Blog Why We Should Work From Home

Inspired by various work environments (past and present), and the people who populated them:

Reasons why everyone should work from home!

I have a hangnail. It hurts.
“Work” is a four letter word. Four letter words are impolite!
I hate doing my hair.
Early morning meetings.
I can pee whenever I want to (instead of waiting for the boss to approve a break)
My music can be as loud as I want it to be.
Makeup? Really? Must I?
I will never be tempted by those Friday morning sugar breakfast buffets Dept. X brings in.
What do you mean I can’t spend time on my social networks?
No drive-by problems interrupting my high priority task.
I don’t do ties! (or suit coats)
Late afternoon meetings.
You mean I have time to work-related research? Really? YES!
Coworkers can’t steal my desk candy.
Casual Fridays every day!
Lunch-time meetings.
Cats are much more entertaining than my coworkers.
NO MORE PHONES! You have to find me via email, now. HA!
I can listen stocks / news in the background while answering email.
Will you idiots stop inviting me to meetings already?!?
Coworkers can’t target me in their office-wide Nerf football wars.

Reasons why everyone should work in the office:

All the free food I’d miss if I worked at home.
Hot Chocolate in the breakroom.
Coworkers are so much more entertaining than stocks & the news.
How the heck else would I catch up on office gossip?
The coffee is so much better (and it’s free!) < - Yeah, maybe not.
The building has vending machines. The vending machines have chocolate in them.
Buzz Word Bingo. (What else are meetings good for?)
Blackmail material (I have pictures of the shirt Burt wore into the office today. Bwahahaha)
Targeting coworkers in my office-wide Nerf football wars.
CHOCOLATE (someone in the building has a candy dish of chocolate. I’m sure of it!)
Better office communication. If I’m there, they have no excuse to NOT tell me about urgent Project Y.,
Cats can’t destroy the office laptop like they did my personal one.
The boss can’t forget I exist if my cube is in front of his door.
Office Space, the movie! < - CRAP. I think this one is in the wrong list
Musak numbs the mind, allows the nonsense to be less stupid.
Fodder for Dilbert suggestions! (as if Scott Adams doesn’t have enough fodder as it is)
When I get frustrated, I can take it out on real people instead of the imaginary ones in my home office.