Working from home

A couple of weeks ago there was an article on MSNBC about how telecommuting just one day a week can make a big difference in your weekly fuel bill. I drive about 25 miles round-trip every day to work — I do try to run errands after work so I don’t have to make extra trips on the weekend, but it sure would be nice to save a little gas each week. So… my colleagues and I pitched it to the boss. We made a schedule where the three of us would each work from home one day a week, available via forwarded telephone and email, just not physically in the office. I really thought it would go over; each of us works from home as needed anyway. Alas, he did NOT go for it. His first “inclination” was to say no, and knowing the boss, that’ll be his only inclination.

That’s fine. This week I got to work from home anyway… the parking lots at work were so flooded that only essential personnel were required to stay in the building. Everyone else was sent home, and since I have the ability to log on remotely, I won’t have to take a PTO day. For now, until he agrees, we’ll just keep operating the way we have been.

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