Working in a distributed but close team
January 6th, 2006 by gina.revill
The team, minus a few travellers, taken from www.ultralab.net
I’ve been working from home all week, as I am much more efficient at marking this way. Over half of our team works remotely anyway, but I haven’t seen my colleagues since before Christmas and that’s an unusually long time for me - I normally go in two or three times per week. I’m looking forward to Monday in the Lab!
The funny thing is I feel as if I’ve been working with them closely anyway despite the geographical distance. Today I had:
An online chat with Stephen in the morning but we were twice interrupted by his phone or mine. I did talk to him in the afternoon and it was great to catch up.
I’ve called several people to discuss work issues.
I’ve had a phone conference.
Anthony and I have tried several times to talk on Skype but it never seems to work for us but we managed to talk on the phone later on and I got to think about guinness which I always do when I talk to Anthony.
I’ve attended to email business and Richard sent a nice reply to a long email I sent him which didn’t even require a reply and that was nice.
I’ve spoken to Claire three times and Maureen once and even Leonie who was manning the phones in the afternoon.
I’ve had an online chat with Rex and had a message booting me off First Class twice for back ups!
Jonathan was working around the corner today, talking to a local school and we texted and talked a few times, finally about an hour ago as he had to zoom back to Chelmsford so I never go to see him but I feel like I have.
I chatted to Sarah briefly.
I even spoke to Vix who is not my colleague anymore.
I’m not sure how I managed to get all the marking done 
I certainly didn’t feel as if I was working on my own….
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Comments
I was in Chelmsford this morning, so I had the chance to talk to colleagues face-to-face for a change. It’s a weird world!
Shirley
January 6th, 2006
Sorry to have missed you! I would have dragged my marking self in if I’d known!!!!
Gina
January 7th, 2006
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