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Working from home

skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
edited October 2008 in Strut Central
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  • the_dLthe_dL 1,531 Posts
    NAGL, you need to get out and switch up!
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121 img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sn.gif" alt="" /1b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21I actually get a lot more done compared to when I'm in the office despite the fact that I'm actually "working" far less of the day. Noone ever believes it though.
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,964 Posts
    I don't mind travelling to work at the moment as current gig has plenty of opportunity for listening to music and surfing between bouts of hyperactive fire-fighting. It's also cycling-distance, so keeps me in (some kind of round) shape. They also don't allow contractors to work from home anyway (visible value-for-money power-trip-related).b,121b, 21I've done gigs where I was massively tempted, on a daily basis, to smash dudes heads into the sinks or urinals repeatedly, then booted them until they bled from holes they or John Holmes didn't know existed. I would crave the homestead under these circumstances.b,121b, 21Gimme wireless and I'm good anywhere.
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    Friend of mine started working from home a couple of years back.b,121After a few months he felt he was losing his business sense and so adopted a regime of putting on the suit, shirt and tie whilst still working from home.b,121b, 21Do you homeworkers miss the office banter, the gossip, innuendo, sports chat, hot chick from HR etc etc?
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,964 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Friend of mine started working from home a couple of years back.b,121After a few months he felt he was losing his business sense and so adopted a regime of putting on the suit, shirt and tie whilst still working from home.b,121b, 21Do you homeworkers miss the office banter, the gossip, innuendo, sports chat, hot chick from HR etc etc? b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21Surely the upside is being able to crank up the volume and sit there in your underpants, or less (one-handed surfing or afternoon-delight -R), and being able to nip down the shops whilst man and chile be at dey grindstone?
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    Well I generally work in the office and only work from home occasionally so it's a treat rather than routine for me. I think I'd start shining pretty quickly if I did it week in week out.
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    Don't you become less rounded as a person if you withdraw from the social interactivity?b,121b, 21From the simple pleasures of ripping the p*ss out of the young 'uns for their latest shirt/tie horror show, to shooting the breeze with the wizened leather-face woman who waters the plants, to catching the new cutie throwing lustful glances your way (and then realising she's ogling the new spiky haired brown mocassinned beanpole on the desk behind you).
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,964 Posts
    Please to rep the office nicknames in your place of work:b,121b, 21We have got:b,121b, 21The Hulk[/b]: 5' 7" youth who "Does the weights" and looks vaguely like Lou Ferrigno, insists on wearing shirts of a dimeonsionality such that Action Man took them back to Palitoy as they were "Too chafing":b,121b, 21"13-inch collar? [creak of fibres...] yeah, load of room. Hang on, let me check the time [flexxxx]"b,121b, 21The Corpse Bride[/b]: Tall, pallid willowy bird with no real female bits that we can see, who has to run around to get wet, in the swimming pool:b,121b, 21"Ebay auction: BNWT, EMO CORPSE FACEPAINT (unopened)". There are plants around the office here with signs that read "PLEASE DO NOT FEED ME OR I WILL DIE". I am tempted to put one on her desk.b,121b, 21The Kingpin[/b]: 6' 6" 400lb youth who looks like the Spiderman nemesis. Eats breakfast like a snapping turtle. The chair legs in the canteen bear the warping.b, 21b,121HR Giant[/b]: 6' 10" streak of piss who wears bleeding edge fashion shirt/tie/hair combos and has been spotted wearing white flip flops with transparent straps in a pub. In December. Mocked with "Heeelllloooo, haaaave yooouuuu seeeennn my flliiiiiiip-floooooppppps?" etc.b,121b, 21I'll never go to heaven.
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    Yeah my bad by "start shining" I meant cabin fever rather than excelling at my job/life. I'd definitely miss the social interaction side of not working in an office as well as the warm feeling you can only get from bitching and moaning with your colleagues in the pub after work.
