Subj : Re: BBS People
To   : ryan
From : Dream Master
Date : Thu Feb 11 2021 06:07 pm

  Re: Re: BBS People
  By: ryan to mseifert on Thu Feb 11 2021 03:20 pm

 ry> But I see complaints of folks that struggle to work when stuck home alone
 ry> and thrive in an office environment. I'm very hopeful now they know how
 ry> different these worlds can be and that people like me will have more
 ry> respect when it comes to telework requests in the future.

I worked in an office setting for over twenty-five years.  Whenever I'd request 
to work from home, I'd get grief.  Even as a lead/manager, my boss would give 
me a hard time because I "wouldn't be readily available if needed."  I'd always 
reference the following with my management:

* I've been on-call since 1997.  With my laptop at the ready, I would VPN into 
the office and be immediately available.

* When I had each of my children, and whenever they were sick, I would stay 
home with them and would VPN into the office and be immediately available.

* On average, between 2000 and 2014, I'd work between 50 and 70 hours a week 
with the extra 10 to 30 hours being from home.

* After destroying my knee in 2015, I'd work from home during the recovery 
putting in anywhere between 50 and 80 hours a week in.

* After my lungs broke, I'd work from home whenever I was on chemotherapy, 
sick, or the air quality wasn't good.

Yet, after all this, they'd still want me in the office because of some 
"policy" of ensuring everyone is "accountable".  Those five bullets I just 
referenced I used numerous times to justify working from home instead of being 
in the office all the time (or, work less at the office).  It was the "old 
school" way that if you weren't at the office you weren't actually working.

Fast forward to the COVID Pandemic.  Everyone is now working from home.

Apparently, that "old school" way no longer applies.  My company is instituting 
a "work day" policy once the pandemic eases up.  Interesting how all my team is 
based throughout the United States with most not even in the office.  I really 
wonder if they are going to force be back into the office even though my boss 
is in New Jersey and the rest of my team is spread out in North Carolina, New 
York, Texas, and Illinois.

Brian Klauss <-> Dream Master
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