gullybogan

Dear Reader,

With the dawning of the new financial year, Mister Widget has closed down the Manufactory’s old premises, and he (aided by his enslaved army of Flying Monkeys) is in the process of moving all the shit we need to run the new look Widget business into a way smaller box in a cheaper part of town.

Why he couldn’t have done this while we were sitting around at the old place isn’t quite clear. Something about overlapping rental payments, i was given to half-understand by one of the cleaners (the one who’s good at money and investments and stuff).

So Mister Widget’s had this brilliant idea: allow us minions to work from home.

Yes, “allow.” The email he sent us said exactly that:

In the interests of providing an unbroken flow of business productivity, the company will allow you to work from home during the short changeover period.

It then went on to explain how we would be doing such a thing. Something to do with a VPN. We would have to have an internet connection, and – best of all – we would be able to claim our home office on tax!

Great. What a privilege. Thanks, Boss!

So we can, for a short time, continue to do the shit we do at work in the privacy of our own homes. And get paid for it, too (because we wouldn’t do it otherwise, would we?).

The problem is that i’m finding working from home a lot more enjoyable and productive than working from work.

At home there are all sorts of things that there aren’t at work. Like toast, and boobies.

Well, there might be boobies at work (i’ve not checked), but even if there were, they’d be absolutely no use to me.

That notwithstanding, i can state categorically that there’s no toast at work. None at all.

Another plus: i can work in my pyjamas, just like in the movies.

And also, there are things at work that there aren’t at home. Like meetings, and arseholes. Thus i get to avoid those things. Hurrah.

So now i don’t want to go back to work to do my work.

Maybe i should email Mister Widget and let him know that instead of setting up the flash new offices, he should just buy us all an internet connection each and let us work from our bedrooms.

It would also help save the planet by reducing our carbon footprints, and…

Oh, look: it’s just way better. Did i mention the boobies?

sadly, the only image on Flickr that
successfully combines boobs and toast

Yours,
Gullybogan