JCC The Working from Home Support Thread

If I order online and leave a tip, does it go to the delivery guy or the workers of the restaurant ?

 

You might not have to worry about it - the service will not be available.

 

Eh? I haven't had any problem ordering from Door Dash.

 

me neither.

I actually have another practical question. What do you guys use to sign documents online? April is getting closer and I cannot print/scanner my tax returns 'cause I have to stay home.

 

It supposedly goes to the delivery person, but those services have a history of taking tips from their "independent contractors." The normal non-pandemic workaround would be to tip them in cash.

For what it's worth the filing deadline has been moved to July. I usually sign my tax returns with a PIN.

 

Oh, this is something that perhaps I should have known. I'm so glad I asked. Thanks!

 

Takeaways are shutting down over here - so, problem solved.

 

Last week, I worked while the calming yet stirring tunes of the Xenoblade Chronicles series soundtracks serenaded my ears (and tried to take my mind off current events).

This week I’m starting the History of Britain podcast.

 

this is actually scary. I closed myself at home and I only have pasta/lentils for about two weeks, with very little sauces, so I'm afraid I'll end up eating garlic-oil-chili pepper-spaghetti for quite a while.

 

8AM, postal services for sending a letter in dematerialized form are already saturated...
It's the infrastructure, stupid.

 

Agreed.

 

So, since last Monday, I'm on 11 people whose emails I didn't have and who were supposed to be informed by their lawyers that the meeting we were going to have was cancelled, and who ended up looking me up to ask whether their meeting is cancelled...

 

So, I'm into my second week of working from home. For the first few days, I just worked on my laptop on the kitchen table in my pajamas. Of course, I really didn't get much work done. Too many other things going on. My employers said we could enter the office and take the monitors, keyboards, etc., home to be more productive. I did that last week. It was eerie going to the financial district of San Francisco on a mid-morning Thursday with really no one around at all.

My wife is a nurse and worried about her health. A few days ago she had a sore throat and slight cough and so out of an abundance of caution the hospital she works for sent her home and was instructed to be tested for the coronavirus. She was tested and Saturday and got her results yesterday. Thankfully she tested negative for the virus which is a load off both our shoulders. She may return to work in a few days.

So, I'm set up at home. Now my commute is from the bedroom to the office (formerly guest bedroom). I feel have to be more productive working from home than in the office, so I don't look like I'm slacking. It feels weird to take an hour lunch when I'm at home.

Today, I got out of my pajamas, fixed my hair and dressed the way I would if I were in the office. I turned off the TV, which I have previously on as "white noise" but it was too distracting. I'm trying to get back into my work routine.

 

I been listening to music as my white noise @Sith_Sensei__Prime especially Tycho. Helps me relax and focus while working though working right now I am finding to be relaxing at well.

 

We are using logmein, which works a treat. Good for you for getting “work” dressed. I got one am not.

 

I personally do not understand most people's struggles with working from home. I sit in a recliner with my laptop and stay in my pajamas all day when I work from home, yet I get as much or more done than when I'm in the office.

Today our CEO sent out a survey on how to best work from home. I REALLY hope this means he's going to declare that people from both the KC and STL offices should stay home for the duration of this order. I mean, in KC he doesn't have a choice really, but he might go against the order anyway. But I hope for their sake he lets the STL people still work from home.

Again, I don't understand the big deal. Maybe it's because I live alone and don't have kids. But I find working from home infinitely easier and better than wasting my time commuting into the office.

 

I figure I'm topping out at about 70% productivity at home.

I do take the steps to put me in the right mindset. I get dressed like I'm going into the office. I hug and kiss the kids goodbye. I walk out the front door ... and walk around the block to the back door to simulate a commute, and head downstairs to the home office.

But, my set-up, even with bringing home my extra monitor, docking station, mouse, and keyboard, isn't as ideal as in my office. I don't have three giant whiteboards to work on, I don't have an extra long L-shaped desk to spread out work on and dive into details on, and I'm distracted by the yelling and playing upstairs.

 

Ah see all I use at work is my laptop anyway. So it's literally no different for me to work from home. I have fewer interruptions because no coworkers stop into my office to talk to me.

 

I'm actually a good deal more productive, largely owing to not having to answer as many phone calls and as many e-mails...

 

Yeah I'm more productive as well. Although I get my work done way ahead of deadline in either case

Which makes me all the more annoyed that they won't just let me work from home all the time in the first place. Again, our CEO is the one stopping that - my boss is all for it because she sees how well I work at home.

 

Conventions! Control! Physical presence! Cats!

 

We are allowed to bring our dogs to work if we want... which would be great except my office is the only one without a door. So no, I can't actually bring my dog because she'd just run away and get into things.

 

I used to get 20-40 emails a day and have 1-3 meetings a day.

Now I have 50-100 emails a day and a teleconference every hour.

 

Lawyers had been on strike two months prior to the shutdown, slowing all our business...