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.

Boris Johnson is a twat and I really couldn’t give a flying fuck what he thinks.

Well there was fuck all else to do.

Yanbu no 2 sums it up perfectly.

I worked harder than ever probably terrified at the thought of not working. The man is beyond ignorant and will be gone by Xmas

High performers will be high performers wherever they work. Shirkers will do this same.

It says nothing about WFH and everything about the character of the individual.

YANBU. He’s such a monumental bell end. ‘Hacking off a small bit of cheese’ - what a bizarre thing to say.

And in my experience a huge amount of time in the office is wasted by getting up to get a cup of coffee, then finding the coffee machine near you desk isn’t working, so going to the one on the other side of the office, then getting stuck talking to Kathryn from accounts about her knee operation, then getting back to your desk, needing the loo, going to the loo to find it’s shut because the cleaners are cleaning it, so going to the one on the next floor up… and so on.

But I’m convinced he’s done this deliberately to try to obscure Partygate because now when you Google ‘Boris Johnson’ and ‘cheese’ this comes up. Not his wine and cheese parties.

Just another bash Boris thread - thought there might have been some interesting discussions on this one.

Maybe there's a reason for all the 'Boris bashing'. Mumsnet isn't exactly the most left wing platform.

The crushing local election results weren't out of nowhere.

To me, the striking thing is that he doesn't even have the self-awareness to realise that not everyone is as lazy as him. He lives in a world of his own, where everyone is skiving off as much as they can get away with.

I totally agree with those who've said that skivers will skive wherever they are, and hard workers will work hard wherever they are.

In fact, home working has been really valuable for quite a few disabled people and those with mental health issues - in some cases they've been able to work for the first time, because they don't have the stress/hassle of a commute, they have things set up as they need them at home etc.

Gosh your Boris's dream. Come on think a bit more critically. The emperor really is naked.

Great responses!. Thanks. I feel validated and hopeful that change may come.

I am going to write to my MP AGAIN. I’ve never had cause to before but so much is being done that is wrong for people - policies that will help to send us hurtling towards irreversible climate chaos, policies that will continue to make the rich more wealthy and the poor poorer with no means of protest. Policies that de regulate business so they can do the same. Policies that de-humanise and are cruel to those in need. Policies that will shorten the lives of anyone who can’t afford private care and create more inequality in health outcomes and socio-economic outcomes. Policies clearly designed to just keep them in power. All led by a lying, lazy, cold hearted, selfish, incompetent psychopath who has no moral fibre and no integrity. So much to tackle.

But, I will write again to express that this latest move, flies in the face of research, is not great for climate change, and will continue to concentrate wealth in the cities. Not to mention, my taxes funding his fridge raiding habit while he fails to do the job we are all paying him to do!

I agree that skivers will skive wherever they are and the conscientious will remain so WFH. We now know which category our PM is in (as if we couldn’t have guessed).

He’s just trying it distract from the cheese and wine scandal he got in trouble for.

Oh get of your high horse. Go and write to your mp if it makes you feel better. Pathetic really.

Imagine. A working initiative that supports Mums and is beneficial to the environment their children will grow up in is popular.

It doesn't work for a middle-aged man who has shirked responsibility all his life. The only thing he knows how to do is delegate so it's no surprise he needs people.

I find it astonishing that this embarrassment of a man is our PM and represents us on the world stage to be honest. Where are the grown ups when you need them? 🙄

I’ve worked from home since March 2020. It took a lot of getting used to. I hated it at first. But I wouldn’t have it any other way now.

i have two young kids. One in nursery, one in primary school. I still use after school club for the eldest. She’s too needy in the house looking for snacks and company etc. I do however get to walk her to school every day instead kf
driving her to breakfast club then rushing on to the office.

It is my absolute bugbear when people use wfh as a reason to dodge paying childcare. And I know plenty of them. You absolutely cannot work with kids under your feet and it’s a farce to say otherwise. I should know - I worked full time as a lawyer with the kids at home during the lockdowns and I’m not exaggerating when I say it nearly bloody finished me. It’s obviously different if they’re 11+ but otherwise,
just no.

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Could you explain which bit of trying to utilise our democratic process to make the world a safer and better place for as many people as possible is ‘pathetic’? Surely moaning on a thread and doing bugger all is more pathetic? Things are already getting much harder for people and will only get harder still. Should I just sit back, roll my eyes, and say ‘I’m alright Jack’?

Do you think attacking people is helpful? How would you describe the behaviour you are engaging in? You have read a post that you don’t like and are then insulting the person posting it rather than entering into a debate. What word best describes that behaviour?

Yet another article in the DM today pushing the anti-WFH agenda. Lots of comments from DM readers in the comments section about lazy public sector workers. How predictable. It makes me wonder why I bother to be honest.

I suppose it depends how much wine etc he drinks!

(Meaning it's harder to focus the next day if you get pissed a lot).

TBH Im surprised he didnt have a minion ,to slice him a couple of chunks of Cheddar and some water biscuits! We seem to be paying our PM to have tasty snacks .And MPs with a spurious interest in Farming Equipment ,to watch unsavoury sites on "Tractors"!

All praise our Boris.

Now, cheese you say, mmmmmmmm

There are people that go to my office and spend the day skiving. Making endless cups of tea, eating biscuits and making their way through the office, speaking to every single person for a good 20 minutes. They must do about 2 hours work a day.

The only reason the government now has an issue with wfh is because it means we are spending less in the local areas your office is in. It's all about money as usual

One of dhs colleagues watched the cricket World Cup at work by hiding in cupboards.

Cricket matches aren’t short either.