Where the heck do you work?

Re: Where the heck do you work?

• levioosa member

  

  July 18

  Oof. Also what on earth what friend C thinking with last minute planning a wedding like that? Sure life happens but I would gracefully bow out of the trip and accept there were deposits I would lose, not try and force multiple people to cancel their trip. 

  
  

  
  

  

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• banana468 member

  

  July 18

  This is odd all around.
  
  But ultimately a 3 month vacation that came with nonrefundable deposits means that the person who wants out owns those deposits.  
  
  So much of this is so weird to me it's hard for me to wrap my arms around the advice to give to people who have the means to plan 3 month vacations but not consider their friends' timing for wedding planning. 

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• short+sassy member

  

  July 22

  I dunno.  I'm just not buying that all 8 of these people, including the partners, have a corporate jet setting lifestyle that somehow coincidentally means they will all be in/around East Asia on three different occasions across three months.
  
  Maybe the four friends since they work for the same company, but not their partners who I assume work for four different companies.
  
  But if this is a real letter and "C" ends up leaving the company over the friendship falling apart, I'd like to throw my hat/resume in the ring to replace her, lol.

  

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  July 22

  Yah I mean C sucks so if you don’t want to do one last ditch effort to save things then don’t. If A and B want to that’s on them. You don’t have to but you shouldn’t stop them either. 

  
  

  But also yes what in the world do you do for work?? I’m trying to get one of my employees to work from Spain for like a week while they’re visiting family where they have dual citizenship and are authorized to work. 

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• VarunaTT member

  

  July 23

  Technically, I think I could do this.  My manager has already said that as long as I'm in a US state, I don't even have to tell her if I'm traveling while WFH.  I **think** my only restrictions would be if I spend a certain amount of time in CA, I could start messing things up, but it's like 6 months and again...I'd have to tell them.  I am allowed to work remotely in another country, but I have a lot of hoops to jump through to do it because of labor/tax issues.  This is why I kinda have a plan that when my mother dies, I might let a trusted friend stay in the house as a carekeeper and just start driving around the nation, visiting every state/national park my heart desires.  I even have a friend in mind and have discussed it with them.
  
  C is welcome to do what she wants, but that doesn't mean A and B have to as well.  C needs a CTJ talk about her wedding is not as important to anyone else as it is to her and presumably her future spouse.

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• levioosa member

  

  July 23

  @VarunaTT my aunt is in law too and her firm lets her work from anywhere. She literally travels the world and just hotspots in where ever she is. A true unicorn job (yes okay I’m jealous, lol). 

  
  

  
  

  

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  July 24

  levioosa said:

  @VarunaTT my aunt is in law too and her firm lets her work from anywhere. She literally travels the world and just hotspots in where ever she is. A true unicorn job (yes okay I’m jealous, lol). 

  Yup. I work at a bank and working more than a few days in somewhere we don’t have operations it triggers so many regulations and tax implications. It’s trash because my group is remote- I don’t care where they’re working from. 

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• CharmedPam member

  

  July 24 edited July 24

  My friend works from home, but she works for a state job (not my state), she was getting her home remodeled a few years ago, in the winter, and you know what they say about good workers being hard to find? She found that out. They had left a big hole in her wall with no heat for days. She had local family but they didn’t even ask her to stay with them! I told her she couldn’t stay there and come to my place for a week to wfh here. She couldn’t because apparently state jobs also track where you work from and it has to be in state.

  
  

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• short+sassy member

  

  July 24

  CharmedPam said:

  My friend works from home, but she works for a state job (not my state), she was getting her home remodeled a few years ago, in the winter, and you know what they say about good workers being hard to find? She found that out. They had left a big hole in her wall with no heat for days. She had local family but they didn’t even ask her to stay with them! I told her she couldn’t stay there and come to my place for a week to wfh here. She couldn’t because apparently state jobs also track where you work from and it has to be in state.

  I've been looking at job opportunities, especially remote ones, and it isn't uncommon for a job to be 100% remote but the employee has to be living in a particular state(s).
  
  I don't know the ins and outs of state employment laws. taxes. etc.  But I think that's where those issues can come from.  I'm sure the things to consider get exponentially wilder if we start talking about living or traveling in foreign countries.
  
  I saw a funny one the other day.  The job was with Frontier Airlines.  Almost 100% remote, but employees would have to go to the corporate office a few times a year.  So remote employees needed to live in a city close enough to an airport that Frontier services.
  
  I saw another one where the corporate offices where in a San Francisco suburb.  You could live anywhere in the US but had to work 8am-5pm... Pacific time only.
  
  This was another wacky one, though not a remote job.  The employee had to have eligibility to work in the US.  But the actual job site was at a factory in a Mexican border town.  

  

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