The Work Thread 2 - Get back to work!

JChalmers wrote:So since returning back to the office I’ve managed to negotiate down to 1 day in the office and 4 at home. I run our biggest account in Europe (Amazon) and basically said I prefer to sit in my man-cave, headphones in, on my own and get on with work rather than sit in the open plan office where it’s stupidly noisy.

Boss didn’t 100% agree but said we’d see how we go…. Well I’m doing my 1 day in the office today and I’ve had to listen to the Marketing team waffle on about rats, mice, badgers and strawberry floating hedgehogs for 45mins without them doing a single bit of work.

Safe to say I’ve proved my point that working from home is a million times better than sitting in the office just because.

Surely strawberry floating a hedgehog in work is grounds for dismissal?

Tomous wrote:
JChalmers wrote:So since returning back to the office I’ve managed to negotiate down to 1 day in the office and 4 at home. I run our biggest account in Europe (Amazon) and basically said I prefer to sit in my man-cave, headphones in, on my own and get on with work rather than sit in the open plan office where it’s stupidly noisy.

Boss didn’t 100% agree but said we’d see how we go…. Well I’m doing my 1 day in the office today and I’ve had to listen to the Marketing team waffle on about rats, mice, badgers and strawberry floating hedgehogs for 45mins without them doing a single bit of work.

Safe to say I’ve proved my point that working from home is a million times better than sitting in the office just because.

Surely strawberry floating a hedgehog in work is grounds for dismissal?

Tomous wrote:
JChalmers wrote:So since returning back to the office I’ve managed to negotiate down to 1 day in the office and 4 at home. I run our biggest account in Europe (Amazon) and basically said I prefer to sit in my man-cave, headphones in, on my own and get on with work rather than sit in the open plan office where it’s stupidly noisy.

Boss didn’t 100% agree but said we’d see how we go…. Well I’m doing my 1 day in the office today and I’ve had to listen to the Marketing team waffle on about rats, mice, badgers and strawberry floating hedgehogs for 45mins without them doing a single bit of work.

Safe to say I’ve proved my point that working from home is a million times better than sitting in the office just because.

Surely strawberry floating a hedgehog in work is grounds for dismissal?

I know creates quite a prickly situation.

You'll never be the headhog of a major corporation.

Generic HCA applications have been frozen so my decision to apply has been halted. However, as I opted not to be part of the the security team, (because an extra £20 a week to deal with the occasional knife wielding maniac in A&E wasn't at all tempting), my shift pattern was moved back to days. I'm now a waste porter, which is fine by me. Mon-Fri, 10-6pm, no weekends and no Bank Holidays with the added bonus I'm left to my own devices and can happily avoid the management and internal politics found in the porters lodge. It's like a weight has been lifted.

Gemini73 wrote:Generic HCA applications have been frozen so my decision to apply has been halted. However, as I opted not to be part of the the security team, (because an extra £20 a week to deal with the occasional knife wielding maniac in A&E wasn't at all tempting), my shift pattern was moved back to days. I'm now a waste porter, which is fine by me. Mon-Fri, 10-6pm, no weekends and no Bank Holidays with the added bonus I'm left to my own devices and can happily avoid the management and internal politics found in the porters lodge. It's like a weight has been lifted.

I read that as you didn't get any weekends or holidays and it scared me for a second that you'd be happy with that. :lol:

Reading it back I can see how that might come across.

Hated working from home today. Can't wait to be back in the office tomorrow.

What have you become

That's not a growth wrote:What have you become

A Tory by the looks of it :dread:

Zilnad has fallen through the looking glass. There's no hope for him. Shun him — shun the non-believer!! :evil:

It's just so much more efficient to be able to look over my monitor and ask my manager a question face to face. And you don't get the communal banter at home.

Zilnad wrote:It's just so much more efficient to be able to look over my monitor and ask my manager a question face to face. And you don't get the communal banter at home.

Zilnad's wife has no bants, confirmed

Work announces today they're introducing a "vaccine mandate" for the office to be entirely handled on the honour system. So not a mandate then. And they're scrapping the requirement to wear masks in the office which actually was a mandate.

As an addendum to the above, I had a video meeting just now with someone in the office and I counted at least five people walking around in the background not wearing masks. And that's a mandate that's supposed to be enforced.

But they're immune because they've had their jabs!!!!

Team leader asks when everyone is in the office next week because they want an in-person meeting with everyone. I remain on mute and the others give their answers, team leader moves on without speaking to me.

If I just stopped replying to emails, would anyone notice? I reckon I could remain employed for at least two months before they got suspicious.

Work bought up sending me to London again - I said I still wasn't comfortable and I felt the cases were astranomically high (because compared to everywhere else in the world they are) and then my boss told me to not spread hyperbole and that I'm entitled to my opinion. What the strawberry float.

Did he say "Hyper Bowl"?

If you said astronomically high they have a point.

They are high, but not as high as they have been, and the impact of those cases is dropping.

Ultimately if it's your job then what they say goes. There will always be cases, at some point you have eithe become a hermit or suck it up.

The Work Thread 2 - Get back to work!

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