Reasons to work from home

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Post by technofide » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 9:56 AM UTC

Reasons to work from home
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Re: Reasons to work from home

#2

Post by scotty79 » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 10:19 AM UTC

Is there a similar generator for excuses to call remote worker to office?

Re: Reasons to work from home

#3

Post by WormyMcSquirmy » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 10:23 AM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #2

Is there a similar generator for excuses to call remote worker to office?

It's just a website that says:

"There's a production incident, we need you to come in."

Re: Reasons to work from home

#4

Post by detaro » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 10:33 AM UTC

Matching Show HN from less than 12 h ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559

Re: Reasons to work from home

#5

Post by patatino » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 10:53 AM UTC

Sick, seriously? If I would call my boss and tell him I'm working from home because I'm sick he would say no you don't.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by ZenoArrow » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 10:53 AM UTC

To whomever created this: You should offer a button to skip to the next excuse without rating it. I'm interested to see other suggestions, but I don't want to alter the rating.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by tempodox » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 11:02 AM UTC

The best challenge will be filtering out duplicate excuses without requiring literal equality...

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by jacalata » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 11:05 AM UTC

patatino wrote: post #5

Sick, seriously? If I would call my boss and tell him I'm working from home because I'm sick he would say no you don't.

Your boss is stupid. Does he want you to come in and cough your filthy germs into the rest of the office, or to take the day off entirely? There are plenty of states of "sick" where I'm not going to the office (contagious, constant need for the bathroom, headache exacerbated by fluorescent lights) but could get most or even all of a regular days work done at home.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by __chrismc » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 11:07 AM UTC

patatino wrote: post #5

Sick, seriously? If I would call my boss and tell him I'm working from home because I'm sick he would say no you don't.

Same here - in fact, I've had to say this to members of my own team recently. It's strictly forbidden by HR - if you're sick, you take days off until you're better, so you are not putting yourself at risk of getting worse/prolonging the issue by not getting the rest you need. WFH is not there as a handy tool to avoid recording sick leave.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by kmonad » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 11:09 AM UTC

Dentist appointment, Doctor appointment, Repair guy, I'm more productive -- [repeat] Sorry, but this won't fly.