#1586

They aren’t even thinking about making a decision yet where we are, and I imagine when they do there’ll be a period of “you can come into the office if you want to” rather than “you must come back to work”

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#1587

yeah we’re just so big that they need to let everyone know the rough outline plenty in advance. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they roll the date back quite a lot more

#1588

I like the suggestion that the first one offers the option of going in to piss about a bit.

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#1589

Given the risk assessments and interactions with other teams who need to be in much more than we do, I can’t see my department being back in for anything more than the odd day before September at the earliest.

#1590

My workplace survey (carried out mid-Nov to mid-Dec last year, 2k+ respondents) results just published.

Returning to the workplace
Future working arrangements:

  • Should be a flexible and agile approach to where staff work from in the future - 95% agreed
  • Staff should continue to work from home - 72% agreed

Slightly ambiguous questioning without a specific timeframe attached to the Q, but seems like there’s a pretty unambiguous leaving towards not just trooping back into the office full time, en masse.

Will be interesting to see how that pans out. I only got a laptop in October, the main program I need is basically unusable on it, and I’ve only just been given a mobile phone. :grinning:

#1591

My manager has been pretty proactive and I think we are the first team to go essentially fully virtual. Contracts updated and everything. I can be asked to attend the office a maximum of one day per month apparently.

I am pretty happy about this and is what I’ve been hoping for but now it’s a reality a bit sad that London days are over (for now anyway) - the drinks after work and meeting up with people mostly. But on balance, looking back to pre-Covid, the commute/hours/money… it’s absurd. I don’t think I’d ever go back to that now given the choice.

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#1592

It’s a lot easier being really tired when WFH

Today would be an absolute nightmare if I’d had to commute in and pretend I’m not half-dead at the office

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#1593

I don’t usually eat breakfast but today I had a whole easter egg.

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#1594

Thought this was the daily thread ffs.

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#1595

it’s better this way

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#1596

confirmation of receipt for @dktrfaustus’ Q1 self-appraisal

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#1597

Getting dressed

  • Up and ready for whenever work starts
  • Getting dressed is a work task

0 voters

#1598

ideally i’ll have a shower and get dressed before i start work but often cba and will join a teams meeting with a jumper on over my pyjamas

#1599

Only because I always wake up so fucking early.

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#1601

A year ago I had a makeshift office set up in the living room, a year on I don’t even get out of bed and turn my laptop on about a minute before work starts. Feels a bit scummy but also glorious

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#1602

Bit of a, bit of b. If I’m on early reporting I’ll do it in my dressing gown while I’m still half asleep then go off and turn into a human. Normal day I’ll get dressed and get the brekkie on before logging on.

We also now have a team policy of “cameras on”, which apparently we all asked for, so that affects it. In common with all policies that the team management know I will be the most vocal opponent of, I am going along with it like a model citizen up to the point where everyone forgets about it.

#1603

Coming back after holiday when WFH makes me very physically ill. I’m not sure if I had this before the Pandemic but it’s so horrible

#1604

Any idea why? Do you like your job? Could it be stress related?

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#1605

I don’t like my job and I find it alternately boring and extremely stressful. As we’re also one person to a project in my team there’s also the fear no one is minding the shop so to speak.

#1606

Oh that so rings a bell! This is a massive bugbear of mine and you’re right to highlight it.

A few years back I joined an organisation and had quite a full on first year handling a fairly major project. As a reward me and Mrs F decided to take a three week holiday interrailing around Europe the following summer, which was fab. When I returned I discovered that nobody had done literally anything at all to move my project forward in my absence. That triggered a descent into depression that eventually ended up with me losing my job a while later.

There’s no easy solutions to your current position, but I’d take it as seriously as you can manage. I’ve been there and it doesn’t get better unless you can change something. Sorry I can’t come up with more than the obvious solutions, but if going back to work is causing you stress then it’s not exaggeration to say you should consider talking to your GP about it.

Best of luck anyway. Hope this isn’t too alarming.

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