23 reasons…

...not to work out of this office when I used to work remotely for 4 years!

1. Want to start working at 8am ‘cos you’ve got a flash of inspiration? Well, that’s tough, ‘cos you have to start at 9am, so you’d better start getting ready now


2. I have to religiously and securely pack up and move my:


1. Laptop


2. Power pack


3. Mouse


4. PDA


3. It takes 40 minutes to drive 5 miles.


4. Sometimes it takes an hour to drive 5 miles.


5. That drive, obviously, pisses me off and it’s no good coming into work pissed off because you got stuck behind a
   
   
   
   1. Crap cyclist
   
   
   2. Learner Driver
   
   
   3. Dust Cart
   
   
   4. Doddering Old Age Pensioner
   
   
   5. Nobody in particular
   
   
   
   
6. Having to drop littl’un off at school I don't start work until, on average, quarter past 9 each day. I enjoy taking her in to school, but having to do the 5 mile "commute" afterwards is just a suck.


7. Having a 40 minutes lunch in my contract means that the 20 minutes I lose every morning leaves me with a 20-minute lunch, sometimes a 10 minute lunch, sometimes no lunch at all.


8. What a complete waste of time it is sitting in traffic for 40 minutes. If it weren't the morning rush hour, it would be a 10-minute drive!


9. What a complete waste of fuel. And money.


10. Driving when you don’t have to is a completely unenvironmentally friendly thing to have to do.


11. Once I get to the office I have to unpack and plug in all the stuff from 2)


12. My chair sucks. It’s one of those “subordinate worker’s chairs” where at home I have a swivelling, armed, high-backed reclining “I am comfortable all day ” chair.


13. In the office, there is very little natural light from a tiny window.


14. I don't get to sit anywhere near that window, the one source of light.


15. The office is small, claustrophobic, boring, has magnolia walls, no plants, no pictures, (not even those motivational posters) and it smells a bit musty.


16. Got itchy feet? Got an idea? Need to pace about? Not in here, you don’t, it’s far too bloody small, and the rest of the building is boring and there's no place to go and socialise with the other drones.


17. I have to share the bathroom here with people who have worse toilet manners than myself.


18. There is a computer in this office that was bought and set-up for me and yet I hardly ever use it, except for email and a bit of surfing.


19. If the justification of me being in the office is that my company bought me an expensive computer then that's complete waste of time too.


20. This is an IT company on an Industrial estate and the pollution in the air around here is not what you’d expect from working with computers everyday - the waft of diesel from the industrial estate and aviation fuel drifting down the breeze from the nearby airfield.


21. Health & Safety regulations state that because I work with a Visual Display Unit (3 of them in fact) I am required to take 5 minutes away from the screen every hour. Being a web designer stuck on a boring industrial estate there’s really not that much to do other than stay locked onto that screen...


22. I can do exactly the same job from home only more efficiently, more productively, with more motivation, I spend less money, I waste less fuel, I pollute less.


23. I join the rat race in their drive home at 5:30pm and it takes another 30 minutes to drive the 5 miles home… By which time I have driven a daily total of 10 miles (a 20 minute total journey in non rush hour) and wasted between 1hr 10 minutes and 1hr 30 mins.

On the other hand…

1. I do only do 8 hour days because I'm so desperate to get out of here... no more 10,12, 16 and 20 hour days like I used to do under my own steam.


2. I’m a five minute walk from the fantastic Farnborough town Centre [sic]


3. I’m a minute walk from my local friendly MOT centre, where I took the Flying Brick in today. I do that once a year, so that’s a massive advantage.


4. There are people in these offices I talk to occasionally…


5. I took a cool picture from here once…