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Post by george on Jul 2, 2020 11:25:46 GMT -5
How many of forum members here are working from home(WFH) due to the corona situation? We have been wfh for over three months. Networks in my area are working fine, but situations vary for many. For work I use 4G LTE w. Carrier Aggregation, mobile network, while in our detached house we have VDSL2 for family use. I guess for many also had to make arrangements at home to do wfh, hardware&space.
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Post by Vinster on Jul 2, 2020 12:00:43 GMT -5
I've been working from Home sinse March 23rd. the Office I work at Closed on March 11th. I started vacation on the 12th so I didn't start as early as my co-workers. My partner is also working from home (from the same date as myself) and with both of my kids Educating from home, I increased our internet speed from 150U/15D to Gigabit/30D.
For space, I already have an office in the basement to work from. So I'm setup in here. My partner was setup in my sons room as he has an L shaped office desk that he wasn't using. but now that it's summer time, she's in the basement with a temporary table setup with a spare 27" 1440p monitor that I had.
for myself it was overall easy, for 5 years I was an independent contractor that worked from home before taking a real job in 2017. So I just went back to my old routine. It takes a bit more discipline to work from home. You have to set boundaries with family members while you're working.
for me I have 3 stages where I display my works state.
1) Door Open, no Headphones on = can be interrupted without issue. but you get 5-10min only until lunch time or end of day. 2) Door Open, Headphones on = I'm in a meeting, fly on the wall. short distraction possible but I'm not getting off my chair. 3) Door Closed = Fuck-off... I will shit in your bed tonight while you sleep if you disturb me.
luckily I've never had to follow through with #3.
Vin
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Post by george on Jul 2, 2020 13:25:47 GMT -5
We were sent home mid March. I used to wfh now and then a day or two a month, but now that everyone in the office is at home makes a difference. The 3 stages Vin mentioned works here too, and, fortunately have not even had to discuss that 3rd option. Family knows remote working also. Thing is the team work we do, need to be alert with the mic mute button And video sharing can be a bit case by case, who is the meeting(s).
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Post by zila1 on Jul 2, 2020 14:57:46 GMT -5
My sister is now a permanent WFH employee. She never has to go to the office again. She loves it.
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Post by osmiumoc on Jul 2, 2020 15:19:03 GMT -5
I had to WFH from march to june. First time for me, but it was easy to switch over since most of the stuff I do for my company is handled online. Like website front-end, managing FTP server and keeping in touch with our partners.
It was kinda nice, saved the 30 minute drive back and forth. But the struggle for me was to keep motivation up. I was trusted with choosing my own time schedule, I could decide when I wanted to work and no one gave me any priority assignments or due dates. After a few days it got nearly painful to focus on doing something productive. Strangely when I'm in my office at work I had no such issue.
Maybe its because there are less temptations to drift off at the office. Like no bookmarks in my browser to all my favorite youtube channels, no music in the background etc..
Anyway, in the area where I live we currently have no new cases and active cases are getting close to zero so the office is open again. And we just moved to another building where I have my own personal office, which means I'm now no longer working from home.
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Jul 2, 2020 18:35:09 GMT -5
I'm a delivery driver for a company that was deemed essential workers (apparently coffee is essential, on multiple provincial and federal levels, who knew!), so it's been a case of rotating days off due to less work... All of our competitors furloughed or laid off 70-75% of their work force, while us we kept everyone. They sure love holding that over our heads though. Initially it was random days off, but thankfully once the federal government here provided wage subsidies our HR department went "nope, keep it easy for us, there's a ton of paperwork involved in this" so two months ago (or so? I stopped trying to keep track) they switched us to one week one, one week "off" , but full pay. Starting next week it's two weeks on, one week "off", as we're moving from three drivers a week to four doing deliveries. Why the quotes on "off"? You can't call it a week off if I'm expected to have my work phone on, with noises turned on during work hours... Oh, and for us to also answer it too... If we're actually off. No, the truth is we're on call in case someone gets injured or sick... And we won't mention the 07:00 meetings. What kind of idiotic flea brained moron has a meeting at 07:00 when half the staff don't start until 07:30!!!??! ?!! Oh, and they were pretty pointless meetings too. I'm really looking forward to two on one "off", since it feels like you're doing more work. It'll be nice once we get back to working every week too, I suspect, because I like working! Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have all that time to work on various projects but still.
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Post by misterwoof on Jul 24, 2020 15:47:11 GMT -5
Been WFH since March. I have a triple display setup, and for now I have just directed my left display for my laptop, which sits beneath it, connected to a cheap Velocifire TKL mechanical brown and the HP mouse from work.
