Back again (yes, it's a pun!)
Back in the office after a week off with a bad back.
It’s one of those odd things – last week when I could barely move and was largely restricted to the upstairs part of the house, spending most of my time in the study either playing Warcrack, or stretching out on the spare bed – I began to get stir crazy and by Thursday afternoon, when I managed to log in to the office servers for a couple of hours, I was ready for work again. On Friday, my back was still too squeaky to risk going too far, so I worked from home. I possibly didn’t achieve as much as I might have done in the office, but I got something done. But today I’m back in the office, melting because it’s too warm (and also, I’ve been nowhere for a week, and there’s just enough ache left to make walking any distance awkward, so it is more tiring than it ought to be) and I wish I wasn’t.
Just one of those things, really, I guess. Short of a massive and unexpected win on the lottery, this is the way it is.
Anyway. Enough of the grumbling.
I have to admit that I am, despite myself, impressed with the office IT despite its many teething troubles. I now have a ‘dongle’ to allow me to work from home and was a little worried that having an iMac, it might not be compatible with the office systems. Well, what can I say? After a little initial difficulty with the setup (quickly resolved by an uncharacteristically helpful IT helpdesk), I logged on and it worked perfectly. Iyt doesn’t matter that I have a an iMac – the MS Office etc that I use at work are all processed on the servers and my personal computer simply becomes a remote terminal. Once it’s up and running, other than having a much bigger screen and a Mac keyboard, it is pretty much the same as working in the office but without tiresome meetings or phone calls.
I couldn’t work from home every day. I like to keep office life and work life as separate as possible, but I can see myself working from home more regularly than I have been used to doing. This will be particularly useful when we move buildings in the summer – we are going to decant back to the same street address (though new building) I worked 20 years ago. The trouble is that there is even less space than we have here. As it happens we have a few spare desks in the office right now, but in the new office building we will be crammed in and although some days will be busier than others, seating will be at a premium. Apparently Tuesdays will be the worst. Maybe I can come to an arrangement where I work from home on a Tuesday..? I’d prefer a Monday or a Friday, but I can cope with another day. It would be useful to have a regular weekday at home anyway, so that I can take delivery of stuff from Amazon and such…
It’s one of those odd things – last week when I could barely move and was largely restricted to the upstairs part of the house, spending most of my time in the study either playing Warcrack, or stretching out on the spare bed – I began to get stir crazy and by Thursday afternoon, when I managed to log in to the office servers for a couple of hours, I was ready for work again. On Friday, my back was still too squeaky to risk going too far, so I worked from home. I possibly didn’t achieve as much as I might have done in the office, but I got something done. But today I’m back in the office, melting because it’s too warm (and also, I’ve been nowhere for a week, and there’s just enough ache left to make walking any distance awkward, so it is more tiring than it ought to be) and I wish I wasn’t.
Just one of those things, really, I guess. Short of a massive and unexpected win on the lottery, this is the way it is.
Anyway. Enough of the grumbling.
I have to admit that I am, despite myself, impressed with the office IT despite its many teething troubles. I now have a ‘dongle’ to allow me to work from home and was a little worried that having an iMac, it might not be compatible with the office systems. Well, what can I say? After a little initial difficulty with the setup (quickly resolved by an uncharacteristically helpful IT helpdesk), I logged on and it worked perfectly. Iyt doesn’t matter that I have a an iMac – the MS Office etc that I use at work are all processed on the servers and my personal computer simply becomes a remote terminal. Once it’s up and running, other than having a much bigger screen and a Mac keyboard, it is pretty much the same as working in the office but without tiresome meetings or phone calls.
I couldn’t work from home every day. I like to keep office life and work life as separate as possible, but I can see myself working from home more regularly than I have been used to doing. This will be particularly useful when we move buildings in the summer – we are going to decant back to the same street address (though new building) I worked 20 years ago. The trouble is that there is even less space than we have here. As it happens we have a few spare desks in the office right now, but in the new office building we will be crammed in and although some days will be busier than others, seating will be at a premium. Apparently Tuesdays will be the worst. Maybe I can come to an arrangement where I work from home on a Tuesday..? I’d prefer a Monday or a Friday, but I can cope with another day. It would be useful to have a regular weekday at home anyway, so that I can take delivery of stuff from Amazon and such…