Corporate Culture.....

[mstng86]

I'm sure the guardrails appreciate that.

and my car insurance.

[347Mike]

I've worked from home (with very frequent air travel/one night trips) and it would take a fuck-ton of money to ever get me to go to an office again...

There are plenty of pros and cons to working from home but the pros far outweigh my ass ever again commuting to an office.

When it is slow, I have a very relaxed schedule and not confined to an office.
When it is busy, I put tons of hours in and driving 30-40 minutes to an office is a pita, along with the distractions that come with it.

[Randy]

can i please have your jobs........lol

[Silverback]

Hook it up with a discount code, and I will. I need some shit.

Sent in PM

[GrayStangGT]

There is no fucking way I could work from home.

Same here, I need somewhere to go everyday. Just like in college I didn't mind going to class, but couldn't stand doing online classes. Too many distractions and potential to be lazy at home. All I have at work to distract me is DFWM....and the rest of the internet.

[mstng86]

Same here, I need somewhere to go everyday. Just like in college I didn't mind going to class, but couldn't stand doing online classes. Too many distractions and potential to be lazy at home. All I have at work to distract me is DFWM....and the rest of the internet.

I do more crap around the house than I did before. Almost 2 hours of my day are back, and thats not including the getting ready for work time.

[lowthreeohz]

I wish i could work from home when not in the field. instead i'm stuck sometimes, like today, sitting in a warehouse with a cache of 100+ radios that need software updates.

[Big A]

I am in basketball shorts, no shirt, haven't showered or brushed my teeth since last night and going on 2 weeks without shaving. Working from home rocks!

It's great until you get that last-minute on-site meeting request, with only 30 minutes to get ready. Happened to me last week, and I was wishing that I was shaving daily, and showering in the morning, instead of at night.

Buy Dell!

Fuck Dell (from a software perspective).

just don't come out of your hole!

I agree though. I just started and love it.

Coming from a corporate 8x5 job, it definitely took me some adjstment to be able to stay focused when I first started. It's all to easy to take advantage of the new found freedom, and take 3 hour lunches, but when it boils down, the work has gotta get done rgardless. I'm now guilty of just the opposite, I'll be plugging away at 7am, work through lunch, and it's 9pm before I think to step away. Salary has it's benefits, but it sure has it's downfalls too.

All you need now is a parrot and have it yap every 5 seconds while on meetings!

I've got a min pin that barks at everything and anything outside, it's damned annoying.

[Silverback]

Fuck Dell (from a software perspective).

And why is that, because we're buying up services and software companies?

[Treasure Chest]

Coming from a corporate 8x5 job, it definitely took me some adjstment to be able to stay focused when I first started. It's all to easy to take advantage of the new found freedom, and take 3 hour lunches, but when it boils down, the work has gotta get done rgardless. I'm now guilty of just the opposite, I'll be plugging away at 7am, work through lunch, and it's 9pm before I think to step away. Salary has it's benefits, but it sure has it's downfalls too.

Yes. I went through a stretch where I was working from 9am-7pm, would take a 2 hour break to get dinner and spend a little time with Robert and the kids, then I'd turn around and work with my developers from 9 or 10pm until anywhere from 3-5AM, then crash and be back up around 9am to do it over again.
After about 2 months of that routine, I started feeling like the only interaction I had with Robert and the kids was saying, "Can you keep it down? I'm on a call." I'm sure Robert felt like a single parent, at that point. He did get to play a lot of xbox, since I wasn't able to spend "quality time" with him.

[Silverback]

Same here, I need somewhere to go everyday. Just like in college I didn't mind going to class, but couldn't stand doing online classes. Too many distractions and potential to be lazy at home. All I have at work to distract me is DFWM....and the rest of the internet.

I'm the opposite, I couldn't stand going to class, but rock at online classes.

But I decided I'd rather be in the office a couple of days a week to be able to interact with coworkers, rather than become a locked in home body.

[Roscoe]

I get up around 530a and work until 7a when my daughter needs to get ready. Wife helps with that and I take her to preschool every day. We take our time sometimes, get donuts, whatever. I'm back at my desk by 8:30 and work through (and fuck off/run errands sometimes), but I work until the wife walks in the door at 6p with the daughter.

Sometimes have calls late at night or get shit done until midnight, so it has ups and downs, but fuck working in an office.

I get most of my work done when I'm traveling.

[mstng86]

I'm the opposite, I couldn't stand going to class, but rock at online classes.

But I decided I'd rather be in the office a couple of days a week to be able to interact with coworkers, rather than become a locked in home body.

I would go in, but my office is a first come first serve place. I don't know anyone there and I take the risk of not getting a desk.

[Silverback]

I would go in, but my office is a first come first serve place. I don't know anyone there and I take the risk of not getting a desk.

That is the good thing about me being back in Plano. I share an office with two other coworkers. Basically we have three cubicles in an office, with our own door. Our boss is down the hall in his own office. In Round Rock, I didn't go into the office much because everything was an open floor plan with docking stations setup in a giant "hotel" atmosphere. Even my boss's boss (Director level) didn't have his own office down there, he just sat out in the open, or when he had a private call, he'd schedule time in one of the 5-6 conference rooms and mini conference offices with a door.

I hated going in there, because I always felt like everyone was listening to everything I said, and it was hard to make fun of people I also didn't know very many of the people there, so I felt like I was better suited at home in my underwear.

Now I come in, and participate in a lot more stuff. In fact, since coming back I've been fast tracked into leadership training, and I'll hopefully end up taking my boss's job when he gets promoted. He still manages 5 people in Plano, 3 in Mexico, 1 in China, and 3 in India, so being onsite for management isn't a requirement so much.

[futant]

I'm guessing that this is your internet bravado talking, because if you were to have a similar dicussion with your management, I'm betting that you would be unemployed pretty quickly.

damn you got me there, 99% of time im just trying to stir the pot around here.

For one thing, I would really like to work from home. Hell even 1 day a week would be cool.