r/remoteworks

had a client last week ask for "one small thing" that ended up taking 4 hours. said yes because we were near the end of the project and I didn't want to make it awkward. happened 3 times on this same project.

do you guys actually push back on this? do you charge for it? how do you even bring it up without feeling like the bad guy?

You gotta applaud the fact they predicted everything becoming digital and accessible in a home office. But they couldn’t quite let go of their newspapers- makes sense to print out an enormous physical newspaper, right?

I’m trying to get into the Virtual Assistant world and launched my “business” about a month ago and still no clients. I’ve sent messages to my contacts, I have made posts on facebook and LinkedIn, posted gigs on Fiverr and UpWork, and I’s applied for a bunch of jobs on varies job searching sites. So I want to find how other people have successfully gotten jobs, especially for little experience. (I’m in South Africa btw)

I went in for an eye test last week. The assistant was there, i said hi, then heard someone else talking from somewhere. Took me a second to figure out the actual optician was on a screen in the corner.

She moved back home during covid and never came back. She had cameras right up in my face and was controling all the equipment from wherever she lives. The assistant just did what she told her.

My job keeps sending emails about coming back for collaboration. She is checking peoples actual eyeballs from home but my company needs me in office to reply to emails apparantly.

Makes you wonder what "remote work isnt possible for this role" actually means. If someone can diagnose vision problems through a screen, what job genuinley requires physical presence? Meanwhile Ive spent time actually building out a proper home setup that lets me work better than I ever did in the office, but apparantly that doesnt count for anything. At this point it feels less about capability and more about management comfort levels.