Back at it

[67ChevyRedneck]

I was lucky and got to work from home and keep a full paycheck the last 10 weeks.

Today was my first day back in the actual office in 10 weeks. I couldn't believe it had been that long, but it has.

Ironically, we're returning to work the day after SC records their highest case count

I was kinda getting used to working from home. I can probably do 95% of my job from home 80% of the time.

I need to burn through the gas in my Z71, I've only gone through one tank in the last 10 weeks

I have been driving the toys though. The C10 and Mustang have each gone through a few tanks each.

I hope to actually work less hours now, I couldn't believe how busy I was. We didn't slow down one bit. Now that I'm back in the office, it will be easier to spread work around if I get overwhelmed with projects again.

My wife was also the busiest she's been (veterinarian) in a while.

I don't know if it feels good to be back or not...

[FleetsidePaul]

My wife is a big conspiracy theory person. She thinks that some of this is to get people used to the fact that they can work from home. Which equals less traffic and road repairs etc. Which will save the government quite a bit of money.

Maybe she's full of beans. But maybe she isn't. Give people a taste of working from home and not staring at brake lights for 2 hours every day while they commute to do the same job that they could do in their pajama's at home. I know which one I'd pick.

The oil companies won't like it. But the divorce attorney's will.

[67C10Step]

I've been as busy or busier than usual but I work from home most of the time anyway. Now, I used to travel to customer sites 3-4 days a week but have been to four in ten weeks so that was a big change.

What I have found is my colleagues that transitioned to working from home seem to be working less every week. Not good for me as I feed them things to do while I am generating opportunities. The communication is getting thinner and response times are getting longer.

[mongocanfly]

Glad things are going your way Jesse....we never slowed up...

[67ChevyRedneck]

Originally Posted by 67C10Step

I've been as busy or busier than usual but I work from home most of the time anyway. Now, I used to travel to customer sites 3-4 days a week but have been to four in ten weeks so that was a big change.

What I have found is my colleagues that transitioned to working from home seem to be working less every week. Not good for me as I feed them things to do while I am generating opportunities. The communication is getting thinner and response times are getting longer.

We added microsoft teams and it tells on you when you go silent and the last time you were at your computer (or had the app open).

Pretty useful, I'd send my PM screen shots of issue/problems and we could text back/forth, or call and talk about it, or even share our screens. Worked out pretty well.

I really wouldn't want to work 100% from home. I need to over plans and comments/etc in person fairly often, working from home made that difficult. I'd be totally on board for a 3 day office/2 day home week.

My problem is I've always been a damn overachiever. I would consistently put in more hours than I would at the office. My PM noticed this, and I just turned in a vacation day I used for finishing my roof sheeting and he handed it back to me and said you're covered. I won't say no to that.

My drive to the office was never horrible, maybe 30 minutes if I hit every light wrong at peak traffic. The average was 20-25 minutes, but right now with no school and a lot of people still working from home, 15-17 minutes. I've never understood how people that did the 2+ hour trip every day didn't go nuts. Maybe that will help clean up the SoCal air and traffic? I saw all over the world how quickly greenhouse gasses dropped.

[truckster]

It was a first day back for me too - I volunteered to teach summer school, since some of our seniors didn't finish my class online and it's required for graduation (US Government). It wasn't too bad, but trying to teach with a mask on is exhausting.

[1976gmc20]

I used to work from home most of the time. I actually got more done at home than I could get done working onsite, except on those rare occasions that I had to be there to integrate software and hardware. It's hard to get anything done at an office where there are six hours of meetings every day, and somebody comes up and interrupts you about every three minutes the rest of the day. It makes little sense to fly 1500 miles to work at a site where you are doing a contract for an outfit from England or Japan anyway.

Then they started hiring the "cheap labor" and it got hard to get another remote contract. Finally I said screw it and took my SS early since everything was paid for.

[4u2nv]

I have been working from home for a little over 2 years , Fresh air inspector !!!! (retired)
Before I was married I lived 3 minutes from work , after I was married I lived 7 minutes from work that saved some $$$$ over the years on gas bills for sure

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

I've never understood how people that did the 2+ hour trip every day didn't go nuts.

I did go nuts. But I didn't really have a choice. It was either accept a transfer far from home or go on unemployment.

Sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do.

I retired early because I couldn't stand it anymore.