[codercpc]

I’ve got somebody in the office who is a gossiper who takes frequent smoke breaks and looooooong lunch breaks, finds any excuse to avoid work, talks very loudly into the phone, bursts through closed doors and interrupts private, business-related conversations and throws public tantrums from time to time, cussing out her boss.

HEY, I thought I asked you not to talk about me on the internet.

Seriously, I am a people person, I love interaction with the public, but 5 years ago I was offered an opportunity that I financially could not pass up. It entails working out of my house. No coworkers (except those via email and telephone), no office politics, etc. I thought I would hate it. I found out instead that I absolutely love it! I don't miss any of those people you were talking about. And the coworkers that I do miss, I now get to see on my own time. Also my productivity has at least doubled. I wouldn't change it for the world.

[scan59]

It entails working out of my house.

Selling Amway or Arbonne?

[SittinYonder]

I worked out of the home for five years, going into the main office just a couple of times a month. Mostly all the communication I had with the rest of the office was phone or email.

I used to hate going into the office for group meetings. I was inevitably drawn into the politics by people I hardly knew. It was humorous to see how they would jockey for position, each clique trying to get me to join them for lunch so they could tell me how awful the other cliques were.

I loved working from home and wish I could do it again. The only problem was, I was always working - the phone rings during dinner, on the weekends, on holidays - even in the middle of the night - I would always answer it.

[RightOnline]

I ‘own’ worldwide marketing for a product set that will do over $1B this year alone. When I took it over 5 years ago, it was doing $120M per year....

Now....all new management. I work from home. Guess these years I haven’t done s**t. They want to see me “in the office”; wandering the halls to just be freakin’ “visible”.

Doesn’t matter that I’ve made them hundreds of millions of dollars.....and all long before they had these jobs of theirs.

We don’t see you? You don’t do spit. Well.....I’ve worked from home for MANY years and I put in far more hours than those who go into “the office”. I also get far more done. Guess that doesn’t matter now.

F**k ‘em. I’m moving to a new position early next year. Let’s see how all of these wonderful things happened on their own magically, somehow. Gonna be a hoot.