To be angry that we paid our PM to drink coffee and eat cheese?

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Article in news today. BJ wants us all back in the office because when he worked from home he spent too much time eating cheese, drinking coffee and walking slowly back to his desk! Then he forgets what he was doing!! He thinks we are all like that too and that’s why we should get back to the office.

AIBU to be angry about this on two counts;

1. tarring us all with his own lazy brush. I barely stop when I WFH. Back to back meetings. Log on early. Lucky if I get lunch. How dare he suggest we are all lazy like he is.
2. we were in a pandemic and paying this lazy, good for nothing lump to lead us. He cared so little, he was meandering back and forth to the fridge and forgetting what he was doing. He is the PM. How does he have time to meander back and forth to the fridge when he is being paid to lead the whole countr?

Made me so cross.

I'm just angry he's the PM.

Wasn’t his whole defence about the parties that Downing Street is his home and his workplace at the same time? In which case, presumably this is still his level of productivity. Which explains a lot.

YANBU. What a dinosaur.

He’s such a fucking ballbag it’s unreal

YANBU. I work flat out whether I'm at home or in the office. Sometimes I struggle to find time for a wee snd he's ambling around scoffing cheese and loosing his train of thought.

Talk about judging everyone else by your own standards.

This.

Whether ‘at home’ or ‘at work’, all BJ knows how to do is bimble around eating and drinking and wondering when someone wil tell him what to do.

What a leader ☹️

Lots of Ministers have WFH during the pandemic. Grant Shapps regularly appears on TV with his carefully curated backdrop of flags, books and red boxes.

I hope someone asks him if he spends his time going for coffee and eating cheese when he is WFH as the PM suggests people who WFH do.

Working from home is a skivers charter. IMHO.,

Pm job should be all consuming.
It clearly isn’t consuming him. He just likes the status and pontificating - it explains why everything is so shit.

@Viviennemary i completely disagree. My personal preference is working on the office. But, when wfh, I was definitely not skiving. Many of my colleagues still wfh and seem to work ridiculous hours. Again; not skiving!

I'm never surprised when I hear him spew out the latest shit that just popped into his vacuous head.

I was very surprised he was voted in but after that point, nothing he does or says surprises me in the least.

Being a top leader and eating cheese is a thing: www.express.co.uk/news/world/1547015/kim-jong-un-birthday-cheese-north-korea-food-shortages-famine-spt

To be honest, I am most pissed off that we paid a fuckload of people do bog-all for months on end

Clearly a lot of people use working from home as an excuse to do nothing - this place was full of threads during the “lockdown” of people leaving themselves logged in but taking baths, exercising, reading, even sleeping, all under the pretense to their employer that they were working. And feeling very snug with themselves got getting away with it. There were threads where people were falling over themselves to boast and brag about how much they were getting away with.

But it’s not the PM’s job to comment on this. It’s up to individual employers to manage their workforce. Nanny state strikes again, it seems.

He speaks utter rubbish. He just wants us back in the cities because pensions rest on business properties

Glad I’m not alone in my anger.

WFH may be a skive for some but so is the office. I prefer working from home because I get more done. At work there are always people wanting to chat. I’m happy to do that a bit in the name of team relations but some people take it too far. I remember one meeting would consist of an hours ‘catch up for team bonding’ we very week! Just as much skiving at work IMO.

What will it take to oust this psychopathic, lazy, incompetent idiot? How low does he have to go? I feel like he could be videoed eating a baby and still remain in office.

I've never agreed with him more. Of course wfh is a massive skive for the majority. Not only that the workforce are missing peer support, peer review, peer pressure and good old social interaction.

If he's doing that while WFH, he's doing that at the office too.

It's the Tories being lobbied by business who want people back in the office to buy their food, clothes, pay for transport etc. Business, tax havens, executive pay and aristocratic wealth will always come first for the Tories over the average Joe.

The PM is dreadful and tries again to use humour to paint a picture of lazy civil servants, when in fact all the civil servants I know work ridiculously hard at home.

I'm just outraged this Bawbag is PM.
looking at this shower and their behaviour, they are clearly not overworked even when 'at the office'. One watching porn while in the House of Commons, one snogging his mistress in a lift and a PM having affairs left right and centre. Top that with the amount of them boozing and partying while supposedly hard at work - and then we have Rees Mogg lying flat out along the benches in the Commons. Arrogant shower.

The people who skive at home are the ones who used to walk around the office with a clipboard, gossiping and making coffee. Skivers will skive, irrespective of where they are.

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I didn’t see those threads. I had no time to read or to post. It was full on. So in here you will get those threads. You won’t hear from those of us working hard - we didn’t have time!

I wish this wasn't taken as such a black and white, all or nothing topic. Most people who work in offices support hybrid working.

I should say that I would think that most people support it.

I agree. I am far more productive when I work from home. There are stats involved in my work to back that up.

I'm pissed off that while he is meant to be running the country he's been having parties and now admits he was slacking when he was WFH.