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Thursday, November 17th, 2005 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanSo tomorrow I don't have to get up to go to work, I can sleep in a little later than usual and then pop out to the post office and pick up the package that awaits. Back for some brekky, and then I have to do some work.
Yes, gentle reader, your correspondent is working from home tomorrow. I have a manual update to edit and proof read. It is the sort of job that requires no disruption from ringing phones, well-meaning colleagues or insane ministers. The downside is that as I am working from home, I have to do what I say I'm going to do, and as we want to publish the manual in a month or so, I can't just pretend that I've done the work.
Still, it is freezing hard outside as I type, and I shall be able to stay snug in beddy-byes for at least an hour later than I normally would during the week. I reckon that if I grit my teeth, I can get the job done in about four hours which leaves me the rest of the day to myself. It will be an interesting exercise in self-discipline.
I confess that I normally dislike working from home, but on the five or six occasions I've sat down to do this particular task in the office, I have been side tracked and I am now well behind schedule with the damned thing.
Wish me luck, and don't expect me to answer my phone if it rings (though I expect that e-mails are like to be answered..).
Yes, gentle reader, your correspondent is working from home tomorrow. I have a manual update to edit and proof read. It is the sort of job that requires no disruption from ringing phones, well-meaning colleagues or insane ministers. The downside is that as I am working from home, I have to do what I say I'm going to do, and as we want to publish the manual in a month or so, I can't just pretend that I've done the work.
Still, it is freezing hard outside as I type, and I shall be able to stay snug in beddy-byes for at least an hour later than I normally would during the week. I reckon that if I grit my teeth, I can get the job done in about four hours which leaves me the rest of the day to myself. It will be an interesting exercise in self-discipline.
I confess that I normally dislike working from home, but on the five or six occasions I've sat down to do this particular task in the office, I have been side tracked and I am now well behind schedule with the damned thing.
Wish me luck, and don't expect me to answer my phone if it rings (though I expect that e-mails are like to be answered..).
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Date: 2005-11-17 03:24 pm (UTC)I have washed up workin for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in London. It's not as grand as it sounds by half. Without me changing desks, various reshuffles have seen the department change from the Department of the Environment, Department of Environment and Transport, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, and latterly ODPM.
The bit I deal with is Local Authority Housing Finance; we try to distribute too little money to too many councils to stop their council houses from falling down.