I said I am moving to another city do you want me to try remote working or not? Yes. Within 3 months my productivity rose 5x, I received a large raise. Who knew not working in the equivalent of a hog barn (yes I have debugged code in a literal hog barn, one very thin door from the action) would raise your efficiency?
Ha. I said I was moving to another city, can I work remote from there? No. So I handed in my notice and moved. And this was at a company that proudly trumpeted to the press that they were "virtual first" and has been remote since Covid started last spring.
Lol, I've been working out of a cattle ranch for the past 5 years. It's usually pretty quite though. After hardly touching it for a year due to COVID, today I was inspired to clean my desk. There was probably a millimeter thick of dust in some places.
The trouble with that, is that if you try that, it's a prefect reason for them to get rid of you. Oh they're moving! Perfect, lets fire their ass and hire somebody new!!!!!!!!
I am so with you. In my case I found out that I started going unstable if I tried to be all work all the time so - I stopped the insanity about 12 years ago and capped work and related activity at 40 hrs/week.
I have held two jobs in my professional career of 16 years and yet if I was out of a job tomorrow I likely could not get past this bizarre new interview process.
This is in spite of my having launched and supported four significant software products in platforms and languages that before that point I had never touched. All this in two very not-sexy niche industries that required specialized knowledge I did not have.
Did I mention that on a scale form 1-10 I realistically operate at about a 3? Take heart, until this year I have never worked with anyone that was better than I at this job. Of the two people that have the talent and evolving skills to surpass me - I trained them so there is that :)
Oh - I am also likely too old now (45) to even GET the interview without subterfuge.
