Re: WaH

["Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

Hi Arroxane,

It sounds like an uncomfortable situation that you've done everything
you could to resolve. It must be hard to be putting out great work and
not getting any recognition, or the opposite.

You didn't say what it was that made you feel like they don't think
you're doing anything. Maybe people could offer something more
concrete if they knew. (at least we can hope so :-)

Regards,

Kathleen

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:21 PM,  <arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:
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> I'm on all 3 major IM programs 24/7 and check my work email even during off-hours. I post my cell and home phone in the "working from home" email I send out.
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> They apparently have different standards for me than for themselves.
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> Arroxane
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy K. Haas <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
> To: Sean Brierley <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com>; arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Sent: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 3:11 pm
> Subject: Re: WaH
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> Being visible on IM (Yahoo! IM, AOL IM, whatever...) is one way.  When I
> worked at MacroMedia (before it was Adobified), when we worked from home
> we put up a status message of something like: "W -at- H: 408-555-1212" on our
> IM.  As long as we were active at a keyboard, our entry in the interested
> party's IM roll was shown to be active. If they needed to talk with us,
> they could phone.
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> If, while W -at- H, we had to step away from the keyboard for a spell, we could
>  change our status to show an expected time of return.
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> --Guy K. Haas
>  Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
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> On Thu, September 11, 2008 12:58 pm, Sean Brierley wrote:
>> Be in the office?
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>> Best case scenario is they are judging you by what they'd do. Not much
>> you can do about that.
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>> Probably all you can do is meet your deadlines and not miss many phone
>> calls.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Sean
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: techwr-l-bounces+sbrierley=accu-time -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
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>> Hi Whirlers,
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>> Apparently, there is
>> some question or impression of "What is she doing? Is she doing
>> anything? What's happening when she 'works from home'?" This in spite of
>> the fact that I keep a detailed time sheet (each project/acivity,
>> expected # of total hours, daily hrs spent for
>> each item, etc).
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>> How do you let
>> your coworkers know you're not sitting around twidding your thumbs?
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