My daily commute is 90 miles (~140Km) per day. Someone I complained to looked at me and asked why I didn't take the train. I laughed and said I wish I could
(and, is it completely impossible to work remotely, or live closer? Obviously "live closer" is a HUGE undertaking, but that doesn't mean it's not possibly a worthwhile one to save you three hours a day spent in transit.)
I live in Syracuse, NY and work in Rome, NY. Commute time is about 50 min one way. Were I single, I'd happily move. However, my wife's commute is 5 minutes to work and about the same to drop the kid off to school.
Remote work isn't an option, since I don't see the company shelling out 10K or so for me to recreate the test network I use at my house.
A VPN connection to a terminal machine on the actual network is not good enough? You have to be physically there, every day?
(I understand if it's impossible. I'm just surprised at the travel distance. I've got a 45 minute commute, two days a week, but it's nowhere near that far. Just more traffic.)
I have a better chance of winning the lottery than convincing the IA folks to allow me to VPN in.
I also grok Ottawa traffic. When I was there in March, the drive back from where I was (way out on Carling) to downtown via the river parkway took an hour. Traffic was just nuts once we passed the War Museum.
I have a better chance of winning the lottery than convincing the IA folks to allow me to VPN in.
That's a different issue. One worth exploring, frankly - and the way to do it is not to talk to IT, the way is to talk to your boss, and hiss boss, etc, all the way up the chain, extolling the virtues that a proper VPN solution would give in terms of *them* having no commute, too.
If you're working with really sensitive data, you may still not get it, but it's worth a try, and there is VERY LITTLE that's so sensitive that you can't transfer it via encrypted VPN if you can put it on your company laptop in the first place.
Traffic:
It's not normally that bad on the Parkway. That was my preferred way home when I lived downtown, and I use it to *get* downtown in some mornings and to get to the bridge to Hull on other days.
I'm in Kanata at the moment - WAAAAY out on Carling. It takes me 45 minutes to Aylmer, 40 minutes to Downtown, during rush hour traffic. Off-peak, it's still about 35 to Aylmer but only 20 to downtown, because I can skip the River Parkway and just take the Queensway directly.
The majority of our commerce and infrastructure, specifically in the west, came into existence and grew in the era of "everyone has a car and gas is cheap as hell". When that stopped being as true, the government stepped in to ease the blow...and kept easing it...and now we're catching a good 30-year backlash.
Ah, I see. Didn't realize that there'd been a permanent moratorium enacted to prevent any development of public transportation ever into anything that could be at all useful. (That is what "never happen" means, right? :) )
Given the complete fuckwittery of the people who get elected to run the city, county, state and country I live in (don't look south!) it might as well be what "never happen" means! :D
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Date: 2008-04-28 03:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-28 03:52 pm (UTC)My daily commute is 90 miles (~140Km) per day. Someone I complained to looked at me and asked why I didn't take the train. I laughed and said I wish I could
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Date: 2008-04-28 06:00 pm (UTC)(and, is it completely impossible to work remotely, or live closer? Obviously "live closer" is a HUGE undertaking, but that doesn't mean it's not possibly a worthwhile one to save you three hours a day spent in transit.)
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Date: 2008-04-28 07:51 pm (UTC)Remote work isn't an option, since I don't see the company shelling out 10K or so for me to recreate the test network I use at my house.
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Date: 2008-04-28 07:55 pm (UTC)(I understand if it's impossible. I'm just surprised at the travel distance. I've got a 45 minute commute, two days a week, but it's nowhere near that far. Just more traffic.)
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Date: 2008-04-28 08:32 pm (UTC)I also grok Ottawa traffic. When I was there in March, the drive back from where I was (way out on Carling) to downtown via the river parkway took an hour. Traffic was just nuts once we passed the War Museum.
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Date: 2008-04-28 09:17 pm (UTC)That's a different issue. One worth exploring, frankly - and the way to do it is not to talk to IT, the way is to talk to your boss, and hiss boss, etc, all the way up the chain, extolling the virtues that a proper VPN solution would give in terms of *them* having no commute, too.
If you're working with really sensitive data, you may still not get it, but it's worth a try, and there is VERY LITTLE that's so sensitive that you can't transfer it via encrypted VPN if you can put it on your company laptop in the first place.
Traffic:
It's not normally that bad on the Parkway. That was my preferred way home when I lived downtown, and I use it to *get* downtown in some mornings and to get to the bridge to Hull on other days.
I'm in Kanata at the moment - WAAAAY out on Carling. It takes me 45 minutes to Aylmer, 40 minutes to Downtown, during rush hour traffic. Off-peak, it's still about 35 to Aylmer but only 20 to downtown, because I can skip the River Parkway and just take the Queensway directly.
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