Office closed?
It was the phrasing that stuck me a bit. If I was doing some work at home, at the weekend, I wouldn't say I'm "working from home". I'd just say "I'm doing some work". If your normal days are Monday to Friday, you can only "work from home" on those days. As decreed by me.
I can go into the office any day I like. I did today, albeit to use the gym.
Really sorry Jim. I'll try to do better.
No worries. Did you get it all done?
Yeah, most people can. But if your mate called for some beers this afternoon, would you say "Sorry, no can do, I'm working from home today".
I didn't go to the office today. Because I opted to work from home.
Even though it's a Saturday.
I'm working from home tomorrow, a Sunday. I'm used to it, having been a teacher, but now it's because I'm taking two weeks holiday next week to visit wife's family in Thailand and new job holiday entitlement isn't enough, so I'll log on, get a few things done and call it a full day's work instead of taking unpaid leave.
You aren't working from home tomorrow. You're doing some work at home.
No, I'm clocking in on my flexitime, doing the jobs I'd normally do Monday to Friday, on the same computer, on the same database, for the same customers. Working from home as I do now Monday to Friday.
Tomorrow I shall be logging into a computer in Düsseldorf, to use it as a control node to run a data extraction job, on a third remote computer elsewhere. I might do this from home, or from a mobile data connection. I will use the intermediary data centre computer in Düsseldorf to take advantage of it's superior bandwidth and stability. I am unsure whether I will therefore be working, from home, mobile, or in Düsseldorf, or whether running a few commands and waiting a bit counts as working at all.
Depends. Are you being paid for it, and would you rather be doing something else instead? If the answer to both is yes then it's work.
The answer to both can be no, and it still be work. And that doesn't help with where it is that I've gone to for it.
Woke up and remembered that I had some meat in my bag. Not a euphemism. Put it in the fridge. Not my bag or a euphemism. Went back to bed.
I too clocked in yesterday, while working from home, on a Saturday, and as such that will afford my rocking up a bit later / sloping off earlier in the week. That said I already have sufficient hours in the bank to facilitate such self governance of timekeeping within the prescribed core hours.
I'm not sure how the above sits with Jim's business policies or insistance on the strict adherence to the use of correct work (and possibly otherwise) parlance and phraseology relative to a given situation, but there we are.
I'm working tonight with the Grand Prix on. Is this working from home or working at home or both? Either way should I contact the union?
