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Everyone else thinks as you’re at home you can chat on the phone for hours/ drop and pick them up everywhere/have all their parcels delivered to you so that you’re up and down all day/pop in randomly for coffee/lunch/chats. |
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over a year ago
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I personally found it really hard to separate work and home life when I was working from home. All my relaxing spaces were taken up with work stuff and I felt like I was always in the office |
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"Everyone else thinks as you’re at home you can chat on the phone for hours/ drop and pick them up everywhere/have all their parcels delivered to you so that you’re up and down all day/pop in randomly for coffee/lunch/chats. "
Yes this 100%! They also expect that you can just do the laundry/ dishwasher/ cook dinner / look for that thing they lost while you're working. Yeah. Fuck off!!  |
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"Everyone else thinks as you’re at home you can chat on the phone for hours/ drop and pick them up everywhere/have all their parcels delivered to you so that you’re up and down all day/pop in randomly for coffee/lunch/chats.
Yes this 100%! They also expect that you can just do the laundry/ dishwasher/ cook dinner / look for that thing they lost while you're working. Yeah. Fuck off!! "
Yep! And all those things! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nobody walks up to you at your desk or by the kettle for a natter. You are very much in your own head.
My change of activity break is to sort washing or put dishes to soak.
NBVN x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not getting to speak to your colleagues with whom who built a great rapport with. Also, not being able to separate work from home unless you go out in order to break it up |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nobody walks up to you at your desk or by the kettle for a natter. You are very much in your own head.
My change of activity break is to sort washing or put dishes to soak.
NBVN x"
They are most definitely not your only change of activity breaks young lady xxx
Mr |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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"Nobody walks up to you at your desk or by the kettle for a natter. You are very much in your own head.
My change of activity break is to sort washing or put dishes to soak.
NBVN x
They are most definitely not your only change of activity breaks young lady xxx
Mr"
*cough* ironing? *cough* |
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"[Removed by poster at 27/06/22 21:48:15]"
You don’t work from home …. You live at work!
But I have to say in my case it’s far more productive and I quite enjoy being at home. At least I get to work 8:30 to 5:15 instead of silly o’clock hours |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I love working from home! Never want to have to work anywhere else again 
What about a fab cafe?
Id go there, but not to work - no one wants me
Making them coffee!"
Strictly professional during office hours. What I get up to on my lunch and water breaks is a different story |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cases of Masturbation in the workplace have risen 700% 
Christ, given how many would have lied and said no... "
I don’t work from bone so it’s not me.
*home |
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I love working from home. I arrive at my desk full of the joys of spring instead of bruised and battered after a two hour commute across London.
I'm not a social person, happy on my own so no problems there. |
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I spend a huge amount of time in bloody pointless meetings. If I was in the office someone would probably ask in passing "anything for X meeting?", but since I'm at home and they want me to feel included I now have to attend them all.
Thankfully I can mess around online and still look engaged. It's a skill.
Using my own utilities and stationery sucks, and not having fixed boundaries between work life and home life is also not great. |
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"I spend a huge amount of time in bloody pointless meetings. If I was in the office someone would probably ask in passing "anything for X meeting?", but since I'm at home and they want me to feel included I now have to attend them all.
Thankfully I can mess around online and still look engaged. It's a skill.
Using my own utilities and stationery sucks, and not having fixed boundaries between work life and home life is also not great."
Same here, luckily with Teams I dont have to have camera and sound on so I can listen to music and continue working. If you get the tax back thingy from HMRC you should be able to recover stationery costs. |
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"I spend a huge amount of time in bloody pointless meetings. If I was in the office someone would probably ask in passing "anything for X meeting?", but since I'm at home and they want me to feel included I now have to attend them all.
Thankfully I can mess around online and still look engaged. It's a skill.
Using my own utilities and stationery sucks, and not having fixed boundaries between work life and home life is also not great.
Same here, luckily with Teams I dont have to have camera and sound on so I can listen to music and continue working. If you get the tax back thingy from HMRC you should be able to recover stationery costs. "
I have claimed but I just find post-its stick better when they're pilfered. Stealing my own stationery just takes a bit of the joy out of it. |
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"I spend a huge amount of time in bloody pointless meetings. If I was in the office someone would probably ask in passing "anything for X meeting?", but since I'm at home and they want me to feel included I now have to attend them all.
Thankfully I can mess around online and still look engaged. It's a skill.
Using my own utilities and stationery sucks, and not having fixed boundaries between work life and home life is also not great."
Those meetings where what is discussed could of just been put in an email and sent round to everyone to save time hahahahaha |
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I dont think the young intern delivering stuff believes that I have a rack , stocks and lots of chains in the bathroom because I do historical re-enactment at weekend. . wish there was another toilet downstairs. |
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The inability to down tools and stop work. Eating 3 meals a day at your desk and generally putting the company before your life.
C19 nearly killed me in this respect. Fuck my life, I ran to that office as soon as I could.
Axxx |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
"Everyone else thinks as you’re at home you can chat on the phone for hours/ drop and pick them up everywhere/have all their parcels delivered to you so that you’re up and down all day/pop in randomly for coffee/lunch/chats. "
All this ^^^
Plus the 'but you're not really working are you' assumption 
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Missing the banter with colleagues. We're now working in the office 1 day a week though and after we spent the whole day yesterday torturing Paul about his tits we've all got to walk a total of 1500 miles in July. |
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I miss aircon in the office on very hot days and an office crush who just made your day a little brighter. Occasionally saying "screw the budget" and going out for lunch.
Hot Parcelforce Guy inevitably turns up when I look like death! |
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