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LOL  good one
How can you tell a lawyer is mentally ill?
They have their hands in there own pockets.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Musicians(*) tell the same joke about 100 violas.
(*) except for viola players.
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What's the difference between a run-over cat and a run-over lawyer in the road?
There are skid marks in front of the cat.
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When I see BJ of the Day... my mind does not think bad joke.
Jeremy Falcon
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BJOD is a somewhat facetious description.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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working remote is not for everyone, actually, most everyone.
our company just fired a woman for watching Netflix all day at home, instead of working.
Most people need to start going back to the office, really.
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Slacker007 wrote: Most people need to start going back to the office, really.
Or better, develop a work ethic? 
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: develop a work ethic?
I don't think that is possible after a certain age.
I do believe most adults need to be baby sat by their employers.
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I personally would have a hard time working from home. Too many distractions and I wouldn't get my work done, at least during regular hours. At the end of the day though, you're paid to complete objectives, it really doesn't matter where it's done and some people are more productive during non standard working hours so working from home can be a boon for those people. It should be immediately apparent to management who's not completing their objectives on time and address those people as needed.
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Perhaps for some people it’d be difficult.
I had no problem with it, but I did it in my 50s, after I’d already developed a distinction between work time and other.
As for it being “immediately apparent to management,” it’s not always easy when developing software to fit the work into easily-measurable metrics: a roadblock over a day or two may resolve shortly after, leading to a productive sprint. Or it may not resolve.
I don’t know… just offering my own perspective. 
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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I agree. Probably easier to work at home once you've learned to work at the office under the possibility of supervision. Way too much temptation if you have not.
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Unfortunately, most management these days, are old fashion minded and not ready for remote administration of personnel, so not just the employees are at fault when remote work doesn't play well for them; managers are not able to, or don't know how to manage by goals and remote assets. Most of the time it is related to poor administrative skills and organization to measure goals/tasks.
Personally it is the complete opposite for me, I get distracted by uninvited bypassers that want their stuff done NOW, ambient chat or noise, and many other environmental factors. Again, poor organizational rules in place.
I get more focused on my own space, with my own equipment (company stuff is bare minimum), and with my own ambient set for my tasks, and like that I also don't distract others.
Each case is different I guess.
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I agree with this. It was impossible for me to be anywhere near as productive working remote compare to in the office. After 2 days, I opted to go back to the office, which was nice as 99.99% of the people in my building were remote.
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That must have been nice to have an empty office.
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It really was. Unfortunately for me, I read the book World War Z over a couple days lunch and break time and it totally weirded me out. I'd walk outside and no cars, no one walking, no one in the building. Poor choice of reading material during a pandemic. Otherwise, it was a very productive time, haha.
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Yep. And most citizens needs to be babysat by their governments. It’s called ‘being human.’
Sorry to rant.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Actually, most governments needs to be babysat by their citizens. It’s called ‘Democracy'.
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Oh, I agree. But in reality that’s not the direction it’s going. 
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Slacker007 wrote: I don't think that is possible after a certain age.
More like you either have it, or you don't.
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Exactly.
I would also take it one step further and assume that people who have a low or non-existent work ethic, are probably people that society does not want to associate with. It says a tremendous amount about a person's character and lack of integrity.
modified 14-Jan-23 10:18am.
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Slacker007 wrote: people that society does not want to associate with. It says a tremendous amount about a person's character and lack of integrity.
This. Being able to cheat your employer, and getting away with it, is nothing to be proud of.
If you're a government employee (and thus my tax dollars pay your salary), you're wasting those tax dollars and providing nothing in return. You're supposed to contribute something to society. Your contribution is actually negative in this case. And if you're not working for the government, you're raising the cost of whatever widget/service your employer sells/provides. Again, you can't be proud of that.
If you hate your job, find employment elsewhere. In the long run, a steady paycheck isn't worth the damage to your health, mental or otherwise.
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That's stupidity to the maximum level. When I worked remotely on a basically finished project I played videogames all day long - on MY computer, while the work laptop was either idling or compiling in loop with random pauses between compilation.
If you want to steal be at least clever about it, otherwise it casts a shadow on all the honest thieves out there.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Obligatory XKCD[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I knew that strip and shamelessly took inspiration from it also there is (was?) an old small package in the Debian repository to keep the CPU usage high to muddle employer surveillance based on CPU load. That was my second source of inspiration.
As somebody else stated, I brought "quiet quitting" to an art form - though not really, there are people much better (worse?) than me in that regard.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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