Fitting in at work… when you’re miles away

  

One of the hardest things about working from home is if you get transferred into a new department. There’s that period of time where you don’t feel like you’re part of the team due to the lack of involvement and understanding about what’s going on. Last week’s visit to HQ and this past week’s working on some group projects I think has helped me to get over that problem. Now the department can see I can write basic scripts, I now interact more with the team and now we’re all on internal IRC and being “goofy” which also helps build the team feeling instead of “here, fix this” and “have you see if X is working?”

Anyway, being a part of the group you work with is important, makes the day go faster and makes work much easier.