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- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -9/+94Thanks for using a lot of gas Dave...
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+54"I have a great job and my family loves the ranch where we live," Givens said.
Unforturnately, his family hasn't seen much of him since 1989 and his wife is sleeping with another man, who his kids call Daddy. - elvis314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Cisco = high tech job; high tech job = telecommute; It must be nice to have a ranch that you never get to spend any time at. My question would be with 7 hours of day of driving, when does he have time to do anything except work, drive, sleep other tha the weekends.
4:30 wake up
5:00 hit the road
8:00 clock in for work
12:00 lunch break
12:30 back to work
4:30 head home
8:00 get almost home
8:15 leave gas station
8:30 get home and eat dinner
9:30 go to bed and sleep for 7 hours
damn - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+59What an *****. Grow some balls and tell the wife "We're moving back to the city, I don't give a ***** if you don't like having neighbors. Wanna get a job and support yourself? Then you can stay on the ranch."
- tamoneya, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36it would be most ironic if the prize was a new SUV.
- medarby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34Dave and his family probably have the usual stuff, mp3 player, tvs, bikes, etc. that everyone else has, plus the insanely long commute. While he is using a lot of gas, it's still just a piddly amount in the big scheme of things.
If he wants to spend all that time and money in the car, fine by me. I think it's kind of funny that he'd rather own a ranch that he's hardly at for a family he hardly sees, and that his family would rather have the ranch then have him at home. - iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34yeah. i could see how spending that 35 more hours a week away from your kids than you have to would be considered great parenting. my guess is his wife is shagging the mailman too.
- john570, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31"Loves his wife and kids"
Are you kidding? He is never there. And when he is there he is asleep. Someone said it above. "Why doesnt this guy stay for the week and commute home on the weekends". This is just plain stupid. - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Or maybe he's having an affair.
- cutechimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24It seems that his family love the ranch more than they love him. Is the sacrifice worth it?
- birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+227 hrs on the road
8 hrs at work
7 in bed
=
22 hours out of 24
The article's title should be "Cisco Engineer has no life" - Kuipo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Maybe his wife is making unreasonable requests...
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24All I can say is, she had better have a glass of bourbon and a 5-course gourmet meal waiting for him every night. As soon as he is done eating, she should be kneeling with her mouth open like a baby bird looking for a worm. Hell, she should recruit her best friend to be right next to her doing the same thing.
- kazsymonds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I dont see why he doenst live there during the week, even if its just a cheap motel.
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16You're saying you goof off more when you work at home than you do in the office? I guess it depends on your personality. I am typically much more productive working at my home office than my real office. I think I'm more relaxed which has a tremendous impact on my productivity.
- gunner2398, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I am all for sacrificing to balance the great job/great home but far apart problem, but come on whats the point of living 186 miles from your job? It's obvious to me his kids (and wife) are getting the shaft as they are never going to see him during the week and he is going to be so exhausted on the weekends.
Why not work 4 ten hour shifts for christ sake?
It sounds pretty god damn dumb if you ask me. The only person that should be driving 1,860 miles a week for work is a truck driver (or Fed Ex man, etc.) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"Maybe he loves his wife and kids and makes the sacrifice for them."
It'd make more sense to sacrifice the job and get something closer to home - ohhhL3ThaL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11hey *****, walk to work if you are gonna brag like that.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I think the contest he won requires you to go home every day. Lets all laugh at Dave everyone, (Nelson Muntz voice) ha-ha!
- LordOfTheSponge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12why don't you just walk across the street?
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This stumps me because Engineers are supposed to be practical and logical, so why is it that this guy can't figure out that he's spending nearly 1/3 of his day on the road. It all adds up to a life practically sitting alll day (cubicle roller chair, and car seat) without his family...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11This guy needs to get a pilots license and a small airplane.
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"Cisco = high tech job; high tech job = telecommute"
Not necessarily. Many high tech jobs require you to handle equipment (move things on/off a rack, power cycle boxes, plug in cables, etc). Sadly, although many high tech jobs can be done via telecommuting, there is still a strong resistance by many managers to the idea. I guess they fear you will sit at home all day surfing the net, playing video games and talking to your friends on the phone, things that are not done by folks in the office . - PantherX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Proof that you can be a Cisco Engineer and still be an idiot.
- fnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yes, but this guy is d r i v i n g to work. You wouldn't see him booting up his lappy & playing MS Solitaire while driving 90 mph on the highway.
- chiller2002, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I would think that he could at least work four 10-hour days, or three 12-hour days plus the occational extra day. Many local companies are switching to that to help employees save money on gas. The companies need to just spread out which days the employees have off to make sure someone is in the office.
186 miles / 35 miles per gallon = 5.3 gallons each way, 10.6 gallons per day.
