#64

"Hi Tom

Yep, got that sorted, I’ll update the ticket with oww you motherfucker, what the hell is that? There’s nothing on that stupid hold and I can’t oh there it is anyway yes I’ll update the ticket and make sure Astrid knows about the new deadline before jesus christ how far away is that? Who set this fucking climb? Honestly. Hggggggnnnhhhh. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

Cheers
sadpunk"

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#65

Nice try, narc!

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#66

“Hi Tom,

Sorry about that last email. Autocorrect, eh!

Cheers,
Sadpunk”

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#67

I had one on Christmas Day from my exec. councillor. To be fair, it was a reasonably urgent situation but I’m not sure if he was expecting me to check into my emails before the Queen’s Speech or afterwards…

#68

UGH!

It’s no small mercy that I can turn my work phone off as it’s a separate device.

#69

Presently its operating on a like for like basis, I can offer a mouse (fur) to manage a mouse (computer) as cats are proving difficult to source for a start up.

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#70

I work from home nearly every day these days. Kinda means I have to actually do work when i work from home too. there are really quiet days from time to time.

#71

Probably work better from home as I tend to do all my messing about on the desktop rather than on separate tabs on my work laptop also my work machine is brutally slow at work for some reason.

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#72

Usually when working from home I get a bit fuzzy on when I am and I am not working and start thinking about things like “am I working now?” “what actually is work anyway?” “is this work?” “what about this?” and one time I actually fell asleep and woke up again at 3 o’clock. “that was definitely not work”.

I’m not much cop at WFH.

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#73

I made this video while ‘working from home’

Basically a slacker period in work made me just spend long lunch times day after day putting all the stop motion stuff together.

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#74

Can you action this before Christmas dinner mate?

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#75

Oh yeah, my work mobile and laptop stay switched off in their bags when I’m on holiday.

I would have known nothing of the emergency if my friend hadn’t FB messaged me on the afternoon of the 27th with a link to the related newspaper article. (apologies for being vague). Luckily my line manager is a total hero and dealt with the whole lot in my absence without disturbing me.

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#76

Totally agree.

In a previous job I was working on a project where the team was split into three in London, Seattle (GMT-8) and Beijing (GMT+8) so there was literally no period during a 24hr day where people weren’t working and sending emails. So demoralising to wake up to 16 hours worth of emails (@1101010 will probably know how this feels)

Also we had to have conference calls at 9am and 5pm most days. Left in the end because of stress, but that’s another story.

#77

It’s actually fine for me because yes I wake to a full day’s worth of emails but everyone is now asleep so that’s all I have to work through for my day, no one’s going to pop up and change my priorities with new work in the meantime!

Quite different when it’s generated outside your timezone but most of your work is in your current one too.

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#78

Think we need an actual excuse to do it here, so I might have a kid so I don’t have to office every week

#79

Ironically wfh is a consequence here of our current disastrous state as an organisation. In order to cut costs we’ve consolidated into a small number of buildings that can’t accommodate every office worker, so we’re actively encouraged to work off site one day a week.

I do Wednesdays, which breaks the working week up nicely. On a good week the Monday inertia + Tuesday winddown + Wednesday nap + Thursday inertia + Friday winddown can result in almost nothing getting done.

#80

I do 3 hours a night work from home and usually start at 9. I have to do a certain amount of tasks in that time and have to spend a certain amount of time on each task and if you don’t get it right you get an email telling you you’re doing it too fast.

you can do the work in about 40 minutes really, so it’s a case of doing a task for 20 seconds then putting your phone down for two minutes and picking it up and doing another task. I sometimes do some at work cause it’s a good way to make my hourly wage go up but i’m so lazy i’ll usually wait until 9. Sometimes I change locations and do it from other places.

#81

But enough about DiS

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#82

I will always aim to log on for 8am. I can do it whilst making tea for Mrs F and go back to bed for a bit. It means nobody can tell when I started if they look me up on Skype for business and gives me an excuse to sack it off at 4. On a conscientious day (and I do have them) I’ll aim to kill a load of work before 10am, which as others have said is usually enough time to do as much work as a normal in office day.

#83

That sounds utterly maddening.

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