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owl_pellet
Nov 20, 2005

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told to wfh indefinitely late last week. daily standups and other meetings have been interesting - people wearing hoodies and tshirts with bed hair, even a director ha

a guy on my team was shocked to learn that his 4 megabit/sec DSL was insufficient for anything but the most basic tasks over the company vpn. rdp'ing into a server didnt even work properly. he has been some flavor of computer toucher for like 30 years. he's a nice guy though

Speaking of the vpn, we are lucky we had a really really bad cold snap here last year which showed the infrastructure team that it was not ready for a mass wfh situation, so they spent the last year making improvments to it which are now paying off

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owl_pellet
Nov 20, 2005

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Corla Plankun posted:

i juuust started my job when wfh started and i have no idea what im doing or should be doing and it is really upsetting

i wish i was the type of person that could just coast if they dont have any responsibilities but instead i am become anxiety factory

gonna talk to my boss about it this afternoon


refleks posted:

ive encouraged my colleagues to spend some time on self-improvment. read some books, take an online course. Things that arent normally possible in a regular work-day because dumbasses keep walking up to you in your open office space and disturb you.

do that.

I agree - what are the required skills for your job? Are you top notch in all of them? Are they ones that you can take an online course for? A lot of places like Udemy, Coursera, Lynda, etc. are having sales right now because people are at home.

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Nov 20, 2005

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TerminalRaptor posted:

graph is in the same area as me. When I looked a couple years ago there was nada.

Herman Miller does an annual sale around this time for 15% off. It's still freakishly expensive though

madisonseating.com

they are used or frankensteined from the working parts of otherwise broken chairs or something. the chair i bought from them a few years ago is still going strong

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Nov 20, 2005

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qirex posted:

after 4 weeks of quarantine I finally have my home workstation set up how I like


I also work and post from inside your mother

owl_pellet
Nov 20, 2005

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its friday. probably gonna blow off the things i said was gonna do in the morning stand up. coronavirus.

now playing dude ranch by blink

owl_pellet
Nov 20, 2005

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Ha this owns. I don't like Babymetal but I really dislike elitist metal fans.

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Nov 20, 2005

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freeasinbeer posted:

now that I can be remote forever where should I live? would love to be on water or near it, and I guess cities are kinda out of the picture.


also preemptively let me say not Pittsburgh, or Cleveland. if I want to live in a post industrial shithole I’d move back to Baltimore.

First figure out whether or not living in a place with a lower COL than your current place will cause your company to lower your pay

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Nov 20, 2005

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Borat voice my dumbass gimmick

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Nov 20, 2005

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I wish Wisconsin would finally legalize it, we are the only midwest state without at least medical weed iirc. Even a state like Utah has medical weed. UTAH

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