Worked from home many times. In the 70's I had no comms except for a phone. Managed to crack out lots of code in a short time without office interruptions.
Stretched it a bit when "working from from home" in Hawaii but nobody noticed. A four year stint of working from home 2008-2012 was great and I look back in wonder at what I could produce. Now our management are "seriously thinking about it". Ultimately, it's nothing short of a disaster situation now. A lot of our key guys don't have Dongles or Soft Tokens, so if the doors are closed it's an actual major exposure. Great opportunity to off some useless "managers" and let the experts get on with the real work. On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:16 AM Steve Beaver <st...@stevebeaver.com> wrote: > I just jack the price $50/HR and they shut up > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of David Spiegel > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: OT: Mandatory Work From Home at my company > > When I've been told by recruiters that I have to be on site, I try to > get them to understand that for Systems Programming, there is almost no > good reason to ever be on site. > I also tell them that if the boss really wants to see my ugly face and > that I'm not goofing off, I will start a Skype (or equivalent) call at > 08:00 and leave it on the whole day. > > On 2020-03-19 19:54, Thomas Kern wrote: > > 35 years ago, I started teaching Dept of Energy sysprogs that with > > proper communications, there were only three things we could not do. > > > > 1) mount / unmount tapes on tape drives > > 2) tear paper off the printer > > 3) press the power button > > > > When we finally got rid of the Mainframe last August, there were no > > tapes or printers. (Yeah I went into the machine room to press the > > power button). But it took management's disease paranoia to get them > > past their need to see me touching a keyboard to believe I was really > > working. > > > > /Tom Kern > > > > On 03/19/2020 15:46, Steve Beaver wrote: > >> My curiosity is how are these companies that have forced everyone to > >> WFH going to get people back on-site > >> In a couple of months without a MAJOR REVOLT on their hands > >> > >> > >> Steve > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > . > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
