Has anyone had success working while on a cruise line like Royal Caribbean or Carnival? How about working overseas in a drastically different timezone for a couple weeks. I used to have a coworker who traveled the country in an RV and homeschooled his kids, but this wasn't in FAANG. Is this possible if you're a fully remote employee? At Amazon? Or other FAANGs? I'm worried the team would resent you for it or be jealous if they see palm trees and bikini babes in in your background. TC: 120k->300k
I would never be jealous of anyone on a cruise line. Iād pity them
Cruises are what poor people think rich people do when they go on vacation. Pretty much the biggest scam out there.
All you can eat, fine dining, spas, drinks, visit countries beaches. But I guess when you're rich already you can afford all that anyways huh? First time not being poor, enlighten me š
Last I went on a cruise internet access was pretty spotty. That was probably 3-5 years ago so could be different now. Time zone probably depends on time zone. I had a coworker live in an rv in the mountains in FAANG, didnāt have much issue. If you want to live in Bali, that might be harder.
Internet access is bad on a cruise ship. Last time I went ~4 years back - I had issues connecting to the vpn. So basically not possible to do any work.
Wifi on cruises is ridiculously expensive and extremely slow.
$15 a day unless you're a regular and yeah im surprised they haven't struck a deal with StarLink yet
You can do it (temporarily) as long as you have reliable internet. I know a lot lot of people do it secretly.
Why canāt you blur the background or have a virtual background?
Went on a cruise in March. Internet was terrible. Couldnāt even get emails downloaded and I had the āfastā package. If you could somehow be offline for a day here and there it might be possible if you were to work when in port .
>>How about working overseas in a drastically different timezone for a couple weeks. Worked while traveling East Asia for a month with team on east and west coast. Had to cut back to only mission critical meetings and had one or two 3am calls, but worked out fine. As someone else said as long as youāre getting the work done no one cares. Everyone on the team knew I was doing this and I had HR approval etc. I was IC at the time. Would be difficult if youāre mgr.
This is kind of my dream, but unfortunately right now Internet at sea consists of really bad latency and dial up speeds. I know this for a fact because I've been on 21 cruises most of which were on the latest most advanced ships across multiple brands. Should get a lot better once Starlink is available.
As long as you're getting your work done and aren't holding up the team, no one is going to care.