Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for June 21, 2024

Blanche is tried of Wiz being around the house all the time.

Looks like modern interiors in ancient times.

Sometimes with remote working …

… it’s hard to see anything that remotely looks like working.

The Wiz likes his chips and beer… the breakfast of champions.

Packing on the weight, Bro? Your remote workspace a little too close to the pantry?

Voted out of the house on Big Brother ID.

Wherein Wiz does what?

I thought the Wiz worked in his basement lab. Is he showing his age by doing work on the sofa?

The top person in the organization I work in has decreed that everyone is back in the office full time, starting July 1. Lots of unhappy people, especially those who were hired in positions where they were expecting to always work remotely.

Wiz can’t even find the remote anymore. He’s been using his wand for weeks now.

A close friend and associate of The Count does seasonal work as a supervisor/team leader for a group of 8-10 on line workers. Two did not have current/updated software and/or tried to work off their phones or tablets (didn’t work) and were constantly on the phone with tech support, several had at home children and one was running a day care out of her house while “working”, two were taking care of at home aging parents, one would log on and disappear for about an hour while she took her child to school, disappearing for longer periods of time for errands, etc was common, and two took off a half hour or so for morning prayers for Ramadan all of which cut into their production quotas. STILL… beat the heck out of time and expense and aggravation of driving to/from work and the luxury of being able to work in sweats and t-shirt rather than work clothes.

“But I wasn’t through ‘working’!!”

(despite it being well past time to get to it and go zap some Huns — if he could find any who weren’t trying to invade remotely)

Working in the office or from home – they both have advantages and disadvantages. WFH you do without the commute and work life balance is a lot better, but you’re isolated. Working from the office gives you interactions with others which leads to better innovation, but yes, you have that horrible commute. I have to say that I’m in the latter camp mainly due to what I call ‘information by osmosis’. The number of times I’ve heard someone ask how to do something and realised I can help them. or that someone has said they’re going to do something and I knew that was incorrect so could warn them. You don’t get that working from home so is more inefficient.That’s my take on it anyway. I know others will object.

Reminds of federal FOIA employees who even when in the office work remotely or not at all

The only attraction to remote work I thought would be to prevent other clerks from constantly interrupting my work flow to correct their frequent mistakes in our computer system. I wanted them to email me when they needed an entry corrected or deleted.

Time to get to work on Remote Viewing!!

But I once read somewhere that people prefer to pretend to work from home than pretending to work from work

NICE PLACE Wiz!!! Lol

Plot twist: He does nothing in the office as well.

With my jobs I couldn’t work from home. I have been in the office all this time.

Don’t be a crumb. Chip in sometime.

Ummm…has the Wiz’s garment shrunk? Or is it his summerwear?