Noodleface
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Noodleface
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That guy has a lot more hardware to make his videos than the Coen Brothers use to make their movies. I'm not even kidding.
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Mist
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I doubt it's temporary, EMC has been trying to cut down on office space for years. All the support/implementation people I work with there have been remote for years, some were even paid to give up their desk and paid more to buy setups for home. I don't know any developers though.
Synergy or Mouse Without Borders is pretty awesome, that's how I control my work and play PCs.
That and I just can't see cubicle farms being safe for anyone to go back to for at least 15-18 months.
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Yeah I talked about it in another thread but the company (Dell, not just the EMC subsidiary) wanted to go 50% work from home by 2020. Right now we've got something like 127k+ employees working from home.
There's still really old people in charge that don't understand how people can be effective while wfh.
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Going to be fairly interesting when people potentially don't have the choice anymore but required to work from home. Some of the studies I've read/heard is the typical worker gets more done at home vs in an office. The downside was a large amount of the people in the studies ended up suffering from depression.
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I definitely am more productive at home. I think because I end up tossing on headphones with twitch on and just put my head down and work. In the office I'm often bombarded by people coming by a lot. I don't feel comfortable putting twitch on at work, etc. Plus I'm saving two hours of commuting a day, or ten hours a week.
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This is the biggest thing from a happiness perspective. That's a lot of extra time in your life, it's essentially a raise without having to pay you. And you save on gas and car maintenance.
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Yep. Filled.my gas tank a single time in the last 6 weeks
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So is everyone just waiting for Amazon to start actually selling shit again? Anyone know if you can actually buy anything from amazon yet or is it better to just pay more and get it from other sites?
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This. Less socializing. More work. I also tend not to mind doing work past my time because of no commute.
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Amazon's selection has been really shit for a while....before CV-19 hit. I had to get a PSU from B&H Photo last December, and I've been getting stuff from Newegg again. Amazon doesn't have the monitors I want, or even hard disc drives.
I can't even use Amazon for ass wipes or window cleaner anymore. Ass wipes are sold out, and window cleaner that I use is 3x the cost of Wal Mart.
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I have about the same total productivity by metrics between home and work, but I spend less money working from home, and am a lot happier because I don't have to deal with pee smell, BO smell, and I can't get in trouble for yelling at co'work'ers aka people that do no work or intentionally do bad work.