Working from home and Internet goes out for an entire 5 minutes at 9:00am: Oh well, better luck getting things done tomorrow then. Goes back to sleep for the day
Even better if you work remotely and their network goes down. Because yours works just fine and you can just browse Lemmy while they fix it.
Damn I wouldn’t even dare using office WiFi for personal stuff. Would be fine but maybe I am just paranoid.
I wouldn’t do it. Not worth the risk.
As someone who works in the edge networking side of things you are not being paranoid. Logging all web activity is extremely common. Some industries require it even if the powers that be in the company don’t want it, and it might surprise you on which verticals require it (education providers are a good example).
Those are the only remote work days when I can break out Steam or Netflix during business hours.
Unless you work in a data center.
When I was in the office absolutely, now at home if my power and internet are out I can’t even watch tv.
I always have a book on my desk. Gotta be prepared
Or just sit and relax. I feel like people have lost this during my lifetime. Ive never lost the ability to just take a deep breath, lean back, and enjoy some quiet. I mean, if I was WANTING to watch a movie or something, there would be disappointment, but if the reason I can’t is beyond my control, it’s a waste of time to dwell on it and be upset. Right?
Gotta maximize your downtime. It’s in too short a supply as it is
There was a time where the company I worked at got hacked and the company VPN was down. It was a glorious 3 days of free PTO and probably the only time I was thankful for being salaried.
I do a lot with org-wide data, so yeah. Fucking pisses me off.
I won’t go into details, but me, a colleague, a mobile hotspot, and a friend kayaking 4L of wine in through flood waters to the balcony we were stuck on. Saved some lives getting medical records out to hospitals and got pay to just under 20K people, all be it a couple days late. Hey, we were knackered and the wine came on day 3 once we were done.
Redundancies for when power and internet issues occur, kids. Saves lives. Got my own shit going on during natural disasters. Don’t really deal like botching infrastructure because HQ is under and no one planned for it.
Me, who works for an ISP repair department having to explain to a panicking customer, in a nice way, that they are not special because they work from home and the technician that isn’t available until tomorrow is what they’re going to have to deal with until such a time as technicians drive fucking ambulances and their shitty job that will apparently fire them at the drop of a hat has no tolerance for technical issues pulls the stick out of their ass. Or maybe demand the boss pay for a dedicated business line for working from home if they are so worried about it.
I theorize a good percentage of the truly panicked “I WORK FROM HOME, I WILL LOSE MY JOB” people regularly unplug their modems when they want an extra break and now that it’s actually broken, they’re at the limit of what the boss will put up with.
Inaccurate. They’re actually spending their time complaining to IT about how their totally non-critical work is business critical and they can’t do it, while IT are trying to restore actually critical services first
The trouble is that my workload doesn’t decrease with an amount equivalent to the outage time. I still have the same tasks to accomplish, so if the network is down for half a day, it just means I have half a day less to get my work done and meet my deadlines.
Yeah basically this. It’s not half a day off, it’s a half a day work that needs to be done later anyways
Working in a hospital; power and/or network outages usually just translate into more work for me
Oh god where do have hospitals regular power outages?
Cape Town, South Africa.
Power outage hell yeah.
Internet issues hell no.
Our credit card systems run on internet and customers get real pissy when they have to use cash
