Extreme Telecommuting

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?

Well, yeah...

[Mumble01]

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

Does having an out of body experience count?

[MagikSlinger]

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?

They can't come to the US

[Rupert]

... because their competitors would have them arrested.

It's the American Way.

Does it matter?

[GiorgioG]

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? ;-)

Re:Does it matter?

[mutende]

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...

Re:Sounds like a plan

[emc]

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.

I don't telecommute but my ex-boss did

[pmancini]

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.

Re:Sweatshop?

[psych031337]

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)