to be "coffee badging" when I'm working from home

This thread is here to have another round of having a pop at people who WFH

I'm going to relabel having a pop at people who work from home as rescue forking. It makes about as much sense as coffee badging.

its not even about this ‘coffee badging’ bollocks. This thread is here to have another round of having a pop at people who WFH because WFH was invented in 2020 and = skiving. Poor performance is a management issue wherever it occurs. And people bitching about skivers, in my experience, very often have no idea about the work that person is actually tasked to do or the agreed circumstances in which they do their work. They see what they want to see.

I just googled, the badge refers to the identity badge for swiping in and it's similar to when school kids used to nip out after the register.

I’m still scratching my head too.

What has coffee and badging got to do with not working.

please explain how these words represent what is being described.

also I have never used the word ‘badging’ before.

i agree.

‘I'm amazed by all these jobs that seem to involve so little actual work!‘

They’re making it up. Most of these people don’t have a clue about WFH or hybrid. It’s froth.

'new' trend of coffee badging - where you go into the office, grab a coffee, get seen by your boss and then leave to work from home

I don't get this at all...so as in, show your face then go home and no one realises? How does that even work?

We work two days in the office a week and my boss is in those same two days. He would absolutely notice if I said 'morning!' at 9am and then was nowhere to be found by 10 😂

I'm amazed by all these jobs that seem to involve so little actual work! I have to log a minimum number of chargeable hours a day (lawyer) so no option to slack off. If WFH i will unload the dishwasher or do a quick tidy while the kettle is boiling but that's about it.

Coffee badging wouldn't work in our office either as there is a record of who has swiped in and out of the building and when. Plus a daily ticket for my commute is £72 (thanks Great Western) so if I've paid to come in to London I'm going to plonk my arse down and stay for the day!

Why does everything need a nonsensical name?

It’s just crap isn’t it. All this stuff accusing people who WFH as automatically being lazy chancers. And throw in public sector - whooo boy. Most of us don’t get a choice about whether we do or don’t WFH. Some of us like it some of us don’t. Most of us just get on with our work whether we WFH or out of the house. We just deal with the pros and cons of each.

All of this finger pointing and blaming really gets me down. It’s always aimed at the people lowest in the hierarchy. If managers can’t manage then point at them, that’s what they get the extra bucks for.

Bless you. Sending one email when working from home is strictly for amateurs. Pros know that you need to programme outlook to send emails at random intervals throughout the day to look like you are hard at it.

I trained my dog to log onto teams and hit a copy and paste comment that says the camera isn't working. Then I trained him to make a hmmm sound so it works well to convince people I am there and listening and I am not a dog. The only problem is when I have to do a presentation because he cannot work out how to screen share despite many many training sessions, but that makes him most believable as a colleague.

Sorry, don’t believe you. I think this is just another post from one of the anti-WFH brigade.

I WFH part of the week and would never even entertain the idea of doing something like this. No one in my organisation would because we have to much to get done in the day and it would be noticed.
Everyone can see when we are online and working and it wouldn’t be obvious if you aren’t pulling your weight because the work wouldn’t be done.

how would that even work if you have to clock in and out with your badge.

I agree. It’s completely stupid.

coffee barking
coffee bowling
coffee blinking
coffee beeping

It’s just making things up and joining words together. Just call it dossing.

isn't work just so people have an income. doesn't matter where you do it if it's just a computer based thing, surely?
Important jobs that need doing you have to be there in person

This is a very good point. My office requires swiping in to both the communal lobby then into our office suite of rooms, but no swiping out. It's just buttons to activate the out doors and the barrier in the lobby auto opens for those exiting.

I do it (well leave early afternoon) and yes I have agreed it. Precisely so that I didn't have to stay in the office until last knockings. That was pre-covid though.

Means I am home by 4pm which is more more civilised than 7pm.

I don’t get excited about putting the washing on per se, just that it’s one less job to do in the evening so more of my time back.
My husband does as much housework as I do, including cleaning the bathrooms - I’d understand if he thought it was cool that he could have a quick blitz of the downstairs loo between meetings!

Maybe they are rushing home to put the washing on

Coffee badgering just sounds ridiculous, going all the way into the office just to come home?!

just depends on the job I suppose re flex at home, I’ve wfh for years pre Covid, I’ve had jobs where every minute was recorded and you had to check out to go to the loo etc and my current job is incredibly flex, as long as the work gets done by the deadline my boss is okay with people taking time out for various things during the day.

I doubt any men that wfh would be getting excited about being able to put a wash on and fill the dishwasher, some of these posts make it seem the highlight of the day.

I don’t understand the point of ‘coffee badging’ - surely if you’ve made the effort and spent the time and money to get to the office you may as well stay there?!
Yanbu to put your washing on at home, but I don’t agree with taking the mick and I tend to more or less (sometimes more if I’m v busy) actually work my hours when at home.

My cat would object.

More fool any woman who gives themselves the task of simultaneously working and doing domestic chores. When I’m working I’m working. Just like my DH.