Lockdown WFH things you'll miss

I have not WFH at all during the last 6 months. I came to the office and was here on my own for nearly 3 months and after that there have been a small number in the office to keep me company. I reckon I have worked harder and certainly haven't had any of the perks that Jeff has had!

This delightful thread serves as a reminder that there is nothing on God's green earth more fascinating than the human race. Just the vast range of what would be considered as a loss by those among us is testimony to the fact that we are all so different.

I, like many, have become comfortable (maybe too comfortable?) with the lifestyle of commuting no further than from the kitchen to the study. Able to see the kids off to school and welcome them home every day. Endless decent coffee and tea available all day at a reasonable cost. A proper lunch with Herself and, yes, time to (ahem) enjoy each other's company. In the summer I could wander out into the garden to pick some fresh fruit and veg, or just enjoy the flowers and buzzing critters.

I am working at least as many hours as before, but the quality of life is, in the main, so much better. Having said all this, I am completely done with Zoom and Teams and miss the office banter which is never the same when chatting to a bunch of passport photos.

I think many of us, while welcoming some time back in the office, would struggle to return to a full four or five day commute. Nobody has died from working at home, we have all avoided wasted time sat in traffic, used less fuel, caused less pollution, improved the quality of life and still have got the job done. I cannot the old nine to five routine ever making a complete return and that, for me, is a good thing.

Country Club is at 11, Ed!

The middle class-ness pouring out of this thread is overwhelming me. I was unemployed for 4 months of the lockdown then went straight back to working shifts in a factory, only that factory is a lot further away now!

If we go back then I'll miss the lie in until 7:30, the ability to leave my desk and be walking in the countryside within 10 seconds, the company of the delightful Mrs Tim and the opportunity to 'have a bad day' if its nice outside and just check emails/answer the phone while I'm doing nothing or carrying out chores.
At one point I took a phone call from the boss while I was in the middle of cutting the grass.
I'll also miss the relative peace and quiet when faced with sitting in a large open plan office with 30 other people and the constant interruptions from those on their way to make a coffee who feel it's fine to just stop by to ask some dumb question and distract me.

I do miss some of the office banter and I'll be happy to get the dining room table back, not least because it'll be a sign that we're allowed to have friends round.

Well it’s just gone 10 meaning Jeff is busy shagging, and Chris is recovering and cleaning his wheelie bin out

I don't miss the getting up at 6am and then commuting for over an hour down to Middlesbrough, then back again at night. Working from home is fine, I have a home office and can work there quite happily, with trips to and from the fridge to see if it has been topped up in the meantime. I do miss seeing customers' plants and chatting to new people, you don't really get that interaction on Teams where it's generally straight down to business.

In the summer it was great, log off at 5pm and get out with the dog, cycle, or be on the golf course for 5.30 and fit a quick 18 holes in.

I think the technical term for wank drowning is a bukake party old boy!

Jeez, I do have a poor reputation on here. It was a genuine comment with no other meaning. 

I miss the smell of ozone in the weld cladding shop as well. 

If I worked normal hours that would be a strange thing. Don't really log-off until evening time and if I get the urge I start work at 0630. TBH there are a few 0600 gyms starts to free some daytime hours up. Soon I'll be locked into big-project-delivery-mode so my daytime timetable will change dramatically.

At least so far nobody has said they'll miss wanking while on a zoom call. WTAF was that bloke in the US thinking?

All of this. 

Not that I have a job or office to go back to.

I miss everyone else working from home and the roads being eerily quiet. We might get another period of that, the way things are going...

Oh, the roads are not quiet now, of course. But I miss the days when they were.

At the moment, everything is in limbo until the Czar announces more clarifications on Monday on what his dictatorship is now imposing on us :-(