Roger!!! You've come back!

At which time, I would have told them "Aboslutely! I am working from home all the time! thanks for pointing out I do not need to sit in the office."

You gave up something because you were scared of a job loss. Did you learn from this experience?

haha! suck it paranoid bastards!

I got my contract written as a minimum of two days a week WfH and wish I had demanded three! I have a nine-year-old boy who loves attention and a wife that does too ;) (how dare she! :P). But here are some basic steps to maintaining professionalism at home:

1) Closing door. I.e. an office.

2) People knock and await "come in" before entering unless it is a dire emergency. If it is not an emergency and they do not hear come in, then they can either knock again or come back later.

3) My office hours are just that. I need to spend time in my office which means no, I cannot help you build a Lego project, no I cannot help load the dish washer. When I take a break, I can help, but only then.

4) My family needs to keep the noise down.

5) IM always up and I try to respond almost immediately. If I cannot I mark myself as busy, if I am marked as available then I expect myself to respond in 60 seconds. This also includes soft phone, always on.

6) If there is a reason to be in the office I come in. I don't resist it. One SIT for a recent project made sense for me to be in the office, so for two weeks I came in, got SIT done and remediation and then back to my normal schedule.

I personally thrive working from home as my commute time generally becomes a part of my normal day. If I have tight project deadlines, I will tell my mgr. not to expect me in the office for a bit. I still attend meetings remotely, I still beat on project mgrs. to either open a Skype call or a conference line (no excuse not to, even people in the office sometimes take meetings from their desk so they can multitask).

Communications is the key and delivering what you promised on time is also the key. I collaborate with my fellow developers and we do so quite well and white boarding digitally is a lot nicer than a physical non-smart board.

Now there are people that do not do well working from home, they either do not get their work done or they become depressed with the lack of human contact. From my observations, I find those that do not work well from home (not the ones that get depressed with lack of human contact) have a pretty poor focus and planning skills in the office and outside of it. So you help them build that ability. You help them to use proper time management skills, you help them prioritize their workload and come up with a plan of attack for the day.

Unless these accounts were revealing classified information, who gives a shit - altUSEPA is just that an account prefixed with "altUS" not an actual official government account and no different than the accounts you or I create. There is a verification process for Twitter and such official accounts are marked as verified so it should be obvious to anyone looking at an alt account it is not verified nor official. If Twitter wants to implement a policy where alt govt accounts will NEVER be verified, so be it. But that is their choice and not the orange one.,

Let me clarify, receiving a phone call is one thing, its the company usage of being connected to their MDM and being required to sync email and have them push apps down to my device. That is what I get for not paying attention ;)

I use the same the response at my work; my personal phone is just that, I will not use it for company usage until I have a written contract stating they are responsible to maintaining my privacy and a list of things they may do and NOT do. One VP (no longer there) stated in the meeting that they could simply make the usage of a personal phone a requirement of the job. This kind of arrogance that they can claim usage of your personal property is why corporations need smacked down. There would be a difference if you were a sub-contractor and had to provide your own equipment, you agree to these terms, but to be a FTE with only an issued laptop and then suddenly the company claims ownership of your personal device to be on call and read emails after hours, sorry that does not fly. I have no problems being called after hours on my personal cell, but to tell me I must install their MDM and sync email to my device? NO!

And yes I realize that Gorean implies male dominance over females, but that is changing from.... uhhh social circles (I do not partake).

The assumption has been made that he is the dominate one; that is not always the case in BDSM relationships. Often ppl play switch or men are the submissives, either way, unless he was contacting project users or members, talking about it in Drupal forums, people need to keep their self-righteous attitudes to themselves. ... wide stance.

I am afraid they do...

Mine too :)

I tend to agree; my wife and kid like Chili's (see what I gotta work with?!?!); but the kiosk idea is acceptable. Our server comes and takes our initial order, if my blood alcohol level drops below the "Ohhhhhh this is great food! Better than I can make level" I simply order a new alcoholic beverage and my server or someone else on staff drops it off. Yes I am a food geek snob :)

At the higher end of the dining out experience, where there is a chef and not just a "cook" and those eateries that actually require a certain level of personal attire to be seated, the experience tends to be different, which is why it is called "fine dining". The chains and lower scale eateries have never attempted to emulate this model despite the advertising hype and why would they? They are selling price point to your average customer, they are selling a laid back attire so that if you are out and about, out of town, don't feel like preparing a meal at home, or want to hang out with family and friends for a gathering where someone else takes care of the mess.

Also at the lower scale, being able to swipe your card and pay your bill is awesome!

Now this is an example of an economic and social issue that our countries are going to have to deal with. More jobs are going to be replaced by automation at every level in society. Computers simply are better at paying utilities, vendors, predictive analytics and so much more than humans. How we deal with people not working and being able to live should be one of humanities top priorities.

I will agree I slipped up with grants rights; the bill of rights were an enumeration of inherit born rights. But where you slip up and fail to understand, that the constitution explicitly reserves certain rights (as those to hold office or to vote) to its citizens. At no point does it define "the people" as citizens only. Article I, section 2 and 3 and the 15th amendment (the right of the citizen to vote) _explicitly_ pointed out citizenry restrictions and a requirement of naturalized citizens to have held such a status for a period of time before being eligible to public office and the simple right of a citizen (naturalized or natural born) to vote. The plain text reading and the inherit positions of the signatories support this assertion. The 14th amendment even goes further to protect the rights of naturalized citizens and non-citizens and I quote:

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Again, explicit declaration of naturalized citizens and then a confirmation any person shall not be deprived of the equal protections of the laws in the states jurisdiction.

The constitutional heresy is the argument that "the people" implies citizens only when it clearly includes anyone within the jurisdiction of the United States of America except those provisions reserved for citizens only AS EXPLICITLY stated in the document.

Citation?

Except if you look at the full Preamble: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Or to paraphrase: We the representatives of the people of the sovereign states hereby define the owners manual for our country.

There have been many people that argued the preamble implies citizen only, but that is contrary to the the fact they enumerated citizen only restrictions elsewhere in the document, in addition, other restrictions upon the Federal Government and the rights of granted to the people via the bill of rights, seems to imply where important distinctions are made.