The only things I run locally on my work laptop are Outlook and Teams. Everything else I do on a virtual/remote machine.
Not only does it address the headaches of blips in connectivity when cable internet decides to flake out and my home router does its magic to failover to cellular, it saves me the pain of moving data across the VPN. Stuff goes MUCH faster when it’s all local to the corporate network.
None of that makes any sense to me.
That file I uploaded is on a cloud somewhere. The query, unfortunately, is being run by my laptop.
Creating a query that can run overnight via NOT my laptop would be a solution.
Or, drive 20 miles.
Oversimplifying – when it comes to “real work”, the only thing I use my company laptop for is to connect to a virtual computer inside my company’s network. That’s the computer where I do my Excel, etc. magic to earn actuary money.
If I did real work on my company laptop, it would be torture having to wait the extra seconds for files or data to move through the narrow pipe to/from my laptop.
When my internet goes down, I obviously can’t do anything on that virtual computer. However, anything I have running on that virtual computer continues to run (at least until it is done or crashes)…so an internet outage doesn’t mean that I’m going to have to re-do work.
Because my cable internet can be flaky, and because I’m a geek, my home network is set up such that if the cable internet goes down, a couple of seconds later the network starts routing traffic over a backup cellular modem I got.
what’s that cost?
Sounds similar to my setup. I run queries using snowflake through my browser. It can only show the first 10,000 records of the results of my query and if I need more I have the option to download a csv file.
You have a keyboard, mouse and screen connected to a computer somewhere else. If your keyboard disconnects, nbd. No moving of data from your house to the computer, etc.
I’ve got the best of both worlds. Wfh, but all my files are on a server…in the basement.
…but let’s not talk about what I spent on all the Ubiquiti gear in the house, which makes the automatic switching between networks relatively seamless.
For a few years, pre-pandemic, after my mom passed away, I was taking monthly trips to check up on / help out my autistic father, and to clean out the house when he was ready to move into a retirement community. Given that I was spending a few days every month working off a marginal cellular internet link…or occasionally looking at accounts during bio-breaks when doing long-distance drives to/from that city…the virtual machine setup was the only way I could pull it off.
You have all probably heard of Dimon’s rant about WFH policies but here is another look at the story.
Seems that JPM has a more toxic culture than JD is prepared to admit.
My dad works for JPM as a SWE, and was at that town hall.
What was his reaction?
He’s not super vocal about his opinions, so I’m not sure he has any, but I’ll ask him. He’s about to turn 63, so he’s just riding it out until retirement - he’s hoping to work until 70.
He’s been with the company (and Bank One before the merger) for 40 years, and isn’t going to make any waves. He loves doing his job and likes to be left alone, so he was going into the office all during covid anyway (after the first couple months). He lives within walking distance of the mega-office there, so parking isn’t a problem for him, although I suspect he won’t enjoy all the people being around again.
Edit: my relationship with my dad, in a nutshell:
So seems like he’s of no opinion really.
My dad spent about 25 years with JPM in trading in NYC. He is a big fan of Dimon, I think he feels similar to your dad.
Banking, especially in NYC, is hyper competitive, that’s why people work such long hours. I’m not surprised they want 5/wk, just further confirmation that I’m glad I went down the insurance path.
He was fake fired, like Stanley Hudson.
Not the work of sensible people.
But banking always seems to have such toxicity around it.
https://x.com/dog_rates/status/1892362396892614843
still working!
I wonder if they checked with their lawyers and were advised firing him for asking a question at a town hall was not a good idea. They’ll probably fire him for something else later.
I can see how that man raised an actuary lol.
Try reading his messages in the terminator voice.
He probably would have been a fine actuary, although a different style than mine.
I can tell that he would have made an excellent civil servant/fed employee as well
I’m the BANKINATOR.
I’LL BE BACK working on site real soon.
