Working from home is... weird

[VegasJ]

Pitts area eh spkguitar??

Cool, if I ever lose my job I'll be contacting you!! LoL

 

[spkguitar]

Haha, yeah me too! I'm so used to working from home I wouldn't know what to do if I had to find an office job.

And yeah, I'm out near Bridgeville/Carnegie. So glad I don't have to drive into the city every day. I've had to do it a few times, and I think I would go nuts, though traffic here is nothing compared to D.C. traffic. UGH.

 

[Epimetheus]

I've been telecommuting about four months. It is very isolating. None of the usual office chats. It is also very efficient. Online meetings last 10 minutes instead of an hour because there is no schmoozing.

The office is also the brew room. I work to the comforting bubbling music from air locks.

soon they will open an office an hour away in Hartford, CT. Commuting will truly suck. All of us are hoping they will only expect 1, maybe 2 days per week.

-I can spend time with my wife in the next room. By this I mean I shout "I love you" every hour or so through the door.

Unimaginative. I'm just sayin'.

 

[passedpawn]

Self-employed work at home here.

I love it. I tend to work too long hours, but I also screw off with you douches all day, so it all evens out.

I wear wireless headphones all day. Not sure why, it's mostly just my dog and me here. Helps me focus. Pandora when I'm designing/coding, podcasts when I'm soldering/techwork/debugging.

Usually around 1 or 2pm I either jog or go for a rid on my bike. Until then, I'm always in my pajama shorts. I get the coffee going and start working withing minutes of rolling out of bed.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Things have been slow lately work from home-wise, so last Friday I put in an application for a real life "Proper" job. When I told Mrs. Gnome she was all like "Oh No" "Don't do that! I want you home" And I was all kinda "But Mrs. Gnome, we need the money! I don't want to wait for things to pick up!" Then she went all "Wait longer! I'll miss you when I'm not at work, PLEASE don't get a real job!" Then I went all "OK then"

It appears she likes me to be at home. I think it's because she knows how studly and attractive to hot babes I am in the outside world.

Women, ya can't live with them, and you can't live without hiding a few dead ones in a dumpster.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

My little experiment comes to an end this coming wednesday. Good thing too, I was going absolutely stir-crazy.

 

[Jukas]

By Monday you'll be thinking "my co workers are absolute morons and I can't get anything done. I wish I was working at home still"

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

By Monday you'll be thinking "my co workers are absolute morons and I can't get anything done. I wish I was working at home still"

What he said! Maybe it's just because I live in Ohio though. There is nothing I need to see or nobody I need to meet within 50 miles of me.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Hmmm That was timely! There was me just thinking about what I could do to supplement my income, and out of the blue I get an email from the person who bought my last four paintings from when I painted a few years ago. He has been keeping an eye out for more of them for the last four or five years! More or less guaranteed sales at a decent price based on what he paid for the last ones. It's a case of either getting back on that particular horse, or doing some grossly underpaid crowdsourcing work in the slack periods. decisions, decisions.........Do something I like that messes with my nerves, or do something I don't like that messes with my wallet........Either way it won't be easy, and I have become accustomed to easy.

 

[Pappers_]

Good luck, LGI

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Good luck, LGI

Thanks Pappers Smearers, However, luck is not what I need. What I need is an anally inserted rocket.

 

[passedpawn]

Thanks Pappers Smearers, However, luck is not what I need. What I need is an anally inserted rocket.

Couldn't resist.

A toy gas-fired missile and launcher assembly ... the operator places the inlet tube with its valve open adjacent his anal region from which a colonic gas is discharged... The ignitor is then activated to explode the mixture in the chamber and fire the missile into space.​

Google Patent Download (PDF)

 

[GrogNerd]

been working from home for WOW! 10 years now. I do commute to the boss' house 1 day a week and have to put up with his LOUD wife who also works at home and their 3 very young kids.

my SWMBO, the BigHair, seems to think I'm Mr. Mom and have all kinds of time to finish her HoneyDo list, but I'm too busy here on HBT to get to those. Besides, the boss pays me to sit here at the computer waiting for phone calls, not cleaning the basement.

so, it's just me (usually in my sponge-bob lounge pants, but today it's Redskins lounge pants... HAIL TO THEM!) and the Howdy.

