actually ... that's really insightful! Like, maybe that's part of why I feel like garbage? At the beginning of the pandemic (and for months on) I was in crisis-response mode having to learn a bunch of stuff and help clients navigate these new things, and then things slowed down a bit for the holidays, and now ... I don't want to accelerate back to that again, as you said?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
More productive than ever, for two main reasons
i. I work better in a twice a day burst pattern of 11am-3ish and 6ish-7:30ish, which i can now do
ii. As you may be able to tell from the above hectic schedule, "as productive as ever" was never actually a breakneck pace
― scampsite (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
I'm as productive as ever, perhaps even more sobut p worn down with it
― nashwan, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
i was very much a burst pattern guy when I worked in implementation requirements.
there's only so long you can do that work each day without needing a break. but during those bursts, man would I get shit done.
do miss that job as it was closer to what I like doing, but the toxicity in that department is something I can never go back to.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
and every time I've tried looking outside my company, they've offered me like....half or less of what i make now so lol
Now lets be clear those are ranges during which i am more able to knuckle down/concentrate, not my daily schedule
This may be a personal thing but solo concentration on text/work for longer than like an hour isn't in my wheelhouse anymore (tho i can spend all day in group/discussion activities and only feel more energised at the end of the day)
― scampsite (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
yeah it was less 'do no work' for me and 'read occasional news articles/ILX' during those break periods
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
(famous people are absolutely NOT travelling rn)
this comes as a big surprise to me tbh
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
not for press etc
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
and certainly not for non-affiliated (non-network/studio-based) projects
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
lol they're already talking about resolving work travel at my place and re-opening the office soon. to be honest - the latter I think we'll probably be ok to do in a few months, as long as we have some kind of 'work at home' exemption for those people who don't feel comfortable.
but traveling? some of our work travel for training is to the Philippines, which is a 14 hour flight plus usually a layover at LAX of a few hours. though those business class international planes are very spread out and you could probably be ok with mask, lotta opportunity for exposure on a flight that long.
my boss's boss challenged this idea saying "it's too early to be talking about stuff like this now", but she actually asked people if they were interested in some stateside travel. I used the "i'm taking care of my dad" excuse which should get me out of a lot.
eventually though they might say "you agreed to travel as part of the role", well sure, my dad wasn't disabled at the time!
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
*resuming
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
if I get forced to fly anywhere in this current pandemic, the corporate credit card is being used on $50 steak nightly, that's the exchange
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
Wow so as an addendum to my posts above I just learned I'm a finalist for a tenure-track academic job and the department wants me to come for an on-site visit. This is good news, but a little daunting despite assurances from those in charge of the visit, as the school is in South Dakota.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
NB I live in Minnesota so I don't have to fly (I probably wouldn't fly no matter what)
I’m a hermit, I love this shit
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
Been doing this for a while now but it's started to feel more like living at work than working from home. I work from my quite small bedroom, and being stuck in here all day and night is taking its toll. I find I don't really get properly stuck into work as early as I used to, forget to take breaks, then end up working late a lot. Not sure it's necessarily a change in activity. Probably just picking up slack from my colleagues who were let go last year
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 18 February 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
was on furlough March-July and again for a few weeks in November, and like oscar bravo says, I didn't miss that 20% of my salary because I wasn't spending any money outside of bills and groceries.
made redundant just over two weeks ago, can't find the motivation to start job-hunting because everything feels so static and bleak, it's hard to imagine an exciting new world full of potential and opportunity when it looks like this now.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:49 (three years ago) link
Definitely more productive than ever, even though my actual circumstances haven’t changed much (I’ve been working from home since 2017). I wrote a book last year (pub date Jan 2022) and a proposal for a second, which is sitting with two publishers now. I haven’t gained any clients but I haven’t lost any either.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
was up until midnight strategizing for some last minute program funding thing; had a 9am zoom meeting -- realized that actually I could get 7 hours of sleep and I think I got 6 3/4 hrs because I was anxious and woke up before the alarm
― sarahell, Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
I've found if I'm setting an alarm, I need to try to begin sleeping at least an hour before the optimal time for sleep to begin. because if I need 7 hours of sleep and go to sleep 7.25 hours prior to the alarm, all I do is get anxious about getting enough sleep and it takes me hours to get to sleep.
sleep aids stopped working on me eons ago.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
the pandemic has completely wrecked my sleep. I never had this many issues sleeping previously.
that means I can be real brain foggy some days when training and lose my train of thought mid-sentence.
"everybody turn to page..........false."
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
i've been working on-site throughout the pandemic. my normal work area is well ventilated, and i'm usually not around many other people, so i'm pretty unlikely to get covid at work. that said, i kind of despise a bunch of people i work with that i didn't previously, which probably isn't healthy. i'll never stop being impressed by how eager they are to find excuses to not have masks on in poorly-ventilated indoor areas. i also feel like there's a bad dynamic where people who are working remotely are less helpful and more likely to create useless chores for people working on-site than they would be if they actually had to show up in person.
― circles, Friday, 19 February 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
I need to try to begin sleeping at least an hour before the optimal time for sleep to begin.
oh for sure, hence the calculation of 7 hours based on "going to bed" at midnight and having to be up at 8:15am to be functional for a 9am meeting.
