12.25.20
Memoir
Meanwhile in Oklahoma – 2020 Halloween Ice Storm Cleanup
The sounds of chainsaws are buzzing in the neighborhood. A few days ago I promised some pictures. It has been a week from hell.
Our power at the house has remained on for two full days in a row. We were planning on cleanup work this weekend until our longtime yard services provider showed up. The Boss took a tour of the property with the crew leader who told us not to do anything and that they would take care of all debris, trim up the trees, and stack along the curb for city pickup. I don’t have to buy or borrow a chainsaw. That’s the good news. The bad news is I feel my checkbook getting lighter.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma – 10.28.20
Day Three. We heard from a neighbor the electricity came back online around 3:00 PM. The Boss and I spent the day in her business office working. I was impressed with her company’s new co-working office. The electricity was online, wireless internet was amazingly fast, free drinks, snacks and HOT COFFEE. We are back home now doing many things that require electricity because we’re not so sure how long the power will stay on.
It’s very messy outside and the clean up starts this weekend. I’ll be taking lots of pictures to capture what has been the worst ice storm I’ve ever experienced. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma 10.27.20
Day Two no electricity. Power restored around 6:30 PM. How’s your day going?
There’s Nothing “Radical” About This WFH Plan
This is the latest in a series of major companies having made similar announcements, including Microsoft. But Synchrony’s proposal appears to be more radical in that it:
Allows all its US employees to work from home permanently.
Requires some employees to work from home all the time with no access to an office.
Requires all employees to work from home at least some of the time.
Requires even management with “assigned seats” to work from home at least 1-2 days a week.
In a memo to employees, reported by Bloomberg today, CEO Keane and Synchrony President Brian Doubles explained that Synchrony will have three types of offices:
Virtual offices: employees will work from home permanently, and there is no office they can go to.
Hoteling offices: employees work at home permanently, but if they need to, can book a desk at a nearby office location.
Hybrid offices: employees can work from home but they have an assigned seat at a nearby office where they can work at least three days a week.
Synchrony Financial Disclosed Radical Work-from-Home Plan, Layoffs, and “Office Footprint” Reduction — https://wolfstreet.com/2020/10/20/consumer-finance-giant-synchrony-disclosed-radical-permanent-work-from-home-plan/
I have been a WFH (work from home) warrior since 2006. There is absolutely nothing radical about the plan outlined above. I’ve been patiently waiting all these years for the business world to come around to my way of thinking. To be be clear, a lot of businesses would not adopt WFH without a nasty virus driving the agenda.
Too bad I’m currently a W2 worker. If I was still consulting I would make a MINT advising companies how to do the WFH thing effectively.
And what not to do when you’re on a Zoom call.
Do You Live to Work?
It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
It is a mistake to measure an individual’s value solely in terms of what the marketplace will pay that individual. Unfortunately, it is the way our society and culture measures its people.
I choose to be measured by the value I provide to my family and friends, economic and otherwise. I choose to avoid abusive relationships, especially in the corporate world. I am reminded of the work of Paul Hwoschinsky who influenced me many years ago in his book True Wealth. Do you live to work? Or do you work to live? The answer for me has always been I work to live. It can be no other way for me. It has been no other way for me.
Over the years I’ve posed this simple question to my offspring and to others struggling with the concept of balance in their lives. The offspring have learned the lesson and learned it well. But there are many others with whom I’ve crossed paths that unfortunately never learn nor understand what is truly important.
Do you live to work? Or do you work to live? Think deeply. Choose well.
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