However, what I initially considered a plus soon became a minus. Isolation from the outside world and working away from cheerful and close colleagues affected morale. Although I did not turn into Chuck Noland and did not draw my manager on the ball (did not find the ball), I fell out of the social component and would have completely ceased to feel part of the team if not for the daily online project planning meetings.
In general, the self-isolation regime helped me approach latest phone number database work more measuredly and plan my day. Thanks to the time saved on the way to the office, I had time to read articles, books and watch videos. However, I believe that it is best to work in an office, where there is a working atmosphere and where you feel like you are not a separate part of the mechanism, but part of a successful team that is always moving forward.
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Remote work and isolation allowed us to look at our usual colleagues with different eyes. Many have undergone interesting transformations. For example, someone in our company started doing morning exercises, YouTube bloggers and an arthouse film director appeared. And it also turned out that someone walks around the house to work without underwear!
We even created a separate channel in Discord called “remote memoirs,” and here’s what they write there:
"I eat almost all day, great!"
"I eat almost all day - very bad"
"It turns out that the kettle needs to be turned on"
“It’s sometimes difficult to interpret the mood and meaning of messages from colleagues”
"I eat all day, it's terrible!"
"You can get up at 8.30 - good, but if everyone at home is annoying - bad"
"My office chair is missing..."
"Yesterday I burned vegetables for vinaigrette while I was working, today I fried compote"
"Overall it's fine: I worked on the floor, on the couch, in the kitchen - variety"
"It turns out that the stomach is bottomless and you can eat all day long"
"The chair is uncomfortable, it's squeezing my ass. There's no cooler, it's a pain in the ass to boil the kettle."
“The food that was enough for a week suddenly ran out on the second day!”
"It's scary to get the electricity and water bill next month"
“I take a shower during lunch – it’s perfect.”
“I bought myself some diet bread so I wouldn’t get fat and ate the whole pack in 3 hours.”
"I'm thinking about where to hide candies and chocolate so that they won't be seen"
"Remote work is when you and your family shout: "Hurray!" after a letter from a client with the words: "We approve"
"I can barely keep from starting drinking in the morning"
"I'm thinking of buying a bell, like in restaurants, so I don't have to yell across the entire apartment: "Saaash, bring me some tea. Saaash, warm up the cutlets, please. Saaash, scratch my back."
“Remote work is when there are no barriers to collective traditions, but there is ingenuity, crazy creativity and a sense of calm that nothing will happen to you for it!”
