The working from home thread
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
no, gross
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Fucking hypocritical piece of shit, he's got no place talking about "pretending to work", the fucking billionaire parasite.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
How to downsize without opening the chequebook for redundancy payouts.
He knows exactly what he’s doing.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I booked today to have a smart meter fitted and work from home so it could happen.
My little office is one of the hottest places in a hot house. I wish I was in the air con of the office right now.
My little office is one of the hottest places in a hot house. I wish I was in the air con of the office right now.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Bit bored of it now. Partner has Covid so I'm staying away. I quite like a day or two a week, but feel out the loop. We are pretty quiet, but I can't go far from my office in case the phone rings.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
There are rumours that the rest of finance are being asked to be in 2 days a week now. Whenever they’re in they spend most of their time on calls to people in other parts of the business at other locations
We’ve not yet been told to increase from our 1 day / week. I definitely feel more productive at home (when I choose to be) and being able to have a lie down at lunchtime / sit in the garden sure beats lunch at my desk.
We’ve not yet been told to increase from our 1 day / week. I definitely feel more productive at home (when I choose to be) and being able to have a lie down at lunchtime / sit in the garden sure beats lunch at my desk.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I have to have everything out the night before. Do not pass go, just get out the door and beat the traffic and do stuff like run, shower and eat breakfast when I get there.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yes! Eating a selection of cheese with some polish sausages in the garden beats the canteen.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I usually start work at 8 when in the office - beat the traffic and can sod off home at 4pm. Pack laptop bag the night before and leave it by the door. Usually do my supermarket shopping on the way home to save taking the car out again.
Worse thing is having to wear uncomfortable scratchy trousers in the summer, it’s shorts every day at home
Cloo
Banana for scale
2 months into my new role and I’m really appreciating working somewhere people come into the office. Going in twice a week is good for my brain and motivation, and it shows up what a sad state of affairs it was in my last job where barely anyone was coming in. And still not coming in, from what I’ve heard.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I do 8 to 5
I'm bonkers enough that on days I dont run I'll stop at the Tesco near work. And put things like meat in the office fridge.
I read stuff online with people saying they don't go to work to socialise, but I like the interaction. Plus I can call someone on Teams it's different to when I used to speak to guy who was only remote, so I never got to know him the same way. Obviously helps if you like the people you work with.
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
I sort of accidentallied working from home, but I've still got a desk in the office, admittedly it's now a desk with nothing plugged in, in the corner of a meeting room.
Since we had a restructure over 18 months ago, I've become a team of one and rarely go to the office because everyone there is doing a different job to me. I can read a room, and me bouncing in and out is not appreciated on a couple of levels. I distract everyone and they all have tough kpis to meet, and most days I'll be working in a doctor's, hospital, school etc... All the places where covid lurks... and it puts them at increased risk. Plus I have way more fun in my job than they do
So yeah, I wfh, and also have offices in other people's services that I get to use across town, and I do a lot of meetings in cafes and the beach.
The only thing I'd like to change is having some big portable screen, that I can use outside with my laptop. But I'd want it to fold up really small. It's an amazing time of year here, I'd like to work outside all day, but when it comes to office work I need a couple of screens. I was working at the beach last week and the sun was too bright, I had to make my curser about a foot long and fluro green to see it in the glare. First world problem right there
Since we had a restructure over 18 months ago, I've become a team of one and rarely go to the office because everyone there is doing a different job to me. I can read a room, and me bouncing in and out is not appreciated on a couple of levels. I distract everyone and they all have tough kpis to meet, and most days I'll be working in a doctor's, hospital, school etc... All the places where covid lurks... and it puts them at increased risk. Plus I have way more fun in my job than they do
So yeah, I wfh, and also have offices in other people's services that I get to use across town, and I do a lot of meetings in cafes and the beach.
The only thing I'd like to change is having some big portable screen, that I can use outside with my laptop. But I'd want it to fold up really small. It's an amazing time of year here, I'd like to work outside all day, but when it comes to office work I need a couple of screens. I was working at the beach last week and the sun was too bright, I had to make my curser about a foot long and fluro green to see it in the glare. First world problem right there
Numbers
an ting!
Clothes wise it’s no bother as I can wear what I want and I don’t iron anything anymore.
I do like to shave my head each morning which can be a nightmare when it’s hot.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
I've been into the office today to start clearing my desk and filing cabinets.
