Truer words have never been spoken.

Excuses me, why isn't this on top?

Always remember a customer that I had fitted carpets for saying, "lucky for you it was such an easy job" I said "after twenty years it's weird how the more I do the job the easier it gets"

Very relatable!

Fun idea, but I wouldn't feel right putting my friends through that misery.

True words

BAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it.

If you can WFH, you're not allowed to be 100% sick.

We're censoring "stupid" now? How stupid.

Hands down, best thing about having kids.

Not so simple..

Yea not that most people (predominantly women) feel super bad and guilty everytime they have to do it and then work in the evening to make up lost time. And yea sure it’s great to rush back from the office after school called to tell you your kid is sick / injured etc. Super stupid and ignorant post that one.

Because in truth I do have a kid. He just happens to be 5 pounds and hairy...

Saying that though, you get to holiday with off-peak prices. 😉

How long before they realize your kid is nonexistent? Lol

or fake smoking so you can work an hour less a day

I need to pick up my cat from daycare.

What are they supposed to cross-reference?

Ha, didn't work for me at all, had to just take the laptop home and carry on working. Unpaid because my hours were part time but my boss still gave me a full time workload.

Yeah, unless you work in IT, then you are more likely comparing notes on the new system, and whether your job critical software works on the newer version, or do you need to delay rolling it out longer.

Oh, I do this a LOT. She'll be like "well, I already knew that" or "I don't need to be in this email chain," and I'll go "you asked me about this, so I assumed you'd want to know about that as well." I think the message is pretty clear.

Evil but satisfying.

But every company wants 110%

Guilty

I would definitely bring popcorn for this.

I bring a kind of “I spent 5 days a week surrounded by people who made me traumatised when I WAS a kid” vibe to these kind of conversations that the OPs don’t really like.

And let me tell you, that's a fine line to walk without occasionally toppling over.

Yet they don’t pay for it hm…

Yep questions like do you take milk - no I'm. vegan. Would you like. biscuit - are they vegan? Would you like a cake/chip/ most anything going round in an office. You can take something and jus throw it in the bin - and they get upset. You can just say 'no thanks' and you'll be asked why not. Can't win really.

LMAO

And it will lose

I like to go that extra milestone and add retirement 😘

Guilty as charged.

At my job if the power went out for two hours we got to go home and it went off for like an hour and 40 minutes we were so excited haha

10 minutes of pre-dread warmup, then the actual time to do so, then really get up ( to turn off the alarm)

I hear ya, Op.

I tell myself I am going to slack on my work like 70% of the people in our department, but I just cannot do it. I annoy myself.

Haha I love those Friday afternoon emails. “Dear person. Your inability to organise yourself does not constitute an emergency on my part”

True dat.

There's a name for that. It's called Rectal Glaucoma. It's when you just can't see your a*s coming to work today.

How do I get myself said demon?

Let’s set up a gym that morphs in to a bar in late February

That's the longest 2 weeks of your life.

I love this! "She sent that email before checking it over. It's not a mistake you can afford to make at this level."

Nope my job is more like "unless you're dying or in the hospital you BETTER be here!" And now everybody is sick.

I work on contract basis. Grab a rate rise practically every time I switch employers.

if there were no taxes, your employer would still only pay you the same net pay.

Why not keep the "sliding doors" concept many of us in Europe already have, you clock in anytime between 7 and 9 and clock out 8 hours later accordingly?

OHHH... you mistook that for a REQUEST....

I always return back to work on a Wednesday or Thursday - no way I'm doing a full week straight after a break.