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Antiwork 2: No One Is Getting A Pay Raise

How do you work remote if you don’t have the hardware?


(Please don’t be Waves VDI. Please don’t be Waves VDI. Please don’t be Waves VDI.)
 
How do you work remote if you don’t have the hardware?


(Please don’t be Waves VDI. Please don’t be Waves VDI. Please don’t be Waves VDI.)

I have no idea what that is?


I'm just on my personal laptop for today's Webex meetings. I do not intend to use it for work beyond today.
 
I have no idea what that is?


I'm just on my personal laptop for today's Webex meetings. I do not intend to use it for work beyond today.

Waves VDI (Virtual Desktop Imaging) are being proclaimed as The Future at my company. The problem is, they expect any employee who works from home to provide their own computer (which will not be funded by the employer) to access the VDI for work.

Never mind that my role requires me to use applications that are not compatible with the Waves VDI machines. So I’m one of the luckies who are still using a physical laptop to access Citrix VDI computers.
 
Well that's awful. No, not involved here. I think it's just for today that this is on my own device.
 
I have to say, in the first 90 minutes of orientation, I've heard how important "continuous improvement" is to the organization as a pretty important tenet.


And then I check my job title (Manager of Continuous Improvement) and... ok!
 
Good luck!! Let us know how it goes. I'd be curious to see if anyone from your previous employer calls you with questions.
 
It's interesting to go from a brand new company with no meaningful onboarding process to a mature company (albeit one 1/2 the size) that has a very mature onboarding process. Right now we're going on about all of the community programs we participate in in an effort to normalize some of the social determinants of health factors.

One really good slide they had to demonstrate was pointing to two neighborhoods that are about 1.5 miles apart (one of which I live right next to). There is an 11+ year difference in life expectancy between them.
 
Going through HIPAA and other privacy rights now (HITECH, PAMA, Cures Act, etc.), and it's incredible how many functions of these laws I worked on to ensure compliance. Kinda satisfying.
 
Then I'm not sure what you meant. I thought you were referencing red lining. I think they were, purposefully so, in an effort to show that we still have work to do.
 
Then I'm not sure what you meant. I thought you were referencing red lining. I think they were, purposefully so, in an effort to show that we still have work to do.

I meant is the difference between the districts racial. Not in realty, but in reality.
 
In news from my old company, Friday they told all managers and directors that Monday meetings would be scheduled to tell them of their future (as they roll many IT orgs into one, there's a lot of duplicate management). So basically the message was "hey, stew on this all weekend". Today they rolled it out. I won't know the carnage for a while but one of my co-managers in my org was informed her position is being eliminated and they had no real idea what to do with her if she doesn't take the severance.


Nice. Real nice. I'm super glad I'm out.
 
How can you not take the severance? If her job is eliminated, isn't she gone? Over the past year we've had a number of reductions in force and they give you 90 days to find another position within the company. Most people don't but some people do. I don't know what happens with regards to severance if you wind up leaving before the 90 days.
 
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