Posted on 07/04/2024 6:27:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Holy crap! We have become such a pathetic lot. Remote’s really not all that hard. You get up, get ready, get online, show up and do some work!
Holy crap, have we really degraded this much as human beings???
Maybe like my soon to be ex son in law, they spend too much time on steam and pornhub when they are supposed to be working.
That's me!
One was our EMS guy, who managed to do zero recordable work for SIX BLOODY MONTHS. I called him a few times, and there was always enough background noise that I knew he was out and about.
Unacceptable.
“But the majority of remote workers are just remote paycheck collectors.”
And you know this how? That’s a very strong universal opinion. Is it based on real world experience or the usual Freeper opinion that judges everyone and everything harshly?
My wife has worked middle of the night health care for five years now. She takes calls, routes nurses, consults doctors, and talks to patients. When lazy people don’t take calls or take too long a breaks, they are consulted by a supervisor. They have fired some of them.
There are productivity guidelines that the company insists on. Every call is recorded and can be accessed by supervisors. If the company isn’t making money, they tell their workers the department will close.
People do not like it, but it is true.
And you know that what people will admit to doing is about half of what they actually pull.
Yes and no. Sure, the bean counters will say that, because one warm body is the same as another warm body to them. Technical and institutional knowledge, combined with a willingness to take 'ownership' of a platform are force multipliers. If you have someone unwilling to take ownership, and responsibility to make sure that everything is up to snuff, they are worthless and in the end will cost you money. I don't always 'work' 8 hours a day, sometimes it's less, sometimes it is a lot more. Depends upon what is going on. In the end my boss just wants the job done, and done right, because screwing up can literally cost them millions of dollars.
I use offshore folk to do rote work that keeps me from having to work every night and weekend. I simply do not trust them with anything complex because they have made no effort to be useful to me.
They get twice the work out of me now that I work from home. I am much more productive.
Here is a phenomenon I am seeing with a friend of mine. He is in IT like me and he says working from home is much more efficient so much more that he actually has two full time jobs and neither employer knows about the other. He works hard and it can be difficult but he needs the money for divorce.
No one writes code 8 hours straight 5 days a week. You would go crazy doing that. I take huge Free Republic breaks during the day.
It was unacceptable. But is very common. Most people do not have the discipline to work remote.
If you are IT, then that is the big exception. Our current IT team does have an office (that is where the servers are), but do most of their work at home. Which is typically a few blocks from the office.
As an experiment, one time I did a whole week of that.
I was wiped out for the next two weeks.
Agreed. Particularly government workers that are the last to return to the office. If you can someone to pick up the phone it’s a miracle. So many stories of particularly women who “work from home” but spend most of the working day on home chores, etc.
One of my tenants, who works remotely writing gov’t grants, is often just watching netflix when I go into the apartment to do repairs.
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