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I Only Work Remotely
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#12There's a much simpler reason that I only work remotely: companies are willing to let me.
I love being close to my kids, my wife, and the general comforts of a home office. There are many other reasons I prefer to work remotely. That said, if there were no companies allowing me to work this way, I wouldn't say "sorry, I only work remotely" and become unemployed.
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#13I am a night owl. You can tell me I have to have my butt in a chair within your line of sight at 8 or 9am, but that is very wasteful. You are wasting my time and yours. I am not a morning person. I will start being very effective around 11am and I really get going in the afternoon/evening. So, er, everyone else has to be accommodating of this guy's abnormal working hours, because the first two hours of the day that s…
Working hours is a pretty arbitrary concept that depends on the business. Every hour is a working hour if you run a 24/7 store.
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#14I am a night owl. You can tell me I have to have my butt in a chair within your line of sight at 8 or 9am, but that is very wasteful. You are wasting my time and yours. I am not a morning person. I will start being very effective around 11am and I really get going in the afternoon/evening. So, er, everyone else has to be accommodating of this guy's abnormal working hours, because the first two hours of the day that s…
What he's saying, is pretty much that he doesn't want to work for people that think like you.
And it's okay. Not everyone can be a good fit for every company.
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#15I am a night owl. You can tell me I have to have my butt in a chair within your line of sight at 8 or 9am, but that is very wasteful. You are wasting my time and yours. I am not a morning person. I will start being very effective around 11am and I really get going in the afternoon/evening. So, er, everyone else has to be accommodating of this guy's abnormal working hours, because the first two hours of the day that s…
Or all the other devs are thinking, "woot, less hours of pager duty." Having people work off shifts can be rather beneficial if you stagger things properly. Scheduling like that, you hold meetings right after lunch, and that's about it. Everything else works just the same. Long as the scheduling is consistent, then having people slightly off the normal schedule works just fine.
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#16I have worked remotely for the better part of the last 15 years. I am now looking for a new job and am applying almost exclusively to positions that are several 100km away, if not on a different continent. The reason: the potential employer already understands that this will be a remote position. Any employer closer than 150km is just too likely to ask for "can't you just come in", and anyone 10 minutes from here wil…
> I am now looking for a new job and am applying almost exclusively to positions that are several 100km away, if not on a different continent. The reason: the potential employer already understands that this will be a remote position.
It can also mean that the potential empolyer will expect you to relocate.
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#17I have worked remotely for the better part of the last 15 years. I am now looking for a new job and am applying almost exclusively to positions that are several 100km away, if not on a different continent. The reason: the potential employer already understands that this will be a remote position. Any employer closer than 150km is just too likely to ask for "can't you just come in", and anyone 10 minutes from here wil…
Allowing remote work is a good signal for process quality too. Distributed teams don't share code on thumb drives or assign undocumented tasks at the water cooler.
Or have singular people in the company with undocumented, critical knowledge.
PS. "Distributed teams" isn't the same as "working remotely", although many things that make the latter work apply to the former too.
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#18Don't you just love it when someone with zero direct reports thinks he can tell managers how to manage?
It's a job, it's not a fucking Montessori school, or a correspondence course. If you don't want your employability to dry up once rockstar ninjas become commonplace enough that the demand bubble for them pops, you will cultivate the essential skills of showing up when and where your employer demands and otherwise being their huckleberry. Know what that means? It means someone who can be counted on. Showing up at the office on time is a first-line test of dependability. That's why companies ask it of you.
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#19I am a night owl. You can tell me I have to have my butt in a chair within your line of sight at 8 or 9am, but that is very wasteful. You are wasting my time and yours. I am not a morning person. I will start being very effective around 11am and I really get going in the afternoon/evening. So, er, everyone else has to be accommodating of this guy's abnormal working hours, because the first two hours of the day that s…
I work for a company with offices in USA, Europe and Taiwan.
What's a "normal working hour"?
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#20I have worked remotely for the better part of the last 15 years. I am now looking for a new job and am applying almost exclusively to positions that are several 100km away, if not on a different continent. The reason: the potential employer already understands that this will be a remote position. Any employer closer than 150km is just too likely to ask for "can't you just come in", and anyone 10 minutes from here wil…
> I am now looking for a new job and am applying almost exclusively to positions that are several 100km away, if not on a different continent. The reason: the potential employer already understands that this will be a remote position. It can also mean that the potential empolyer will expect you to relocate.
And that is a sure 'no' from my side. I have moved for a job once, I will not make that mistake again.