{"id":74355,"date":"2020-06-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74355"},"modified":"2020-06-07T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:28:17","slug":"questions-nobody-is-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74355","title":{"rendered":"Questions Nobody Is Asking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbescommunicationscouncil\/2020\/06\/04\/reconfiguring-the-modern-office-making-the-shift-to-virtual-long-term\/\">Business gurus are excited that working from home will become The New Normal<\/a>, everyone will embrace it, and it&#8217;ll be great.<br>I wonder about weird things like the Americans with Disabilities Act.<br>If I were in the office, I would have a sit-stand desk and ergonomically correct chair, with my keyboard positioned at the proper height to avoid a repetitive motion injury that results in a workers comp claim.<br>If I&#8217;m working from home, doing the employer&#8217;s work on the employers time, shouldn&#8217;t I be sitting at the employers desk? Aren&#8217;t they supposed to supply me with the correct equipment and if they don&#8217;t, can I make a workers comp, disability or discrimination claim?<br>We&#8217;ve all been good sports til now, working on a laptop at the kitchen table.\u00a0 As we realize it&#8217;s just a scam,\u00a0 that we are in no danger,\u00a0 the goodwill will fade.\u00a0 The transition will not be as easy as they think.<br>Joe Doakes\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps.  The ADA wrangling that Joe is talking about is going to put a lot of lawyers&#8217; kids through school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, my home office is a home-made stand\/sit desk (hacked Ikea parts, with a bar stool for when I don&#8217;t feel like standing), five monitors on two computers, and everything else I need.  It&#8217;s like a private corner office.   The only thing I miss is &#8211; and I mean this sincerely &#8211; my co-workers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business gurus are excited that working from home will become The New Normal, everyone will embrace it, and it&#8217;ll be great.I wonder about weird things like the Americans with Disabilities Act.If I were in the office, I would have a sit-stand desk and ergonomically correct chair, with my keyboard positioned at the proper height to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74356,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355\/revisions\/74356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}