Working from home is not quite the same as it was before.

Wrote this yesterday but due to Ibex strike was only able to post it today.

I am sitting in my study, working from home.  I have the door closed because I am Very Serious about doing proper work when I work from home.  Otherwise it would stealing from the company.  I am anally honest.  My boss has kindly said I can work from home occasionally.  So work I shall.  Goofing off at work somehow seems more ethical than goofing off at home when I said I would be working.  Warped sense of work ethic, I know. 

Anyhow, although the door is closed the sounds wafting through are so different to how they were BAK (before Adam and Kate).  I now hear Mozart playing (the baby gym), gurgles (Kate), the occasional moan (Adam), nannies scurrying, the ping of the microwave as the bottles are being sterilized.

Feels good. 

Although I have to say I am getting extremely tired of that annoying Mozart tune.  Especially delivered through the not-so-acoustically-brilliant plastic speaker of the baby gym.  It does tend to grate on ones nerves after the seven hundredth rendition.

Back to work.  I will not be tempted to go out and give the babies a hug or a kiss.  I will do so on my lunch break or tea break.

Am model employee and person of impeccable values. 

Comments

[Boulder]

Seems to me that you are more like a Virgo than a Sagitarious - what with the anal & whorishness. And you left out that Virgos are also quite gorgeous & divine....

Bitch.

xoxo

PS - So happy that you are now AAK (after Adam & Kate)!

[Boulder]

BTW: Telecommuting = G & D Boss!!

[eve]

I have never understood why more employers aren't flexible about working at home. Personally, I am much more efficient when I'm on my own schedule, don't have a coworker stopping to chat all the time, etc. Some workers, I understand, must work in their labratories or offices or out in the field. But for those of us that use computers and phones and pens and pencils to do our jobs, I can't see any reason why I need to sit at my boss's desk as opposed to my own.

And for moms and dads, I figure one would get so much more done knowing that babies are safe and nearby, as opposed to being anxious and nervous about each incoming phone call, kwim? Oh well, just me. :)

[Ally]

Trust me, eventually you won't hear the electronic music. It just takes about 15,000,000 repetitions.

[Judy]

What a wonderful boss! And you are G&D for resisting every urge to go and smother those babes in smooches when you need to do your work - you are a stronger person than I would be!

[Cherith]

Me too T, a perfect model employee. I work from home, all day and every day. My whole job is online and on the phone (I am a teacher). I NEVER take a break to smother my kids with kisses or take them to the zoo or go to the store or bake cookies with them or anything of that sort! I slave away on this computer, even now as I am writing to you I am also working on another window, from morning till night.

Everyone should be as dedicated as me!

P.S. I happen to know that one of my supervisors is a regular reader of your blog so I had no choice but to talk about what a perfect model employee I am. :)))

[MollieBee]

lol Cherith!

You are too cute T, no time for kisses, Mommy is working!

[TexasMama]

Well, to be fair, it's not just the Africans that have carried their babies in slings for centuries. Pretty much all native cultures have a long history of "baby wearing." Look at some of the beautiful chinese carrieres, for instance. I always find it so funny when people say how convienient tmy sling looks and that it's really too bad they didn't have thoses when their baby (sometime a 5 or 6 year old!) was little. Ummm... they did, you just didn't bother to look.

THe thread was interesting. I agree you arem more AP than you think. It has nothing to do with being crunchy (that's natural parenting) but has to do with your attitude towards your children. Breastfeeding, bedsharing, etc., are practiced by many AP parents, but you can be AP without doing those things if you are doing other things to promote "attachment." Not saying I'd exactly call you AP ;) but you are closer than most!

[Debi]

Thank YOU for being G&D&H (honest)! I am happy to say that one thing I learned from my mother was honesty. That LOOK she would give when she explained how horrible anything dishonest was. Now its ingrained in me. I pay for 2 papers from the Sunday machine when I take two et. And you can always go hug those babes and work a minute or two longer if you didn't think of that. :o)

[wix]

i was MUCH MUCH MUCH more productive while telecommuting, primarily because my schedule wasn't so rigid, and i didn't have to wear silly office clothes. or commute. i hate to commute. i took my job and the privilege of being able to telecommute very seriously, and put in at least 8.5 hours per day.

but, since my current boss wants to be able to drop in on me and ask me to do more new work every day, here i am. and then she wonders why my productivity isn't as high as it used to be :(