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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's okay, your boss isn't listening.  Be honest...

Nobody's cutting the grass, taking the kids to and from school, grocery shopping, etc?  Sure...[/quote]

My boss is sort of the same as the other pp's boss.  I think there are a lot of us with bosses that think just like you do - that WFH means slacking off - so they watch us like a hawk.  In my world, there's no way i could be too far away from my computer because my boss will email me (more than usual and for things that are clearly only to check up on me) and if I don't respond within a minute or two, he calls to find out why and has a "gotcha" tone.

The irony is that when I'm in the office (like today) I can spend all day on DCUM, run errands in the city (be out of the office in the middle of the day) get my mani/pedi done, haircuts, whatever.... and my boss doesn't even notice. We only get one day per week for teleworking and our boss doesn't like it at all - and spends most of his day trying to catch anyone who is WFH slacking off (we each get a different telework day so the office isn't completely empty on Friday).

I'm sure there are those who have an office culture that lets WFH slack off - but I bet you get those types of people in every office.  And because there's this misconception that teleworking is a day off, you have a lot of bosses who are like mine and the other pp's whose mission it is to catch you slacking.

So for me - my WFH day lets me wash and dry (not folding though) all the laundry since it's just a few minutes of throwing clothes in and out and since I'm home I can do several loads.  I "log off" for lunch, but it has to be from 12-1 or my boss thinks I'm slacking and when I do that, I can do stuff around the house or grocery shop and put food away.  But that's it.  I love not having to get dressed up and not having a commute.[/quote]

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