 

[Bulls Beers]

I've just been promoted and I'm going to start working from home 80% of the time..I basically work from my house now, But I'm on the road everyday. My company is on the west coast and I'm on the east. I'll probably see accounts a couple days a week. My account base is at the corporate level and I'll also be managing the direction of the field team. I'm kinda excited about it, but I'm so used to leaving the house every morning. I hope I don't go stir crazy..

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

A huge downside to working at home becomes evident when one is in battle mode with the missus.

Last night we got into some random bitching with eachother about "Doing stuff" This comes about when she sees me taking an afternoon nap. Bear in mind that I often get up at 5am and have already been working (Or trying to find work) for a good few hours, so I have to remind her that I get up 3 or 4 hours to work before she even gets out of bed (She has odd working hours too) So I reminded her of that simple fact. My day usually starts when the sparrows aren't even up and farting, rubbing their eyes and cleaning their beaks yet.

This morning, I put in a couple of hours, then had no work for a while, so I sit down and catch up on The Walking Dead. This is when wifey comes in (I call her bloodsucking Hellbitch for short) "Ah" she says! "So you never really do work in the mornings! You just sit and watch TV"

In the sports news today, someone who has never actually played professional football shot his wife and then himself despite suffering no brain injury due to sports. Police are investigating the incident. It turns out that someone stole all the toilet seats in the police station, and they have nothing to go on.

Honestly, I love her with all my heart, and I honestly don't want to kill another wife, the dumpster is kinda full, and the old one is starting to get a bit whiffy.

 

[passedpawn]

A huge downside to working at home becomes evident when one is in battle mode with the missus.

Last night we got into some random bitching with eachother about "Doing stuff" This comes about when she sees me taking an afternoon nap. Bear in mind that I often get up at 5am and have already been working (Or trying to find work) for a good few hours, so I have to remind her that I get up 3 or 4 hours to work before she even gets out of bed (She has odd working hours too) So I reminded her of that simple fact. My day usually starts when the sparrows aren't even up and farting, rubbing their eyes and cleaning their beaks yet.

This morning, I put in a couple of hours, then had no work for a while, so I sit down and catch up on The Walking Dead. This is when wifey comes in (I call her bloodsucking Hellbitch for short) "Ah" she says! "So you never really do work in the mornings! You just sit and watch TV"

In the sports news today, someone who has never actually played professional football shot his wife and then himself despite suffering no brain injury due to sports. Police are investigating the incident. It turns out that someone stole all the toilet seats in the police station, and they have nothing to go on.

Honestly, I love her with all my heart, and I honestly don't want to kill another wife, the dumpster is kinda full, and the old one is starting to get a bit whiffy.

Wireless headphones. I wear them all day and nobody bugs me when they are on. I have a pair of Sennheisers. Don't buy Rocketfish.

 

[ronsky]

By Monday you'll be thinking "my co workers are absolute morons... "

I think that most days, whether I am working at home or not...

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Wireless headphones. I wear them all day and nobody bugs me when they are on. I have a pair of Sennheisers. Don't buy Rocketfish.

I have a pair of wireless headphones that i use for listening to soccer outside of the house so that i can smoke.

The neighbours have now become accustomed to seeing that stupid English guy jumping up and down and shouting obscenities with his hardcore ear muffs on.


Oh!!! Oh!!! That reminds me!!! On the plus side, home workers NEVER miss a game!!!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Back at the office today. Place smells like burning plastic. Thrilled to be out of the apartment though.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Back at the office today. Place smells like burning plastic. Thrilled to be out of the apartment though.

You work at a dildo testing facility?