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[missizzy]

Tuesday my teleworking experience started with my laptop refusing to connect, leading to a mad dash back the Pentagon to try to get things set up properly on it before the conference center closed down at noon. Even after I got back home, the laptop was still struggling to connect to our remote drives or do anything in Microsoft Excel. Basically I have been working around various malfunctions ever since, though things have very slowly been improving.
At least I can now listen to music while I work. I haven't really listening to current music in months, so I heard a lot of hits for the first time this week. Unfortunately, I'm already getting annoyed at several of them. I really like the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" though.
I'm now through much of The Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, and my affections for the author and his wife are greatly increased after last night, even if he went and torpedoed one of the plot bunnies that have been forming in my head. I'll write the other one once I finish reading.

Comments

[senmut]

I think a lot of companies are going to have to revisit the work at home protocols, try to figure out how to handle this in the future, as I hear the same from those I speak to. Even our company, with so many of us NORMALLY at home, was struggling to handle the extra weight. And I don't think we've ramped everyone on yet that is supposed to be.

But, probably, once the crisis is past, they'll blow off the lessons learned.

[missizzy]

I know I wasn't the only one having troubles. But this will probably mostly make us not want to telework again.

[dewline]

That cannot have been fun at all.

[missizzy]

It wasn't.

[beradan]

I'm counting it as a small work-from-home victory that although we have had some technical difficulties getting stuff set up, none of us are students who now have to watch Professor "I can't rotate this PDF so I'll stand here and turn my entire head sideways to read it to you" J. Doe try to teach classes online.

[missizzy]

It is nice to escape that, I suppose.