May 21, 2006

Working from Home

Top 10 disadvantages of working from home

  1. Nobody brings in cookies.
  2. It’s harder to gossip.
  3. You actually feel lonely when there aren’t many smiley faces lit up on your Yahoo Instant Messenger friend's list.
  4. You walk outside and strangers welcome you to the neighborhood.
  5. You can’t bring home office supplies.
  6. The Christmas office party just isn’t the same.
  7. Trying to explain to your parents that you really do have a job.
  8. You have to make your own coffee.
  9. Your spouse just doesn’t understand why showers have become less of a priority in your daily routine.
  10. No days off for inclement weather.

Top 10 advantages of working at home

  1. You can bring your kids to work whenever you want
  2. You don’t have to try and look like you’re working when you’re surfing the internet.
  3. Clothes shopping once a year!
  4. You don’t have to pack a lunch, or buy one.
  5. No fighting over the office thermostat.
  6. Clothing optional.
  7. You don’t have to watch the lame weather and traffic guys on TV.
  8. You don’t have to worry about your SUV’s gas mileage.
  9. The look on people’s face when you answer the door in your pajamas at 3 in the afternoon.
  10. All the money you save on hot water.


1 comment:

PV said...

Another bad thing about working at home: you're never away from work which means you're never off.