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I partially agree. I think there are times where problems are solved face to face.
but I do my best work from home as well. -
I don't think there's anything that can happen face to face that can't happen via video chat.
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@koopakid93 can't be? sure, but that's like saying "All problems can be solved in assembly" - they can. but there are often simpler ways.
being social isn't a bad thing 😜 -
In my particular circumstance there was little to no face to face interaction anyway so that wasn't even a factor which made what he said even more ridiculous. "Face to face interaction" real means in this context "I just want to watch you to make sure you look like your working"
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figus1058yI actually like to go to the office... see other people... and just find a reason to go for beers and spicy wings after work... if I'm in my home, I'm too lazy to go outside... even for a beer...
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@koopakid93 well then that's just BS.
I'm all for a team environment if it's set up to be that way... but if it's just an excuse to monitor people..then fuck that. -
@figus so do i, I'm friends with the other devs though. we do lunch almost every day.
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@mattwebdev I love being social, my role with this company just didn't happen to require it. If it did I would have been happy to come into the office.
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At this company it was just me and 3 other devs. All of which were at least 20 years older than me, which I didn't mind but they seemed to resent that I had gotten the position in the first place. The one guy I liked left and moved across the country. I ended up leaving. They weren't terrible people it just wasn't a good work environment for me.
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@koopakid93 sounds like the job I had before my current gig. situations like that suck
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figus1058y@mattwebdev exactly, just like that 😄, our 30 minutes lunch usually extended to 60 or 90 minutes because we were having a good time 🙂, or sometimes just because we liked seeing how our manager got angry because we took so much time 😛
I've only worked once from home... I didn't enjoy it... I was alone all the time (I was working in China and I don't speak chinese 😆) -
akarsh08yi totally agree with the statement of face to face conversation rather than via video chat because there are certain situation where we have to link with the members emotionally,
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Maybe you can come in once or twice a week. This will also help when hiring new people as a perk. It would in my case.
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My last boss insinuated that he was going out on a limb to trust me when I needed to work from home for a week. My wife was in the hospital. That guy was a dick, so glad I moved on.
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@Jumpshot44 I presented that as an option as well, it was a no go. They were very unreasonable.
Seriously, why are so many companies caught up with if there developers working from home or not? Maybe it's where I'm at, but my last boss said ...
" I know you don't have any problem making deadlines and your a good worker, but you still need to come to the office in order to have face to face interaction."
Me: "This is the first face to face conversation I've had with someone in over a week."
Boss: (shrugs)"our goal is to build an office friendly environment where people will enjoy coming into the office"
Me: in my head "your an idiot"... Out loud "Ok"
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In reality my custom built machine is better than yours, and I'm more productive in my Sealy Posturpedic chair and pajamas than your wack office chair with you popping your head out of your office every couple hours to "manage" me when you haven't written code in years and i have to teach you things that you bring to your boss to make yourself look smart.
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