We did an evaluation on several out of the box ecommerce solutions and none of them were able to meet the requirements that absolutely had to be there. Shopify flat out said no, they can't help us, etc.

The processes you use, or try to use, are limited by the culture of management that work above and around you in other departments. Changing that culture to be accepting of the nature of software development is difficult, particularly in my case where we are interacting with non technically-minded people who are prone to make decisions based on their emotions and/or their own motivations regarding office politics.

We both have our appendix.

Though to your point, whether you can develop a milk allergy later in life I am not sure.

Hang in there!

I am the same. I've only ever met 1 person who I would want to hang out with outside of work.

Been working 12+ years remotely in a company that has been doing it even longer in some departments. It works and you can get around all the complaints no problem. I understand some people prefer to work in an office and I understand it also depends on the type of business you are it. I get that but people also need to remember times change.

The company I work for considers themself a MSP. The parent company is a sales company selling non software products.

In any case, yeah it happens.

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-ther...

"AECL never publicly released the source code, but several experts including [Nancy Leveson] did obtain access for the investigation. What they found was shocking. The software appeared to have been written by a programmer with little experience coding for real-time systems. There were few comments, and no proof that any timing analysis had been performed. According to AECL, a single programmer had written the software based upon the Therac-6 and 20 code. However, this programmer no longer worked for the company, and could not be found.'

a) If you can and your company is willing, request a monitor. If your laptop allows for more than 1 monitor, ask for more than 1. Also I prefer to use a mouse and external keyboard, so why not request that as well. Your home is now your office so in an ideal world, your company should treat it as such and supply you with what you need.

b) Treat working from home as if you are at work. If you are new to this, then dress like you are going to work or something similar that gets you into the work mindset. Also make sure spouses, children, roommates, etc. understand you are work and not available.

On a related note on of my most memorable classes in college was Philosophy of Business Ethics. One of the many takeaways I had was that business do not make decisions. People (agents) in the business make the decisions. Disney did that, Disney decided this, what's best for Disney is, etc. But in reality people are making these decisions, not some nebulous company concept. Same concept as you are pointing out.

Apply elsewhere. Sounds like a fishy environment to work in to me.