9 August 2006
Get your coat, you’ve pulled!
This working from home malarkey is really something, I can tell you. Today we got up at 9am (what bliss! A lie-in! On a work day!) before both settling down at our respective computers to earn our honest bucks and ensure that the mortgage gets paid. We took it in turns to make tea and to stroke the cat who likes nothing better than to sit on the lap of someone sat at a keyboard.
We worked through until after 2pm and then made lunch which we ate while watching an episode of Farscape on DVD, before strolling companionably, hand-in-hand down to the allotment to continue the weeding and watering routine for an hour or so. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and I was delighted to see that the leeks I planted on Monday from here already seem to be doing well.
I picked some beans, a courgette and dug up some potatoes, all of which we will be having for tea tonight after we’ve finished the rest of our work (another couple of hours of marking for me).
So, a relaxed day, good company, a long dinner break, a lap cat and still loads of work crossed off my to do list!
As far as I’m concerned, everybody should be allowed to work like this.
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 6:53 pm
I wish! We have home working at work, but the Council is somewhat reluctant to allow the prols to take advantage of it
(11.08.06 @ 9:41 am)
I know. I’ve worked plenty of places where it should have been possible to work from home but there was so little trust that it was never allowed except for very high up people. And since then I’ve done a lot of work that can’t be done from home. Now, as I work for myself some of the time I can do what I like, and in my employed job I am high enough up the chain to be trusted to do what I want where I want it. But I definitely think that it should be available to more people.
Then again, this might be why I’m not an economist!
(11.08.06 @ 10:44 am)