― sarahell, Friday, 19 February 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
oh lol I never do the "being up an ample amount of time before work" thing, my naive self expects to wake up at 8:55 and be solid at 9:00 am
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 February 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
I need to have at least two cigarettes prior to being functional w/another human being in a professional context
― sarahell, Friday, 19 February 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
also coffee
― sarahell, Friday, 19 February 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
For a while, I was coming home at midnight on Tuesdays and having to get back to work at 7 the next morning for a 16.5 hour shift. I was able to switch the Wednesday morning shift to Friday starting this week, which means that I can get more sleep.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 19 February 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
I go to my university office three times a week. I love it. It saved me. I reached a point in late August when, after a 2 p.m. Zoom class when I'd been home for hours, I closed my laptop and realized, "Fucking hell, it's going to be like this forever, isn't it?"
When the university allowed us to return in late September, I realized how much I'd missed morning exercise, showering, picking clothes, and driving to campus....even though I was by myself in my office suite and Zoom-ing in a space smaller than my apartment. I see colleagues, one or two at a time, every four or five weeks. I have the space to myself.
Now I've evolved toward actually teaching a remote course over Zoom while in the classroom -- another psychological balm. Yesterday and last Wednesday's classes were best since Feb-March 2020 before the lockdown. Man, have I missed the psychological comfort of classroom space even when no one but me is in it, acting like a ham.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 February 2021 02:57 (three years ago) link
and, yeah, been quite productive as a writer
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
I've been working from home since St. Patrick's Day. I'm okay as long as I have enough work to keep me busy. But during lull times, like right now...?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 19 February 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link
Feels like I’m in the second or third category yet according to my annual review this was my best year ever. Maybe in spite of the distraction I just have more time due to not commuting and no office bullshit. Still, I feel much less connected to my work than I did before. Sometimes it almost feels unreal, as though my job is just a chimera.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 February 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
working at home: sometimes doing well, sometimes doing my best, sometimes a messbut i'm freelance so the lurking spectre is that I'm going to have no work come May. it's a bad time.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
earnestly cannot tell if anyone at my company is genuinely doing any work on a given day
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 19 February 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
Rude to look too hard rly
― scampsite (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
Started working in an office at the start of the year. Hadn't worked for about 16 months prior between bad mental health and unemployment. The building is very covid-secure and sparsely staffed. I've surprised myself by being mostly giddily high at having a job and a routine and money. Tinge of survivor's guilt maybe, plus I'm still only in the induction phase, but fuck it, on the whole I cannot remember the last time in my life I felt this good and this mentally strong.
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 February 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
Fuck yeah, that's the stuff NV
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 February 2021 10:01 (three years ago) link
One for the KIP Covid thread.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 10:15 (three years ago) link
Great to hear nv
― scampsite (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:04 (three years ago) link
awesome, NV.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
Ive been in and out of the mostly-deserted office in the past three weeks due to work that couldnt be done at home.
Like alfred, ive really enjoyed it, whether that be the change of routine, the movement itself or the environment
Might look to keep it up, i had thought that the guff about a mixed of wfh/office routine was nonsense but im finding otherwise
― scampsite (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:22 (three years ago) link
Thanks everybody
I'll probably be given the opportunity to work from home at some point but I live 20 minutes walk away and the walk and the routine of getting up and leaving the house is also really good for me so I'm happy coming in as long as I can
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:32 (three years ago) link
Yes, one of the things I miss most about not working is the walk there and back, which is the only exercise I had last year.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:37 (three years ago) link
'Grats NV, that's excellent news!
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
I am very happy for you, NV! <3
― brimstead, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
was phoning it in a bit for the first few months of WFH but back to normal productivity now
i miss getting lunch at the office more than i do working at the office
― ciderpress, Friday, 19 February 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
Heh yep the coffee break stroll with me mate is badly missed, i am still going in on a friday for an hour at lunch to perform a socially distant version
― scampsite (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
This would have been a much more productive week had my internet not been down since Tuesday. This shit is fuuuuucked.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
I took this week off and my gooood it felt good
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 04:19 (two years ago) link
"working in office/around other people - I do zero work and somehow nobody has noticed," but my impostor syndrome has been telling me this since I was 14.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 30 April 2021 04:32 (two years ago) link
i have found myself looking forward to weekends / bank holidays more than i used to, even if i do nothing with them.
― koogs, Friday, 30 April 2021 09:21 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 May 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
11) trying to ignore the ledgeRude.
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Saturday, 1 May 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
It's been hell year and a half working in the bowels of the information technology industry. Other than a few days here and there, I have been still on-site. It's always weird to see people who have not seen the office come in for the first time, they still have that "just out of the bubble" vision that I lost probably second week of April last year.
In general, my feelings on the past year is that the human race is mostly a bunch of a$$holes and I have wished many days for the sun to go supernova and blot this grease spot of a planet out of the heavens. I would rather spend a year detassaling corn in an endless July than re-live my last work year. At least when I had that gig the people I worked for seemed to have some regard that I was a human being and cared that I did not overheat and die in the fields.
― earlnash, Saturday, 1 May 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link