Starting tomorrow, I'm working from home until the end of the month—and maybe longer, depending on how this all goes.
I'm fine with that.
Today we had a dozen or so people just show up demanding laptops or last minute help setting up VPN because—apparently—those same people had no clue what was going on and/or were incapable of reading and following directions. And then there were the additional dozen or so requests for VPN access, a process that in and of itself takes 24 hours to wind its way through the system.
I was never able to replicate the success I had installing the Cisco AnyConnect client on my Mac with any subsequent Apple devices that were presented to me. I finally gave up, and arranged for those Mac users to borrow Dells to take home. Kind of disappointing, but there's just so much head-wall banging a boy can endure.
No one knows how any of this is going to shake out, especially for those folks who have next to no experience working from home on a daily basis (myself included—at least in this role), but it's a little late to think about that now. The organization has let the work-from-home genie out of the bottle and there's no stuffing it back in at this point.
I think of it as a learning opportunity.
And I'm still going to do the get coffee first thing, even if it means having to go through the drive through…