Friday, June 21, 2013

Working From Home

So I am working from home now.  I had a fun experience with my desk to begin with.  I decided to go out and upgrade my desk as I would need much more desk space for my work laptop, two monitors and massive printers.  So I went ahead and bought a set, and they agreed to ship the desk to me later, about a day or so into my time working at home.  And so I temporarily set up on the dining room table.


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It worked, but as you can imagine not having a dinning room table was not optimal.  Also those two brand new monitros died on me, the one on the left after 1 day, the one on the right after 7 days.  But I digress.

The desk I bought, and arranged to have it delivered to me on the Tuesday that I started working from home.  Well they delivered it on the right day.  But they missed something....
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Yup the legs on the left.  The desk was supposed to have a drawer set on the left side there.  Turns out that was sold separately and they didn't tell me.  Also turns out that particular piece was discontinued.  So not only did they sell me an incomplete desk, but a discontinued incomplete desk.  I was not happy.  Long story short I ended up negotiating a trade and that following Saturday I was able to go into the store and trade my two legged desk above for a different version of the desk in the same set.  The desk I ended up with technically costs more, but doesn't have the extra filling cabinet that would have been nice.  But oh well, it has four legs
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So this is my new teleworking lay out.  The den of my apartment is all disheveled, and I am still waiting on a couple more items that will be delivered Monday.  I'll try to post a final picture of my new at home office when I get everything set up and complete!

So that's the story of my adventures in teleworking.  So far besides the desk and monitor issues, things have worked out well.  I actually find I'm more productive on average than at work.  Not sure why yet, maybe it is just the change.  Or perhaps it is the extra hour of sleep I get every day from not having to commute into work!  Yeah that's been nice.

(Not pictured, me in my pajamas working every morning).

UPDATED:

Finally got the whole thing set up.  And I think it looks a lot better!
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