I work remote to another country where everyone else is. -- Doesn't make sense for everyone else to be remote, considering they are all in an office. I am the

I work remote to another country where everyone else is. -- Doesn't make sense for everyone else to be remote, considering they are all in an office. I am the only one far away. It does make things more challenging for me not being in the room, but it's hard to mitigate that. -- I am very high on the virtual coffee/tea, but my colleagues seems significantly less so. I think in part that is because they are German, although I do not make broad generalizations lightly. Americans, and British are far easier to have a casual chat with. -- It's a nightmare trying to make 5am and 6am meetings all the time. I just can't do it, and it's becoming an issue. If I wake up just before the meeting, I'm an idiot, and look terribly. If I wake up an hour beforehand to become awake enough to talk, I upset my family. If I miss it, they get very concerned about what I'm doing with my time. Tonight I am staying up and working from midnight to 2-3 am just so that they feel my presence. -- We don't do video calls, but same is true for normal calls. -- It's not really difficult to talk on slack, but they aren't around when I am, so there's nothing to say. I love my colleagues, love my work, and really enjoy what we're doing, but certainly there are issues from a large timezone difference that are very difficult to overcome.