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I'm curious about the desire to go back to the office. Routine and the actual cube are a couple of things I saw on the previous board

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) May 21 '20, 11:37

I like WFH even if it means I spend something like 21? 22? hours of a 24 hour period in the same room

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Our scholarship search by email was frustrating but ultimately successful. Now there's a suggestion to hold board meetings by Zoom. - Meg May 21, 12:16
90% of my desire to return (a couple days a week like always) to the office is social. - Cuzzin Todd May 21, 12:12 1
- Yeah, sexual harassing the help from home is not quite the same. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:14
Yesterday our staff Zoom meeting dropped twice because "Someone is trying to use the account for another session." and the rest was my boss saying - Max May 21, 12:05 8
- Though is your office one that will never figure it out? That sounds like a learning curve issue as opposed to something fundamental - JD May 21, 12:08 7
  - Unless you stick to strict Roberts Rules, I think multiperson conference calls are fundamentally inferior to in person meetings. - Max May 21, 12:16 6
    - Zoom! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:19 5
      - 2/3rds of our staff don't a camera on our Zoom calls, and I think it's unfair to expect people to do so even if they own one. -- nm - Max May 21, 12:22 4
        
        Tablets? Phones? -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:31 3
        
        It's the issue of bringing coworkers into your private space. - Max May 21, 12:43 2
        
        And this should be 101. You have a plain wall behind you. Always. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 12:49 1
        
        Not if you want to show off your wealth. -- nm - spamlet May 21, 13:02
so I work in finance and I desperately miss the ability to drop by with an invoice and be like, WTH is this? email and teams are not the same. -- nm - amanda May 21, 11:52 2
- Partially this. It’s easier to hash things out quickly and I hate, hate, HATE talking on the phone. - spamlet May 21, 12:23
- Heh. Hide me, Amanda's looking for me -- nm - JD May 21, 11:56
The tech isn’t 100seamless. Not being able to quickly meet or discuss or know who’s available to discuss sucks. Not having the same access of Two scre - JackDawson May 21, 11:48 8
- all this, plus we deal with a ton of paperwork and wet signatures that just isn't possible remotely -- nm - decline May 21, 11:54
- I may need to set up a better home office in the near future than what I have currently. - Dark Callisto May 21, 11:52 4
  - I really want a dedicated home office, but we don't have the space for it. And my suggestion of using a sailboat for that has not gone well. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:09 2
    - Me and my dad make models of clipper ships. Clipper ships sail on the ocean. Clipper ships never sail on rivers or lakes. I like clipper ships. -- nm - Big Boss Man Tate May 21, 12:10 1
      - I'll take a 40' Bermuda-rigged catamaran. That'd be a swell office. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 12:12
  - teams has really been a game changer for us. we're IMing about something and suddenly it's like "this would be easier with voice" and you just teams - amanda May 21, 11:55
- *nod* The first part is something that tech only sort of works for (but it does require that everybody goes back). The second part though... - JD May 21, 11:51
- Yeah, commercial colour copier is a huge plus. Plus, free Wifi! -- nm - VMan May 21, 11:50
I'm a Level 2 Tech Support manager, dealing with code issues / research all day. We colocate with most of the development teams. - JaxSean May 21, 11:43 1
- This I get. I'm lucky enough that additional clarification with my contacts means calling / talking with them instead of emails -- nm - JD May 21, 11:46
We're an office of... 20 or so. 1 person early on asked to come in every day. She's been pretty much our only staff in the office. - Strongbad May 21, 11:42
Too lazy to set up an actual home office. So, miss office and workstation. Online meetings suck. Miss co-workers. Cannot go to site. Etc. - VMan May 21, 11:41 2
- I think you're over thinking the office part 😉 -- (pic) - JD May 21, 11:45 [Attachment] 1
  - If the company's going to splurge for my own full size colour plotter, I'll reconsider. The rest, they've basically said to expense it. -- nm - VMan May 21, 11:52
I do too. I'm MUCH more productive from home. - Dark Callisto May 21, 11:39 4
- I am MUCH more productive until I need people to answer questions. -- nm - amanda May 21, 11:56 1
  - I get this but sort of in reverse as I was the one being asked all the questions - JD May 21, 11:59
- 👍 and 👍👍👍 to the IM -- nm - JD May 21, 11:41
- And the coffee is better. I mean, seriously. (We didn’t even get coffee.) -- nm - Qale May 21, 11:40

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