"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/17/2020 at 14:10 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/17/2020 at 14:10 • Filed to: None | 4
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An unbelievably smooth transition from office to virtual for my company. The most difficult part has been teaching the olds how to use zoom/teams. They are used to having those meeting setup for them, but one by one I have got them operating on their own.
My company is slowly crawling away from an antiquated (the more you are in the office the better employee you are) culture. I’m looking to use this opportunity to push us several leaps forward all at once via technology. I’m already far more productive without people stopping in my doorway to tell me about their mother in laws 10 year old macbook.
In addition to the collaboration tools, we rolled out a ticketing system and my help desk analyst is just blasting through tickets.
In anticipation of staying home, last week I ordered a bunch of lumber for various projects, and full brake refresh kit for the Forester. I have a clip mount for my go pro and bought one of those magnetic bleeder bottles w a built in check valve so that my phone can be my second man for the brake bleed. If work is slow maybe I do a video!?
I also treated myself to one of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! My younger self would have laughed at this thinking “ $45 for what I can do with a block of wood and a clamp...”
Current self: “T hat’s a nifty tool, I bet I know how that works! I should buy it to be sure. ”
I’ve slightly modified the workshop to accommodate office things. It’s not bad! I can sit or stand, and move around with my “desk”.
I hope everyone is doing well. Wash those hands MFers!
Sovande
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:16 |
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I wish my company would make the transition permanently. I can certainly do my 100% computer based job from anywhere.
I tried to redo the brakes in my El Camino today. It ended with the car at the local mechanic after the bleeder valve broke on the front caliper. They broke the one off on the other side...so two new calipers and brake flush for only $256!
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Tripper
> Sovande
03/17/2020 at 14:18 |
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Good, then bad, but then Good? +1 for Sovande. Your El Camino is FLY.
PowderHound
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:20 |
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We could pretty much all work from home in the past but my boss wanted everyone in the office all the time. Now that we pretty much have to work from home I kind of love it. There are times when it’s nice to be in the physical office but I get to sit at home, listen to records and still get all my work done. It is still some big mess of text, email and zoom but seems to work smooth so far. Worst part is how slow accessing our server through vpn is
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:21 |
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For the moment I’m still going to the office but my office is a log cabin in the woods and I only have three co-workers and we are not interacting so...
E90M3
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:21 |
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I’m still at work today. I want to put this on the door into the area where our cubes are:
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Sovande
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:23 |
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I shouldn’t have even started the project. I should have taken it to the mechanic in the first place. I never have good luck with brake jobs that are more involved than replacing pads.
Thanks for the compliment! I can't wait to drive it now that it has the fuel injection installed.
Captain of the Enterprise
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:27 |
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I’ll be honest you probably want a better chair but cool otherwise!
Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:27 |
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The transition for us has been not great. Mostly because there are a lot of people dragging their feet, on top of the fact that they starting planning/prepping way too late. We essentially kicked all students off campus finally, staff is finally moving to remote work, but we were of course expected to show up and be soldiers on the front line (I’m in the IT dept).
Well, our CIO hosted a meeting yesterday which was....not well received. It was also casually let slip that someone in our dept is in Health Department quarantine, as well as a student who had recently been into our offices. Well, that was it, we told them we were not at all comfortable having to come in anymore, that we were going to work from home starting today. We forced their hand, and the higher ups have pretty much relented and most everyone except for a few very critical few, are working remotely.
Your setup, 9/10. Well done.
functionoverfashion
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:28 |
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For sure we’ll be making a lot more use of Zoom. I prefer to visit people in person (I do desktop support) but most of the time I could (will) do it remotely if (now that) I have to.
I’m also waiting on a proposal I submitted to do a bit more from home while still maintaining a baseline of hours on campus, and hopefully this will be further evidence that I can effectively work from home, which I already do some anyway.
Side note, my desk is the same one that was in my room as a kid, and in my father’s room when he was a kid.
PS I KNOW I need to clean up the room, it’s the kids’ playroom (mostly LEGO) and kind of the one space we let them go nuts and don’t care, but occasionally all of us will spend an hour organizing it on a rainy day. Well it hasn’t been a rainy day for a while... I came just shy of sweeping everything off this desk into a box.
