It’s always a good idea to have a backup plan, but few of us actually do. It’s easy to get tunnel-visioned about what we’re doing at any particular moment. We’re locked in, and it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. But then something will come along, and you wish you had thought a …
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Boss schedules a meeting at 6:30 AM on employee’s first day of work after 2 weeks off, reschedules meeting for next week at 6:29 AM: ‘They’re 3 hours ahead of me, so it’s a comfortable 9:30 AM their time.’
They should at least have the decency to cancel the meeting more than a minute before it was scheduled. It’s not always easy to schedule meetings when half of your team is halfway across the world. If you have a meeting with participants on three different continents, one of the participants might have to …
Seguir leyendo Boss schedules a meeting at 6:30 AM on employee’s first day of work after 2 weeks off, reschedules meeting for next week at 6:29 AM: ‘They’re 3 hours ahead of me, so it’s a comfortable 9:30 AM their time.’
Remote job scolds employees for taking a 4-minute bathroom break, records employees’ screens when their mouse doesn’t move for 60 seconds: ‘I am human, not a robot.’
You can’t expect remote employees never to take a bathroom break. Remote workers fall into a couple of different camps. Some remote workers sit at home all day and watch TV, only checking their computers to maintain their «active» status on Slack. They might have to complete one or two tasks, but otherwise, they are …
Seguir leyendo Remote job scolds employees for taking a 4-minute bathroom break, records employees’ screens when their mouse doesn’t move for 60 seconds: ‘I am human, not a robot.’
Remote employee makes $100K working only 5-7 hours a week after automating most of his work tasks: ‘Is it smart to ride out a low-stress, high-flexibility job?’
He has hit the jackpot, and he doesn’t even know it. It doesn’t matter how hard-working you claim to be. If you had the chance to make six figures for only one day of work a week, you’d be a fool not to take that. Some fully remote jobs require only a couple of hours …
Seguir leyendo Remote employee makes $100K working only 5-7 hours a week after automating most of his work tasks: ‘Is it smart to ride out a low-stress, high-flexibility job?’
Employees debate whether they’d take a $120K remote job over a $240K in office job: ‘For $240k a year, I’d come in on the weekend too’
$120K extra per year could change the trajectory of your life forever. Five years ago, it seemed like remote work was the future and we wouldn’t be going back to the office anytime soon. Flash forward to today, and the future of remote work seems as uncertain as ever. Many companies are requiring employees to …
Seguir leyendo Employees debate whether they’d take a $120K remote job over a $240K in office job: ‘For $240k a year, I’d come in on the weekend too’
25+ Remote Work Memes for Logging on in Your Pajamas
Working from home used to be reserved for the Carrie Bradshaws of the world. The freelancers, the novelists, the homeschoolers, the stay-at-home parents. Now so many of us work from home that it’s actually deeply affecting the economy. Wonder what happened in the last 5 years that made that possible? Not worth investigating. All that …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Remote Work Memes for Logging on in Your Pajamas
35-year-old husband lashes out at wife for keeping her headphones on during WFH day, says she didn’t hear him calling for help with chores: ‘My husband came in, visibly upset’
Headphones are an incredible invention. I don’t know what I would have done without them. All those times on the bus to school, looking out the window listening to whatever angsty Spotify playlist I had just cooked up… those were deeply formative times in my adolescence. Then, as I got older, listening to instrumental jazz …
Seguir leyendo 35-year-old husband lashes out at wife for keeping her headphones on during WFH day, says she didn’t hear him calling for help with chores: ‘My husband came in, visibly upset’
Mother-in-law refuses to see daughter-in-law’s remote programming job as ‘real,’ calls her out at a family barbecue: ‘Yeah, and that […] paid off your son’s student loans’
There’s a big generational gap when it comes to attitudes about work. Older generations might think that since they were forced to work a certain way, others should too. They spent countless hours commuting, stayed at a company for decades, and sometimes put work before family (especially if they had a wife at home taking …
Seguir leyendo Mother-in-law refuses to see daughter-in-law’s remote programming job as ‘real,’ calls her out at a family barbecue: ‘Yeah, and that […] paid off your son’s student loans’
‘Stop acting so entitled’: Manager asks fresh-out-of-college hire to make 1hr commute 4 times per month, they wonder if that’s an unreasonable request
Coming of working age at this time in the history of work is an interesting one. The world of employment looks vastly different than it did even 10 years ago. So many of us are working remotely more often, employees are re-drawing boundaries over what they will put up with in the workplace, and priorities …
Seguir leyendo ‘Stop acting so entitled’: Manager asks fresh-out-of-college hire to make 1hr commute 4 times per month, they wonder if that’s an unreasonable request
‘Is this even legal?’: New employee signs contract to work remotely, employer rug-pulls and demands they come in once a week
The difference between working remotely sometimes and working remotely all the time is a huge one. When you’re fully remote (and with the ability to work asynchronously) you could be anywhere in the world. You could decide to give up your apartment and spend every month in a new city. You can come and go …
Seguir leyendo ‘Is this even legal?’: New employee signs contract to work remotely, employer rug-pulls and demands they come in once a week