It’s an unfortunate side effect that when you work from home, you’ve already taken your work home with you.
Now that I’m in a position where I work solo and manage my entire workload, it’s twice as bad, since I know that 4 hours I put in on Sunday will make my week a little easier… at the same time, with some of my work completed during the weekend… I can still get more done midweek, because the work is never complete.
If I worked in-office, I simply would have quit this job. It would have been too many early mornings and late nights in a sad, drab, abandoned office building without the comforts of home, or pajamas for that matter.
As it is, it seems like this remote job is paying off quite well. In return for >> 40 hours/week, anyway, that I wouldn’t have done in-office. If I leave my 5-days-a-week office, my job is done for the day.
I think I prefer the fuzzy lines of working from home over the commute and those hard cutoffs - my laptop will stay in its bag between days when I go into the office, or until I log back in from home. I can respond to messages from my phone, but I hate looking at slides, or excel, so if it requires that, its going to wait until I am at a computer. If I was wfh that day, I will just go into my office for 10 minutes, look at something, and respond.
thus the reason I rent a desk at a coworking space. Far easier to leave work “at work” when there’s a commute involved. Granted, I don’t go over there every day. Sometimes I work from home all day, or just to start or end the day, if I have a specific appointment I have to be here. All in all I find that $200 a month is money well-spent to have my nights and weekends mentally free.
My mind will drift over to work related things regardless of having a computer to turn off, or having my phone nearby, at least when there are hot topics or issues that are burning. Things, like how to manage the team and organize their efforts better - I’ll think about them while driving, or taking a walk. TBH, I don’t spreadsheet much anymore, or even powerpoint all that often, at least not at the rate that those things would tie me to a computer for a while.
I’m moving in this direction mentally, but we’re still too small for me to non-spreadsheet. And to be fair, the spreadsheets would probably be better if I weren’t in them.
Saw this one this weekend, not sure if it has been posted anywhere here yet. Guy was working 2 remote jobs simultaneously for a big firm and small firm in the same industry. Then the big one buys the small one.
But his name was in the Slack chats for both companies. Pretty amazing when people from one company get in the other companies Slack chats on projects and see this guy’s name even if the avatar is different.
I have had two people in my company with the exact same name before. Its rare, but not unheard of.
I still think he’s basically toast once HR gets around to integrating the two companies payrolls. Would be impossible to explain away the exact same ssn and dob.
It’s always fun when the same name thing happens and there is an enormous seniorty gap, and suddenly you have an entry level person getting emails meant for one of the executives. Even better when many other executives are copied, and suddenly that person is trapped in all the back and forth responses, or being asked their opinion.
The other fun thing is when an actuary interviews at a company where an actuary with the same name is employed. The powers that be will most likely set up an interview session that brings them together just for the LOLs. (Been there, done that, on both sides of the table.)
there are I think three people across my extended family that have/had the same name as my spouse.
its a common first name, and of course they have the same last name. one of those is my mother lol.
Based on what I read when this broke, his 2nd job seemed unlikely to be a problem until that company was bought. He was actually interacting between both companies though. That may be harder to deal with.
I saw that reddit post a few days ago. Overemployment is unethical at best and potentially criminal in some cases, so I feel zero sympathy for the guy.
When I was in the profession less than a year, I got a call from a headhunter and was surprised to learn what role they suggested; it was intended for someone with the same first and last name. 20 years later we were in different branches of the same company which caused only an occasional mix-up.
I am pretty agnostic on the whole OE issue. As long as its two companies that do not compete directly, I don’t see the problem if performance is good. We tend to give way too much employment power to companies anyways (worse in the US vs UK I would assume).
I wouldn’t dream of doing it because I have little doubt I would burn out completely doing 2+ jobs.