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'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.
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?
