With how common remote work is these days, I'm wondering if anyone has ever been able to obtain an offline seat and a company-supplied workstation to program from home? I'd imagine that a lot of trust and prestige would be needed to be able to do this.
With how common remote work is these days, I'm wondering if anyone has ever been able to obtain an offline seat and a company-supplied workstation to program from home? I'd imagine that a lot of trust and prestige would be needed to be able to do this.
I'd love that too. I could do just about 90% of my work from home and come in only once in a while as needed. I used to have a coworker that did that. It didn't go so well. He just wasn't very good at programming offline. He didn't think things through and relied on working out the details once he had a 1st piece to verify on the machine. That worked well enough for him, but when other people had to verify his programs it just sucked. Unfortunately, it got so dysfunctional that the boss said that he couldn't work from home anymore. He quite soon after that. Unfortunately, it kind of ruined it for the rest of us. It may be a while before the company will consider letting someone else work from home. The shame is that I would probably be more productive and be willing to work more hours with that setup. It seems like it would be a win-win for both me and the company.
With how common remote work is these days, I'm wondering if anyone has ever been able to obtain an offline seat and a company-supplied workstation to program from home? I'd imagine that a lot of trust and prestige would be needed to be able to do this.
I worked 90% remotely in 2020-21 on and off. I would crunch out multiple programs offline and visit the shop to proof them all out in a single day sometimes two. Opted to come back full time as working from home messed with me mentally... I need the daily toxic work environment. hahaha!
I worked on a robotic cell and, well, relying on a bulletproof offline environment was already needed along with only proofing like once a week due to 24/7 production it made it that much possible to work totally remotely.
I have the ability to work from home (and so several times each week) and will more than likely use it tomorrow through Friday when the big snow storm passes through. As long as I have internet service and our company server is up I have full access to everything I need.
We have the option to work from home, but I prefer to be where the action is.
All our programming is done offline and released to the production floor.
Proving programs out is optional to the programmer, although I prefer that. We do a lot of work on parts that aren't around, so most of the time we don't have a part in hand.
Ah, having others trying to prove out your programs is a pain no matter how good you are. It's next to impossible to think the way that the offline programmer did while making a new program.
Maybe you could approach the boss to see if they'd be willing to do a trial to see if remote work is a good fit for both you and the company?
That's awesome. How often were you asked to come in to troubleshoot programs that stopped working? I'd imagine that you would need a competent team that can troubleshoot programming issues for remote work to be feasible.
That's a sweet deal. How long did it take for you to become comfortable working remotely? And how often do you have to come in to prove out programs, unless you have someone else do it for you onsite?
I thought proving out programs was basically an unspoken requirement to make sure these programs are solid prior to release. If the programmer decides to not prove their programs out, who does then?
