Things I'm mad about today

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Tin Man said:
When Hurricane Ivan's remnants dumped 20' of rain in an hour, it broke branches and felled trees. Debris clogged the opening of the overwhelmed culvert next to my property. With the creek 4 feet over its banks, water exploding from a 42" pipe, and rain coming down in sheets, I ran outside in gym shorts and proceeded to pull branches away from the culvert opening. I got the water flowing so that raging eddies didn't eat away cubic yards of my land. My wife drove up during this torrential storm to find me drenched in canvas Chuck Taylors and gym shorts, hauling branches to higher ground.
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How much rain?
 
#14,765
#14,765
superdave1984 said:
Correct on both statements. And that is what I deal with every day. If I can't see you, you must not be working and it doesn't matter that the work is actually getting done. I understand there are always those who abuse the privilege, but that is on management to fix. And if management IS the problem, then the execs are to blame. I work for some yes men(women) who will agree to whatever they are told by the execs because they just want to keep that fat check coming in without regard to if what they are agreeing to is the right thing to do.
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When I lived in Cali and worked for the San Francisco VA, I requested to work from home for a few days a week to reduce a bit the hellish commute, and was denied, “because everyone knows that people working from home just drink all day.” * (I mean, my boss said that to me, face-to-face,verbatim.)

So a few years later, I transferred to Asheville VA with a fancier job title (and job), and after two years requested to work from home X number of days a week, because I was a data-cruncher, and no one wanted or needed to visit with me in person (I mean, I am an INTP, and NO ONE wants to visit with me in person 🤪), but was denied, because “OMG, what if Dr. Whosiwhatsit needs to meet with you?” (Note: I have a phone, and a car.)

So then, the original “you’ll drink from home” SF VA boss calls me and begs me to come back - but working remotely, mind you - because they need my expertise. OK, fine, here I am in my Asheville Eastern Time Zone dining room, logging into San Francisco, and doing my job, including often calling in after hours for Fancy Meetings. Oddly, my same boss was now able to manage me from three time zones away.

So after a year or so of this, my mother had her Big Fall and Eventual Consequences, and after many months of bunking on hospital beds and whatnot while working even-more-remotely (successfully), I said eff it and retired. (But then I worked as a contractor for another year or so, because hey, that’s what we do.)

And 6 months after getting The Hell Out of Dodge, COVID hit, and hey, everyone went remote, and the world kept on turning. Go figure. They did use my profiles and experiences to successfully set up access for the rest of the staff. <pauses to admire this IT flexibility> My you’ll-just-drink-from-home boss somehow took a break from his all-day-every-day video game habit to note that work kept getting done just fine.

* Note: there does seem to be something to this “working from home/ drinking all day” thing, but in my experience, it actually doesn’t kick in until maybe 4:30-4:45 or so. Depending on the day of the week. Well, sometimes 3:30, but hey, I’d been on since 7!
 
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VolNExile said:
Hey, alive and well! Just getting my rear end up and engaging with the real world.

How’re you doing?
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closing to wrapping up a month in STL. Boys dont have preschool today (snow) and Hallie just strting to walk. You can tell how much they miss each other with their reunion every day at noon. Mrs. AV actually doesnt want to return home
 
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