An afternoon working from home

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2-5-25, 6:14pm
Tradd

An afternoon working from home

I had to work from home this afternoon as all the unit doors in my building were being painted and someone had to be here to open the door.

Anyway, after the chaos on Monday with tons of customs clearances to do before the new 10% China duty went into effect and yesterday catching up from Monday, I had a really productive day. No freaking phone ringing off the hook and most of the others in the office not picking up (mostly guys!). I plowed through files. Yay!

About a month or two ago I got tired of things being so slow when I was on the remote desktop with my home laptop on wifi. I got an ethernet cable and wow! Speed! It's so much faster at home.

I do some work at home on weekends when I've been especially overloaded or urgent air freight that's arrived on the weekends, but it's rare to WFH on a weekday. Owners don't like it (claim people were 30% less efficient when WFH during covid) and won't allow it on a regular basis (except for a few favored people who are the same ethnicity as one owner). I've done it before when sick, but it would be nice to have more opportunity. You have to get written approval from your manager to WFH. Very few of us actually have the ability.

I'm glad I was home this afternoon as we're supposed to be getting some freezing rain during the evening commute and even maybe tomorrow morning. If it's bad enough, I won't go in tomorrow morning. I have a 45-60 min drive on windy roads, mostly one lane each way. I brought home enough files for at least part of tomorrow.
2-5-25, 6:23pm
pinkytoe

I worked at home on Fridays for years before retiring (state agency). It made my working days so much more pleasant without all the distractions.
2-5-25, 7:09pm
bae

I have exclusively(*) worked from home for the past 25 years.

(*) Except for essential real-world meetings, site visits, conferences, field work, or travel,
2-5-25, 7:40pm
Tradd

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Originally Posted by bae

I have exclusively(*) worked from home for the past 25 years.

(*) Except for essential real-world meetings, site visits, conferences, field work, or travel,

Most people aren’t you.
2-5-25, 10:47pm
ToomuchStuff

I've had people actually apply at the restaurant, trying to work from home.
One persons idea, was to literally take the phone orders from home, then phone them into the restaurant.
2-6-25, 2:42am
Tradd

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Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff

I've had people actually apply at the restaurant, trying to work from home.
One persons idea, was to literally take the phone orders from home, then phone them into the restaurant.

Yeah, I just don’t get that. Aside from the issues I had with interviews last year with people wanting WFH for an in office job, I know people who needed to hire for in person jobs dealing with the public. Everyone wanted to work remote.