Does Telecommuting Make You Invisible? 275
jfruhlinger writes "Telecommuting provides many joys, including the ability to stay in your pajamas all day and the chance to work with a cat on your lap. But it does have some major drawbacks, perhaps none so serious as the fact that, if your co-workers are for the most part in an office, they can forget you exist — which means you don't get credit for your work as you deserve."
I don't care. (Score:4, Funny)
As someone who just made several hundred dollars while lounging around in key west, I can safely say that the trade off is well worth it.
Multiply your invisibility... (Score:5, Funny)
But it will average out. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Visibility is an issue for all (Score:4, Funny)
Is that a cat on your lap? (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps somebody who works from home used a euphemism you aren't familiar with?
Many people dream of working from home; but I don't know anybody who dreams of working in an office. I wonder why.
Re:I think we've been over this before (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I telecommute but you can avoid this issue (Score:5, Funny)
I also send at least one week each email to all the people
I bet you also swear to drunk you're not god :-P
In the office too (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I telecommute but you can avoid this issue (Score:4, Funny)
I bet you also swear to drunk you're not god :-P
I resemble that remark!
Re:Visibility is an issue for all (Score:5, Funny)
The candy jar is a time honored dispute avoidance technique. I'm surprised more people don't utilize it.
Bonus points if you bring in the really good stuff. Fucking 50 DKP Minus if you bring in the 5 cent shit-tier suckers that nobody likes.
Re:Telecommuting sucks the infinite Wang (Score:5, Funny)
This has to be reverse psychology.
Re:There is probably truth to that. (Score:5, Funny)
You would be shocked at how far just a little charm will take you, especially in the eyes of non-technical people who can't call you on your BS.
I was shocked the first couple times I tried it, but now it's pretty routine.
Re:I think we've been over this before (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And that is an advantage... (Score:4, Funny)
I'll give you one better.
I worked for a small (>200 person)l print shop in the midwest. We were bought up by one of the regionals as a 'future projects' plant. A year later the parent company merged and then right after that the merged company merged with another huge company. There were layoffs and plant-and-office closing all around us but we were untouched. Ten years and a half-dozen buyouts later they passed around a sheet at the plant. We were supposed to fill in our name and position. I wrote down IT. That day I got a call from a very worried regional IT manager. Seems I was supposed to report to him for the last five years, but he had never heard of my plant. Long story short, I was suddenly promoted three levels with a nice, fat raise and given the keys to every sales office and plant in the state. Over lunch that fall I was told that my invisibility had saved me from a round of savage layoffs but it had also prevented me from getting about $20,000 in extra pay.
Re:There is probably truth to that. (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if its possible to become so invisible that you really do get forgotten about -- the guy who exists on the payroll DB, gets a paycheck, but doesn't exist otherwise.
Then they take your stapler, move you to the basement, and fix the glitch.