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I probably don't have to tell you there's a pandemic going on right now. As a consequence, a ton of people are (voluntarily) working from home. I am one of them. At first I was optimistic about it. After all, I have spent hours sitting at my desk at work, thinking about how much I'd rather be home. I'd read countless posts about how much rear end working from home kicks. But now that I actually have to work from home, it sucks. I don't have a cosy ergonomic office chair at home. I'm just sitting at my stupid table, on a stupid chair. Same thing goes for monitors. At work I have a handy dual monitor setup, here I'm staring at my tiny laptop screen all day. Hell, I even miss walking around sipping coffee and annoying my dumb-rear end colleagues. But the worst part is, my home doesn't feel like a home anymore. It's like work has infected that once peaceful place. It feels tainted now. Like when your CEO would decide to sleep in your bed or brush his teeth with your toothbrush. Ugh. Just get out of here, gross bastard! How do you feel about working at home goons?
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All that AND you have to spend time with your girlfriend and kids...
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Mar 18, 2020 12:23
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Did it for 3.5 years, by that last year I was begging to be fired it drives you nuts after awhile if you are just hammering away at spreadsheets and emails.
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Mar 18, 2020 12:27
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Why didn't you take your monitors/PC from work back home with you? It's not like this is going to just be a two or three day WfH trial program. Although if you don't have a car or enough deskspace at home, I get it.
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Mar 18, 2020 12:30
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it actually owns op. gas and ban for good measure
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Mar 18, 2020 12:41
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I've been working from home for ages. It's great. Perhaps you're doing it wrong?
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Mar 18, 2020 12:43
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Work from home is lame. There's more distractions if you don't have your own office and even then it's not ideal. People call more useless video meetings because the higher ups feel less in control. Slack gets overrun with spam and becomes a nuisance. And working problems out in person, 1 on 1 is often very effective. If you can wfh effectively then cool for you, but I don't feel very productive or comfortable doing it.
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Mar 18, 2020 12:44
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Salem Saberhagen posted:Work ... is lame
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Mar 18, 2020 12:46
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Roumba posted:Why didn't you take your monitors/PC from work back home with you? It's not like this is going to just be a two or three day WfH trial program. I got sick last thursday. I'm fine now, but I stayed at home and over the weekend they decided that everybody should work from home. So I didn't get the chance to take stuff home. But even then, it's not like I have an empty office room around or something like that.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:01
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wtf lol working from home fuckin' rules OP
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Mar 18, 2020 13:03
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Entering hour 3 with tech support to get my remote key working. Still beats going in.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:03
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home - can smoke weed, pet my rabbit work - no weed, no rabbit easy call op try enjoying life more
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Mar 18, 2020 13:20
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The Walrus posted:home - can smoke weed, pet my rabbit Yes, agreed. But it would be nicer if you could do those things, without work. Basically:
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Mar 18, 2020 13:25
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ya tbh I haven't done poo poo in the last couple days tomorrow I'm actually gonna do some real work so that might change my opinion a bit. my least favourite part of the day is the commute tho so still winning there.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:26
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pram posted:it actually owns op. gas and ban for good measure
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Mar 18, 2020 13:32
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I've considered working from home as an option but my three year old would keep me from getting anything done.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:33
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My boss scheduled a 9am videocall on Teams every day this week. Possibly to make sure I'm wearing clothes.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:43
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The key to working from home is not actually working! This is why you're having such a hard time OP. Yesterday I smoked a blunt while watching Kelly and Ryan and by the metrics I was still one of the most productive people in the office.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:43
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I work like 2 hours max per day WFH. Aside from monitoring emails. Nobody chasing up, no need to fake or slowroll busywork. Does feel pretty aimless if you do it for long enough though.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:49
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I think most of you are missing the point. Being at home owns. Working from home, not so much.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:51
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being at work and working at work both suck though
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Mar 18, 2020 13:54
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shut up blegum posted:Hell, I even miss walking around sipping coffee and annoying my dumb-rear end colleagues. You are one of the reasons I enjoy working from home, sorry to sound like a douche
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Mar 18, 2020 14:01
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Ah yes being able to lean back in my chair and let rip a really nasty fart whenever I feel like it sure does suck OP. Make sure you drive around for 45 minutes twice a day to simulate that commute you miss so dearly.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:16
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I feel greasier after spending a day working at home than working in an office. But I think that might just be a me problem.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:21
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I need to get a nice office chair for my home office since i'll be working here for the next few weeks At work they buy everyone an aeron and it owns. the several years old generic office chair I got for 50 quid at Argos is not cutting it
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Mar 18, 2020 14:23
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shut up blegum posted:I probably don't have to tell you there's a pandemic going on right now. As a consequence, a ton of people are (voluntarily) working from home. I've been doing it for 13 years so uh, pretty alright I guess?
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Mar 18, 2020 14:23
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The Walrus posted:home - can smoke weed, pet my rabbit does the rabbit get high off your weed smoke
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Mar 18, 2020 14:24
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*holding a blunt like a carrot, blowing out a cloud of marijuana smoke* Ehhh... when you think about it... what really is up, doc?
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Mar 18, 2020 14:26
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Me hiding in the bathroom for 20 minutes so I can scroll through Facebook: "sure glad I'm not WFH with all those distractions"
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Mar 18, 2020 14:31
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Hammerite posted:does the rabbit get high off your weed smoke I vape but no way. poor little girl. she basically acts like shes stoned 247 anyway though.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:33
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I agree OP, working from home ruins home.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:34
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Realize that you've removed your commute, you can enjoy an actual lunch break at home, and you no longer need to wear pants. If you get really good at working from home you'll learn how to get all of your work done and still enjoy loving around on the internet, jerking off, or watching TV all day. It rules.
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Mar 18, 2020 14:49
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I have to be available from 9-11am and 1-2pm for emails from students. All of my lessons for today released at 9am and at 9:03am I got a message from an 8th grader that a YouTube link to a Sketchup tutorial won't open on her chromebook. Same link we've used for 2-3 years, the toggle in YouTube shows its approved for everyone in our domain, but now that I can't check it out or send her to IT, it doesn't work. It always works...until our very first E-learning day.
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Mar 18, 2020 15:02
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the virgin "boohoo i have to work at home away from the plague beasts" vs the chad "i am stuck in this interminable healthcare hellscape that is my job, i fear nothing anymore, existence is pain"
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Mar 18, 2020 15:04
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:You are one of the reasons I enjoy working from home, sorry to sound like a douche I'd talk about beers with you
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Mar 18, 2020 15:09
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I'm in college for mechanical engineering and we just switched to doing the rest of the term from home, I'm pretty stressed about it. Normally I'd be pretty happy about the arrangement but I was feeling burned out before all this and now I have to attend "class" from home where all my distractions are, also I'm a single father of 2 and all childcare is shut down lmao
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Mar 18, 2020 15:12
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WFH would be cool if all the extroverts would just admit that talking sucks as a method of communication and giving status updates via text is a million times better. Instead they go insane and start requiring everyone to dial into every 5 minute chat because “it’s good to talk”
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Mar 18, 2020 15:13
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leaving the office is one of the best parts of the day, when I work from home the workday ends and I'm still in the same place. My lizard brain is like "why not leave? no happy feeling"
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Mar 18, 2020 15:17
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I actually get quite a bit more done from home because I don't have people popping into my office every two seconds. Now they have to use the proper channels 
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If you don’t have the proper setup it sucks, but over the years I slowly accrued extra monitors, proper desk and chair etc. Pretty much just as productive as at the office except my co-workers are lazy as hell 
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