AIBU? WHF?

[TheEmmaDilemma]

So, I work from home for the main part.

AIBU that people think it's fucking 'NOT A JOB'?

I work. I just do it from here. I often do 10 hour days.

No, I can't take your parcels when I'm on a confernce call.
No, I can't make every fucking phone call on your behalf that is not work related.
No, I can't just fucking walk away from my laptop.
No, I DO A JOB. I GOOD ONE.

Why do people think that working from home means you can just fuck off whenever you want and do as you please? Because it's not that way.

Is it just me?

Even my Partner who should know better (having Managed him at one point) should know better.

Yes it has some flexibiity which is great, but it doesn't mean I'm not working. If I don't get my shit done, I wouldn't have a job would I?

Does anyone else get this shit, or is it just me?

I think it’s common op.

I was a Cm for years so running a child care base from home. I had friends ‘drop in’ hoping for a cuppa/ no I am working. I had my mother drop in with a friend to ‘see the dear children’ No mum you can’t I am working!!!

Even dh would say things like can you iron my shirt for tomz and pick up that parcel from the depot/ no no no I am working!!!

I think part of it that some people DO take the piss and it gives dedicated home workers like yourself a bad rep.

My DP works from home and often gets bugged with neighbours parcels. I took one round to a neighbour the other day and there was a post it on the door saying "Any parcels please take to number 10" (My house!) they hadnt asked!

I work from home.

Often stuff happens and as I am in the garden Room office, I just don't know about it.

When we have people to do the boiler/decorating etc, I let them in and when they start with the puppy dog 'cup of tea eyes' I just tell them that I am on a Skype now for the rest of the morning and go into the office. Have they not heard of flasks?

I have a ring video doorbell so that I can answer the door when I am expecting a parcel, if it looks like it is a neighbour's I just don't answer it

I do working from home so well, that when I said last week that I was going to go to The Asda last week at lunch to get fuel...my OH looked at me like 'arent you working tomorrow though'?...so yes it is possible to work from home and be taken seriously...you just have to set it up properly and not be there for other people.

Yes I get it all the time so you are not alone. I need to be on the phone alot and at my pc same as I would in an office. I just do it from my office in my home. The amount of people that think I don't have an actual job is quite high! I mean they know I work, but they think because i'm at home this means that I don't actually work. Its weird.

I hate when people think that just cause they are working from home it means they are skiving. I know lots of people who WFH and they are really successful. The haters are probably really jealous!

Yeah - I have a full time office job in Project Management that I happen to do from my home office. I've worked from home for 9 years though so everyone is sort of used to it. If the office door is shut no-one comes in and I ignore the door / home phone. If the office door is open then you are welcome to come say hi.

You may need to be ruthless in enforcing a simple rule for a bit so that the whole family "get it".

@baxterboi My neighbour has a note pasted to his door saying I will take his parcels. Didn't ask. I'm close to ripping the fucker off and telling him he's taking the piss. 3. Yes 3. Just yesterday.

I cannot wait to build a home office where everyone can just piss off.

And yes, a ring door bell maybe.

My partner works from home from about 7am to 12am.
So yeah he does skive.

My neighbour has a note pasted to his door saying I will take his parcels. Didn't ask. I'm close to ripping the fucker off and telling him he's taking the piss. 3. Yes 3. Just yesterday.

Put a note on your door saying you will not accept anyone else's parcels! In BIG writing!

Put a note on the door saying you won't accept any parcels and if they insist on giving you parcels leave it on the doorstep of the neighbour and take a photo of it to show you left it on the doorstep

In my current role I am away from home a lot for full weeks, so as part of the job I have working from home weeks, I can't really do my main job from home and it's accepted that as long as I keep my work phone on me during office hours and check emails once a day and use the time to submit my expenses claims etc, I'm essentially free to do what I like to compensate for the crazy hours I do when I'm away and the amount of time they want me away from home, so it's probably people like me not helping your cause OP. I'm at home this week, I've glossed the woodwork in the dining room, done loads of laundry, cleaned the house, done the grocery shop and am gardening today.... It's not a week off because if they need me to go out to a location as an emergency I have to be available to, although this has never happened.

I work part-time and my partner does shifts and our neighbour must literally order online every night there's always a parcel, or 5!!

When the parcel men come to my door now I refuse to sign for them and say we have nothing to do with her. She's rude, never says Thankyou and never comes round to collect them so prior to stopping signing about 4 weeks ago, (I've refused 23 parcels ffs) we had 8 in our hallway so I pulled the wheelbarrow out the garage on to the drive and knocked on her door holding it thinking she might take the hint.

She orders a lot from amazon - it's always the same driver and he said to me last week the depot is 10-15 miles away - shame!!!

At Christmas it was ridiculous and to top things off we sent a card and she didn't even bother sending one!

My neighbour has a note pasted to his door saying I will take his parcels. Didn't ask.

My neighbour did this to me - once. I put the parcel in her porch, it was enclosed, wooden lower half, and always unlocked so wtf didn't she just do the sensible thing. We lived in a quiet leafy lane with few passers-by. I changed her note to add 'don't' in front of 'leave', and for some reason she never spoke to me again.

We'd been neighbours for nearly 20 years, and I'd discussed my plans for taking early retirement from the railway and going back to my first love - typesetting, discussed stuff like billable hours, and all the stuff I had to give time to as well as actually earning enough to live on, I thought she really understood. Silly me.

My DP works from home and often gets bugged with neighbours parcels. I took one round to a neighbour the other day and there was a post it on the door saying "Any parcels please take to number 10" (My house!) they hadnt asked!

pop a post-it under it and say "Dont"