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I've been 80% telecommute for the last 5 years, and just two months ago started a 100% telecommute job. New employer is PST, I'm in Central timezone. On top of the new employer being very good with communication technology, it also just really helps to make telecommuting work when you have an organization of people with effective and complementary work ethics in general.
My previous employer was Eastern. Waking up AFTER your co-workers have already started their workday is annoying and gets old very fast, especially when the people to the east of you are idiots. Many places tend to treat email as a realtime communication tool these days, which breaks down very easily. Almost daily, I would wake up to an "urgent" email thread requesting a ton of last-minute work from me as soon as I "get in." I learned to check (and double-check) whether somebody else had been contacted to do it, because a majority of the time they would have found some other schmuck without telling me or even replying to the thread with a "nevermind."
It's no wonder our General Manager was a diehard "presentist." His constant, unsubtle reminders of how much better it would be when (not if) I relocated to HQ were one of the reasons I jumped ship. He knew I did all my work and then some. He knew first-hand that I performed better when I didn't have a herd of caffeinated New Yorkers drooling on the back of my chair and asking about my non-existent opinion on the recent sportsball encounter. He knew I was underpaid even though the cost of living in my hometown was almost 50% of that in HQ. Yet he still thought it was more important for me to relocate than to recognize and exploit the increased efficiency of keeping Grumpy Goldstein happy and alone in his secluded batcave somewhere out in the midwest.
If your company is always managed by firedrill, with poor planning and project management, it's a safe bet that your telecommuters are going insane. And he was shocked (SHOCKED!) when I left.
The only inherently tough part of working from home that I still struggle with is keeping my family from being too much of a distraction without creating unnecessary distance. I don't like keeping my office door closed unless I'm VERYBUSYDONOTDISTURBFORANYREASONBEWAREOFBEARS, but if I'm honest that's rarely the case. Sure, there are times when undivided focus would be a good idea. I just don't like shutting them out, because, well... They're my family, and I'm quite fond of them and wish them to be happy. I've considered putting some sort of studio light outside my office door: if the light's on, do not enter. But that's probably overkill. Most of the time, my wife will just IM me from the other room anyway, which works most of the time.
Anyway, now that I've gone from several wrong-way-to-do-it telecommuting jobs to one that is modern and good at it, I wonder if there are any decent trade groups for telecommuters. Or, better yet, I'd love to let some coke-bottled researchers observe my habits for some university study on long-term telecommuting.
Thanks for all the good answers. I knew that video & live production were expensive, I just didn't know all of those costs were considered part of the COGS for this particular sale.
Hooray, vindication, do more of this, etc.
But my question is: Where did those ~$300,000 dollars go? Does it really take that much overhead to successfully sell media content the way we've all been asking for for years?
CAE - If you make any more headway, Linux or Winders, holla at farris at gentlenews dot com. Will be out of town for the next week, but should be able to check mail. Bad bad timing. I wish I could stay home and tinker with this more.
I wanted to build a connector that fit in the hole so I could try out any new developments from my hotel room, but all my efforts were flaky at best. I'll leave all three cameras I bought (one's destroyed, one's dismantled, but operational, one's still completely intact) with my roommate and he'll just keep me updated on the progress.
Well, we've hit a wall. We got windows to recognize that it IS a usb device, but I know jack shit about drivers. Can't find one that will work. My best guess is that at the store they have drivers that allow this thing to show up as a drive on their store PC.
The sad part is that I'm about to leave town for a week and won't be able to screw with it. Hopefully someone will pick up on what I've done so far and help out with the driver issue.
Woops. I was right. The above diagram is backwards for the data signals. Here's how it oughtta be:
Pin - Signal
__________
10 - Ground (Black)
9 - Data- (White)
8 - Data+ (Green)
6 - Voltage (Red)
Plugged it in, and Windows said, "Hey, howya doin, gimme a driver!" Trying Linux now.
Rock.
Pin - Signal __________ 10 - Ground (Black) 9 - Data+ (Green) 8 - Data- (White) 6 - Voltage (Red)
9 and 8 might be swapped. I can't tell for sure. With the wires attached as above, when plugged into a USB port (without batteries) the LCD on the camera says "PC" and the green LED stays lit. Windows gives an error that it can't recognize the device, won't let you install a driver. I haven't made any progress under Linux.
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The latest: Shredder's not a Japanese gang leader, but a kitchen merchandizing mogul. Baxter Stockman is played by Vince "with the Slap Chop" Offer. You're gonna love his nuts.
I've been 80% telecommute for the last 5 years, and just two months ago started a 100% telecommute job. New employer is PST, I'm in Central timezone. On top of the new employer being very good with communication technology, it also just really helps to make telecommuting work when you have an organization of people with effective and complementary work ethics in general.
