Posted on 07/08/2024 7:44:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Now I'll be the first to admit not every job (or every employee) is cut out for full time remote work. But I do internal accounting work, so don't deal with customers, and I really have no reason to need to be in the office for anything. I can access all my spreadsheets online. Also, I've done it for 20+ years at this point so don't need any handholding like a recent hire might.
But it has saved me a fortune, I was driving 45 minutes both ways. So not only did I save on fuel and maintenance costs, but I also get an extra two hours a day I was losing to the commute. I've even saved money on work clothes as all I need is a dress shirt and tie to slip on when I have a virtual meeting with the executives. Where before I probably spent $500 a year on dress shirts, pants, shoes, suit jacket etc.
At my company, we call this “Responsible Freedom.” As long as my deliverables to my customer are met, no one really cares what I do or where I work from. If it is sunny today, I am going to work from the pool. We have cabanas so I can work in the shade, fully plugged in and on the internet doing what I need to do.
😂 😂
The day starts at 6am and most times goes till 8pm.
It is nice to be able to drive my kid to private school in the morning (45 miles round trip) and the wife pick her up in the afternoon. Without being able to work from home the wife would have to quit her job to drive/pickup the kid from school, and without her job there would be no private school.
In the article about the ‘isolation’ from coworkers ... for me that is a super benefit. The last thing in the world I want is some personal friendships with my coworkers. Most of them are people you would NEVER want to have as neighbors or friends. So long as I and they do our jobs, that is fine with me.
The other benefit of Working from Home for me is ... “I'm saving the planet!!” by not driving 140 miles round trip a day to the office. /s
My God how did the human race survive before psychologists?
I was on vacation out of state last week. We were at my mother in laws house. My wife is still there for another week. Yesterday, While working in my home office, I realized that I could have just stayed there and worked.
Normally I’m out on the road most days, but didn’t have anything scheduled this week. Dummy
Forbes has sure sunk. Talk about a slanted article harking back to lockdown days. People don’t want to work at home, whaaa!, then go into the office or find another job, whaaa! People used to gripe about the office and commute time and lunch and the awful coworkers and blah, blah. Now that they don’t have those weirdo coworkers or the commute or all the other crappy things so they’ve transferred the gripes to their homes and families. Just get over yourselves and stop with the constant whining. Ya’ll are little 2 year olds who are in the middle of throwing a fit only it is 24/7. At least 2 year olds exhaust themselves into nice naps.
Have a designated space for work, and set a reasonable schedule that you can live with. Stick to it unless there are very unusual circumstances that cause you to alter that.
My 1:50 minute commute each way has ended and never will return...
I did that for 35+ years... and never really understood how much it drained from my life...
COVID was the best thing that ever happened to me... I survived getting and have thrived with WAH since...
Retiring in 12/31/2024... 39.5 years... one of the last with a private sector pension and partially funded healthcare...
I’ve been working since I was 12... at 63 in January, it will be time to enjoy what I have left!
That would be 1 hour and 50 minute commute each way... My commute today is about 2 minutes... LOK
I didn’t get much past the wife whining about using the couch. Big boo-hoo, so share the office instead of labeling yourself as a second class citizen. Turn your giant shoe closet into your office. Guess what, girlie, I work every day on the couch hunched over my laptop on a little tv tray that is all of 1” larger than the laptop and my paperwork is on the nearby living room chair. Why? Because the soft couch is easier on my backside, it is under the fan and I can look around. Get over yourselves or no adulting stickers today.
Such an arrangement that restricts or even removes the function of a home--the purpose of it being to provide privacy, rest, pleasurable non-business relationships, and pursuit of both sadness and happiness moments--makes it a place infringing on the liberty of others of the family to freely act out their life choices without the restraints your coexisting business demands of them.
In fact, when you impose this implied behavioeal constraint on self and others, your "home" no longer serves its purpose. It is now dysfunctional, often to a degree that others no longer want to be there.
And this condition can pertain to you yourself even if you live by yourself alone!
in effect, your ill-conceived plan is that of a fool under the illusion that it is "a better environment for personal mental AND physical health."
Believe me, I have seen it and experienced it while residing with another thus oriented family member, a highly placed executive. Temporarily, it may be necessary, but in the long term, destructive.
Even a farmer doesn't bring the pigs into the house.
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