Center and right displays are for my personal use.
So in reality my home office area hasn't changed much, just lost some desk space and one display.
I did make the change to a TKL keyboard to make the space issue less problematic.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jul 24, 2020 15:55:33 GMT -5
Been WFH since March. I have a triple display setup, and for now I have just directed my left display for my laptop, which sits beneath it, connected to a cheap Velocifire TKL mechanical brown and the HP mouse from work. Center and right displays are for my personal use. So in reality my home office area hasn't changed much, just lost some desk space and one display. I did make the change to a TKL keyboard to make the space issue less problematic. Hope you don't mind I ask... But what do you do for work?? I'm a diesel technician at a local trucking company.
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Post by misterwoof on Jul 24, 2020 17:17:51 GMT -5
Been WFH since March. I have a triple display setup, and for now I have just directed my left display for my laptop, which sits beneath it, connected to a cheap Velocifire TKL mechanical brown and the HP mouse from work. Center and right displays are for my personal use. So in reality my home office area hasn't changed much, just lost some desk space and one display. I did make the change to a TKL keyboard to make the space issue less problematic. Hope you don't mind I ask... But what do you do for work?? I'm a diesel technician at a local trucking company. I work for the government. Do case review/audits. Not really going to go into specifics, but that kinda thing.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jul 24, 2020 17:29:41 GMT -5
Hope you don't mind I ask... But what do you do for work?? I'm a diesel technician at a local trucking company. I work for the government. Do case review/audits. Not really going to go into specifics, but that kinda thing. Well I'm glad you can work from home instead of being laid off or something.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jul 24, 2020 19:05:16 GMT -5
Kinda interested in the government job. How about a tiny bit more specific?
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Post by misterwoof on Jul 24, 2020 19:19:08 GMT -5
I work for the government. Do case review/audits. Not really going to go into specifics, but that kinda thing. Well I'm glad you can work from home instead of being laid off or something. I am very fortunate. Not complaining at all. We're taking a small paycut for the next two years, but it could definitely have been a lot worse.
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Post by misterwoof on Jul 24, 2020 19:20:14 GMT -5
Kinda interested in the government job. How about a tiny bit more specific? It's boring. Not high level, not interesting.
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Jul 25, 2020 1:46:28 GMT -5
Kinda interested in the government job. How about a tiny bit more specific? I miss delivering to my government customers. Stupid everyone works from home and even the coffee guy can't get in pandemics... The IT people I delivered to looooved their coffee (and tea).
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Post by osmiumoc on Jul 25, 2020 3:27:56 GMT -5
I miss delivering to my government customers. Stupid everyone works from home and even the coffee guy can't get in pandemics... The IT people I delivered to looooved their coffee (and tea). Coffee is the essence of life. If you need to get rid of, lets say a couple metric tons, just fly over here
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Post by Vinster on Jul 26, 2020 16:12:37 GMT -5
I'll share ^
Vin
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Jul 26, 2020 23:01:41 GMT -5
Coffee is indeed love and life itself. Coffee is a lovely thing!
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Post by cbjaust on Jul 27, 2020 7:20:46 GMT -5
My work is such that in order to get work possible to do from remotely I need to do work at work. Also there's all that training that can be done from offsite. Despite that I have been able to get twelve or fifteen WFH days so far which is alright as I've been agitating for to be allowed to WFH for effing years. Finally it happened but a bit shit really that it took a pandemic to get their heads out of their arses. I have three monitors on my desk (1600x1200, 1920x1200 and another 1600x1200) with a fourth (1280x1024) to the left of the desk on another table with a second keyboard bridging the gap. Beyond that fourth monitor is my benchtable followed by a new audio setup I got on top of which I sit the work laptop. I managed to get my mates on the IT help desk to install an old (free) version of Synergy so I can just use my daily driver keyboard and mouse over my LAN with the main screen and the one on the left while reducing my daily's desktop to the right hand side monitor. Works well and the only thing I need to do on the laptop keyboard is type in the bitlocker password and ctrl-alt-del to get to the login dialog. It is a bit annoying that I can't send ctrl-alt-del to the work laptop over Synergy after the screenlock times out but it's not so bad to have to get up and walk one pace to get to the laptop. I picked up a corner desk for nix the other day and I'm yet to organise the machine room/benching room/study/spare bedroom to get it in there. One day.
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Post by george on Aug 19, 2020 14:21:22 GMT -5
For us over here the WFH recommendation is continuing, 2nd wave is rearing its ugly head after summer vacations and schools etc have begun. Many indications this will continue throughout this year. I may need to refurnish my WFH office(ex guest room), to feel more efficient.
