Re: US Professional issues

["Christian, Cathy" <Cathy -dot- Christian -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM>]

At Boeing they are allowing direct employees to work from home - the program
is called Virtual Office - but not contractors.
      Cathy
Cathy Christian
Technical Writer
425-237-6205      6C-FC
Seattle, WA
mailto:cathy -dot- christian -at- boeing -dot- com
You don't need to fear the darkness; all you do is light a candle.

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> From:         Elna Tymes[SMTP:etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM]
> Reply To:     etymes -at- lts -dot- com
> Sent:         Thursday, October 15, 1998 1:37 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: US Professional issues
>
> Amy
>
> > I wonder if once you have done the telecommute thing it would be
> > easier to get a telecommuting job? (Kind of a twist on the Catch
> > 22...) Do you become more trustworthy after proving that you can do
> > the job without someone standing over you all the time?
>
> Would that this were the case!  Every telecommuting job I've nailed has
> had a
> 'prove it to me' period.  It's like nobody trusts the experience of any
> other
> company.
>
> Well, that's not quite the case.  Some places, like Sun, know how to
> recognize
> a seasoned pro and are willing to let that kind of contractor work
> off-site
> when circumstances allow. Oracles lets it happen sometimes too.  But a lot
> of
> other companies are really dubious about letting contractors work
> remotely.
>
> Elna Tymes
> Los Trancos Systems
>
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