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Extreme Telecommuting

Posted by timothy on from the this-ain't-elbonia dept.

wiredog writes: "The Washington Post has an article about a company in Chantilly Virginia, most of whose programmers telecommute from Novosibirsk, Russia." Anyone out there in a similarly distant job?

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  1. Well, yeah... by Mumble01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure. I show up to work faithfully every day but my mind is always a million miles away...

  2. Does having an out of body experience count? by MagikSlinger · · Score: 2, Funny

    My body may be physically here, but my mind is a million miles away, so I guess that's a pretty far telecommute, ain't it?


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  3. They can't come to the US by Rupert · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... because their competitors would have them arrested.

    It's the American Way.

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  4. Does it matter? by GiorgioG · · Score: 4, Funny

    I telecommute - I could be dealing with a customer in Belgium, in Denver, CO or to the company down the street from my house (in Buffalo, NY) - who cares as far as I'm concerned? I'm sitting in my office @ home and I could be dealing with a client on Pluto, doesn't change much for me..

    See, that's the whole point, telecommuting - you can work from anywhere. Who approves these submissions and why haven't they been shot? ;-)

    1. Re:Does it matter? by mutende · · Score: 2, Funny
      I'm sitting in my office @ home and I could be dealing with a client on Pluto, doesn't change much for me...

      Except, perhaps, for your ping times...

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  5. Re:Sounds like a plan by emc · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hmm, I always thought Microsoft had developed Windows 98 using the Chinese-hordes approach.

    No, Microsoft used the 'million monkeys' method, and shipped the first thing that compiled.

  6. I don't telecommute but my ex-boss did by pmancini · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think my ex-boss has the record for distance. As far as I could tell he was on either the Moon, Space Station Alpha or Mars and was using an android as his interface with us "mundanes." I suppose he could have been a small creature inside of the android, but he definitely wasn't either here on Earth or from Earth - if you catch my drift.

  7. Re:Sweatshop? by psych031337 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not one to crow about exploitation, but come on: they're paying Russian wages, can't they accept Russian vacations? It's not like 24 days is that much anyway, for most of the world.


    You want 24 days? Check out this:

    A year has 365 days. Out of that you sleep 8 hours or 122 days.

    243 days remaining.

    Every day you have 8 hours offwork, that's another 122 days.

    121 days remaining.

    On the 52 sundays each year no work is taking place.

    69 days remaining.

    You still with me ? Fine ! Saturday is usually 1/2 of a working day, removing 26 complete days.

    43 days remaining.

    With a daily break of one hour you are again removing 15 days from your workforce.

    Just 28 days remaining.

    And with that and a few bank holidays you are still asking for 24 days of holiday?

    Damn you!

    (Special note for the humor-impaired: This is supposed to be sarcastic. We all know that the mathematical path taken for this conclusion is wrong like hell)
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