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Aug 21, 2020 8:49:09 GMT -5
About two weeks ago or so, they put out that our office and sales staff would be staying home until Jan 4th.. A good chunk of them applied for the exemption so they could work at the office again, which confused Montreal, but a lot of them are just wanting to have a better separation of work and personal lives...
Meanwhile, us drivers keep fighting to have a steady supply of proper PPE, with gloves being the biggest thing we burn through.
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Post by Vinster on Aug 24, 2020 15:47:43 GMT -5
It was announced for us last week that our office would remain closed until Jan 2021. Now I'm in an odd position, I work for 1 company full-time, but work for an Engineering firm that whore me out to said customer. (blah, blah, work for yourself.. I know, did that, have a 10 year t-shirt, not having to look for work is worth the small pay-cut).
So as long as my home company doesn't state, until their campus is open, work from our office. I'm working from home until the end of the year at a minimum... But even if that comes, I have a handful of arguments that state otherwise... the largest being I in meetings 50% of the time and I'm a loud-talker... I will disturb the hell out of everyone else...
Vin
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Post by george on Oct 22, 2020 16:01:19 GMT -5
covid 2nd wave going on. Employer informed us that we will need to work from home until 2021 at least. Made a small arrangement in our guest room which now has become my permanent home office. UFN
Feels like the room need be "overhauled" due to this.
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Dec 1, 2020 0:30:35 GMT -5
Starting end of day Friday, I get to "work from home".
Yay, temporary layoffs. Almost a full third of our branch was temporarily laid off, with about a third of those laid off sadly being permanently...
For a company that's been all "sales sales sales, keep selling stuff to customers!" I don't know why they (thankfully temporarily) laid off most of our sales staff though. Seems counterintuitive to me.
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Post by Vinster on Dec 1, 2020 0:34:50 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that. Are you actually working from home or did you get laid off? I can't tell as you've quoted that. I don't know if you're being sarcastic. (I don't read sarcasm well.. it's not you.. it's me.. )
Vin
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Dec 1, 2020 7:58:35 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that. Are you actually working from home or did you get laid off? I can't tell as you've quoted that. I don't know if you're being sarcastic. (I don't read sarcasm well.. it's not you.. it's me.. ) Vin I'm filling out for EI, so yeah, temporary layoff. I just hope their mention of helping out with fast tracking the application means my application will be processed and I start getting paid before the government does its two weeks of holidays thing >.<
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Post by Vinster on Dec 2, 2020 13:14:09 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that. Are you actually working from home or did you get laid off? I can't tell as you've quoted that. I don't know if you're being sarcastic. (I don't read sarcasm well.. it's not you.. it's me.. ) Vin I'm filling out for EI, so yeah, temporary layoff. I just hope their mention of helping out with fast tracking the application means my application will be processed and I start getting paid before the government does its two weeks of holidays thing >.< In wave 1 in Ontario if the employer put COVID as the lay-off cause then the EI didn't do the 2 week wait. you were just enrolled and on the following Friday you got your 1st cheque.
I hope it goes that easy for you.
Vin
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Post by WhiteWulfe on Dec 2, 2020 19:11:53 GMT -5
I'm filling out for EI, so yeah, temporary layoff. I just hope their mention of helping out with fast tracking the application means my application will be processed and I start getting paid before the government does its two weeks of holidays thing >.< In wave 1 in Ontario if the employer put COVID as the lay-off cause then the EI didn't do the 2 week wait. you were just enrolled and on the following Friday you got your 1st cheque.
I hope it goes that easy for you.
Vin
That's definitely good to hear. Here's hoping that's the same thing that happens here, because right now it's one of those "what needs to be paid now, and what can wait until the first cheque so we have enough et aside for food for a month". The two week wait I was referring to is that most government branches are closed the last two weeks of December.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Dec 2, 2020 19:37:38 GMT -5
Being laid off sucks. Kids still stuck at home. Wife plays teacher all week no pay. Mandatory public school tuition nearly 600$ this year. Son's teacher and neighbor kid's teacher both in the same school, caught covids. All bills increased, everyone home all day but me. Single income, oldest kid finally lands a job some 10 months later. Wife finally also got part time Sat and Sun job. Now Shrimpy can see mifey much less Just hoping for a better 2021 for everyone. It's been a bad bad year. More bad news than not.
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Post by zila1 on Dec 2, 2020 20:12:30 GMT -5
They are saying there is a vaccination on the way. Apparently the U.K. has started giving them. Let's see how this goes.
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Post by Bones on Dec 2, 2020 20:21:53 GMT -5
Merry Christmas 2020!
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