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Reasons to work from home
- scotty79 11y agoIs there a similar generator for excuses to call remote worker to office?
- WormyMcSquirmy 11y agoIt's just a website that says: "There's a production incident, we need you to come in."
- tudborg 11y agoaka: Please spend an hour in transport so you can spend 10 minutes fixing the issue while we breath down your neck and constantly ask stupid questions that won't help us solve anything.
- philbarr 11y ago"Everything has gone to hell and we're panicking and need to feel like we're doing something so we're calling all of our remote workers in and wasting lots of time in the process." That's the usual reason for me having to go to the office.
- Agathos 11y ago"Your deployment notes were kind of long, so we didn't read them."
- crandles 11y ago"There's an all day meeting we need you in for. It's not relevant to you, and we expect you to work on other things while you are in, but we feel like its beneficial for you to be here."
- jpindar 11y ago"Using words to describe the problem I had would be too much trouble, it would be easier for you to drive an hour to get here so maybe you can see it if it happens again."
- detaro 11y agoMatching Show HN from less than 12 h ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559
- patatino 11y agoSick, seriously? If I would call my boss and tell him I'm working from home because I'm sick he would say no you don't.
- jacalata 11y agoYour boss is stupid. Does he want you to come in and cough your filthy germs into the rest of the office, or to take the day off entirely? There are plenty of states of "sick" where I'm not going to the office (contagious, constant need for the bathroom, headache exacerbated by fluorescent lights) but could get most or even all of a regular days work done at home.
- lucasnemeth 11y agoThere are legislations about sick leave in a lot of countries.
- jacalata 11y agoI don't believe that any country has laws against "allowing employees to work from home on request" so I don't see how that's relevant.
- AgentIcarus 11y agoI think patatino's point was that his boss would say "You're not working" not "You're not taking time off to be sick"
- hav 11y agoI think the point is that if you're going to be sick, you should be sick and not shouldn't work at all. Not that you have to come to the office and work rather than work from home.
- binocarlos 11y agoI think they might have meant "don't work - just rest and get better"
- ZenoArrow 11y agoTo whomever created this: You should offer a button to skip to the next excuse without rating it. I'm interested to see other suggestions, but I don't want to alter the rating.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoI didn't realise there was rating going on at all at first - the number is quite subtle. I assumed "won't fly" was required to give me another excuse (I hadn't thought as far as what "hell yeah" would actually do in that case).
- christinang89 11y agothats a great suggestion :)
- tempodox 11y agoThe best challenge will be filtering out duplicate excuses without requiring literal equality...
- kmonad 11y agoDentist appointment, Doctor appointment, Repair guy, I'm more productive -- [repeat] Sorry, but this won't fly.
- ceronman 11y agoI need to concentrate and can get work done without the distractions I'm surprised that this one has so many down votes. I use it frequently and for me is one of the best reasons for WFH.
- Kiro 11y agoI think it's broken and shows that one for everyone in a repeating loop resulting in people furiously downvoting it. That's what's happening for me at least.
- pc86 11y agoWe have a pretty liberal WFH policy (well, as liberal as it can be when the expectation is that you come in unless you have a "good" reason). The reason I said this wouldn't fly is that it's very much like a "because I want to" type of answer. It's almost certainly true, but it's not that much better than me telling my boss that I want to WFH so I don't have to answer my desk phone. I will get more things of value done, but it's also my job to answer the phone when it rings.
- chrismarlow9 11y agoBut it's a phone, so forward the number and take it on your phone, or switch it to a mobile line. Yes this is very much a "because I want to" answer, but I think looking for reasons to work from home is the wrong way to think of this issue. We shouldn't have to and it should be the default, because I (and I'm sure many others) can't think of a single reason I need to be in the office to get my job done and still be in contact. I think the 8-12 hour workday is societal conditioning that's going to take a very long time to break.
- DiThi 11y agoThe post links to that exact quote, so everybody clicks "this won't fly" to get another quote. OP should have removed "?quoteId=132" from the URL or the author should have used a system for not changing the URL (e.g. POST, reloading or AJAX).
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- erikb 11y agoIs it supposed to generate a new one if I click one of the buttons?
- donkeyd 11y ago"502 Bad Gateway", the perfect excuse!
- ergest 11y agoWasn't working on my iPad, jumped on the laptop now it's toast. It got Hackernews-ed/Slashdot-ed before it had a chance to scale.
- jsjohnst 11y agoI mean no offense to the author of this, but isn't this type of thing one of the easiest to scale? There's quotes (easy to cache), voting (also very easy to cache), what else? I didn't see the original, so wondering what was there now that made it difficult to scale.
- christinang89 11y agosorry about that! was not expecting the server to blow up when we went to bed and it was running off a very small instance since it was a fun little project. no excuses though! we fixed it and it's running now :)
- higherpurpose 11y agoI only see "502 Bad Gateway" - What were the other excuses?
- feld 11y agoReminds me of the BOFH excuse generator http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl
- wyc 11y agoWould love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)
- ilaksh 11y agoCommuting actually is a huge waste of energy and time now that we have the internet and stuff.
- madcaptenor 11y agoAround my office we use "It's Thursday." At some point my boss started working from home on Thursdays and we pretty much all followed. Although now sometimes I come in on Thursdays precisely because it's quiet.
- dennisgorelik 11y agoWhy come to the office if there is no one there? How is it better than just working from home?
- omouse 11y agoThe rating system is interesting; it looks like the ratings reflect which excuses are more believable regardless of if they're true or not. Friends visiting? Too bad, come to work. Family visiting? Stay home, work and take breaks whenever you need to! My manager is out this week? Too bad, there's other managers and executives here to supervise you and crack the whip if you need it. I have to pay my rent? Too bad, but you need to work to make that rent money. However if your pipes are messed up and you need to wait for the plumber then it's okay to work from home. What's more interesting is that the reasons to work from home are isolated from productivity.
- vessenes 11y agoThis just totally bums me out. It's funny and snarky, but truthfully, it's the opposite of how I want to work and want people around me to work. We have only one goal: finding an optimal work situation that lets us execute like we want. If you need a day off, take a day off. If you need to work from home, and it doesn't hurt the team, work from home. If you need excuses to not come in, you are in the wrong job, and that's a total bummer, because you could be doing something you enjoy that has an impact you care about.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoI've been working at home, with other people remotely for 15 years precisely because that's what I wanted to do. Sure, I go on the occasional trip, quarterly meeting or interview with a new client but most of the time, I work the way that I want to and make a good living. Not doing what you really want to in life is a recipe for frustration.
- eyalk100 11y agodidn't have the energy to go through the whole thing
- err4nt 11y agoMost of these seem like excuses to take a personal/sick day, not value added by working remotely. Also, the number of times 'locked in my own bathroom' and 'locked inside my own house' come up is startling! Whats life like for those people :S
- christinang89 11y agohi guys, i created this together with @bencxr. thanks for the support! sorry about the server issues, was not expecting it to blow up when i went to bed :p no excuses though, its fixed now! happy monday!
- BillinghamJ 11y agoFYI, it's a little confusing initially what you're meant to do with this. I clicked one of the buttons repeatedly without realising I was essentially voting.
- codezero 11y agohttp://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=2 http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=2 I suppose this is downvoted because it doesn't apply to most people but the quoteId (I assume is sequential) indicates that this person understands my suffering.
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9952559