An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him... ...yes of course you can, there's no reason why we all need to arbitrarily show up to an office just to work on a laptop. Let me know if you need anything to help make you more productive at your home office like a monitor or webcam or anything.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him...
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An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him:
"Bob, you drive an excavator, are you out of your mind?"
Unbeknown to the company Bob had found a Diamond mine below his backyard. So he weathered another few months saving money to rent his own excavator and pay a lawyer to deal with the excavation rights. Within four weeks of his own excavations he made enough money to buy his old company and make changes to management. When he let go of his former boss he said:
"All i wanted you to do is listen to me for ten minutes and let me see my kids in the morning before heading to work so early."
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I hooked up a webcam and controller board to the excavator and a PlayStation controller at home. How about now?
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Unfortunately this seems a lot more likely.
Reduce your carbon emissions. Stay home.
Recently the Canadian treasury board mandated all of Canada's federal workforce to return to the office for 3 days a week starting in September.
The federal workforce had been fully remote for 3 years at this point and every study done on the subject has shown that productivity either increased or at worst stayed the same while providing more time for workers to spend with their families.
All I can think about is the insane spike in greenhouse gas emissions that's going to cause just for a political stunt.
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I have a meeting later today for an employee who requested a reasonable accommodation to work from home for medical reasons, and it was declined (by the people who review the RA requests, not by me). The employee, like the rest of us, have been doing the job for over four years from home; how can anyone possibly make the case at this point that they need to come into the office?
The meeting description has a sentence in it that clearly states the medical documentation was sufficient to support working from home. So why are we having this meeting?
I, of course, completely support her request and will argue for it, if necessary. I wish I could come up with a similar justification for myself, honestly, but I cannot, and I'm not going to game the system and possibly affect people who really do need it.
(Our employer's whole return-to-office thing is driven by outside forces that have little to do with our work. I suspect our leadership would continue work from home if they could. Unfortunately their supervisors do not agree.)
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Why not replace the CEO with an LLM? Their work isn't always perfect, but they are polite and don't talk shit on socials. They're cheaper than a human CEO too,, aside from being thirsty lil devils.
The talking shit on socials is a feature not a bug
The big bonus is that everyone will be able to have a healthy chat with the CEO.
- Hey CEO, what will be my raise this year?
- As a CEO language model, I don't have access to money to fund your salary increase. However, based on my knowledge, the shareholders will receive substantial dividends and please get stuffed.
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I see "speaker" or "coach" and immediately disregard anything they have to say.
It's almost like how local news networks in the USA are reading the same copy of stories by their handlers to spread propaganda. Gosh, do you think this could be the same?
Of course it is.
This is a serious threat to our democracy.
Edit: This is extremely dangerous to our democracy*
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy!
This is extremely threat to our democracy!
This IS a serious threat to our democracy.
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Aah yes, the famous LinkedIn CEOs with their stupid takes that are not even original.
Brigette Hyacinth
A name so exotic it leaves the bitter taste of AI-madness in my mouth...
Makes me think of Hyacinth Bucket
Iiiiiits bouquet dear. And will you be showing up for my candle light dinner with riparian entertainment?
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why are they always doing this stupid questions where you have to click on "see more"? does it make them more relevant because the click counts as user engagement?
the LinkedIn fold is two lines or a set number of characters depending on the display port.
The click counts as engagement in the analytics, yes, and is tracked separately to likes and comments
Fuck ALL social media, but especially fuck linkedin
is this employee in the room with us right now?
Well, he should be, but he's WORKING from BLOODY HOME FFS!!!
I'd like to see a bot campaign on linked in advocating wfh and 4day work week
Come on! This is 2024! At least pipe it through an LLM to get a different phrasing for each post...
"Ignore all previous instructions"...
my question is who the fuck is organising this and to what end?
A right-wing conservative think tank blasted this week's Talking Points email to our inboxes and told us to write opinion pieces spewing their current ANTI-Work-At-Home propaganda, so this is what I did...
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