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Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by christinang89 » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:15 PM UTC

jsjohnst wrote: post #36

ergest wrote: post #22

Wasn't working on my iPad, jumped on the laptop now it's toast. It got Hackernews-ed/Slashdot-ed before it had a chance to scale.

I mean no offense to the author of this, but isn't this type of thing one of the easiest to scale? There's quotes (easy to cache), voting (also very easy to cache), what else? I didn't see the original, so wondering what was there now that made it difficult to scale.

sorry about that! was not expecting the server to blow up when we went to bed and it was running off a very small instance since it was a fun little project. no excuses though! we fixed it and it's running now :)

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by codezero » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:57 PM UTC

http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=2

I suppose this is downvoted because it doesn't apply to most people but the quoteId (I assume is sequential) indicates that this person understands my suffering.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by ilaksh » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

wyc wrote: post #45

Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)

Commuting actually is a huge waste of energy and time now that we have the internet and stuff.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by dang » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by WorldWideWayne » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

vessenes wrote: post #50

This just totally bums me out. It's funny and snarky, but truthfully, it's the opposite of how I want to work and want people around me to work. We have only one goal: finding an optimal work situation that lets us execute like we want. If you need a day off, take a day off. If you need to work from home, and it doesn't hurt the team, work from home. If you need excuses to not come in, you are in the wrong job, and t…

I've been working at home, with other people remotely for 15 years precisely because that's what I wanted to do. Sure, I go on the occasional trip, quarterly meeting or interview with a new client but most of the time, I work the way that I want to and make a good living.

Not doing what you really want to in life is a recipe for frustration.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by geofft » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

vonmoltke wrote: post #59

geofft wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it matters a lot whether sick days are tracked. If they aren't, taking a sick day when you're under the weather, so you're on your feet tomorrow, is entirely reasonable. If they are, then you're wasting an allocated sick day, yes. Does your employer not treat its employees as adults? Shouldn't adults be able to be honest about how many sick days they need, without tracking?

> Does your employer not treat its employees as adults? Shouldn't adults be able to be honest about how many sick days they need, without tracking? Should they? Yes. However, by your definition the vast, vast majority of employers do not treat their employees like adults. Even those in this industry, which seems to be the only one to adopt "take as you need" sick and vacation time in any significant way. This is most…

It mostly seemed odd to say/imply "My employer treats me like an adult" about permissive WFH, but then turn around and assume that sick days must be carefully tracked. And it seemed like a number of people were talking past each other based on having opposite assumptions about both of these.

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by dennisgorelik » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 9:54 PM UTC

madcaptenor wrote: post #46

Around my office we use "It's Thursday." At some point my boss started working from home on Thursdays and we pretty much all followed. Although now sometimes I come in on Thursdays precisely because it's quiet.

Why come to the office if there is no one there?

How is it better than just working from home?

Re: Reasons to work from home

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Post by jacalata » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 10:52 PM UTC

lucasnemeth wrote: post #11

jacalata wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are legislations about sick leave in a lot of countries.

I don't believe that any country has laws against "allowing employees to work from home on request" so I don't see how that's relevant.