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Management disagree with the numbers? They don't like the data?
I once had a boss who hired me to run testing to prove his theories, and when the data was not to his liking, he asked me to delete the bits he didn't agree with. I told him that that is not the way data works. You'd think someone with a PhD would know that.
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How did he obtain the PhD?
Deleted the data that did not fit the thesis?
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I would like to. But there's no one there. Aside from me, everybody prefers to stay at home for work. Just once a week I have an appointment with one particular co-worker in the office, which is better than nothing. The coffee in the office is so much better! 
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I'm still working from home.
Last year I moved to a bigger house with a very nice office space.
Fitting out of the office cost a fair bit of money, but it is finished now.
I don't miss having people (Colleagues, Clients, etc.) around. 
I have never been more productive.
We have a morning meeting on Teams, and I can call any of my colleagues for a video meeting when I need.
They want us to return to the office, but so far I have been able to evade that.
I'm not missing the daily commute of 2 hours each way.
They want me to come to the office at least once a week.
If they want me to come more than that, I will look for another job. 
NO MORE OFFICE BUILDINGS, SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS FIRST.
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I don't have an office to return to 🥺
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Not I.
I had a 1 hour commute each way, and with gas as it is, even with my over 30 mpg Saturn, I would need a raise just to break even.
I have a huge house with a nice porch on two acres, so I have both work and break areas built right in. Plus I also much prefer my own monitor to the one provided.
I do miss the monthly lunches out with the team. I work with some fascinating people.
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I actually went in to the office for the third time in the last two years, because we had a severe storm come through Tuesday night and the power at home was out. We're supposed to be returning to the office one day a week in September, and the office is open now for anyone who either wants to go in or has to go in. Yesterday, there were a total of six other people in the office, spread over two floors of the building - the office manager who has to be there to keep the office open, two people who told me that they actually want to be in the office and feel lost trying to work from home and three who had to be there because of a focus group they were running, one of whom actually prefers being in the office. Pre-covid, there would have been two hundred fifty or so people in the office. My personal plan is going to be to just keep working from home; by the time they notice I'm not going in, I'm figuring that my wife will be eligible for Medicare and if they try to force the issue, I'll just retire instead. It makes absolutely no sense for me to spend an hour commuting each way to sit in a wide open noisy cubicle farm instead of sitting in my nice quiet office at home when I have better hardware, faster internet access and larger monitors at home than in the office. Over 95% of my interactions are with people who aren't in the same city as I am; roughly 45% are with folks who aren't even on the same continent.
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Before I retired (pre-pandemic) I was able to work at home as much as I wanted. I only worked 4 days a week but I pretty much always went to the office. It was only a few miles from my house and there were way too many distractions at home (wife and multiple dogs). Plus, my boss and I became good friends (we were the hardware department), he'd dot the hardware design and I'd do the firmware design/programming.
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I'll be going to the office next Wednesday for the first time since March 2022. I'm picking up a new laptop. And then I'll scurry back home to my little (but big enough) office, to work on the new laptop, dog sleeping with his head on my feet, coffee machine ready to make coffee the way I like it, stereo cranked with music I like, and no need to listen to any other people's inane telephone calls...
Suffice to say, I'll only go back to the office for as little time as I can get away with...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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No thanks
I do have a reasonable office space now at home, so that helps, and reasonable internet too. I have zero desire to go back into an office again. Interestingly, we started WFH a little before the whole mess started (it was optional) and then it became "take whatever you need from the office and go home" and now I believe we're going to give up on having an office at all because it's mostly empty, but costs monthly rent.
I like the "cycle to/from work" idea, but have no love for the drab surroundings or the time wasted in traffic driving to and from work, let alone the fuel cost.
I recognise it's "courses for horses", but this hoss is happier in a home office where I can properly disconnect from the noise of people - silence my notifications and get down to getting it done.
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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In office pro
Looking across the aisle to a teammate on the same zoom call to see that they are also rolling their eyes at the same point in the meeting.
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Dinosaur
fish SOLE
in (inside)
to be cooked to be (anag)
OB TEOBSOLETE
Obsolete Synonyms[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Dat's dem pills that is PILLS I tell you !!!
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Random thought since I have seen more unsolved clues recently.
The clue could be left open longer if Mondays winner posted the following Monday, Tuesday posted next Tuesday, etc.
The transition week would need 4 volunteers.
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It would need an amount of extra organisation, and as the person whom would probably end up doing just that, I'd probably vote against it!
Plus, it makes life potentially difficult for people: how organised are most of us vis-à-vis our expected schedule for a week ahead? Some of us have difficulty knowing they are available the following day!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Dinosaur fish in to be cooked (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You on dem pills again ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, I'm sniffing glue this week.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I believe you
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 359 2/6
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The very first time I've got in 2 tries.
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Three for me ... but I was lucky.
Quote: Wordle 359 3/6
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wordle 359 4/6
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 359 4/6
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 359 4/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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