I'm happy to be a permanent home worker, with the ability to book an office as and when required.
I'm happy to be a permanent home worker, with the ability to book an office as and when required.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I’ve never worked anywhere where I’ve socialised with colleagues - a mixture of me , the type of work I do and the people it attracts + the workplaces I’ve been at (people driving to work = no work drinks)
So didn’t really have anything to miss. Friends in London who are partiers seem to have a lot of work friends.
My current team are good folks, half of them are based in a different office so rarely see them. I think seeing people on fewer days as you’re not in the office means you don’t end up finding them annoying. Probably I’ve become more tolerant too
Numbers
an ting!
My hours are flexible so I have no set start or end time. I usually start around 6 when at home, between 7 and 8 when in the office. Sometimes when I come into the office I leave at 1 or 2 and dial in when I get home for an hour or 2.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I sort of accidentallied working from home, but I've still got a desk in the office, admittedly it's now a desk with nothing plugged in, in the corner of a meeting room.
Since we had a restructure over 18 months ago, I've become a team of one and rarely go to the office because everyone there is doing a different job to me. I can read a room, and me bouncing in and out is not appreciated on a couple of levels. I distract everyone and they all have tough kpis to meet, and most days I'll be working in a doctor's, hospital, school etc... All the places where covid lurks... and it puts them at increased risk. Plus I have way more fun in my job than they do
So yeah, I wfh, and also have offices in other people's services that I get to use across town, and I do a lot of meetings in cafes and the beach.
The only thing I'd like to change is having some big portable screen, that I can use outside with my laptop. But I'd want it to fold up really small. It's an amazing time of year here, I'd like to work outside all day, but when it comes to office work I need a couple of screens. I was working at the beach last week and the sun was too bright, I had to make my curser about a foot long and fluro green to see it in the glare. First world problem right there
Something like this?
Numbers
an ting!
The guys (immediate team) I work with are brilliant, we’ve known each other years and have had some blinding days/nights out and whilst not my core mates I consider the majority of them great friends. We’re all off to Amsterdam in November.I’ve never worked anywhere where I’ve socialised with colleagues - a mixture of me , the type of work I do and the people it attracts + the workplaces I’ve been at (people driving to work = no work drinks)
So didn’t really have anything to miss. Friends in London who are partiers seem to have a lot of work friends.
My current team are good folks, half of them are based in a different office so rarely see them. I think seeing people on fewer days as you’re not in the office means you don’t end up finding them annoying. Probably I’ve become more tolerant too
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I think we can start from 7am and as late as 10am and some colleagues do begin early to finish at 3pm but I’m not that much of a morning person so would struggle to do that except for any specific reason.
I do like being able to take advantage of flexi time and often have an early finish if I’m not feeling 100% or just fancy it or there’s not much work on. Unlike some workplaces when you’d have to stay till 5:30pm even though there was nothing to do and you’d worked late the night before!
Interesting - I reckon it’s the driving to work thing which means you don’t have those first beers together and then it all follows …
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
There's 3 of us and we live on different sides of the city so in the end I invited them round to mine for curry and beer with their partners. A lot of alcohol was consumed by all.
Leafster
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I think a lot of it depends on the culture of the workplace. When I started training to be an accountant it was with a smallish traditional practice. The partners (and more senior staff) would wine and dine the clients. This filtered down to all of us and we'd spend time in the pub including the partners, especially on a Friday lunchtime. Work social events always included a lot of food and drink but since the partners were pretty laid back everyone had too much to drink even them. It made it a very friendly place to work and even now, over thirty years later, a lot of us are still really close friends.
I don't think driving to work was a problem for us although most of us did. If an event was planned for the evening then everyone got a bus/train/lift to work. If something spontaneous happened you just left your car in the work carpark for the night.
Cloo
Banana for scale
I don't really know anyone yet, and I'm bad at worj socialising at the best of times, so socialising in a hybrid workplace is tricky, but just being in a place with people helps.
Office is apparently at 70-80% occupation midweek, so probably unusually high but it's a business that does a lot of work f2f.
Office is apparently at 70-80% occupation midweek, so probably unusually high but it's a business that does a lot of work f2f.
I’ve always loved the idea of a drink after work with colleagues. It hasn’t actually worked out as the norm for me unless it’s someone I know’s leaving drinks. This is why if given the option to work from home I’d still go for a day to two in the office for a change of scenery and the chance to go out for a drink with colleagues afterwards.
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