#108

Alarm: 7.30am, snooze until 08:50am
Get up
Cba finishing this, depressing me too much

#109

welcome to the community @endofmusic .

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#110

Put work, childcare, family stuff, eating, chores and errands, pooing and washing etc in a food processor and blend on high for 24 hours. Throw the resulting mix in the bin and repeat tomorrow, endlessly, forever (we do now have to log on for homeschooling at 8:45 on weekdays, which is a massive, massive help)

#111

Weekday routine:

6.30am: wake up; pray that nothing will go too badly wrong today; have a shower, put the kettle on for a cuppa, make and eat breakfast
7am - 6.45pm: work, interspersed with

  • helping with home schooling/doing school runs
  • lunch at 12.30pm
  • new for 2021 we’ve been trying to go out for a 3.15pm walk once the eldest’s lessons are done
  • may have dinner with the girls or may have it later
    6.45pm - 9.45ish
  • do a story for the girls
  • have dinner if I’ve not had it
  • new for 2021 listen to a record
  • watch something on Netflix
    9.45 - 10.30ish: have some reading time in bed
    10.30ish: go to bed

For someone who worries about so many things, I’m blessed with the ability to fall asleep almost within seconds of the lights going out.

#112

For those who have moved to WFH from March 2020:

  • I’m working longer hours since March 2020
  • I’m working shorter hours since March 2020
  • No real change

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For those who are working longer hours:

  • I have more work to do since lockdown
  • I’m juggling childcare commitments
  • I’m ‘working flexibly’ and making positive choices to work a longer day with more breaks etc
  • I feel guilty about dicking around on DiS etc
  • Other reasons

0 voters

#113

7-7.30am: wake up

7.45-8-45am: run

9-12pm: work

12-12.30pm: lunch

1-5.30pm: work

6pm: tea

6.30pm-10.30/11pm – TV (usually football)

10.30/11pm – 11.30pm – episode of something on laptop in bed

11.30pm - sleep

Christ, that’s pretty depressing seeing it written down. I need to join a Fight Club or something.

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#114

Not sure Tyler Durden would endorse zoom fight club

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#115

Just wake up and work. Maybe get a workout in if I’m lucky then dinner and probably an episode of something with MsGarnagle before bed.

Fucking work has been relentless since March and I’m not even really a key worker and I’m tired all the time because of it.

#116

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#117

I think about this a lot - in an office if I had 30 mins between meetings I would basically just check my emails, make a tea, have a chat with a colleague. At home I feel like I need to do demonstrable work in that stupid 30 min gap instead. I’m also rarely away from my laptop over the whole lunch hour whereas in office I would have literally left the office so the whole place could have burnt down in an hour for all I cared. However I do get to nip off for 10 mins to put on a load of washing or something so it’s not like I’m fully chained to my chair, does that it even out? I’m not convinced.

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#118

Something I have noticed is a grass is greener of other people’s routines. So I look at MrS who rolls out of bed, onto the sofa, to his desk and reverses that in the evening whereas I have to get up and ready and out and work, work to come home to him on the sofa where I left him.

Wondered about a poll.

  • I work from home and am jealous of those going ‘out’ to work
  • I work from home happily
  • I go out to work and am jealous of those WFH
  • I go out to work and am happy doing so
  • Something else

0 voters

#119

I am happy going out to work but wish the WFH members of the household would do more even some would be great of the housework whilst they are there

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#120

Yeah in the office we used to go out to buy lunch together and sometimes be meandering around for over an hour (boss included)

At home I go offline on Slack, make my lunch, then usually end up just carrying on doing work whilst eating it. Then I start getting antsy if I haven’t switched back to online after about 20 minutes ffs.

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#121

For me it’s “I work from home happily but my team’s workload has doubled and we were already under massive resource strain so would be happy but actually just stressed all the time.”

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#122

Yes. And there’s less ‘dead’ time at home. Like, if I was attending a multi agency meeting, there’d be travel time, plus the time stood around in reception making conversation before you went in, plus the meetings themselves would be less focused. Whereas I’ll be in a meeting 1.30-2.30, then straight out into another one without a chance to think.

The other thing is that I was spending over two hours a day commuting. And rather than reclaiming that time for myself, most of it is spent working.

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#123

This, so much.

Don’t know about anyone else, but lunchtime meetings in the office were ok because people would bring their lunch into the room if necessary, but no-one eats on Teams. Seems much ruder somehow. So if I have meetings over lunchtime I might not get a chance to eat until 3 or something.

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#124

I had someone eating a snack - UNMUTED! - on one of mine once. :nauseated_face:

#125

I don’t like being away from the hub of work is. Don’t really know what’s changed routine-wise but I’m waking up and finding there’s an extra 3/4 things a day to add on to the list of shit to get done in the morning. I’m knackered by 4 o’ clock. ONE WEEK TIL NOT HOLIBOBS

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#126

If they were wearing a mic headset, then that’s a firing offence right there.

#127

I’m much less productive working from home (hence the longer working hours), but I don’t miss the commute at all.