[Ipg-smz] The train from hell?

Tue Oct 29 21:17:51 UTC 2019

Yeah, especially when you run into someone who is downright depraved but
enjoys considerable power which has nothing to do with their skills or even
motivation. For them, work provides a cover for their unsavory and dark
behavior.

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:10 PM Mac McCarthy via Ipg-smz <
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> I think wee can all think of people we'd love to have telecommuting,
> rather than in the office with us!
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:28 PM Alan Zeichick via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
>> Full-time telecommuting works great for people like me — people who are
>> quite senior, know what they are doing, aren’t looking for mentoring/on the
>> job training, know how to manage people both up and down the org remotely,
>> and who are assertive enough to make themselves known outside their
>> specific working group.
>>
>> Telecommuting, by contrast, often leaves behind junior employees,
>> especially those who are looking to grow in their careers. They simply
>> aren’t known, and don’t get to sit in formal/informal meetings where they
>> can learn and gain visibility.
>>
>> I’ve seen that often at companies as diverse as IDG, Miller Freeman, my
>> own BZ Media, and now at Oracle — people in the office get asked to join
>> new project teams, get grabbed for informal brainstorming meetings, gain
>> visibility and skills, impress people. They then get promotions within
>> their own department, and elsewhere in the org.
>>
>> By contrast, telecommuting junior employees can easily be left behind,
>> unless they have a manager who is very good at remembering to loop in
>> his/her telecommuting direct reports, and other managers in the
>> organization who take the time to learn who they are and interact with with
>> them. And that is hard, especially if the manager is very busy with his/her
>> own work, has a lot of direct reports, or simply isn’t a good
>> manager/advocate for his/her workers.
>>
>> Heck, BZ Media itself wouldn’t have happened if I telecommuted. Instead,
>> I got to know the “B” because, despite working in different divisions of
>> Miller Freeman (I was in Software Development, he was in Electronics), we
>> were in the same building and got to talking. Ted asked me one day if I’d
>> like to work with him on a small project. That led to a bigger project, and
>> then a bigger project, and then we had created a whole new group. Then we
>> left Miller Freeman and started BZ Media. If I was a telecommuting chief
>> editor, we’d likely never have even met.
>>
>> -A
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Kishore Jethanandani via Ipg-smz <
>> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>      Companies are so wedded to on-site work ostensibly because it aids
>> collaboration. Oh my, there is more politics than collaboration. At a
>> recent Singularity University Summit, one speaker reported statistics from
>> a survey which found that, when workers are asked anonymously,
>> ninety-percent said they would prefer to work alone. The conclusion was
>> that we need more co-ordination, not collaboration.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Kishore
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>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:02 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <
>> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
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>>> I can understand the freakout.
>>>
>>> I'm still fully for shared transportation models, especially trains.
>>>
>>> I've used them across the planet. Why they didn't open doors, I'm not
>>> sure. Seems harrowing.
>>>
>>> This happened to me once in Paris on the RER train. They didn't open the
>>> doors. We were aghast. Then the doors opened two stops later. Why? Turns
>>> out, much teargas around the station due to a local insurrection.... and
>>> the fumes were traveling down the tunnel.
>>>
>>> Ok, good enough.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/29/19 1:51 PM, David Needle via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> My wife just emailed me this from her office in Palo Alto:
>>>
>>>
>>> very quiet here -- Caltrain horror stories from the SF commuters -- the
>>> train doors wouldn't open when they stopped in Palo Alto! same thing in
>>> Mountain View!  people were freaking out. Finally got off the train in
>>> Santa Clara or something and took an uber to work -- $45 and 2.5 hours...
>>>
>>>
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