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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel you. My DH is wfh in a small guest room on the main level of our very small house. This room also has our only extra closet where we store toilet paper, soap, the vacuum, etc. Not only can I hear his bellowing work voice in every room in the house, but to get anything extra that I might need for our house to function during the day, I need to wait for a break in his video calls or silently commando crawl under the on-camera part of the room.

He works with a west coast team and a London team, so my house feels occupied by his work from early in the morning until the kids’ bedtime except for a long lunch during which he prowls around and makes messes. I hate it. He’s going back 2x/week in the fall but he used to travel 80% and I’m going crazy. I just want one morning where I can do a quick noisy vacuum before I leave for work and come back to a clean house, or one evening alone when I can eat cheese and crackers and watch TV without feeling watched or having to listen to his pounding typing.

I won’t even mention the extra groceries every week for lunch, the abandoned breakfast dishes and coffee mugs that fill the counters, or the way he’s stolen every functioning pen in the house and disappeared them under the stack of random printouts coating his desk. [/quote]

Omg, this sounds horrible. [/quote]

Seriously.

Women of this thread - liberate yourselves!

This isn't June 2020 when everything was shut down - it was one thing to deal with this stuff when there was no other choice. There is now a choice. I speculated that some employers would dangle permanent or expanded WFH in order to cheap out and pass the cost of office space and equipment on to their employees - and that's exactly what your spouse's employers are doing.

You all need to have a come to Jesus where you just say point blank that your house is not set up to be a place of employment and you're no longer going to be able to treat it that way since pandemic conditions have changed and then put it on your spouse to deal with that. Don't wait to use the cleaning supply closet or vacuum. Don't tiptoe around. Don't wash the lunch dishes. Don't pick up the abandoned coffee mugs. You're being asked to subsidize your husband's employer by hosting their employee in your home. Just refuse to do it anymore and stick to your guns.[/quote]

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