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Jun 2020
9:58pm, 16 Jun 2020
279 posts
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Margarita
It was fantastic! š
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Jun 2020
10:38pm, 16 Jun 2020
64,833 posts
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swittle
A fine effort, Margarita 
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Jun 2020
11:02pm, 16 Jun 2020
10,411 posts
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geordiegirl
Ahhh Margarita that must have felt amazing. I k ow how grateful Iāve been for being able to go out for exercise and that Iāve also got safe outdoor space, Iāve felt for people who donāt regularly.
Tim great news on the garden itās amazing what guys like those can do. Our garden transformation was phenomenal last year.
I had a really shit day at work today. Everyone seems to be thinking theyāre in charge, better than everyone else and Iām being spammed to take on a huge other role as a colleague is retiring. It will break me but I feel powerless to fight it from across a phone / email line. It will mean nothing gets done fully. Not like me at all but I am starting to think I donāt care. Mentally struggling with it all and the remoteness although I would happily remain wfh.
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Jun 2020
11:19pm, 16 Jun 2020
4,153 posts
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run free
Do you do coffee break meetings?
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Jun 2020
11:19pm, 16 Jun 2020
4,154 posts
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run free
Or a Friday after work drink (all done use Msoft Teams or whatever)
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Jun 2020
12:49am, 17 Jun 2020
7,414 posts
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Too Much Water
Back and neck still in agony and canāt sleep
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Jun 2020
1:37am, 17 Jun 2020
4,633 posts
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quimby
I'm finding WFH OK, I have a good desk setup for my home computer, big Ikea table and a big monitor. I did bring my work chair home, but like Sallykate, I feel it is too imposing in what is "my" space, so have stuck with the Ikea dining chair, coupled with getting up and trotting on the treadmill occasionally to make sure I don't seize up. My laptop riser is an Inov-8 shoe box. I have two keyboards and mice, one set connected to home PC and one set to the laptop. At the start and end of the work day they get swapped round, as does the setting on the big monitor. It works pretty well. The only issue is that the laptop generates a lot of heat in an already warm room - I have the airing cupboard next to me.
Aside from the physical side, we have a daily voice scrum at 10:00 but I would like it to be a bit more social than work-based because I think that would help. We have a team text chat on Skype but a lot of people just don't really chat. The only chat I really get is when I actually turn up for a meeting on time and get to chat to the others before everyone else arrives 5 minutes late. What I hate most is when you Skype text someone and they just don't reply at all... like talking into a void.
So sorry for all of you having issues WFH. TMW, I too can't sleep, so have got up for a bit.
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Jun 2020
6:16am, 17 Jun 2020
2,779 posts
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Little Miss Happy
I don't have or have room for a desk or office chair but I don't need two monitors TMW which makes it easier. Can you get the kit you need set up on your kitchen worktop? I find mine with the addition of a make shift riser allows me to stand and work for periods as a break from sitting at the kitchen table.
Glad you enjoyed your outing Margarita.
Sounds as though you're going to have to find a way to say no gg - easier said than done though.
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Jun 2020
7:17am, 17 Jun 2020
4,499 posts
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jennyh
Similarly, I donāt have the space for a desk or proper chair. I normally have two monitors on the office, so trying to work of one small screen is hard (no room for monitors). I have been allowed to go into the office one day a week to do some of the things which are either difficult or impossible to do on the laptop/with only one screen.
Technically OH is in the kitchen and Iām in the living room, but itās open plan and impossible to have much space between us so weāre essentially in the same room. Last week there were a number of times I had meetings at the same time as him, about difficult issues so was probably talking a bit louder than usual (also had to have several conversations with the police), so ended up having to take the laptop/phone up to the bedroom for these so we werenāt disturbing each other. Less than ideal as I really donāt want our bedroom being an extension of the workplace - itās bad enough as it is trying to get any separation between home and work.
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Jun 2020
7:21am, 17 Jun 2020
4,500 posts
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jennyh
OHās team have regular coffee mornings - we havenāt been doing that, we have a team meeting every fortnight (was initially weekly), but is strictly work based, and the same few people dominate that discussion all the time, so Iām loathe to suggest the idea of coffee mornings, as I know it would be the same few āme me meā people dominating.
Couldnāt think of anything worse than the idea of a virtual Friday after-work drink!
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