On Aug 6, 3:54 pm, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
> has exploded. Flight director confirms that:
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> >On Aug 5, 9:26?pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 5, 1:05?am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
> >> wrote:
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> >> > Sometimes that doesn't even work.
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> >> The great thing about laptops and PDAs is that now you can work even
> >> while on vacation, which is becoming not only common but somewhat
> >> expected. One boss I had refused to get a PDA because he didn't want
> >> to work when not at work; he's tolerated but not advancing very
> >> rapidly (which could be his lack of intelligence, though that doesn't
> >> seem to inhibit any of the other directors/VPs).
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> >I still avoid a PDA, but have a laptop and cell with me almost
> >everywhere I go. I don't think I'll ever be able to have a "real"
> >holiday again, but without these tools I'd be stuck in the office.
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> That's why I bought a huge honking desktop. The company won't buy me a laptop
> for work use, and I didn't want to use my personal laptop for work matters, so I
> told them I'm taking it out of commission. I'll work via remote from home as
> much as necessary, but when I leave the house, I leave the house. When I use my
> personal mobile phone for work purposes they get a bill.

I have a desktop at home, but when I leave the house I really leave
the house (I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Toyota's headquarters
surrounded by drones who look a little terrified, Mie tomorrow, then
Tokyo and Sapporo - I won't be home for 2 weeks).  I could invoice my
company for my cellphone bills (about 50000/month) but effectively I'd
be invoicing myself. Tax wise it would make sense. Time wise it seems
a waste.