Remote Working
I got two calls yesterday from the guy who’s backing me up at work while I’m on vacation. The first call was directed to my cell phone while I was out working on things with a bunch of people. Whether it seemed rude or not, I had to take the call since I told the guy he could call me if he had any problems. It was a simple fix, although not a simple phone call since the guy tends to yammer on and on so that it’s hard to understand what the question really is.
The second call was a little more difficult but the answer could have come more swiftly if I had been able to connect to my work computer and just send him a file. I could not. I tried to connect remotely, and all I could see was a black screen. Although if I used the Alt-Tab keys, I could see the screen I wanted right there, I just couldn’t click on it at all because going to that screen gave me the big black screen.
So I tried a bunch of different things to fix it. Changed my resolution – didn’t work. Accessed the remote connection settings and changed the configuration there – nothing.
I’ve now got a call in to the help desk at work to see if they can come up with anything. I will be devastated if I can no longer work from home – to me, that’s one of the perks of this job, having that ability, especially considering that I hate my job, at least working from home now and then seems exciting.
I’ll find out if they can get something going. And I told them to call me back right away since I’m supposed to go out somewhere. Come on… get to it.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
I wouldn’t be too worried. Too many people rely on working from home or even to be able to assess the network in case of emergencies.