Wagahai’s corner

Good parts.. flexible schedule, having TV & radio available, no co-workers to complain about noise or radio station. No other employees asking how to work their computer, copier, DVD player or anything else that might require technical training.

Bad parts.. hanging out by yourself with your bird all day and watching the same TV shows over and over and not having the disipline of the workplace to actually “get things done” which eventually eat at you. Dealing with everyone who thinks that it’s the best thing in the world when they don’t realize that it’s fun for the 1st few months, but then boring and “blah” as can be after that. You start to realize that when you don’t get out of bed except for some food in the afternoon and to put the cordless phone back on the charger because your 3 conference calls that day killed it.

I’ll stick with it, but no, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

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.