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Scott Steele wrote:

> I'm still trying to convince my "higher-ups" to allow me to work from home.
> I live in Midtown and muct drive to Alpharetta daily. I have VoIP and 
> T-1 so
> I can do 90% of what needs to be done from the crib. Strangely, my company
> promotes a "green" mentality, ride share, etc. All this talk is lying on
> deaf ears.

This strategy worked for me:

(1) Make yourself indispensable.

(2) Arrange to move 1000 miles away from your workplace,
"temporarily". (In my case, it was so my wife could go to
school.)

(3) Say to your boss, "I'm going to be moving away, but
I'm really not too interested in looking for another job,
since I'll only be gone a year."  They'll probably fall
for it.

(4) Continue to be indispensable, only remotely.

(5) Never, ever return.

It's been working for me for seven years so far.  The only
time I was remotely tempted to change jobs was when I spent
a day at Google's Mountain View HQ last year (free, fresh
sushi! Any time! That alone would've done it, they could've
had me changing the oil in the corporate Segways 60 hours
a week), but they didn't like me enough to make me an offer.
Freaks.

-- JK

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