Bad WFH habits

Painting my nails on conference calls and using my laptop fan to dry them

I've never used dry shampoo, I appear to be missing out!

Officially gone to the dogs now. Stayed in pj's all day today.

Still v busy though.

The inventor of dry shampoo deserves a Nobel prize imo. It's amazing.

I do have some standards, I still straighten my hair. Well the front bit that can be seen if I have to go on camera.

Mind you, I've been furiously productive. I don't subscribe to the idea that you have to be at your desk to be working.

Staying in my dressing gown all day.

I work 8-6, 3 days a week. I get up at 6.45am and dh and I do the morning rush together getting the dc breakfasted and ready. Then dh disappears with the dc at 7.45am to do the school run and I sit at my desk with a coffee.

Very often I’m still in my dressing gown when the dc get home. I’ve consciously tried to turn over a new leaf several times but it slips back 🤦🏻‍♀️ I have no issue on the two days I’m not in work by 8 and have to do the school run.

Microsoft Team Meeting backgrounds are bliss, no way would my team know that my fake office background is actually me sitting propped up in bed with a top on by pj bottoms. I have got it down to a T, our meetings are always at 10, so I wake to the alarm at 8.45, log on and check my email while in bed, go down get myself a coffee and cornflakes, sit munching it in bed then brush my hair (use batiste dry shampoo as too lazy to wash it most days) then check my angle on the screen, adjust the lighting etc, so you cant see the many chins I have developed since March. I record the meeting (as note taker) but often claim my camera is broken go on mute and have a nap as I can catch up with the meeting later that I have recorded.

Its bad I know but I find as time goes on I am getting lazier and lazier, (also fatter)

Yep, guilty of so many of these. I get up as late as possible, quick shower, coffee ☕ and switch the pc on. I've started to eek out an extra day before washing hair and even then i leave it to dry all day. I only wear a touch of make up for our weekly teams meeting instead of full face every day. I've bought lots of warm comfy loungewear. Snacking I'm not too bad on but I love having a cooked lunch instead of a miserable ham sandwich. Not had a daytime nap unless I was under the weather.

I had to stop pretending not to know how to get the video to work after tech support offered to do the thing when they take over your screen. Strangely thAt last reboot did the trick.

‘My WiFi has just dropped out’, is the new ‘the traffic was shocking this morning’.

I love the idea that people aren’t working as hard because they haven’t showered or brushed their teeth! If anything I waste less time at home than I do in the office and I’m definitely getting the same amount of work if not more done.

How well I do my job (very well, actually) has fuck all to do with what I'm wearing or whether I've brushed my teeth fgs.

And a solid 25% of the Teams meetings I am forced to attend don't deserve my attention anyway

Instead of chatting to Sue from accountants for 10 mins in the kitchen when I make a brew, I run the hoover around.

Definitely not showering or brushing my teeth first thing (no point until I've finished my third cup of black coffee after all!)

Only wash my hair about once a week now but I'm not so sure that's really a bad habit, it's probably better for it.

Very rarely wear anything other than yoga pants and moth-eaten jumpers. And have started wearing slippers to drive in (hard-soled Mahabis, quite safe )

But I have developed some good habits as well! Don't switch the tv on until DH gets home at 7pm. I do much more yoga because I'm not rushing out the house first thing or exhausted from the commute in the evenings. And I am not snacking at all during the day [polishes halo]

Actually still have a childminder despite working from home so that I can drop DD early and crack on, but really it's so I can wander round the corner in my pyjamas and drop her off, avoiding the school run entirely.

I do need to keep the space, and I want to keep paying my childminder, so not entirely selfish, but I do love the days when I don't have the long trek to school.

Not being able to find a gap for brushing my teeth as I am troughing solidly throughout the day. .

Getting up only 30 minutes before I'm due to start

30 minutes? Try 30 seconds

Alarm clock goes off walk downstairs into the "office" to sign in. Walk straight back out again into the kitchen for breakfast and coffee.

Honestly, a lot of flicking the bean. It’s become as regular as making coffee.

Am I the only one who has to do the school run!! Have to be dressed and clean teeth although have come home afterwards and put PJ bottoms back on!

Basically most of the countries productivity has gone down the shitter.

I’m working harder than before, just with greasy hair and sometimes in my dressing gown so what does it matter?

Wearing the same clothes for days until either:

• I need to go out or
• I start to smell a bit ripe

Which ever one comes first.
I do live alone , but my washing has gone from twice a week, to once every 2 weeks.