The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
I was looking for a particular entry in my work calendar today when I came across a meeting item simply called ‘onions’. There is no other information associated with it. I must have created it. It’s in my private, personal, work calendar. For the life of me, I have no idea whatsoever what it refers to.
With all the meetings I’m in remotely these days, I take a lot of handwritten notes and I go over them a posteriori to make sense of everything I capture.
Except in cases like this, where even I couldn’t make sense of my own chicken scratchings.
Incredibly, Katy is fluent in gibberish and deciphered enough of it so that I could remember that I wrote “send positive aspects of tool”.
Is there anything more soothing than watching Pavel groom his toe beans?
Reenie is now my official meeting proxy. I’ve let the team know to expect her. Good thing though that Skype doesn’t feature smell-o-vision.
Last bit of wisdom:
Roko wanted all of us in the group to send him pictures of our home office setup. It’s going to be shown in the sprint review tomorrow. This is my contribution. At least I shaved yesterday :)
One of the big issues of working from home is discipline and motivation.
This does not help.
Neither does this, when you come back from the bathroom.
But at least the telecommuting memes are amusing:
Given that I’ll be working from home for the foreseeable future, we rearranged some furniture to put the desk in the bedroom – out of the common living space – to allow me to teleconference in (relative) peace.
It also means that my kanban board is at work, so I’ve rebuilt it with what I had at hand. Yes, I could use a cloud solution but I’ve found that post-its on a board work best for me…
“As of Wednesday, 11 March all employees working at [site] and [site] will be divided into two groups. The groups will work in alternation one week from home, and one week on site. This measure is put in place until further notice. The groups have been defined by your leadership team and for simplicity there is “a Blue and a Green group”. By Tuesday, 10 March, we ask you to put the respective color sticker on your badge in order to be allowed to enter the building.”
So this happened.
All of our computer lock screen backgrounds have been replaced, from random pastoral landscape scenes, to this.
But don’t panic.
On conference call audio:
On inefficient bureaucracy:
