Because I care about what my coworkers think of me?

Because I don't think its fair to take more time than anyone else will take?

Because as a remote employee you have to work extra hard to build meaningful relationships with coworkers?

That's just off the top of my head.

Meh. If you can't talk to your managers about this stuff you have bigger problems than work-life balance

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does anyone have any good advanced python materials? I use it almost every day but I'm all self-taught and I think I could stand to improve in style and use the OOP features more regularly. there are also so any ways to accomplish a task in python and I think I often choose the longest way with too many loops and lines of code.

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Have you worked at an unlimited vacation company?

If so, how much time did you take off?

First, it is my job to be fair. Its the onus put on you when a company goes to an 'unlimited vacation' policy. I mean that's part of the whole rationale - that individuals are responsible and care about their coworkers and career and won't abuse the system.

Second, I don't know what's confusing about my last statement. My job is easier and more enjoyable when I have mutual respect and likability with my coworkers. That involves caring what they think of me and working hard at building relationships with them.

Brings up another good point, imo at least.

Someone should do a thread about working remotely. Seems like a really interesting subject that people curious about could ask many questions.

I know I'd love to get to the point where I don't have to put on pants for any extended amount of time.

I've done it off and on for years. Ask away.

So I'm pretty happy with my homework assignment except I'm wondering if I should keep tweaking for performance. Basically I have a grid of content to move around in - triggered by arrow keys (not mouse). I am keeping track of the currently selected item, but the way I am finding the next adjacent item to move to is something like this this:

selectedItem is a jQuery object. Basically if the item is there, change the select to it, else fire an event saying we have hit the edge of the container (last item on the row).

I just wonder if they're going to think the constant jQuery lookups for next() )or parent().next() in the case of moving up and down) are too heavy to find out if we can move. The other solution would be to read all the elements into an array on init, then traverse the array. But codewise that's going to be a lot messier.

Obviously it's snappy as hell in chrome (which is the only requirement for the assignment) - but might not be on crappier devices. I don't have a ton of experience with jQuery so I don't know if this is one of those performance no-nos.

Yea my last company was unlimited and I don't think I took a day.

You should speak to your manager tho and try to work something out. I think 1 month with the 2nd two weeks checking email and getting some stuff done would seem like a good compromise.

I am talking with my manager but its a bit more complicated than I made it out to be.

I'd opt for the cleaner solution you already have, but try to find a way to share your thought process on the matter. It sounds like something an interviewer would love to hear.

How does one finagle their way into a remote position? What is a good amount of time to be a dev before seeking such a position?

Did you work most for companies that had small teams you contributed to or were you part of a larger team? How did interactions tend to happen and did you feel those interactions were better, worse, or neutral compared to working on-site?

What was your overall impression of working remotely? Loved it? Hated it? Didn't care either way?

It was pretty sweet but can get old. Work/life tends to get blurred together. My one big regret is when I was working at home full time for a healthcare company, and had very little to do - I quit because I was bored and knew I wasn't learning anything. Discovered online poker a few months later. I could have gotten paid a nice salary to learn online poker in 2005/2006.

I went remote when I decided I wanted to move back to Canada from the US. I told my manager I was moving either way but would be happy to work remotely if that was ok with them. If it wasn't I was just going to quit. They were fine with it so there we were.

Since then I've changed companies twice. Both times it was to a company with people I had worked with in person before and they knew me and knew moving back to the US was a non-starter with me.

Mostly I've been part of small teams (or just a very small company). I've definitely found being remote makes it very tough to have big picture input with anything but the smallest of companies.

In all cases I've done it with at least one video meeting with the team a day (scrum) and with chat software that the whole company uses.

Interactions are trickier. Given things are over email/chat more you have to be careful how you come across. You also have fewer non-work interactions which means if you're dealing with someone only in situations where things are tense it becomes easy for those interactions to define your relationship.

It's been about 5 years now and overall it's good sometimes and ****ty other. I've always said the perfect situation for me would be 50/50 remote and in-office.

I forgot to mention one of the things I like the best. When you work remote you can work anywhere there's good internet. It means sometimes I can go on vacations or small trips without taking time off.

For example if my wife goes to a conference somewhere I can go too and take advantage of a free hotel and get a mini trip without needing to take the whole time off as vacation.

Ermagherd! Different experiences in different companies! Yes, I work in an unlimited vacation company and it hasn't changed my approach to asking for vacation. What changed my approach to asking for vacation was getting burned out working too many hours including most days I took off. If you aren't comfortable asking for time off because of your companies culture change the culture. Feeling pressure to take two weeks off for the birth of your child instead of 4 sounds like a great way to start the conversation at a department meeting. People at work care if you aren't doing your job, they don't care how much time you take off until it impacts the first point.

I don't know about you, but me not being at work has an impact on me getting my job done and in the work my coworkers have to do.

Anyway, I think we've probably made our points to each other at this point.

@ working at home - that has never appealed to me. I find it much easier to focus and get work done when work & home are segregated. My current job allows working remotely, but I just prefer the office.

I think full time working from home is different than occasional working from home. I was never very productive when I did it occasionally because I doesn't have to be.

Once you get set up and get into the right mindset to can be uber productive because there are fewer distractions and its easier to work at your own rhythm.

Yea I've heard productivity does increase from home but a lot of people come back to the office bc they miss human interaction

What was the transition like?

Also, how would you compare duties on a daily basis working from home vs in the office? I see jj already touched on that a bit with daily video conference scrums and such.

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