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Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by aerostable_slug » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

tranceylc wrote: post #222

MichaelRo wrote: post #205

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Suspicious that it's probably a massive hangover rather than "a cold". And I assume it's during the week, otherwise noone but your liver cares what you do on a Friday or Saturday evening. "A cold" doesn't usually totally incapacitate someone working from the comfort of their home, down a paracetamol, drink hot liquids, take a nap, don't need to be 110% productive but still can manage to get some job done. But "a mass…

Are you sure you aren’t projecting your substance abuse issues onto others? Assuming someone has a hangover in the middle of the week is odd behaviour

Maybe they're in recovery or had a family member with substance abuse problems.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by jedberg » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

We use #random for this.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by mystifyingpoi » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

andrewrn wrote: post #236

I really cannot imagine working remote full-time, it sounds so depressing. We already don't go to church or bars or movies or clubs anymore. Work is one of the few remaining places to interact with other humans. I'd be interested in trying this if I was remote, but I still just prefer in-person work. I worked an in-person job recently at an oil company where we had no regular meetings (I was doing absolute grunt draf…

People are different. I worked around 1.5 years on fully remote gig and it was the best time of my life ever.

Wake up at 6, start working, finish at 2 pm. In the middle do all the house chores that I could squeeze in (cleaning, shopping, eating, even chopped few cubic meters of wood in span of weeks) while keeping my output the same as other teammates (it wasn't particularly hard, either). Each day I was out at 2 pm, ready to decide on MY terms, who to meet, what to do, what to attend.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by bsenftner » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

JustExAWS wrote: post #193

bsenftner wrote: post #55

I've been working remote for over 25 years, and one of the better options to what this post is describing is to open, and leave open a voice channel / speaker phone on in all the locations that a remote team operates. Of course, this is not every day, but is used to create a "shared virtual space" that is very useful when the team is exploring something new as a group, and ambient conversation while doing so aids one…

I would hate this. More than the commute, the reason I hated in office work are the constant interruptions. Now when I need to do “deep work”, I turn off Slack, email etc and block off my calendar. We are all busy, when we want to talk about something or get sanity checks, we schedule time on each others calendar. I go to work for one reason - to exchange labor for money. I’m not anti social and I can carry on small…

> when the team is exploring something new as a group, and ambient conversation while doing so aids one another, plus social chatter and jokes are natural then too.

It was not used routine, it was for times when the entire team is looking at an SDK for the first time, we all have a group item to discuss, and times like that. It's like a non-meeting, ambient party call. Not for continual use, by any means.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by gardnr » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

They had these at BigCorp I worked at. Anyone can make a channel like #x-gardner and then people can join that channel if they choose. The way that you find them organically is by searching the chat app for some random thing that you are interested in and then finding a few people discussing it in an X channel.

It felt very natural and created connections where they otherwise wouldn't be.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by topato » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

mjevans wrote: post #192

ronbenton wrote: post #159

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“I see you’ve only had 15 rambles this week” “Isn’t 15 the minimum?” “Well, yeah, if you just want to do the bare minimum. But look at Todd over there - he has 37 rambles” “Well if you wanted people to have 37 rambles why wouldn’t you make that the minimum”

Ref: Office Space (Movie) Flare at the restaurant (I believe it's a spoof on TGI Fridays / Chillis etc) If you have not seen Office Space ... It has a couple raunchy things and it's general political correctness calibration is circa ~2000 USA so go in with about that level of culture expectations. Having said that, it's a GREAT movie which is practically a comedic documentary of US office politics and tropes. Though…

I think that was the first R rated movie I saw as a child (and probably the first movie I pirated, on pre-P2P networks). The grand wisdom of the Geto Boys (sic) has stuck with me ever since. "The type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do [care about money]" I've gotten way off topic

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by j45 » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

Where rambling might not have a positive connotation, imagining them as "musing" channels seemed to resonate.

Having a way to share what's on your mind that might not get shared is usually what can happen in person during the early days of a startup.

It can also allow the initial startup group to have a better connected sense of what's going on in each person's world compared to what they take the time to type.

Re: If you're remote, ramble

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Post by rusk » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

waynesonfire wrote: post #239

mjevans wrote: post #192

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Ref: Office Space (Movie) Flare at the restaurant (I believe it's a spoof on TGI Fridays / Chillis etc) If you have not seen Office Space ... It has a couple raunchy things and it's general political correctness calibration is circa ~2000 USA so go in with about that level of culture expectations. Having said that, it's a GREAT movie which is practically a comedic documentary of US office politics and tropes. Though…

> general political correctness calibration is circa ~2000 USA there is white people rapping and Michael Bolton is ashamed of his name. Tread carefully folks!

There’s a scene where they smash the shit out of a printer and that still rings true

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Post by throwaway743 » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

e3bc54b2 wrote: post #165

ronbenton wrote: post #159

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“I see you’ve only had 15 rambles this week” “Isn’t 15 the minimum?” “Well, yeah, if you just want to do the bare minimum. But look at Todd over there - he has 37 rambles” “Well if you wanted people to have 37 rambles why wouldn’t you make that the minimum”

Recently $DAYJOB has been moving more and more towards Office Space. But none of the young'ins are aware of it. So I just showed them the scene with the Bobs. Their faces were priceless. I doubt any of them came to office with same mindset again.

That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over them

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Post by sergiotapia » Sun, Aug 03, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

rablackburn wrote: post #8

I did read the post, but allow me to also recommend rambling when you’re remote. As in, take time in your day to wander and roam. (I would go for a ~1hr hike in the mornings as my “commute”) It gives you a sense of distinction from being home or “at work”. The routine cardio, and musings you have while walking make it well worth it.

One of the best parts of my day is to put on my straw cowboy hat on, no shirt and walk around the block at around 10am to get some raw sunlight on the body. No phone just walk around.