10.6 gallons * 50 weeks = 530 gallons per year
530 gallons * $2.80 per gallon = $1484 saved by only working 4 days per week. - timalmond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I once tried travelling over 4 hours a day, by train, and it wore me out. Doing 7 in a car? I'd rather work in a store and scale my life down than do that.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Well, someone has to set the record.
- petro62, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I wonder how many times this guy has been late? I mean driving that far he must run into traffic jams and or weather that slows him down. "why were you late Dave?" "Man I drive nearly 200 miles to get here so kiss my ass"...Seriously though he needs a place in town and then just go home on the weekend to be with his fam because it isn't like he can spend any quality time with them at the rate he is going.
- nmap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+97 hours total each day, not 14.
- nmap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I agree, you think he'd be able to come up with some sort of clever solution, either working from home, or finding a new job....
The guy's wasting his life sitting in the car 7 hours every day. - newevilmind, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10it's annoying that anyone would do this.
just move closer to your work!!! - bede, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I regularly telecommute and I find that I get far more done at home. I may 'goof off' a little form time to time, and my working hours don't follow the 9-5 'office' routine, but just in terms of personal well being and freedom from interruptions, I find it a much more productive way to work.
- BumKnee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7merkle,
At least a lot of the Long Islanders are taking the train and can read, sleep, etc. I still think they are all nuts. I'll stick with my 3.0 mile commute. - Kendal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There's actually a term for people who trade their lives in for lengthy commutes, justifying it with the combined satisfaction they get at either end.
That term is dumb-ass. - nmap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Would those 6 hours not be more productive if you had a real working environment?
On a train you have an unstable surface, cramped conditions and many distractions.The fact you can get some work done, does not mean it's the best place to work.
Not to mention the cost of the train tickets, and the commute to and from the station. - bede, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"It's 3.5 hours each way, totalling 7 hours/day."
errrm, that's what birdwatcher said didn't he? The math(s) looks fine to me... - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, and I thought MY 35 miles commutes (I don't drive either -- car pool) per day was bad enough. This is not even normal 8 to 5 shift (10am to 7pm). Sometimes one way can take up to two HOURS one way if L.A. traffic totally suck. So I could lose about four hours a day! I'd love to move closer to or in Santa Monica, but the prices are so crazy! Grr! We need transporters already and I don't care if they are buggy!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5When I worked in Fairfax, VA I worked with several people who lived Winchester, VA (75 miles away) and just over the border into West Virginia (well over 100 miles away). Their reasons were the same, they wanted to live somewhere where they could get some land and their significant others refused to leave family.
There are actually enough people commuting into DC from the Northern Shenandoah Valley with 2-3 hours commutes that carpooling is no uncommon.
Commuting along the Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC corridor is not uncommon either and made a lot easier by Amtrak and commuter rail (the real stuff, not those light trolly things in other cities that nobody actually uses). Stop someone on the stree in DC and ask where they are from and you'll be susprised how many are from Baltimore or points north. Commute to the MARC station near BWI and take the train all the way in to Union Station and then get on the Metro to get where you are going inside the city. - tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm sure the reason he gives in the article for doing this makes sense to him.. As for me... anything over an hour and a half commute would require me to reconsider my living arrangments..
- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@michaelstone: what are you talking about? 7 hours driving, 8 hours working and 7 hours in bed equals 22 hours and 2 hours spare time per day.
He really shouldn't be getting a prize for this. A prize for illogical thinking and stupidity!? - nmap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's about 370 miles between the two. Three hours is optimistic too, the average time from www.nationalrail.co.uk is more than 4h30 per journey (not including delays) ;)
- Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Let's just say his kids aren't the same colour...
(This is not meant to be a racist remark... ie: Me, Myself and Irene) - briahn06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4maybe he's developing human teleportation for cisco
- Kimi3013, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'll be impressed if London it 200 miles from Edinburgh. The sign out side my house says it's 114 miles to Edinburgh, and I'm in Newcastle. London being the best part of 300 miles from me...
- finnif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is how you know telecommunication is a lie: here in Silicon Valley, we're the home of all things Internet. Yet as the last bubble grew, and now that Google's growing, our traffic sucks. Why is that? Because telecommunication is mostly a myth.
I have a bunch of friends who are managers at these companies, they won't hire people who want to telecommute. Those people often don't get anything done. Hence, it's traffic as usual here in the valley. - PecanHead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No, he means "transporters". He has been walking to work all this time. He even said he doesn't care if it's a buggy.
- Norseman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Noted. As you can see, fatigue, such as from being up at 5:00 AM, is bad for brains.
- akilleen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They tried asking her, but she was, uh, busy at the moment.
- diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5not sure why you guys are getting modded down. makes sense to me. i think the guy should pickup a pilots license and fly into san jose airport or some other executive small landing strip.
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