I agree. Much like this year nothing back to normal until June :/ At least there is hope we will be there soon (relatively)
> On Nov 29, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, back in spring, all the other tenants in our office building were > remote, so it was the safest place you could go. Whole building to > yourself. > > But in this business, anywhere with a VoIP phone and a computer is "the > office". I guess maybe if we were bigger, with cubicles full of sales and > support people, and supervising multitudes of field techs, we would need to > all be together physically in one place. Back in the dialup days, our work > was mostly sitting in the office answering the phone, but in the WISP > business, I know I have to take the office with me. Sometimes if I'm out to > tower or customer sites, I'm checking email and voice messages at each > location and dealing with them. It's a challenge to get customers to > understand they need to leave a message, not assume we have phone banks just > waiting for their call. > > I have a part time guy who comes into the office to do invoices and > payments, and I go there to pay bills and file tax forms and such. One > person there at a time, and on the rare occasion we encounter another tenant > it's 5 seconds in the hall. Mostly the "office" has become a parts > warehouse. > > During the spring and part of the summer, I got into the habit of having > parts delivered to my house. The problem was, if I wasn't there, none of > the other tenants were either, and the outside doors could be locked. UPS > and FedEx will leave packages in the hall outside our door if we're not > there, but not if they can't get into the building. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] Remote Work > > With cases of Covid skyrocketing are any of you considering moving the > office staff to remote work for the winter months? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
