Conference 7.286::digital

    Pay code "YYO" is the code that used to kick off the home-mailing
    of your paycheck.     However, the other fields are used for
    interoffice mail.  If in fact you are going to maintain an office
    somewhere in a Digital facility, your site code should read that
    facility.
    
    I would suggest you call either the Telecommuting Office hotline
    number (assuming they have one!), or call the People Support
    Network 1-800-544-9944.  They can help you.   The whole Telecom-
    muting Office concept is new, so I am sure there are going to be
    wrinkles that need to be ironed out!  
    
    Good luck, 
    Deb

    In reading the H.O.M.E. application it states that once in the program
    you will no longer be carried on ELF.
    
    PJ

PJ:

> In reading the H.O.M.E. application it states that once in the program
> you will no longer be carried on ELF.

  I think there must be some mistake there�.  Do you cease to
  be an employee when you enter the H.O.M.E. program?  It is,
  after all, supposed to be the "Employee Locator Facility".

                                   Atlant


� I *MEANT* it ambiguously! :-)

    *All MCS New Business Sellers* (at least in Western Region) have been
    put on the Telecommuting program, and they are still in ELF; many
    have updated their entry to reflect the home office telephone number.  
    The old DTN (which is inactive) also shows, but the home office 
    number is there, in the outside tel. no. field.
    
    M.
    
    

    I've been on the H.O.M.E. plan since the joining the prototype group in
    the Mid-Atlantic region (about 3 years ago, I think it was...).
    
    I have an ELF entry (just do a FIND ZOT and I'm there!) with my
    home-office phone number in my DTN field.
    
    I also get my paychecks sent home with sitecode YYO, but I wouldn't
    think of using that sitecode for anything else.  In order to use YYO
    for forwarding mail, etc., we'd need to make certain that there is
    some group "out there" which has access to the home addresses of all
    H.O.M.E. participants and which has been tasked to route mail addressed
    to YYO to the appropriate locations.
    
    As no one has ever said anything about funding such a group, I make the
    active assumption that such a group does not exist (and even if it
    did exist, I'd need some convincing before I'd believe that they would
    be around for the long haul).  The paychecks don't involve address
    lookup, since the address is printed on the stub during processing, so
    forwarding them to homes should not be a difficult process.
    
    BTW, I haven't heard anyone around here talk about the name changing
    from H.O.M.E., but as changing names is one of the things Digital does
    best, it wouldn't surprise me if the name has changed... ;^}
    
    -- Russ

    Re Name change. Most of the folks in the Texas district call the HOME
    program "Home Alone". :-) Perhaps this prompted the name change?
    
    Harry
    

    
    "Home alone", just me and my woefull communications/computer
    infastructure. But hey, I *live* at customer sites anyway.
    I want an Alpha box, any chance at CompUSA or SAMS in the future?
    
    Still waiting on the Ip address.......
    
    -Mike Z.

    It would be nice if Northboro could forward my mail home to me once 
    a month, sometimes I go 6+ months between office visits...

    
    re -.1
    
    <<could forward.....
    
    Me too, 120+ miles to my office visit site, so our admin people try to
    help me out. 
    
    -Mike Z.

    Pay Site = YYY 	gets your pay stubs/checks mailed home
    Site Code = Your site	gets your internal mail to your
    				drop in Digital temporary space
    
    Both changes are made on your EDCF (employee data change form).
    
    With all the people working remotely - whether on the HOME program
    or not, getting your pay stub sent home is a great idea and saves
    the hassle of going in every week to pick it up if you don't plan
    to be near your site on a regular basis.
    
    I use this and it works great!  FWIW

    
    Not only do they send you yours - but occasionally someone elses
    with yours. I guess it was a management cost saving plan - since I
    forwarded the other paycheck to the right person at my expense.
    
    After talking to payroll about it - I am completely satisfied that
    it will happen again, no checks and balances ( i.e. checks in = 
    envelopes out) this simple math seems to escape their grasp.
    
    Otherwise I am quite satisfied with the service.
    

    Trying telling a fellow Digitalie(formerly Deccie) that you don't have
    a DTN and you don't have a site code. I do have a site code, OHF, but
    it's 300 miles away, and I haven't been there in 3 years.
    
    BTW I am a YYO dial-up user of the customer's site to get to Decnet. I
    must dial long distance, by the time that I get thru the ATDT, the *70,
    the ,,,(pauses), the 950-1022, the long distance number, and the MCI
    code, I have exceeded the 40(?) character limitation of my
    communications software, ProComm+ V1.0. 
    
    This was not a problem with the old calling card because I did not have
    to dial the 950-1022 to get to the carrier, AT&T was the default.
    
    I am aware that ProComm+ V2.1, when it comes out may
    resolve my problem, but until then I am at a quandry. 
    Does anyone have an idea...is there someother way to dial ?
     
    I much prefer the calling card to the expense report !
    
    Regards,
    Floyd 

    re .12
    
    >>>BTW I am a YYO dial-up user...
    
    Just curious.  What does YYO have to do with dial-up?
    
    For your dialing string, you "may" be able to save 3 characters
    by doing D*70,,,(etc.) if the modem defaults to tone (instead of pulse)
    and the modem is ready (doesn't need to be "woken up" with "AT").
    
    I hope ProComm+ V2.1 fixes the problem...   Paul

    This response is being entered using ProcComm+ 2.0.  It has the
    necessary support for credit card dialing and has been on the market
    for at least 4 - 6 months.
    
    \dave

    I don't know what the intiials YYO stand for, however I am inclined to
    think that those with that designation will have to be called Yo-yo's.
    
    Sorry.

    I equate YYO with dial-up because I am working at a customer site. I am
    not able to go to a DEC facility to use a DECnet mail account so I must
    dial-up. I suppose if you are in New England and working at a customer
    site and choose to adopt the site code YYO so that you can receive your
    check/stub at your home address, you may not have to dial-up but can go
    to a DEC site,  I can't.
    I am in the field in Carmel, IN. I am two miles from DEC Indy INI but
    I have no relationship with anyone at the site that would allow me to
    go on site to use the Net nor am I allowed to dial-up through the INI
    office. I must dial in through my customer site in Muncie. Their are
    enough Digital employees in the account that we have a link in Detroit
    to OHF.
    Thanks for the comment that saves keystrokes on the modem activation. I
    will try that .
    Thanks for the info on ProComm+ 2.0. I will upgrade this weekend.
    
    BTW...YYO also =
    No Digital cafeterias...I have horror stories about the grease and
    sodium and cigarette smoke that I must endure to eat on site. this is
    not a matter of Stow being better than MRO2 or MRO4 being better than
    ???. 
    These conditions are horrid. Mid-westerners haven't heard the
    information about cholestorol and cancer yet.
    
    All things considered, I would rather be in Indiana...but...
    Regards,       
    Floyd J

    Huh? What do you mean you aren't allowed to dial into Indy?
    
    Get the number and password from the dial-in information system
    and use it; the whole point of this system is to allow folk to 
    access their closest 'port' into the network to keep costs down.
    
    Dave

    
    
     Second the previous, we all work for "Digital". Utilize the resources
    at hand.
    
        

yyo site code = Your on Your Own