Posted on 11/02/2007 10:29:11 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
I worked out of the home for five years, going into the main office just a couple of times a month. Mostly all the communication I had with the rest of the office was phone or email.
I used to hate going into the office for group meetings. I was inevitably drawn into the politics by people I hardly knew. It was humorous to see how they would jockey for position, each clique trying to get me to join them for lunch so they could tell me how awful the other cliques were.
I loved working from home and wish I could do it again. The only problem was, I was always working - the phone rings during dinner, on the weekends, on holidays - even in the middle of the night - I would always answer it.
They’re illegal in this country. You might not find an American source!
The NERVE!!!
Not skunk scent...that deer scent stuff you can buy...hey right about now! (hint, it never comes out)
Nah, they're too busy whining to get their own work done let alone anyone else's.
Every two months???
Good heavens. I spend 30-40 hours per WEEK on conference calls, I kid you not. I work in worldwide marketing for a HUGE high tech corporation (Fortune 5). It’s a way of life. I have ‘em down pat. Speakerphones with mute are a tool of survival.
The stories I could tell about things I’ve heard in the background on these calls........
I ‘own’ worldwide marketing for a product set that will do over $1B this year alone. When I took it over 5 years ago, it was doing $120M per year....
Now....all new management. I work from home. Guess these years I haven’t done s**t. They want to see me “in the office”; wandering the halls to just be freakin’ “visible”.
Doesn’t matter that I’ve made them hundreds of millions of dollars.....and all long before they had these jobs of theirs.
We don’t see you? You don’t do spit. Well.....I’ve worked from home for MANY years and I put in far more hours than those who go into “the office”. I also get far more done. Guess that doesn’t matter now.
F**k ‘em. I’m moving to a new position early next year. Let’s see how all of these wonderful things happened on their own magically, somehow. Gonna be a hoot.
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