ninakix:

A month ago, we began a four-week project in one of my design classes. As the weeks progressed, my team became increasingly frustrated: two members of my team had ideological differences that couldn’t be bridged. It was odd, because we all liked each other just fine, but two weeks into the project, we were running around in circles. That Monday, the teaching team sat us down, and gave us an ultimatum: “Come up with an alternate solution, or we’re going to redistribute the team members to the other teams.”

Not really sure what to do, me and my friend Ankit were upset, because we wanted to work together badly. We came up with a plan: Doug Tarlow, me, and Ankit would work together. We got together and sent the teaching team and email, only to be rejected. But we wouldn’t take no for an answer: the next day, we showed up before one of the professor’s other classes, and told him we were going to work together, whether they liked it or not.

Now, the game is on. We’ve been working together since Wednesday the 13th, and so far have done a really good job. But as our professor told us, “All eyes are on you.” So we’re asking your help: We’ve been asked to show support for the telecommuting movement, and generate interest. If you ever work from home, or if you’ve ever wanted to (even just one day a week), sign our pledge. There are some great resources on telecommuting on the website too, so look at those if you’re interested. It basically comes down to this, I need your help in making this spread, so I’m asking you all to please reblog this post if you’ve ever had a bad team experience or if telecommuting is something you’ve ever done. Thanks!

This is something I can get behind. I telecommuted for 3 months at a previous job. The coworkers on my team were in Florida and Georgia, so there wasn’t much point to heading into the office anyway. Skype became more important than email for keeping contact with the team.

Unfortunately, approximately half of the people that will see this reblog already follow ninakix’s posts. You should still click on my link (I replaced the picture link) to give me inspiration credit. Don’t you want to be inspired by crazynutjob?