Working Remotely

[hooligan]

For those that work from home.....do you actually work from HOME? I know a guy who has permission to work from home but he is never home. Not saying he doesn't get work done but it will be traveling around the country with his wife, going hunting, fishing, camping...... Not sure what he will do if they ask him to go look at a job or run up to the office for something and he is in another state.

I don't care where my team actually works from as long as they're performing. It would be hard for most of our outside sales team to hit their numbers if they weren't in their markets but my marketing manager travels all over and so do a couple inside sales folks. Doesn't make a difference as long as they're meeting/exceeding expectations and are paying attention to time zones. My marketing manager is leaving for Spain next month and she'll be there for about a month.

[LWC]

I do my only fans from home

[BlessedVeteran0305]

I do my only fans from home

LMAO

Now that's funny right there

[Death from Above]

Work in the non profit sector. I work from a home office but also do some day travel. Its the best of both worlds…especially late october until thanksgiving

[MIHunter]

Anyone hiring?

[bbbuck]

Spent 20 years as a customer service engineer supporting critical infrastructure traveling across the country even old Mexico. Once promoted as supervisor I now have the ability to go to the office or work from home for the last 8 years. Working from home definitely has it’s advantages with little interruptions and not to mention spending 2 to 3 hours in traffic if I go to the office. On nice days I can shoot the bow or take a walk around the block to get my mind back on track.

[captainsling]

For those that work from home.....do you actually work from HOME? I know a guy who has permission to work from home but he is never home. Not saying he doesn't get work done but it will be traveling around the country with his wife, going hunting, fishing, camping...... Not sure what he will do if they ask him to go look at a job or run up to the office for something and he is in another state.

It is remote work. I can work from anywhere I want as long as I make myself available during normal business hours. I am in Katy. My company is based in Atlanta. No office visits for me except maybe once or twice a year.

[Dejashoot]

We are a mix of WFH and in-office depending on the job requirements. I’m in sales. We voted to be back in the office at least one day a week for lunch as a team building Exercise for our Houston members. Meet with clients when needed which is at least two days a week. Other job functions are in-office daily. We have had some great hires in cities where we have no offices so they are only remote. We are hiring technologists and experienced technology sales executives all over Texas if anyone is looking.

[buzzbait]

Been working from home for awhile now. Landman so most records are online. If I have to travel I work out of the motel room.


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[bullets13]

I taught remotely for awhile during COVID. It was awesome for me, but sucked for the kids. I could get 90% of my work done for the week before lunch on Monday. Caught a lot of trout that year…

[ctom87]

I have not read the thread, but I did see that this posted back with the thread was created. Didn't really have much to say at the time, but the conversation has since been reignited at work, so thought I'd share the experience.

We were recently told via our manager that she heard effective immediately we'd have to come into the office every day - 5 days per week. My manager's position was basically we'll do whatever we have to do, but it's kind of wrong for our team of 5 to be told effective immediately without any prior talk due to 2 of us have young children and would have to scramble to find childcare. It went back to the VP, and now it's in 3 weeks, we'll work from home for one day, commute into the office the other 4.

I don't really care - wife only work 3 days a week and we have childcare figured out. But what's interesting is one person in particular - the other person with a child - did NOT want to come back into the office any more than the three days she already was. Even the new plan of taking 3 weeks to figure things out was not good enough.

So we found out today she quit effective in 2 weeks. To my knowledge she is the only person in the company that has any knowledge - perhaps I should say she has the most knowledge by far - of state leaves. I don't think there is anyone else that can do her job.

So we lost a true expert in her field because of the inability to work remotely when the job she does is one that could be done remotely. Very interesting! Times are changing.

[txjustin]

I have not read the thread, but I did see that this posted back with the thread was created. Didn't really have much to say at the time, but the conversation has since been reignited at work, so thought I'd share the experience.

We were recently told via our manager that she heard effective immediately we'd have to come into the office every day - 5 days per week. My manager's position was basically we'll do whatever we have to do, but it's kind of wrong for our team of 5 to be told effective immediately without any prior talk due to 2 of us have young children and would have to scramble to find childcare. It went back to the VP, and now it's in 3 weeks, we'll work from home for one day, commute into the office the other 4.

I don't really care - wife only work 3 days a week and we have childcare figured out. But what's interesting is one person in particular - the other person with a child - did NOT want to come back into the office any more than the three days she already was. Even the new plan of taking 3 weeks to figure things out was not good enough.

So we found out today she quit effective in 2 weeks. To my knowledge she is the only person in the company that has any knowledge - perhaps I should say she has the most knowledge by far - of state leaves. I don't think there is anyone else that can do her job.

So we lost a true expert in her field because of the inability to work remotely when the job she does is one that could be done remotely. Very interesting! Times are changing.

I would absolutely quit if my employer told me to come to the office 5 days per week. I’m actually interviewing for fully remote roles right now that are higher titles and pay more.


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[hooligan]

I have not read the thread, but I did see that this posted back with the thread was created. Didn't really have much to say at the time, but the conversation has since been reignited at work, so thought I'd share the experience.

We were recently told via our manager that she heard effective immediately we'd have to come into the office every day - 5 days per week. My manager's position was basically we'll do whatever we have to do, but it's kind of wrong for our team of 5 to be told effective immediately without any prior talk due to 2 of us have young children and would have to scramble to find childcare. It went back to the VP, and now it's in 3 weeks, we'll work from home for one day, commute into the office the other 4.

I don't really care - wife only work 3 days a week and we have childcare figured out. But what's interesting is one person in particular - the other person with a child - did NOT want to come back into the office any more than the three days she already was. Even the new plan of taking 3 weeks to figure things out was not good enough.

So we found out today she quit effective in 2 weeks. To my knowledge she is the only person in the company that has any knowledge - perhaps I should say she has the most knowledge by far - of state leaves. I don't think there is anyone else that can do her job.

So we lost a true expert in her field because of the inability to work remotely when the job she does is one that could be done remotely. Very interesting! Times are changing.

I don't know how old your kids are but mine are 2 and 5 and my wife and I both work remotely and no way we could effectively do our jobs daily without them being in daycare. Sounds like you guys got to milk the good life and no daycare bill for a while but if your employer says come back to work, it is what it is

[ctom87]

I am ok coming into the office, I don't care. I was speaking on what happened to another coworker who left for a remote position. Just mentioning how the times have shifted to where workers who can work remote are leaving solely to work remote. Personally I am too social for that life. It was almost torturous being stuck at home.

I wouldn't say I milked the good life. The kid is still in daycare because you can't watch a kid and work at the same time, period. Anyone who tries isn't actually working.

[kgrutzmacher]

Work for a Fortune 100+ company and while we have been mostly remote for the past few years, I am starting to see more direction to get a subset of the employees back in the office a few times a week. At the moment, I don't see us going back full-time.