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Don't tell your landlord. If your dog is registered as service you don't have to declare it.
Don't actually do this.
Depending on the state, declaring is not required if your dog is service or emotional support.
What I don’t like about working at a remote job
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Nothing is built into the structure. I think folks are taking this for granted. You have to consciously create such structure regardless of the conditions. It's possible to have anti-social office environments too.
In person it is built-in implicitly, people will be social naturally by proximity alone. Anti-social in person environments are de facto considered problematic.
Anti-social remote is also problematic. Why would it not be?
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> But my coworkers and I have so much shared context. We spend 8 hours+ together. It feels like a waste to pretend that we just don't have anything in common despite the time. I think that what is kind of unsaid and lost here is that long working hours in office were super often about socialization and not work itself. I mean, it was noticeable even before - people who were there long hours tend to chat away a lot of…
I've never seen this at any Western STEM company I've been at. ICs have been rated on tickets and tickets alone, no matter how lossy the metric, in my experience. I've only seen this at Asian companies which don't track work through tickets. But let's assume this is true. What does this have to do with "It feels like a waste to pretend that we just don't have anything in common despite the time.". Let's assume, to pl…
I have never seen rating IC on tickets and never worked in Asian nor with Asians. But, I have worked in companies where culture was to do a lot of overtime and not overtime. The people in overtime cultures socialized primary within company. People in non-overtime one much less so.
> That's 4.8 hours of building connection.
No, a non-overtime company does not have you building connection 3-4.8 hours a day. That is huge amount of time and does not happen in that setup, unless you are all slacking.
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#224I graduated in 2020 into what was supposed to be a “regular” in-person job, that was turned into a fully remote job due to Covid. I ended up hating it there, and since have found a new primarily-remote job that I love. My life feels hopeless. I wake up, go to the gym, and then work from 9–8. I work so much because I have nothing better to do. Then I watch a movie or some garbage on YouTube and go to bed. I have no fr…
Hey, I graduated in 2021 and work a fully remote job. Seems like we might have similar interests or are at least at a similar place in life. Shoot me an email if interested: jacob@ridgwell.email
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> Remote work is freedom to choose your environment. Choose it. Sort of. First your employer needs to approve of where you’re going to live assuming it is out of state or country. There are a variety of legal and tax implications. The first remote company I worked for had a list of approved states, for instance. I assume this is common.
Employer doesn’t have to approve shit. They probably won’t even know, I’ll leave my address the same as what it is, and just forward my mail. It isn’t really their business.
> It isn’t really their business.
State governments that collect income taxes beg to differ. Heck, your employer probably disagrees with you too! Heck, even federal governments that are collecting taxes beg to differ.
Good for you if you can keep the secret though, it’s probably illegal in one way or another.
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> Remote work is freedom to choose your environment. Choose it. Sort of. First your employer needs to approve of where you’re going to live assuming it is out of state or country. There are a variety of legal and tax implications. The first remote company I worked for had a list of approved states, for instance. I assume this is common.
My contact specifies my place of work as "anywhere with an internet connection"
Yep, this is one reason to specifically seek out contract work.
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In person it is built-in implicitly, people will be social naturally by proximity alone. Anti-social in person environments are de facto considered problematic.
Anti-social remote is also problematic. Why would it not be?
It’s not, but many people feel like it is. In order to uphold this via remote you have to make a concerted effort, which to people, makes it different.
I’m not arguing against work being only a part of life, but that most remote jobs cannot be broken down into pieces like an assembly line where socializing is unnecessary. Jobs cannot be completely compartmentalized.
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> national park I've been trying to keep track of park locations near me that have - restrooms - tables with shade, if shade comes from tree there must not be lots of birds shitting from tree - 4G/5G signal - not hot mid-day It's hard to actually get work done without all of the above. Separately, an EV makes an excellent mobile office. You can use the car's power and air conditioning all day without "idling" an engi…
I had found a perfect work-from-cafe-outdoors spot Until a bird shit on my head My quest continues
At the office, power lines cross the parking lot. Birds like the power lines. I've been hit between the car and the front door. So, the office isn't perfectly safe on this front either.