Bad WFH habits

Not moving for hours on end.

I have a kettle in my office and dont even need to stand up to make a cup of coffee. When I do eventually move my feet have swollen up.

This was worse when my assistant was furloughed and I was doing his job as well as my own. Then I would sit down to work at 7am and not get out of my chair until rushing to shovel some lunch into my face before getting back to my chair and carrying on.

When we were doing lockdown learning provision, our whole county was told not to provide live lessons so I did have some of the above bad habits.

Lying in bed until 5 mins to 9, checking on my phone that all the assignments had rolled out properly to the kids. Having my phone with me in the garden to talk to my colleagues about the work we were setting or to field parental or pupil questions, then getting up and about. Otherwise chilling between emails and doing housework or sitting in the garden - I'm browner this year than ever before.

Sitting on my bum far more than I ever do at school. Having a nap over my lunch hour. Definitely another tab open on the browser while doing zoom management meetings.

And then not having a work-life balance in other areas. Afternoon spent being lazy meant an evening of giving work feedback and Sunday eve spent setting all the work online for the week ahead. Not great time management.

I'm so much happier now I'm back at work with the actual kids!

Getting up at the last minute (although not really a change!), not drying my hair and definitely no make up. Generally wearing leggings and a big jumper.

Watching awful daytime tv while working!

On a good day, I get up early and go swimming or for a walk before I start, but this is happening less and less!

The bad habits I'm developing include -

Getting up only 30 minutes before I'm due to start.
Daily croissant/ pain au chocolat with my coffee
Scrolling on my phone during meetings
Camera off and on mute, zoning out during dull meetings
Too much online shopping

God... my WFH experience is light years away from these descriptions...

McDonald's breakfast on Fridays.
American Horror Story inbetween jobs.
Working in my pyjamas

I'm just as efficient, if not more so. I'm less knackered with no commute, no distractions, etc. I have alerts on my phone for any emails so work gets done almost instantly. I can just watch telly inbetween jobs now

Just realised I didn’t clean my teeth this morning

I’ve figured out I can crochet and be on video at the same time. It looks like I’m taking notes.

I have got SO fat! Trying to address it now but omg it's hard

Slouching on the couch with the laptop. Love it! I'm a naturally lazy person so WFH is ideal for me.

Weirdly though I'm still finding that I'm getting all my work done (and we are still busy).

I think it's because I can pack it all into one period. So in the office you kind of have to be working all the time. But at home, I can work my absolute tits off for a few hours and then wind it down for a bit afterwards.

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

Wait, there’s a thing called breakfast pudding?! How have I got to 52 without knowing that?

Several of these. Forgot to brush my teeth until 3PM today! Omg. First time that has happened.

Not sure watching TV is a bad habit but I enjoy having some Netflix time

Working late more often because work bleeds into home.

I was also getting up 5 to 9 but this week have started forcing myself to get up earlier. It's horrid but finding it needs to be done.

Forgetting to stop and eat also. I am actually not snacking and drink about the same amount of caffeine.

@PullAPi

I've taken to bringing my laptop into the bathroom and working from a bubble bath I plonk it down on the toilet lid next to the bath and occasionally send a few quick emails and then enjoy a soak 😂

Also the napping, snacks, not gotten out of my pyjamas for months, chores during meetings.

I've watched a few boxsets too now.

I'm guilty of most of what's been said already. Today was a particularly slobby day. At least I changed my pants though!

Our senior management do a lot of all-staff webinar things - I tend to put them on like You Tube videos, and do something else. I made a curry during the last one.

I’m on camera a lot so am doing hair/makeup/proper (not work) clothes, but enjoy being able to do housework in work time. Like pp I resent the intrusion of work in my home.

Bad habits are thinking about turning my laptop off and just saying fuck this

Definite day time naps
Sex with DH while kids are at school
Haven’t worn a bra for months
Ditto for drying my hair and wearing make up
Exercise classes during the day
Online shopping during boring meetings

I absolutely hate my job even more so since work from home.

I'm constantly getting called . I work in an inbound call centre taking calls from patients ( healthcare role ) but as part of my role I take calls from other staff who escalate calls to me . The staff always call even when I am in a status of being unavailable , so I can be on the phone to a patient and they will try calling me on teams and then be asking me on the chat if I'm free ( whilst I'm on calls that require concentration) also I will be on the toilet and they will be calling me . They have zero respect since working from home.

Phew re the teeth cleaning then (me showing my mucky teeth there)

Definitely a lot of snacking . I set myself an amount of work to do and then treat myself to a snack. I listen to you tube music whilst writing up notes and get evening dinner prepped in my lunch break.

Why has no one else said farting??? Or is it just me...?!

@CastleCrasher

Very very jealous. I came on expecting to see a thread about getting into bad habits of working longer days and taking fewer breaks . Covid has sent our workloads through the roof so my wfh experience couldn't be more different from what's described here. Anyone getting bored of lunchtime naps/sex/baths who would like to swap for a few weeks?

Can't stop snacking. Have put on a stone I worked really hard to lose last year.

You guys shhhh! Don’t tell everybody!