  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,783 Posts
    I check my emails first thing in the morning from my couch with a cup of coffee then roll into work around 9:30. I'm probably extending 2 years of my life by doing this.b,121b, 21But if you have young kids, working from home generally sucks!
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    We have as follows:b,121b, 21 BoJoMan[/b]b, 216' 3" Chester lad, highly religious ex-member of Boris Johnson's campaign team. He'll bring a work related question over and we pick him off by pointing out how the question contradicts his credo, he gets riled and argues the point and departs without resolving the original question, or indeed remembering it. Was deeply upset at not receiving a birtday greetings email from Boris recently.b, 21b, 21Plastic[/b]b, 21Second gen Italian, owns only one tie and collects extremely rare coins and 60s Eastern European glassware. b,121Has a neat sideline: he meets with a small group of early 70s Italian cop film buffs in a Soho coffee bar each month, and corrects their golfball-typewritten verbatim translations into English. I wish i had a photo of these dudes, the way he tells it they all look like Lonely from Callan.b, 21b, 21Noddy[/b]b, 21grumpy-as-fusk cynical jaded seen-it-all hack with hair like a Busby. Never known to have smiled.b, 21b, 21 The Cousin[/b]b, 21Calls his parents 'mummAR' and 'pappARR'; eats tinned fish every day at the desk, from an inch thick plate. Keeps a tin with a choclate bar in it, surreptitiously opens it daily, taking one piece only. Anal and stiff and emotionally strait-jacketed. Plays violin in a local amateur orchestra. A c**t.
  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    Our latest adquisition is a new italian Marketing VP. We call him "Payaso triste" = Sad clownb, 21b, 21No matter the subject being discussed he would give you this exact same expression:b, 21b,121 img src="http://ezek3.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/the_sad_clown.jpg"1b, 21b, 21This picture is attached to every email in the past weeks.
  • DjArcadianDjArcadian 3,633 Posts
    I switch it up by working from home on occasion. It's good when I have projects I want to focus on but for day to day work it's not proper.
  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    b,121b, 21 The Hot Crocodile[/b]: super hot 22 years old blondie, ice skater with a 10 ass. Wouldn't talk to anybody but she's constantly spying from behind his screen, like this:b,121b, 21img src="http://www.loveearth.com/assets/cmsuploads/2895e8f5-4c49-4b89-8147-2efb56c38899/Image.jpg"1
  • erewhonerewhon 1,123 Posts
    So many nicknames in my small office. Quite a few are taken from "New Jack City", oddly enough.b,121b, 21b, 21Fava, Turtle, P-1, P-2, Diddy, Nino, Keisha, Gee Money, Pookie, Ceilly (sp?), Honeycomb, Li'l Joe, Quett-Quett, Spanky, Snookie, Twirl, Peppa
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
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  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121 b,121b, 21 The Hot Crocodile[/b]: super hot 22 years old blondie, ice skater with a 10 ass. Wouldn't talk to anybody but she's constantly spying from behind his[/b] screen b,121b, 21h,121
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  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121HR Giant[/b]: 6' 10" streak of piss who wears bleeding edge fashion shirt/tie/hair combos and has been spotted wearing white flip flops with transparent straps in a pub. In December. Mocked with "Heeelllloooo, haaaave yooouuuu seeeennn my flliiiiiiip-floooooppppps?" etc.b,121 b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121LOLb,121LOL
  • deathvalley90210deathvalley90210 398 Posts
    i work from home two days a week. actually, i don't work from home. i work from a coffee shop near my house. i can't really concentrate at home, but i don't wanna make the commute on days i don't have to, so i spend 7-8 hours a the coffee shop working, messing around on the internet, hitting up the record store 1/2 block away. although it's only two days a week (tuesday and wednesday), it makes a huge difference in my attitude towards work and other people. i don't have to wake up at 5:30 to beat traffic and i don't have to deal with a commute. it's like a mid-week vacation. i went to see tv on the radio last night. i didn't get home until 1 am, so i'm happy to be able to ease into the day instead of getting 4 hours of sleep before hitting the road again.
