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WFH and Covid...

rockershovel

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So, the WFH is working out quite well, with important reservations. I was brought into this team for my particular experience, and I know most of the other members, I’ve worked with them in the past. The IT works, which wasn’t always the case at Werrington (some company servers can be a bit cranky about working through home WiFi systems). 

 

However I had a laptop problem, which was eventually sorted out by a visit to the NW London office. Otherwise I’d have lost three days while they sent me another one, because I couldn’t piggyback around the office as I would usually have done. 

 

The office was... odd. Little, to no useful work being done there, Covid 19 practices having lapsed into a ballet of virtue signalling; I saw two people literally prancing around each other, hands at shoulder level.... IT consisted of two individuals, at opposite ends of a 20-desk open-plan office. No 2 Son tells me that he is being “encouraged” to return, his employer having spent considerable sums on new premises a while ago, but he finds it so difficult to get anything productive done under the regime in force that he avoids it if at all possible.  

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I’ve just been arranging a site visit for subcontractors. Much of the attendant client bureaucracy appears to be derived from the historic paperwork already in place for foot and mouth disease, although thankfully without the requirement for antiseptic welly baths and wheel-washing. 

 

Getting the necessary forms filled in by visitors has been a considerable challenge. Much as they like to complain about it, the British have little real experience of bureaucracy and no recognition of the notion that “you can’t go there, because you haven’t filled in the right forms” . As I’ve been often told in my travels, their systems are based on trust and as such, easily circumvented or manipulated. 

 

There’s also the quaint custom of printing forms in every language and script known to man, without any effective procedure for dealing with forms subsequently received. This is very much not my experience of working in other countries, especially the EU where English was very much not regarded as a “European language” at all. 

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