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 That's actually an interesting idea. If you had VR could you actually do it remotely? Or is there something that has to be done by hand? I work at a company that makes robot-assisted pallet-jacks. This could totally be done if you think it is possible. @Sibshops @nixCraft assuming nothing spills then I don't have to get off, but straightening pallets, picking up dropped stuff, etc is pretty common. now if spills would be decreased from more accurate automated driving therefore decreasing the frequency a driver would have to get up, that might change things but idk.  @medley56 @nixCraft I often use MS Teams and a few phone calls if something extra is needed. But otherwise, I am in a position where I basically get to be my own boss sort of, I know what needs to be done, I know what my job entails and I just do it very very well =) I've actually never had a job where I need to use video conferencing at all.  @nixCraft Hybrid. 1 day home. 4 days either in office or field. Wish I had a second day at a home, but Iβll take what I can get! @nixCraft I'm the one who uninstalled the camera driver AND blocked the lens. Jepp, that's basically me at work. The "let me do my job and stop bugging me with your social bullshit" employee.  @nixCraft remote and without webcam and value-removing conferences. There are ticket systems. Use those!  @nixCraft ain't that the truth. We exposed office life as a useless experience and what did the powers that be decide? We need to get back to that ASAP! @RVLara23 @nixCraft it is SO frustrating. I'm like, a hipster remotee. I was effectively full time remote since around 2015 until my boss was trying to tell me they don't do that, and I have to go to the office 3 days a week. He offered no compelling reason why, so I got a new job that had remote in the description. I feel like tech workers have demonstrated that office life is a joke, and now it's incumbent on us to refuse acceptance of a stupid paradigm. @jq @nixCraft the problem though is I think WFH as an option is quickly dwindling away. And I'm no idiot. It's 3 days now. Then it'll be 4 next yr. And before you know it, WFH is gone again completely. They're not walking this back. And for what? For a large percentage of workers it is a totally unnecessary part of the job. Wasting time & money for a commute again. Control is all I can come up with. I'm very disappointed in my coworkers for just accepting it instead of fighting back. @RVLara23 @nixCraft I won't argue that it seems to be a trend. All I can suggest is that the top 1% need us more than we need them. It's not up to them to decide they're "not walking this back," it's up to those of us who can to insist on it with our legs. I am not blind to the reality that some workers lack the ability to push back for one reason or another. I live one month at a time myself. But if you can't unionize, you can always try to interview.   @crumbcake @nixCraft I used to do that once. The entire team on the same desk dialing into daily teams call at 9am. It was truly bizarre. "Hey Bob, look left! Hello there!"      @nixCraft Iβd like to see the take on this regarding going to the bathroom. When I was still attempting hybrid work (prior to the pandemic) the thing that finally broke me was the bathroom issue. Since everyone in the office was adhering to virtual meetings or taking calls, either on the hour or half hour, everyone would get up and try to use the bathroom on the same five minute break everyone else had. It was complete mayhem. The line to the bathroom was dozens of people long.  @chockenberry @tvaziri Well, take the R, E, T from 1, the I and R from 2 and then the E from 3. Go back and steal that D from 2 - and Iβm either all of the above, or none of the above, heheheβ¦ @nixCraft remote but work want hybrid with no good reason. Iβll go in for a good reason but not for presenteeism @nixCraft  @jackwellborn @nixCraft @tvaziri just add noise cancelling/closed headphones at the office. I wear those at home (street noise when window open) and at the office.  @nixCraft I'm in the category of "between jobs" (voluntarily, don't worry,) but that's very much the same. Though, I would say, 3 monitors at home, only a laptop when in the office.  @nixCraft Part time remote; rest of the time parent, which resembles none of the paid jobs pictured. @nixCraft I'm the one in the office, but there are actual other people in the space with me, and I don't use the computer to talk to them. @nixCraft I wish there weren't these types of people who insist to meet in a meeting room even when some participants join remotely.  Forcing people to return to βthe officeβ is simple enforcing a right over someone else. A dated custom from slavery. Itβs not a hyperboles but a crude truth. Your work and βproductivityβ does not depend on it. Is your boss that wants to feel as he owns you. @nixCraft I work directly with the homeless. I am really only at a computer only when writing reports. And I'm going to school for carpentry which I doesn't require much computer time. Computers can't hammer.  I think I just heard a commercial real estate agent π±, πΉ @nixCraft with my employer (Siemens) they saw the light quickly during the pandemic. In a few months time all employee contracts have been switched to have work from home as a standard offering if you are an office worker. At my office, many employees do hybrid (like me), some at the office every day, some fully remote.  |
@nixCraft I be driving a forklift. wish I could do that remotely but OSHA might have a field day w that one.