My previous employer was Eastern. Waking up AFTER your co-workers have already started their workday is annoying and gets old very fast, especially when the people to the east of you are idiots. Many places tend to treat email as a realtime communication tool these days, which breaks down very easily. Almost daily, I would wake up to an "urgent" email thread requesting a ton of last-minute work from me as soon as I "get in." I learned to check (and double-check) whether somebody else had been contacted to do it, because a majority of the time they would have found some other schmuck without telling me or even replying to the thread with a "nevermind."
It's no wonder our General Manager was a diehard "presentist." His constant, unsubtle reminders of how much better it would be when (not if) I relocated to HQ were one of the reasons I jumped ship. He knew I did all my work and then some. He knew first-hand that I performed better when I didn't have a herd of caffeinated New Yorkers drooling on the back of my chair and asking about my non-existent opinion on the recent sportsball encounter. He knew I was underpaid even though the cost of living in my hometown was almost 50% of that in HQ. Yet he still thought it was more important for me to relocate than to recognize and exploit the increased efficiency of keeping Grumpy Goldstein happy and alone in his secluded batcave somewhere out in the midwest.
If your company is always managed by firedrill, with poor planning and project management, it's a safe bet that your telecommuters are going insane. And he was shocked (SHOCKED!) when I left.
The only inherently tough part of working from home that I still struggle with is keeping my family from being too much of a distraction without creating unnecessary distance. I don't like keeping my office door closed unless I'm VERYBUSYDONOTDISTURBFORANYREASONBEWAREOFBEARS, but if I'm honest that's rarely the case. Sure, there are times when undivided focus would be a good idea. I just don't like shutting them out, because, well... They're my family, and I'm quite fond of them and wish them to be happy. I've considered putting some sort of studio light outside my office door: if the light's on, do not enter. But that's probably overkill. Most of the time, my wife will just IM me from the other room anyway, which works most of the time.
Anyway, now that I've gone from several wrong-way-to-do-it telecommuting jobs to one that is modern and good at it, I wonder if there are any decent trade groups for telecommuters. Or, better yet, I'd love to let some coke-bottled researchers observe my habits for some university study on long-term telecommuting.
Thanks for all the good answers. I knew that video & live production were expensive, I just didn't know all of those costs were considered part of the COGS for this particular sale.
Hooray, vindication, do more of this, etc. But my question is: Where did those ~$300,000 dollars go? Does it really take that much overhead to successfully sell media content the way we've all been asking for for years?
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CAE - If you make any more headway, Linux or Winders, holla at farris at gentlenews dot com. Will be out of town for the next week, but should be able to check mail. Bad bad timing. I wish I could stay home and tinker with this more. I wanted to build a connector that fit in the hole so I could try out any new developments from my hotel room, but all my efforts were flaky at best. I'll leave all three cameras I bought (one's destroyed, one's dismantled, but operational, one's still completely intact) with my roommate and he'll just keep me updated on the progress.
Yeah, we got the 04fc vendor and ffff device IDs, too. ffff doesn't sound like much of an ID. Maybe I should go get a night-job at Ritz/Wolf. ;)
Well, we've hit a wall. We got windows to recognize that it IS a usb device, but I know jack shit about drivers. Can't find one that will work. My best guess is that at the store they have drivers that allow this thing to show up as a drive on their store PC. The sad part is that I'm about to leave town for a week and won't be able to screw with it. Hopefully someone will pick up on what I've done so far and help out with the driver issue.
Woops. I was right. The above diagram is backwards for the data signals. Here's how it oughtta be: Pin - Signal __________ 10 - Ground (Black) 9 - Data- (White) 8 - Data+ (Green) 6 - Voltage (Red) Plugged it in, and Windows said, "Hey, howya doin, gimme a driver!" Trying Linux now. Rock.
The flash unit would make a nice self-defense device, too. ZZAP!
Got it:
Pin - Signal
__________
10 - Ground (Black)
9 - Data+ (Green)
8 - Data- (White)
6 - Voltage (Red)
9 and 8 might be swapped. I can't tell for sure. With the wires attached as above, when plugged into a USB port (without batteries) the LCD on the camera says "PC" and the green LED stays lit. Windows gives an error that it can't recognize the device, won't let you install a driver. I haven't made any progress under Linux.
Nope. Only 6 of the pins are used, and three of those are ground. It's definitely USB.
Working on it now. Should be done in a few days.
I'm working on this issue, as well. Let me know what you come up with.
Did you get the battery casing off without damaging the pcb? If so, how?