  • twoplytwoply Only Built 4 Manzanita Links 2,917 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Don't you become less rounded as a person if you withdraw from the social interactivity?b, 21 b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121So, your job is your main source of "social interactivity"?
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Don't you become less rounded as a person if you withdraw from the social interactivity?b, 21 b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121So, your job is your main source of "social interactivity"? b,121b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121YES!b,121But you say it like there's an incredulous look on your face.b,121I'm here for two thirds of my waking hours Mon-Fri.b,121Another portion is spent in the silent commute.b, 21Then it's all about being with my kids and girl, i.e. 5 people for a couple hours.b, 21Thats three quarters of the week gone.b, 21The weekend, a few more people.b,121b,121But not the 500 I interact with at work.
  • twoplytwoply Only Built 4 Manzanita Links 2,917 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121But you say it like there's an incredulous look on your face.b,121 b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121Not at all. I think that describes a lot of people. I just don't think I'd be very content with that kind of situation.
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121But you say it like there's an incredulous look on your face.b,121 b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121Not at all. I think that describes a lot of people. I just don't think I'd be very content with that kind of situation. b,121b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Hey I'm only doing it until I win the Lottery
  • corsiccorsic oakland, ca 232 Posts
    I work from home and as convenient and comfortable it is I do miss some of that ... what is it called ... conversation? The only interaction I get is through instant message. I mean, I'm making music all day (for commercials) so it's not that bad but having some sort of social interaction, other than with my cats and when my girlfriend gets home from work, is kind of nice. Although, commuting anywhere sucks (except for the fact that I get to listen to some jams) so right now I'm happy working in my pajamas.
  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Don't you become less rounded as a person if you withdraw from the social interactivity?b,121 b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121So, your job is your main source of "social interactivity"? b,121b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121i was thinking the same thing... if anything, talking to the majority of the people i've worked with has taken years off my life...
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121But you say it like there's an incredulous look on your face.b,121 b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121Not at all. I think that describes a lot of people. I just don't think I'd be very content with that kind of situation. b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Hey I'm only doing it until I win the Lottery b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Hands off my escape plan. It's going to happen I'm sure of it. Any day now.........any day now...........
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Don't you become less rounded as a person if you withdraw from the social interactivity?b,121 b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121So, your job is your main source of "social interactivity"? b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121i was thinking the same thing... if anything, talking to the majority of the people i've worked with has taken years off my life... b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121I used to think similarly as a youngin. There were plenty of people at work that I would not cross the road to piss on if they were on fire.b,121b,121Then I decided that interaction only with people I liked was akin to living in a gated community.b,121So I loosened up and started talking with people previously regarded as folls, enemies, psychopaths etc and guess what? There's something to enjoy in everyone.
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,964 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Don't you become less rounded as a person if you withdraw from the social interactivity?b,121 b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121So, your job is your main source of "social interactivity"? b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121i was thinking the same thing... if anything, talking to the majority of the people i've worked with has taken years off my life... b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121I used to think similarly as a youngin. There were plenty of people at work that I would not cross the road to piss on if they were on fire.b,121b,121Then I decided that interaction only with people I liked was akin to living in a gated community.b,121So I loosened up and started talking with people previously regarded as folls, enemies, psychopaths etc and guess what? There's something to enjoy in everyone. b, 21b, 21h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121^^ SPLIFF FOR LUNCH.
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    HAHAHAb,121b,121actually a fish finger sandwich (+ Tommy Rock natch), a Chocolate mousse with lime coulis and one bottle of aqua de minerale, product of Lennoxtown.b,121b,121Credit crunch related.
  • DJ_WubWubDJ_WubWub 874 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121But if you have young kids, working from home generally sucks! b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Major img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cos3ve.gif" alt="" /1b,121b,121I have a 3 year old and only can get stuff done at home during day care days
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