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Random pointless thought - it's ironic to me that a company will have a "no remote work" policy for their own employees, yet every company interfaces with and relies on employees in other companies who are, by their nature, remote.
Marc
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A management epiphany who's time has come ( but it probably won't).
Perhaps they can outsource their work-remotely policy makers ?
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Shhhh. Don't interfere with my three days telecommute.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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I've had many side projects that proved to be useful in business situations, yet every time I put some private code into business code I'm met with suspicion and disbelief.
We will use code from total strangers that we just so happen to find on the internet.
We use packages from NuGet and npm, also from people we don't know.
We hire people that we've just met and entrust them with our source code.
All the code I write during business hours is fine.
But when I take some code I wrote at home suddenly it's not good enough.
Companies (and people in general) don't have to make sense 
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self emp - everywhere is remote.
But even then my requirements to do the job make it that I have to work at home almost all of the time - or at least that's what I tell the client.
Side effect of offices is meetings, direct effect of meetings is excessive time wastage.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Lopatir wrote: self emp - everywhere is remote.
Same here
Lopatir wrote: Side effect of offices is meetings
You failed to mention side effects of working from home:
0: Family/friends have no qualms about calling or making special requests since (at least in my case) since you aren't at work??? (example: yesterday was two trips across town to get the missus's car serviced...all during my 'work' hours.
1: Coworkers desperate for help show up at your home office...pair programming = 'stop what you are doing and help me'.
2: That dreaded first call in the morning from the 'boss' (she who writes the checks) asking the same old tired question...'What are you doing?' This will be the first of at least a half-dozen calls throughout the day, each one interrupting me and causing me to take a break. Ain't teamwork great? 
The pros still outweigh the cons though!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Family/friends have no qualms about calling or making special requests since (at least in my case) since you aren't at work
It's your mistake for letting anyone think this way. Perhaps they're under the mistaken impression you are your own boss, and have nobody to answer to? (or is that actually the case?)
I made it clear to everybody I know that if something's not so important that they wouldn't call me during the workday if I was working at some office elsewhere, then they shouldn't call me at home either during those same hours.
Everybody understood that. That's been going on for nearly 10 years now.
Also: "Making an exception, just this once" is also called "allowing a precedent to be set". I'm an a**hole when it comes to this sort of thing.
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From experience
- Learn to ignore the wife and kids, do not respond to familial interuptions (and get a door to your home office)
- Make you home office so uncomfortable for the cow orker that they REALLY need you help to endure your office
- Set up timed emails to be sent to your boss describing what you expect to be doing at any one time. Time them for 5 minutes before her usual call times. Include this link in the signature of EVERY email Dilbert(http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-05)
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My shop is in Denver Co. My office is in West Virginia. There are no other persons in my work group in WV. They won't let me work from home unless there is an emergency. All my work is remote.
Leadership equals wrecked ship.
If you think you are leading my look behind you. You are alone.
If you think I am leading you, You are lost.
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Or how about this. Those that live in town can not have any telecommute, but those who moved out of town are allowed 100% telecommute. I will never understand this one.
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And when I'm working remote, I charge for "travel time" if I have to go to the office!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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No thought. No fun. Will I survive?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Is money spent on unbaked bread dodo?
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Maybe. 50/50, but you will end up OK at the end
Bryian Tan
modified 7-Feb-17 13:35pm.
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Sorry about that.
It's been ... one of those days ...
Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 7-Feb-17 13:58pm.
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Grrrrrrrr...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Why so mad, bro?
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He's always mad - it's his default state.
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Actually, I start every day in a reasonably good mood. That lasts until I encounter the first person of the day.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Either your wife isn't a person or she must really get your blood boiling every day.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: That lasts until I encounter the first person of the day.
Hmmm, issues with the missus?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You make Chuck Norris look like a wimp.
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Chuck calls me often for advice on how to handle ruffians.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ask the first person to stay the furrrrrrrr away 
Bryian Tan
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