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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 11th 2022, 7:25 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

i’ve heard good things and will look if ever something goes wrong with xplornet.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 11th 2022, 1:51 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Rogers is still down here so tomorrow I have to go to the office. Not because I have Rogers, I have Xplornet and Bell, but because some utter planks in my team only have one internet provider at home...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 8th 2022, 3:09 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Here's a new twist. There are two major internet providers in Canada. One is down today (I think they're both shit but they rarely fail simultaneously so I have both and a generator so I can usually...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 7th 2022, 4:44 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

No, but I don't imagine the situation is very different.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 7th 2022, 1:15 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Something similar has happened where I work. The message from senior management that returning to the office is great was somewhat blunted by the fact that they each delivered it from home but, hey...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 20th 2021, 1:54 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Before I realized that there were virtual backgrounds I talked with someone who claimed to be in Kitchener-Waterloo but had a scenic forest behind him, I puzzled over that for several meetings as,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 20th 2021, 11:21 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I don't know that it's been "a thing" before but I've always participated in activities during meetings and I assume other people have too. It's a long time since I've had sex during a conference...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 5th 2020, 3:54 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

ok, ok, I shall try another method tomorrow.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 5th 2020, 2:27 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I should do that but it's a faff and I'm lazy. I like just to tap the steering wheel button and have it happen.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 5th 2020, 2:14 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I'm talking to them now. "Very bad plan" I have, "I give you good plan", "Just put it all back as it was last year". "no can do that, but I make you good".

I've never been to a rub and tug but...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 5th 2020, 11:10 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

They change the plan every time I call them, the new plan costs the same as the old plan. They've just switched me to :"email billing" so I only get a total, and don't know the break down. Their...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 5th 2020, 1:17 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

On the last point, today I phoned Bell to complain about the bill. The support person said "your service isn't good enough to be able to discuss this, you're fading in and out" to which I said "of...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 4th 2020, 11:29 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

WebEx, please, anything but Teams. Yesterday someone called me with Teams "how are you?" she said. "Gobsmacked" I replied. "I know! This is the first successful Teams call evah!". Most days we go...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 4th 2020, 12:41 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

It's a few hundred bucks, you could just buy one.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 3rd 2020, 10:20 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

What are you going to do when the designing is in Canada and the manufacturing in China?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 3rd 2020, 10:19 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I'm at home and I have a printer and a scanner all in one machine! Costco delivers.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 3rd 2020, 10:17 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

In the eighties I worked on a system for a production line that made cans, there were sensors on the line that could detect that a can had been made and from there we were able to work out how much...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 3rd 2020, 3:07 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I don't understand this at all. What is it you can do in the same room that you can't do remotely? (Obviously you touch each other but I wouldn't have guessed engineering to be very tactile).

No...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 1st 2020, 6:40 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I think it'll fly, there a quire a few examples of people having to go to their home countries for domestic reasons and working from there for extended periods. As well, I know the organization is...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 1st 2020, 6:04 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

My contract expires at the end of this month. The client is inclined to renew so I submitted the appropriate paperwork with the work location amended to state remote work only. We'll see how that...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 15th 2020, 11:36 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

I expect that is true for some people but in general, I think the people I work with are much more productive. An immediate benefit is that methodologies are suspended so people avoid 30, 60, 90...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 7th 2020, 9:42 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Nah, worked there already. Needs to be in one of the six States needed to complete the set. What you got in North Dakota? Something short, ideally.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 7th 2020, 3:55 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

If you go on holiday do you take all that stuff with you or, when work arises, can you cope with just the laptop? I deliberately don't use any awkward peripherals so as to be able to anywhere there's...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 7th 2020, 3:31 pm
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Then how do you travel?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 3rd 2020, 1:26 am
Replies: 194
Views: 19,751
Posted By dbd33

Re: Working From Home Tips

Indeed. Last night nothing much was happening so I wrote a Cobol program. I got paid and I was able to hone my skills at the forefront of technology. All without leaving the sofa.
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