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Spent the day cooking to stock up the freezer - two portions of spicy tomato and tuna, three fish curries, three Shepard's pies, four beef and red wine casseroles. At least if I now get Omicronned then I've got dinners for the isolation period.

And my house smells amazing - someone needs to figure out how aerosolise this so I can put it in air fresheners. Will be rich!!
 
Travelled back from the outlaws - wife is happy she has seen her sister, so it all ends well

Took them out for dinner today at a pub and food was excellent - I had beef steak thin slices - well done - and a rather nice zero alcohol beer

Good to be home and back to my own space
 
Gaz said:
Spent the day cooking to stock up the freezer - two portions of spicy tomato and tuna, three fish curries, three Shepard's pies, four beef and red wine casseroles. At least if I now get Omicronned then I've got dinners for the isolation period.

And my house smells amazing - someone needs to figure out how aerosolise this so I can put it in air fresheners. Will be rich!!
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You could fart into empty tins .. seal them and punt em on ebay
 
At work today I left a video meeting by announcing that I had to take a roast chicken out of the oven and nobody batted an eyelid.

The world is a very strange place these days.
 
The majority of people at my place are office based and I'm one of a small number of homeworkers (Have been for about ten years). Have never made it a secret that I'm not at my desk at home all day long - I see me disappearing in to the kitchen to peel veg for dinner or do some laundry the same as two people in the office standing around in the kitchen talking about last night's game over a coffee. Having said that, I don't think I'd have been as blatant about it as I was this afternoon had they not all gotten experience of homeworking through the pandemic.
Plus, the meeting had already overran it's scheduled time. If it had finished when it was supposed then I wouldn't have had to do it.
 
colin traveller said:
You could fart into empty tins .. seal them and punt em on ebay
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Gaz said:
The majority of people at my place are office based and I'm one of a small number of homeworkers (Have been for about ten years). Have never made it a secret that I'm not at my desk at home all day long - I see me disappearing in to the kitchen to peel veg for dinner or do some laundry the same as two people in the office standing around in the kitchen talking about last night's game over a coffee. Having said that, I don't think I'd have been as blatant about it as I was this afternoon had they not all gotten experience of homeworking through the pandemic.
Plus, the meeting had already overran it's scheduled time. If it had finished when it was supposed then I wouldn't have had to do it.
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Can you're boss tell how many hours you are logged on for .. ?? Like that Boss who sacked 700 via zoom call .. as he cited many of them were logging for short periods whilst getting paid for 8hrs or more basically taking the mick faking an 8 hour shift
 
colin traveller said:
Can you're boss tell how many hours you are logged on for .. ?? Like that Boss who sacked 700 via zoom call .. as he cited many of them were logging for short periods whilst getting paid for 8hrs or more basically taking the mick faking an 8 hour shift
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We use Microsoft Teams (Which is a modern version of the old MSN communicator) and if you're away from the keyboard for a while then it changes your status from active to away - if someone there really wanted to watch that all day then they could figure it out, though you can probably get around that by something as complicated as putting a heavy book on the spacebar.
I can see the productivity of the guys that work for me though and to be honest, most of them do more work when they're at home than in the office. You don't get dragged into meetings and pointless conversations when you're at home, plus it seems to be an almost natural instinct to work longer hours at home since people often just work what would have been their commuting time. I got out of that habit about five years ago - I work my contracted hours and no more unless it directly benefits me, one of my team or they're going to pay me overtime.
 
Gaz said:
We use Microsoft Teams (Which is a modern version of the old MSN communicator) and if you're away from the keyboard for a while then it changes your status from active to away - if someone there really wanted to watch that all day then they could figure it out, though you can probably get around that by something as complicated as putting a heavy book on the spacebar.
I can see the productivity of the guys that work for me though and to be honest, most of them do more work when they're at home than in the office. You don't get dragged into meetings and pointless conversations when you're at home, plus it seems to be an almost natural instinct to work longer hours at home since people often just work what would have been their commuting time. I got out of that habit about five years ago - I work my contracted hours and no more unless it directly benefits me, one of my team or they're going to pay me overtime.
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There is a tendency in my world for people WFH to put in extra hours as there is a perception that those who WFH are getting an easier ride and a large part of the management are against homeworking because they can't micro manage people. But then my organisation is one which changes at a glacial pace.
 
Gaz said:
We use Microsoft Teams (Which is a modern version of the old MSN communicator) and if you're away from the keyboard for a while then it changes your status from active to away - if someone there really wanted to watch that all day then they could figure it out, though you can probably get around that by something as complicated as putting a heavy book on the spacebar.
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FYI: You can manually set your status to something like "busy" or "do not disturb" and whether you are at the keyboard or not won't matter.
 
Having people in home office and office based since the pandemic., I of course need to assess the work done with measuring telephone time with customers and call reports.

I don´t have to complain about people working less...my issue with home office is a loss of informal knowledge being shared around. There are a lot of things in work that are very difficult to formalize all the time: a trick to use the sales report system better, some info on one company that might be useful on another one...and basically all the people listening to what the others are doing and improving as a group.

Once we´re done with this covid crap, everyone is coming back. i will see if as a benefit, people can choose one or two day home office but no permanent situation like now.
 
On another note on the train home .. there was a woman that bigger than Hattie Jacques ..


She needed 2 seats
 
As i was off 2 days .. .there . As blooming always .. the folks who are working the 2 days i was off . Business wise it's pan bread dead ...


It is always a garuntee they never bother doing the main fridge changing the labels .. ditching stuff that isn't needed ..

Must be the krypton factor challenge for some folks .. who clearly have inability to change a label etc ..
 
colin traveller said:
Naw ...................... She was with her Husband ..
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Was he taking also two seats? Otherwise poor bastard that one.

On the working from home thing; yep. It’s sort of cool first especially for those with long or difficult commute but after months on end of it; I found that whilst you may work more and aren’t distracted by other coworkers or your direct boss/manager, and as much as I enjoy being a recluse. It’s good to be back into the work environment and socialize a bit.

During the peak of this pandemic and assuming the worst is behind us, what a life? Wake up, spend eight hours in a row on your laptop, enjoy a quick lunch and go out only for errands as everything else was closed minus the pharmacy?

Not the apocalypse some were expecting. No Zombies, no conventional wars. Only a naughty bug shutting down the world.
 
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