Will the Plague of "Work At Homers" End Now?

[1srelluc]

Over the past couple years what with the covid and all the "work at Homers" have been cluttering up the streets/stores at the time us retired folks usually have free reign of same.

Hopefully with today's SCOTUS decision more of them will be called back in to work where the mindless office drones need to be in the mid-morning/afternoon hours instead of galavanting about town on their employer's dime.

Yeah, I know.

 

[sparky]

I'm not one of them, i work 'in the field' ,and am just getting over omicron

~S~

 

[1srelluc]

I'm not one of them, i work 'in the field' ,and am just getting over omicron

~S~

You want a cookie?

 

[sparky]

You want a cookie?

I want to work, and i want 'da gub'mit' to 'eff off

~S~

 

[JGalt]

Over the past couple years what with the covid and all the "work at Homers" have been cluttering up the streets/stores at the time us retired folks usually have free reign of same.

Hopefully with today's SCOTUS decision more of them will be called back in to work where the mindless office drones need to be in the mid-morning/afternoon hours instead of galavanting about town on their employer's dime.

Yeah, I know.

Seeing as how the advance of the Child Tax Credit just expired, they'll just be poor and broke at home.

Probably be cluttering up the sidewalks more now, with their tents and pot needles.

 

[Likkmee]

I've been working at home for 40 plus years

 

[marvin martian]

Over the past couple years what with the covid and all the "work at Homers" have been cluttering up the streets/stores at the time us retired folks usually have free reign of same.

Hopefully with today's SCOTUS decision more of them will be called back in to work where the mindless office drones need to be in the mid-morning/afternoon hours instead of galavanting about town on their employer's dime.

Yeah, I know.

Haha! I love working from home. I went to the shooting range today and it was just me and some old dude with his M1. So nice!

 

[JoeMoma]

You want a cookie?

I love cookies.

 

[night_son]

Seeing as how the advance of the Child Tax Credit just expired, they'll just be poor and broke at home.

Probably be cluttering up the sidewalks more now, with their tents and pot needles.

I'd hire them as speed bumps . . .

 

[turbofish]

It will be interesting to see how corp world will change but for some, the cat is out of the bag. I haven't seen a couple of my co-workers in nearly two years.

[I realize the humor in the original post]

This week has been a good example. My wife came into contact with someone who had covid over the weekend and mentioned it to her boss. The result was she had to work from home from Tuesday on. For her, it is difficult to make that transition - too many files, too many paper items plus she has a really nice and large office. I decided to work from home for the rest of the week as well but I've always had to be able to work remotely. Plus, many people in my office [IT-programming] have always worked occasionally at home when pressed with a complicated issue that required quiet environment without other interaction.
Programmers will own the most expensive noise canceling headphones out of the whole office.

Here is how it works for me [as well as most of my department when we work from home].
-Wake up, have breakfast, take care of the dog and go upstairs to log in. My system at home is really nice and I have the entire upstairs. Three huge monitors, super fast laptop sitting to my left and when I really need to try something that my system that I have remoted into can't handle, I will test on my super powerful home workstations. The result is I will typically start working long before my scheduled time to be at the office is. 7:00-7:30 I am checking out how the system is doing [lots of failures lately], check out the reports and start working.
-Meetings are always remote, even when we are at the office. I miss that part because there is just something about seeing a face when you are at a meeting that helps. At the start, all meetings were audio/video. Now we all turn off our video. Plus, who really wants to see a bunch of nerds. Daily meeting every morning at 8:20 to discuss big changes.
-Communication is always ongoing through apps through our phone and computers. All phone calls have been pretty much always routed through our own cell phones. Heck, when I was at the office, my laptop, desktop, cell phone were all fighting with each other to see who should answer the phone. It was just easier to make sure that one device would be in control. Everyone, either while at the office or at home can have instant communication with anyone else at the company.
-When at home, there isn't a clock as much as stopping when hungry, quickly running a few errands during lunch. This week, I once drove to the dry cleaners and picked up lunch that my wife ordered. Gone maybe 15 minutes. Yesterday, I wanted to get out of the house so I drove to Walmart, picked up a couple of items and back home in 15 minutes. OK, it helps that there is a Walmart every mile where I live and all are ran where they know that headquarters could stop by on their way home to see how local stores are going [county is the headquarters for Walmart - live a couple of blocks where the first one was founded].
-My dog will insist on a break at 4 PM. Vocally, in almost a scary way. I think she is attempting to form human words for "You have been working too long and need to play with me". I will cave in to her requirement and try to sneak back upstairs to my office and work until the task that I was working on is done.
-There really isn't an off button when working from home. Work is always there. Perhaps that is from a long history of being on call and being required to be able to work on issues remotely.
-We have lost about 10 people in my fairly small department [30 people] over the past year and I actually keep up with those who have left. Nearly all who have left work only in the remote world, all are super smart people, and all are dedicated to their work. In fact, we are scheduled to all have dinner this upcoming weekend [most likely won't happen for me - 4 inches of snow while driving a MX-5 is not a good mix]. I have been accused of having an unhealthy work ethic but that is common in my field. There is a weird work shift in my field where about half will work at least partly at home. We are all accountable, we will all work really long hours.

We just enjoy working.

 

[1srelluc]

I love cookies.

All your cookies belong to me.

 

[eagle1462010]

Where are the cookies.

 

[1srelluc]

Haha! I love working from home. I went to the shooting range today and it was just me and some old dude with his M1. So nice!

I have my own range (happiness is your own range) but I hear that the Homers are cluttering them up too.....Anyone under 62 should be made to wait till Saturday like Gawd intended.

 

[evenflow1969]

Over the past couple years what with the covid and all the "work at Homers" have been cluttering up the streets/stores at the time us retired folks usually have free reign of same.

Hopefully with today's SCOTUS decision more of them will be called back in to work where the mindless office drones need to be in the mid-morning/afternoon hours instead of galavanting about town on their employer's dime.

Yeah, I know.

Nope, a good share will continue to work at home. Cheaper for the worker and the corp.

 

[1srelluc]

Nope, a good share will continue to work at home. Cheaper for the worker and the corp.

Well anything will be a help.....It's getting so I have to elbow my way past men in their prime earning years to get into the gun shop at 1100.

 

[Concerned American]

Seeing as how the advance of the Child Tax Credit just expired, they'll just be poor and broke at home.

Probably be cluttering up the sidewalks more now, with their tents and pot needles.

City of Spokane opened up their convention center to homeless for a warming center. Two weeks later and 400K for operating costs and another 100K for repairs and cleaning, they closed it down. Any questions.

 

[evenflow1969]

Well anything will be a help.....It's getting so I have to elbow my way past men in their prime earning years to get into the gun shop at 1100.

Well at least rush hour won't be as bad. Look at the Brite side. The value of office space will definitely go down. Curious to see what the new highest and best use for that space will be

 

[1srelluc]

Well at least rush hour won't be as bad. Look at the Brite side. The value of office space will definitely go down. Curious to see what the new highest and best use for that space will be

1000 seems to be the new "rush hour" in my AO, that's when the Homers all head into town.

 

[1stNickD]

Working at home lets the incompetnet hide behind covid.

 

[BlueGin]

I think the corporations prefer people working from home. People are more productive, take less time off ,no chit chat and they use their own internet service.