Working from home and Internet goes out for an entire 5 minutes at 9:00am: Oh well, better luck getting things done tomorrow then. Goes back to sleep for the day
Just get a salaried job, where you can still get paid while not working, in exchange for working 70 hour weeks (30 hours for free) when an impossible deadline is set.
Eh, I’m salaried, so there are opposite days, where I’m working well past 9pm on a weekday. There are also days where I have to work regardless of my home’s power/Internet status. If I lose those on one of those days, my office is going mobile for the day, yay!
EDIT: I’ll also add that I one of the lucky few that has a boss that measures my performance in productivity instead of hours behind a desk. It’s a beautiful thing to experience.
The trouble is that my workload doesn’t decrease with an amount equivalent to the outage time. I still have the same tasks to accomplish, so if the network is down for half a day, it just means I have half a day less to get my work done and meet my deadlines.
As someone who works in the edge networking side of things you are not being paranoid. Logging all web activity is extremely common. Some industries require it even if the powers that be in the company don’t want it, and it might surprise you on which verticals require it (education providers are a good example).
Oh I am confident they log everything as well but I don’t know if they would do anything about some Lemmy traffic once in a while. I don’t think they can afford to check everything if its not flagged or something like that but seems too risky especially when you can just use mobile data.
Normally, there are plugs labeled for critical equipment (as in, they’re connected to the generators even if the power goes out). But yeah, everything non-essential is kinda down.
You still absolutely need to go check your equipment during a power outage, and make sure your “critical” stuff is plugged into the “generator outlets”. There’s battery power on (pretty much) all critical equipment, so you have a buffer.
I personally don’t rely on batteries being my backup, and keep my critical stuff plugged into the labeled outlets… but you still gotta check; and deal with power being out for everything else
Not “regular outages” where I’ve worked, but natural disasters and such can happen. Back-up generators run things, but ya still gotta make sure your equipment is plugged into the “generator supplied” outlets.
But now the employees don’t have AC and such. And than the networks are down, so you have to paper-chart everything and the orders get slowed up and… it’s a whole thing. Not the end of the world if you know what you’re doing, but it can be dangerous if people don’t pay attention. It just makes it a bit more stressful to do your job well
Also handy for taking regular breaks, staying occupied in meetings you don’t need to be in, waiting for your computer to run updates for IT, and giving up at 2pm but not wanting to obviously stop responding to messages!
Or just sit and relax. I feel like people have lost this during my lifetime. Ive never lost the ability to just take a deep breath, lean back, and enjoy some quiet. I mean, if I was WANTING to watch a movie or something, there would be disappointment, but if the reason I can’t is beyond my control, it’s a waste of time to dwell on it and be upset. Right?
There was a time where the company I worked at got hacked and the company VPN was down. It was a glorious 3 days of free PTO and probably the only time I was thankful for being salaried.
Me, who works for an ISP repair department having to explain to a panicking customer, in a nice way, that they are not special because they work from home and the technician that isn’t available until tomorrow is what they’re going to have to deal with until such a time as technicians drive fucking ambulances and their shitty job that will apparently fire them at the drop of a hat has no tolerance for technical issues pulls the stick out of their ass. Or maybe demand the boss pay for a dedicated business line for working from home if they are so worried about it.
I theorize a good percentage of the truly panicked “I WORK FROM HOME, I WILL LOSE MY JOB” people regularly unplug their modems when they want an extra break and now that it’s actually broken, they’re at the limit of what the boss will put up with.
I do a lot with org-wide data, so yeah. Fucking pisses me off.
I won’t go into details, but me, a colleague, a mobile hotspot, and a friend kayaking 4L of wine in through flood waters to the balcony we were stuck on. Saved some lives getting medical records out to hospitals and got pay to just under 20K people, all be it a couple days late. Hey, we were knackered and the wine came on day 3 once we were done.
Redundancies for when power and internet issues occur, kids. Saves lives. Got my own shit going on during natural disasters. Don’t really feel like botching infrastructure because HQ is under and no one planned for it.
If this happens to me, I have to keep working. Except now, I have to write all of my transactions, tailoring slips, wedding group information, EVERYTHING by hand. It’s kinda a nightmare tbh.
Inaccurate. They’re actually spending their time complaining to IT about how their totally non-critical work is business critical and they can’t do it, while IT are trying to restore actually critical services first
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