Bad WFH habits

Wearing the same pair of jeans for 3 days in a row

Hair washing pared back to twice a week

Doing lots less laundry - also shower less

Eating at home all the time - which does save money but is getting very tedious

My laptop logs off after 5 mins and shows me as "away" on teams. Ive tried to set to last longer but it doesnt work.... does anyone have tricks?

Download it onto your phone. Then you can nip into Teams and check status and amend to available as often as you like.

I have this too @Chickenwing It’s my laptop screen that logs out after 5 minutes which I’m sure must log me out of slack but changing the time it takes to snooze doesn’t seem to make a difference.
I wonder if the IT team have set everyone’s so that you can’t leave your laptop for more than 5 minutes

Would I know if I had teams?

Ive became a fat smelly soap dodger in yesterdays clothes

I resemble this remark

I spoke to a colleague yesterday who said he got up at 7 to be ready for work at 8?! What kind of madness is that?!

My bad habits are waking up at 845 to start at 9. Napping. Sometimes a lot. Not showering enough or washing my hair. It's curly and honestly last week was the first time it's been greasy it had been that long. And knotty! Good grief. Procrastinating is my worst habit. It's not specific to WFH to be sure but it is worse.

My boss is such a git though you know, he'll duck every single meeting we have in a week, but the second I get up to do something non-work, legitimate things like have a wee, that's when he'll call. And then I sound like I'm making excuses when I really was having a wee!

Ive became a fat smelly soap dodger in yesterdays clothes.

Can I ask all the skivers for advice..
My laptop logs off after 5 mins and shows me as "away" on teams. Ive tried to set to last longer but it doesnt work.... does anyone have tricks?

Endless snacking, literally every 20 minutes!
And turning my self into quasimodo by working from the sofa or dining room table... My back is killing me.

My desk is in the spare room and while I've sat lay on the bed for the odd work phone call, I've not dared napping on shift yet.

May have to try it out next week on a quieter day.

I have found my people! DP is horrified at what a slob I have turned into. I used to be a heels, dresses and full face of make up, gym every day type person. Now I...

• Rarely leave the house during the week
• Don’t even consider wearing anything without an elasticated waist
• Don’t even wear make up for client calls
• Nap from 1-1.59pm every day
• Rarely remember to brush my teeth before lunchtime
• Do endless personal admin during calls
• Frequently prep dinner during work time so I have even more time each evening to laze around in front of Netflix

Every time the server drags which is a billion times a day I play Animal Crossing on my phone.

Also smart top for video calls whilst wearing pjs on the bottom half grin
The snacks have played a big part in needing to wear pjs/joggers

Are you actually me?!

I love this thread, I’ve not styled my hair for months. Have become the queen of a scarf to cover PJs or gym gear.

Find work completely not compatabile to working from home, but everyone else does?

Think I am at work at least living in the truemanshow .
Can’t speak out About how poor we are all performing because we all need to keep our jobs, feel so false and as I’m
Nearing the end of my career so sad.

Yours sound completely fine op!

I’ve been doing the napping too. I find I can concentrate much better if I’ve had a nap.

I’ve been snacking a lot too which isn’t great. Also I’ve been sitting badly as I don’t have the space for a dedicated desk.

revenge vaping during zoom meetings with a really health-driven team

I did an interview recently in grown up top and leopard print fluffy pj bottoms.

Splendid

Snacking.
Exercise classes that take me over my hour-long lunch break to cancel out said snacking.
Spending the morning in my pyjamas.
Boring meetings = I am Lord of Catan.

God DH is wfh and he never leaves his office. Pisses me off tbh. Felt rubbish last week and asked him to drop kids at school and honestly I may as well have asked him to run a marathon.

Has anyone run out of conversation?

My WhatsApp groups were pinning away at the start of this, weekly soon chats with friends.

It’s all faded away. No one has any news, no gossip. I think I left my personality in the office😂. With my winter coat🙄

Bad habits - not separating work & home. Desk is within reach of bed. Checking emails as soon as I wake up, working all day and checking emails before bed. No demarcation between work and home - working far longer than when we were in the office.

My other bad habit is being a bit pretentious in all honesty, trying to find the best background in the house for Zoom meetings - actually that just means avoiding my bedroom with the dirty washing showing

Am actually really surprised at anyone saying sex with their H during the day. My H and I have been working from home since the start, no date for that changing and I could bury him under the decking most days - we're driving each other crazy!!

And as @Iamthewombat says, an occasional episode of Judge Judy whilst I eat

“The traffic between my bedroom and living room is often quite bad so I'm 5/10 mins late in the morning“ love this

I just can’t concentrate! I’d rather do anything but work but I’m so determined not to take the piss I rack up all the hours I still need to do and I’m owing them loads.

There’s no doubt an hour at home is 200 times more productive than an hour at work. I’m appalled by how little I appear to have done when we were in the office but now I’m flying through work even though I’m barely working!

I'm getting up later and later. This morning I woke up at 8.30 am and only just made it to start work at 9.00am. When I went to the office I was up and out earlier - a drive to work and walk to the car park to get to work by 8.30 am at the latest . I'm feeling less motivated. I miss my old life. I didn't speak to anyone today.

• Get up to 30 mns before am due to work
• Used to wear make-up everyday but haven't put any on
• listen to music or radio in the background
• Only go out once a week

I am going to try the nap at lunch time. That's a great idea

@temproasted

My worst habit (and I'm ashamed to admit this) (and also gutted that no-one else has said it yet) is getting out of bed so late that I think 'right get logged on then back up for shower, clean teeth etc' and then getting breakfast and stuck into work and then realising at lunchtime that the teeth didn't get cleaned. Surely it can't just be me... can it?

Other bad habits include lots of snacking, working from bed and having a frantic face wash/hair brush/clear up of snack evidence 5 mins before DH is due home