66P1800inpieces
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:29 |
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Omg your wrists and neck and ass. Please pick up a cheap full sized keyboard, laptop stand, and chair. I picked up one like this for traveling and it works great for all around use. I was just updated to a new laptop that is not compatible with the old dock so I now use my laptop as the second screen. If I don’t get fired in the next couple of weeks I plan to pick up a new dock so my home office matches the setup I have in the office.
Thomas Donohue
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:30 |
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In anticipation of staying home, last week I ordered a bunch of lumber for various projects, and full brake refresh kit for the Forester.
This is why many companies want their employees in an office.
Also, your work and office space is WAY too organized. Throw some papers and random stuff around, please!
(I’ve been working from home for almost a decade, and I have stacks of leftover hard drives, old laptops, and external USB drives to prove it )
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Tripper
> functionoverfashion
03/17/2020 at 14:41 |
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Damn doing a lot with a little there. I love heirloom stuff like that. So Cool!
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Tripper
> PowderHound
03/17/2020 at 14:43 |
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We just got rid of our last piece of on- prem equipment . So now is a super convenient time to be all cloud. I do not miss managing VPN one bit.
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Tripper
> Thomas Donohue
03/17/2020 at 14:46 |
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Lol well yes. I worked “from home” for years for a payroll company. I mastered RDP on a BLACKBERRY, haha.
I spent almost every sunny day long boarding , golfing, and playing Frisbee.
VincentMalamute-Kim
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 14:48 |
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Workbench too clean. (now I’m going to have to go clean mine.)
Tool is too cool. $45 though - argh!
I assume basement? Garage given car fluids on the wall?
Black case under the workbench? Rifle?
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Thomas Donohue
> Thomas Donohue
03/17/2020 at 14:48 |
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Sorry, forgot to rate the space:
-No large external monitor/keyboard
-Not messy enough
- Half point because I can’t tell if that’s a stand-up desk w/high chair, or in the middle. Also, wheels don’t look like they would be stable enough. My old stand up desk used to slightly jiggle the monitor when risen and it drove me MAD. New one is a rock.
O verall 8 of 10, very well done!
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Tripper
> VincentMalamute-Kim
03/17/2020 at 14:56 |
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Twas cleaned in preparation for this. Admittedly it was not very dirty to begin with.
Yeah, that was a gift card purchase, haha.
Basement, no garage, 4 cars many fluids
Rifle case, but it holds a collapse-able “workshop”. Just a camping table I have fitted with power and a few odds and ends.
Darkbrador
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 15:01 |
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Missing the shop office dog.
Wacko
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 15:05 |
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i use a 6 inch C clamp with the old pads to press the calipers.
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Tripper
> Wacko
03/17/2020 at 15:10 |
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That is how I used to do it although I have a dedicated piece of wood I have done it with the old pads too. My only screw operated c clamp went missing, I don’t think the grip trigger ones will apply enough force. So I made the mistake of looking to see if a specific too exists before I ordered a single C clamp . That tool happened to be $5 less than the $50 gift card I needed to burn.
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Tripper
> Darkbrador
03/17/2020 at 15:10 |
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Darkbrador
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 15:12 |
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The setup is complete. Well done.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 16:20 |
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It’s 100% better than the lack of work space I have brah!
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Wacko
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 16:22 |
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i did all 4 pads/disks on my 2017 forester just before winter.
this video could be useful for you. since i found this trick, brake jobs are so easy now.
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Tripper
> Wacko
03/17/2020 at 16:32 |
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Man I love stuff like this! Thanks for the tip!
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Captain of the Enterprise
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 16:40 |
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Aww
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 16:52 |
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15/12
Saracen
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 18:00 |
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We’re in the process of transitioning to WFH. Can’t happen soon enough for me, Mrs. Saracen is considered high risk, so I really don’t want to catch this illness...
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Tripper
> Saracen
03/17/2020 at 18:08 |
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I’m not considered high risk but it’s respiratory and I’ve got asthma so I’d rather not also.
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Wacko
> Tripper
03/17/2020 at 21:26 |
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That’s why we are here
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 16:15 |
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You’re just trying to show off your pristinely organized workbench on video conferences... =)
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Tripper
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
03/24/2020 at 17:43 |
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Haha I have had a lot of comments on it