Working from home and Internet goes out for an entire 5 minutes at 9:00am: Oh well, better luck getting things done tomorrow then. Goes back to sleep for the day
Must be nice, I have to clock out if my Internet goes out at home.
Just get a salaried job, where you can still get paid while not working, in exchange for working 70 hour weeks (30 hours for free) when an impossible deadline is set.
Ahhh, fun at my job if you miss a certain number of days you get temporarily moved to hourly till the end of year
in exchange for working 70 hour weeks (30 hours for free) when an impossible deadline is set which is the normal state.
FTFY
Eh, I’m salaried, so there are opposite days, where I’m working well past 9pm on a weekday. There are also days where I have to work regardless of my home’s power/Internet status. If I lose those on one of those days, my office is going mobile for the day, yay!
EDIT: I’ll also add that I one of the lucky few that has a boss that measures my performance in productivity instead of hours behind a desk. It’s a beautiful thing to experience.
The trouble is that my workload doesn’t decrease with an amount equivalent to the outage time. I still have the same tasks to accomplish, so if the network is down for half a day, it just means I have half a day less to get my work done and meet my deadlines.
Yeah basically this. It’s not half a day off, it’s a half a day work that needs to be done later anyways
When I was in the office absolutely, now at home if my power and internet are out I can’t even watch tv.
At least you can do something on your phone
As soon as I hit submit on this comment I realized I was holding a tv in my hand that connects to the internet.
Our little magical glass rectangles
At the office they paid, at home I only get an hour before they stop paying and expect me to make up the time later.
There was a time where the company I worked at got hacked and the company VPN was down. It was a glorious 3 days of free PTO and probably the only time I was thankful for being salaried.
Even better if you work remotely and their network goes down. Because yours works just fine and you can just browse Lemmy while they fix it.
Those are the only remote work days when I can break out Steam or Netflix during business hours.
Working in a hospital; power and/or network outages usually just translate into more work for me
I do a lot with org-wide data, so yeah. Fucking pisses me off.
I won’t go into details, but me, a colleague, a mobile hotspot, and a friend kayaking 4L of wine in through flood waters to the balcony we were stuck on. Saved some lives getting medical records out to hospitals and got pay to just under 20K people, all be it a couple days late. Hey, we were knackered and the wine came on day 3 once we were done.
Redundancies for when power and internet issues occur, kids. Saves lives. Got my own shit going on during natural disasters. Don’t really feel like botching infrastructure because HQ is under and no one planned for it.
If this happens to me, I have to keep working. Except now, I have to write all of my transactions, tailoring slips, wedding group information, EVERYTHING by hand. It’s kinda a nightmare tbh.
Me, who works for an ISP repair department having to explain to a panicking customer, in a nice way, that they are not special because they work from home and the technician that isn’t available until tomorrow is what they’re going to have to deal with until such a time as technicians drive fucking ambulances and their shitty job that will apparently fire them at the drop of a hat has no tolerance for technical issues pulls the stick out of their ass. Or maybe demand the boss pay for a dedicated business line for working from home if they are so worried about it.
I theorize a good percentage of the truly panicked “I WORK FROM HOME, I WILL LOSE MY JOB” people regularly unplug their modems when they want an extra break and now that it’s actually broken, they’re at the limit of what the boss will put up with.
If this happen to me, I’m the who will round around hall and get machines ready for production
What
Hr. Hall is the guy who produces machines and you have to run around him to start the process.
They will run in circles in the hall, while getting products out of the machines
Unless you work in a data center.
Then there’s the people having to figure out how to restore the power and Internet…
Sure would be a shame if it took them a little while to figure it out and they needed a break to think it over…
Its only good if you are the bottom employee flipping burgers. The people who actually run the company have a heart attack
Any time the power goes out some person needs to say “Wooooah” with mild alarm.
Power outage hell yeah.
Internet issues hell no.
Our credit card systems run on internet and customers get real pissy when they have to use cash
