#998

I was in Tenerife last week at the last minute and if it was possible for my partner to work remotely we probably would have chatted about staying there for a bit.

#999

Yeah - this is very true.

Have found it makes certain things much easier though. I used to hate the mad dash from the office to school to pick him up. It’s fine when they’re in nursery but the school day ending right in the middle of the afternoon is a pain in the arse. Now I can nip out, pick him up, and be back at my desk in 20mins.

Also - the prospect of managing school holidays is nowhere near as stressful as it used to be.

#1000

With you on the property bit - my old job was in a big legacy business and they’re not coming back into office until June 2012 earliest which leaves a 10 story building in central London that was previously hugely over subscribed (if you weren’t in by 8:15 most days, you weren’t getting a desk) becoming a very different space. They were retail so I think they’ve changed it into a design space, and allowed for the functions that can’t work remotely to be spread out more etc, but still I can’t see that going on forever. My current start up is pretty open that the rent on the office is stupid and the future of the office is looking uncertain but what that means is anyone’s guess right now.

As a gamblin’ woman, we’ve just gone and bought a house commutable to London but outside of it so hope I don’t regret that when my commute costs skyrocket on a 5 day week!

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#1001

And how much happier you could be with just the flexibility to be able to do things like that! I reckon I’d take less holiday time as I’d be more inclined to work mornings for 2 weeks of having afternoons to explore in a foreign city or something.

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#1002

Two weeks on holiday for five days total annual leave? Sign me up.

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#1003

You know you’re getting old when 2012 doesn’t feel like a typo.

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#1004

Hah! Oh shit, 2021! Yeah, I didn’t notice that at all :grimacing:

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#1005

Sounds so futuristic :joy:

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#1006

I’m taking part in an online union meeting. Some people are taking part from home and some people are in the college building.

There’s a fire alarm test at 12.30 every Wednesday and almost every tuning in from college hadn’t muted microphones so we had a swirling loop of fire alarm from about five different microphones.

I’m currently mastering it for release on Disintegration States.

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#1007

As a union organiser, online meetings have actually enabled us to talk to people in places where previously it was hard to get into/staff were scared. Some places still benefit from the ol’ face to face but it’s nice expanding the methods of meeting.

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#1008

It’s also great zoom bombing HR with a surprise payload of disgruntled employees when they were expecting a small meeting.

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#1009

Not with regard to unions, but meetings in general are way more efficient with zoom. Great that as everything is online it doesn’t matter where you are, so different kinds of people can join. Also way less commitment because you can do something else during the irrelevant bits, and its also way easier to just leave if you realize you don’t need to be there. Harder to intimidate people without body language too. I’m into it

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#1010

I am glad to be able to take part and I do think it’s useful to have one meeting rather than three campus-specific ones.

#1011

Hard to judge because I’m not sure whether I have more or fewer pointless ones. But I suppose you can just crack on with other work.

#1012

One of our campuses is over 160km away so it’s nice to reach out to the previously forgotten about.

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#1013

in a thread which (understandably) is a fairly dry and sensible discussion, this post is even more fucking brilliant

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#1014

y’see, this puts me at a disadvantage …though I’d generally use humour and charm more than intimidation

#1015

Stockholm’s pre-eminent debt collector is it?

#1016

Something like that

Incidentally, I was on a zoom call the other day and am a bit of a nosy parker with checking out people’s home set ups - interesting to see who’s in the loft crew, who’s in the kitchen crew, who’s in the on-the-sofa crew and who is in the Home-Office-Wanker brigade - and one of my colleagues was sat in front of a huge bookshelf where every single one of the books was turned spine inward so you could only see the pages. It did something quite peculiar to my brain/some level of OCD and I was seriously questioning my previous respect for said colleague.

Took about 15 minutes before I realised it was a zoom background (or maybe Google Meets w/e) and my heart rate returned to normal

fucking stupid psychopathic background concept though

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#1017

Which WFH are you?

  • loft crew
  • kitchen/dining table crew
  • on-the-sofa crew
  • dedicated home-office wanker
  • other (please state)
  • check your WFH privileges

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