I kinda miss being virtual. Way back when, the sysadmins kept getting moved out for the engineers and we got reorged such that we were all over Puget Sound anyway. The company was pushing for telecommute especially for the IT folk as they just didn’t have the desk space and my manager eventually said yep, you don’t have a desk on site anymore, go work at home. They even paid for the comcrap connection. Which was nice, and it wasn’t like we all sat together at the office anyway so we were all used to Lync or whatever it was called then to communicate.
Then the server admin stuff got contracted out. I got to do the exact same job but different name on the paycheck, when it was pushed for to to have some kind of desk space the answer was NO and even the guys who worked from the new company site were told that vpn from there was not allowed and they had to work from home even though things started going back to you have to come into the office for the actual employees.
Fast forward 7 years to reorgs in the new company and they want us all in new ‘pods’. I just escaped moving to Pittsburgh by becoming directly billable but the new manager at the customer site seems to think we need to be at the office even on Fridays when I am pretty much the only one from the group on site. Never mind we all ping each other in Lync and desktop share with it, etc, even though the other guy is a row or two over anyway. I could just as easily do my job from my basement desk and not waste 2 to 3 hours of my day in commute hell as well as the fuel cost, etc, etc.
