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May 27, 2022: Party Of The Century

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Per r_r's request:

Who's Attending Zooom's Joint This Weekend?

  • Man, I sure wish I could, but just can't because life (73%, 16 Votes)
  • Yes I'll be attending, you can't keep me away! (23%, 5 Votes)
  • Wait, what? (5%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 22

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28 thoughts on “May 27, 2022: Party Of The Century”

  1. If anyone watches the National Symphony Orchestra concert on PBS Sunday night, you can see my nephew playing timpani. He normally plays with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, but was asked to fill in for the concert Sunday night.

    2. Yes, as early as 11. I have the day off and my wife and I will be here by then. I will stake out the best place for us to all hang out. Probably eat around noon - 12:30.

      1. I *may* stop in right at 11. I am heading up north for nephew's graduation, but I can say hi to a few folks for a half hour/45 minutes.

    3. Mark me down for 4

      Me, the Permanent Roommate, the 5 year old who eats like her sister's age, and the 1.75 year old who eats like her sister's age.

  4. I am almost done with day 5 of Operation Ignore the Return to Office Policy and no one has said anything.

      1. I have been very open about it to others, so I am in no danger of being ratted out. I also suspect I'm not the only one doing it.

        1. But how would you know!?!

          I'm actually stupid excited to live vicariously through this.

    2. My unit provided a guideline of coming into the office once a week, but flexible with the day you wanted to come in. For the last 5-6 weeks (I've actually lost count), I have not come into the office at all. I much prefer meetings on Skype rather than trying to mix in office and online presences. So far the boss hasn't said anything to me. I do probably need to make an appearance in the next couple weeks, but we'll see.

      The twist is that our unit also has about 6 folks (out of 30 total) that work in other hub locations. So not everyone in our unit is in the office or even able to be in the office. So usually SOMEONE is calling into a meeting.

      1. Yeah, like they hired some people during the pandemic who are 100% remote and when asked about that, the answer was "we had to do what was needed to hire people." Like, dude, maybe do what you need to do now to retain people! C-suite people can kiss my ass.

      3. I am designated as a work from home employee, so I never actually have to come into my home office, but I have a week a month obligation to another facility and I am fulfilling that requirement for May right now.

    3. I understand the desire to work from home but I get why some companies would want employees in the office. How do you develop and train new people remotely? Especially those coming right out of school?

      It seems to me that a big piece of learning is from the people you work with. I suppose it depends on the industry/job.

      1. As someone that has done that, I was proactive in talking to them and having frequent impromptu meetings. We already had daily short meetings with the team. They sometimes would go longer for those that had questions about things.

        I didn't do this well in the first year after switching to remote so made an effort the following year to be better about it. This was with an intern that had just graduated and was new to the field (software engineering). I think I would have done better the following year but office politics interfered and it didn't happen.

        1. As someone considering a new job...I fear I would suuuuck at training remotely.

      2. In the case of my company, the answer to that is to apparently just not hire new people and continue letting me do the work of 4.

        1. I read an article, maybe late 2020, about remote workers working two jobs. I *think* I may be able to pull this off remotely but am worried over overlapping stand ups or something where I need to speak that would result in me messing it up in a spectacular way.

          Also, I don't want to do the work of two jobs

          1. I can't find it right now, but I read a comment on Hacker News, where a guy was working two tech jobs remotely at one time. It was pretty impressive. For one job he was even a team manager. The other job he was an individual contributor. Most of this hinged on, well, the fact that you don't actually have to do that much work week to week to "succeed" in a tech job at decent-sized companies.

            The key was that for the IC job, his partner also worked in the same role. Most weeks he would have his management meetings all scheduled. Then he would have those times blocked off as "focus" times in his IC job. He could generally get his 15-20 hours of "real work" done for his IC job, but every so often when emergencies came up on the management side his partner would finish his work for him on the IC side. Lovely!

            It seemed like he was going to continue for a year or two more and bank up with their three-job household, but the juggling act was probably a young-person's game and he wasn't going to do it for too much longer.

            1. the juggling act was probably a young-person's game and he wasn't going to do it for too much longer.

              Yeah, I already have two jobs. The pay for the second is terrible but I signed up for 18+ years of it, thrice.

      3. We do community mental health and we were fully remote (with rare exceptions) for over a year. The employees that started during that time have not been as successful, or it took them much longer to become successful. Part of that is remote training is harder. Part of that is not being around co-workers you can soak up advice from. Introverts are less likely to go out of their way to make friends with veterans. And people of color who have never met their white coworkers in person are less likely to feel comfortable reaching out.

        We require staff who are new to be in the office while they're learning the job, but after six months as long as there's not performance issues, you are free to work anywhere you like and all of our meetings except for some select trainings are hybrid in-person/virtual.

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