The working from home thread

[marty21]

Getting a £60 allowance fom work to buy a chair so treated myself to this. Also bought a cable to link my wee laptop to our spare telly as i need more screens.
View attachment 203839

Mrs21 bought a work chair a while ago, we have another one as she works from home regularly. Maybe now is the time to put that other one together, it has been in pieces in the spare room for about 5 years. One attempt was made to put it together, then it was left

 

[marty21]

I had laptop issues on Thursday, rang work IT, they couldn't log on remotely as my problem was the laptop kept turning itself off. They suggested I take it in to the office, I said I wouldn't be doing that, and suggested they courier over a replacement one , and take mine for repair. They said they wouldn't do that #stalemate It worked again eventually, but this could be a problem with maybe 4000 fellow work mates working from home a lot .

 

[pogofish]

Looked in to the online meeting this morning to find that they have given-us the day-off.

Oh....!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I managed to grab a decent laptop just as my old one was failing, I need to start work in like 10 minutes but out of 32gb less than 1gb has been transferred through onedrive and that's taken all night.

Woah, hold on here. What's the 32GB download all about? If you are using OneDrive it suggests that your work is using Office 365, right? If so just leave the files where they are - you don't need local copies.

 

[muscovyduck]

Woah, hold on here. What's the 32GB download all about? If you are using OneDrive it suggests that your work is using Office 365, right? If so just leave the files where they are - you don't need local copies.

It's uploading from the old laptop, which wasn't set to do it automatically because I have timetravelled here from the victorian era

 

[marty21]

Done a few hours work this morning

 

[Orang Utan]

Asking for a friend: can other people tell if you are on a Skype call or not, if you mark yourself as busy?

 

[Idris2002]

I'm plugging away on Libre office here, but my niece has quite the fancy rig upstairs, thanks to her tech support gig.

 

[BoatieBird]

Asking for a friend: can other people tell if you are on a Skype call or not, if you mark yourself as busy?

Skype for business?
If you are on a call it will show you as busy (red), but will also say 'in a call' or 'in a conference call'
If you set it to busy yourself it won't say that.

 

[Orang Utan]

Skype for business?
If you are on a call it will show you as busy (red), but will also say 'in a call' or 'in a conference call'
If you set it to busy yourself it won't say that.

bollox, i'm busy right now (busy having a lie down)

 

[BoatieBird]

bollox, i'm busy right now (busy having a lie down)

Is it linked to your Outlook calendar?
Put a fake meeting in your calendar and it'll show you as 'Busy: in a meeting'

 

[5t3IIa]

It's the relentless Zoom meetings that are getting me down. I'm just about to start a day in which I'm on Zoom till 5.30, with a half hour break in the middle. I can't sit still for that long on a dining chair, under camera scrutiny. I'm busier than ever, but getting nothing done.
Also had complaints about my washing hanging up, and my husband bobbing about the background.

How rude

 

[weltweit]

So it seems I wasn't cold because it was cold, I was cold because I was just sitting still. I've just been to the shop and running errands in my lunchbreak and now I am toasty!

 

[marty21]

Is it linked to your Outlook calendar?
Put a fake meeting in your calendar and it'll show you as 'Busy: in a meeting'

important meeting with the sofa

 

[Steel Icarus]

Getting a £60 allowance fom work to buy a chair so treated myself to this. Also bought a cable to link my wee laptop to our spare telly as i need more screens.
View attachment 203839

I have that in red! starfish

 

[hash tag]

Asking for a friend: can other people tell if you are on a Skype call or not, if you mark yourself as busy?

Skype for business?
If you are on a call it will show you as busy (red), but will also say 'in a call' or 'in a conference call'
If you set it to busy yourself it won't say that.

Mrs T is using a variety of stuff just for conference calls yet alone anything else. She often tells me how many people she can see working.

 

[izz]

I used to WFH fairly regularly and it suits me but the daily calls with the boss are terrible, she's not the best people person and it can be awkward. Also my organisation is totally insane and genuinely believes in greater productivity during pandemics

 

[Badgers]

One of my biggest clients called. He has paid me for work done and offered me some shares if I carry on working unpaid He also said he does not expect me to do much, just to keep things ticking over.

Pretty decent.

 

[hash tag]

One of my biggest clients called. He has paid me for work done and offered me some shares if I carry on working unpaid He also said he does not expect me to do much, just to keep things ticking over.

Pretty decent.

Not sure how much there shares are worth now and in the future and thats if they survive

 

[Badgers]

Not sure how much there shares are worth now and in the future and thats if they survive

I know

 

[starfish]

I have that in red! starfish

Is it comfy? They certainly look comfy.

 

[moose]

Can you blur your background like you can do in Teams? Or put a custom background?

Otherwise just tape up the camera and tell them to fuck off.

i don't have the hair for green screen backgrounds It only works with people with smooth, round heads. I did one meeting without the camera on today, so i could neck a few Ritz crackers for my lunch. Got moaned at.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Is it linked to your Outlook calendar?
Put a fake meeting in your calendar and it'll show you as 'Busy: in a meeting'

I think you have to invite someone else to make it do that, so get a colleague in on the act.

Or move the mouse a bit every couple of minutes to trick the system.

 

[mx wcfc]

I think you have to invite someone else to make it do that, so get a colleague in on the act.

Or move the mouse a bit every couple of minutes to trick the system.

In Skype for business, go to settings. There is a setting that allows you to change the time it takes fro the green tick to turn orange. I increased mine from the default 5 mins, to 60.

 

[mx wcfc]

Also had complaints about my washing hanging up, and my husband bobbing about the background.

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.

 

[cybershot]

i don't have the hair for green screen backgrounds It only works with people with smooth, round heads. I did one meeting without the camera on today, so i could neck a few Ritz crackers for my lunch. Got moaned at.

That’s what the mute button is for.

 

[kabbes]

My laptop camera genuinely doesn’t work

 

[stavros]

My laptop camera genuinely doesn’t work

I can't get mine to work either, which is just as well, as I'm beginning to resemble Swampy with my unkempt facial "hair".

 

[May Kasahara]

I can't carry on sitting on the crap ikea stool in our bedroom, it's ruining my back Need to exhume an actual chair from the garage, even though it will take up loads of space (on my husband's side of the bed though ).

On the upside, I realised this evening that WFH all the time means I can eat the most garlicky, oniony, fart-inducing food I like and not have to worry about the next day's meeting.

 

[stavros]

After I'd played a couple of albums, I stuck on some YTube dance music. I'm glad no one was walking past my front window as I was bouncing up and down in my chair, in what some might interpret as "dance".