to be a bit peeved about not working from home tomorrow?

[fettler]

I have a lunchtime meeting at our head office tomorrow.

Head office is 1hr-1hr 15 from the office where I'm based.

My plan was to work from home tomorrow morning, as it only takes me just under an hour to get to head office from home (home to work is slightly longer for me, despite being a shorter distance). So I'd save time. All good so far.

Then today a colleague who's attending the meeting asked if I could travel up with him (as it's a new office he's not been to before and wasn't sure of the way). This did mean I was possibly able to rearrange a meeting I'd pencilled in for tomorrow afternoon at 1530 which some of the attendees couldn't make. So I put that in for 9.45 and ok, I lose a morning at home but thought I'd go straight home post head office meeting.

Except then another colleague tells me there's a demo of new software in the afternoon,but that I wont miss it, they've made it at 4 so I can attend. Which means it won't finish til gone 5, and I'll end up spending the best part of 5 hours travelling tomorrow! Aagh

No way round this is there?

How about being office based all day.

I don't think you should be peeved, no. You're needed at work. Working from home was a bonus, not the default position, so you haven't lost anything.

I'm the same fettler. Instead wfh tomorrow I have to go to the blasted London office (2 hours door to door) and I have a meeting 4-5. Oh goody .

Ok firstly the colleague who's unsure can download google maps and find his own way! Secondly, I would push back on the demo unless you urgently need to be there? Maybe do it over Lync at 5 when you're home?

I guess I'm miffed because I'm quite senior (29 years exp in my field) yet I've never been able to work from home...first it was because i managed a team, then I didn't have a work laptop, then when I got a networked laptop I didn't have a dongle, then the laptop broke and they wouldn't replace it...and so on. My colleague wfh all the time, this was the first time I'd ever planned to, which is prob why I'm so miffed!

Apols for drip feeding btw

Demo can't be done by Lync because it's a demo and 4 way conference call...that said I am not the IT guru, far from it, and having slept on it I'm going to say I'll skip it. Not least because my trains have all been delayed this morning so it's likely to take me longer to get to/ from head office anyway.

Oops that should be 20 not 29!