'll be going back to the office this year, and nothing else I could do could cut down contact with others as not commuting - there's no reason for me to have that extended, close contact with dozens of people every day of the week given I can work from home.
I do fucking hope the kids can stay in school next term, but my money's on them making it to half term at best before they have to shut down.
I'm not imagining I'll be going back to the office this year, and nothing else I could do could cut down contact with others as not commuting - there's no reason for me to have that extended, close contact with dozens of people every day of the week given I can work from home.
I do fucking hope the kids can stay in school next term, but my money's on them making it to half term at best before they have to shut down.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Mine asked yesterday if I was coming back to the office. I channelled Nancy Reagan and just said no.
As long as I do my hours and billing they shouldn't complain
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The current expectation at mine is we'll be working at home at least for the next two to three months. Some staff have to be in the office, but my team and many others can work remotely indefinitely. It just wouldn't be possible to bring everyone back given the need to distance people from each other.
Cloo
Banana for scale
My workplace said last month they'd shut the office until at least end of September and they have confirmed people on furlough will be staying there until end October. TBH I doubt they will force anyone to come in and I'd hope places where they are managing OK from home will do the same, especially if getting there requires public transport. They reckon they can only get about 25% of the workforce in safely, and seeing as we are expecting massive loss of income it would probably be cheaper for them not to open the offices (our London HQ, unusually, actually belongs to the organisation)
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Work is picking up a tiny bit, this has been my desk all week...
Trouble is being sat in the garden all day has led to beers from around four o’clock every day, which isn’t a great habit to get in to...
Trouble is being sat in the garden all day has led to beers from around four o’clock every day, which isn’t a great habit to get in to...
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
My shitty Citrix fob stopped working on my Chromebook on Thursday.
I phoned IT and they told me to wipe all the files and cookies from my Chromebook and re-install.
I laughed and told them that I wasn't about to wipe ANYTHING from my Chromebook. It's my Chromebook. They can fuck the fuck off.
Now I have to actually go to the office, where absolutely no one is following social distancing requirements, until they can get a company laptop to me, which will probably be August.
For a massive company, they are really, really terrible.
I phoned IT and they told me to wipe all the files and cookies from my Chromebook and re-install.
I laughed and told them that I wasn't about to wipe ANYTHING from my Chromebook. It's my Chromebook. They can fuck the fuck off.
Now I have to actually go to the office, where absolutely no one is following social distancing requirements, until they can get a company laptop to me, which will probably be August.
For a massive company, they are really, really terrible.
Need to get that added into your t&C's for a return to work
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I heard at work there has been a massive spike in demand for laptops nationally, as a result of loads of people suddenly working at home. But it should have settled down a bit now so hope you get a new laptop sooner than August.
The third party company I'm working with put out several reminders at the beginning of lockdown to get people and teams to hand in unused laptop stock and chargers. No effective asset register and staff who can't be arsed to return stuff to the IT dept in a timely manner.
Hopefully you've sobered up by 9am, when you start work.
FFS 
www.telegraph.co.uk
Beware the unholy alliance that wants to make working from home the norm
Many in their twenties and thirties feel cut off from colleagues and the wider corporate context of work during lockdown
www.telegraph.co.uk
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Has anyone been doing online study/CPD during lockdown / WFH? Just looking at some FutureLearn and other courses, now my actual work is winding down a bit Would be interested to hear others' experience.
Would be interested to hear others' experience.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
It's summer, the windows are open , you hear everything....
Who's had the all day angle grinder a few doors down
Who's had the all day angle grinder a few doors down
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
I've got a new bathroom going in later this week. I dread to think what the noise will be like. I may have to try working in the garden.It's summer, the windows are open , you hear everything....
Who's had the all day angle grinder a few doors down
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
It's summer, the windows are open , you hear everything....
Who's had the all day angle grinder a few doors down
All day angle grinder in the sideway between our house and theirs. Just when you think he's giving it a break for a couple of minutes it starts up again. Apparently he's cutting stones for his driveway that he's making a massive fuck-up of.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Nightmare, can't the driveway wait till we return to the office? Massively anti-social anyway.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
He's just moved in and appears to be an inveterate potterer. Always something to fiddle with, whether it's using a cordless sander on his bench he made with pallets, or trimming his hedge with a petrol strimmer every week that the previous occupants cut once a year. He's at it 7 days a week so I think respite might only come if he has a sprog or two with his girlfriend and is consequently too tired to use an electric polisher on his window sills.
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