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Bringing hope, peace and unity to the good brethren of business The good Father ponders where everyone is working now...is it at home with Jaffa Cakes or is it in the office discussing COVID?
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re people back
this stage and I’m resigned to the fact that
in offices or not?
the rest of my working career might just
to see other people and interact. When
That’s the question
involve visiting people in their home office
I’m at home the only interaction I have is
everyone in our
and taking orders for one rubber, one
with the dog and a packet of Jaffa Cakes.
office is asking - we
pencil and a box of paperclips.
I’ve stopped doing Zoom calls because
don’t even know if we are all back in
At least being in an office enables you
Does anyone know what they are
it means I must put my cassock on - I
our office yet so it’s really hard to work
doing at all these days? I’ve heard people
started running out of answers when
out. We can’t believe a word our sales
saying how they love the freedom of
people were asking why they could only
reps say either; they’ve told me on a few
working from home but then, in the
see the top of my head in meetings.
occasions that a customer is fully back
same sentence, almost crying about how
I feel as though my face has been
and operational only for me to visit and
much weight they’ve put on because they
analysed like never before; I’ve a scar
be greeted by the sight of a robot with a
work near their kitchen.
above my right eye from when I
vaccination checker built-in asking for a
Make up your minds people! You
jumped off the top of the confession
photo of myself and then telling me that
either like working from home, or you
box and, all of a sudden, that incident
s/he is the only one on the premises.
like working in the office! From what I
has become a topic of conversation in
can see, in our office, people spend 90% of
the village all over again.
Some customers have said they won’t be back until January, and some have
their day drinking coffee and talking about
said that they might be in the office, but
COVID, so it’s not as if you are going to
normal soon if only to stop all the
they might not. I’ve almost given up at
have to work harder if you aren’t at home.
confusion and stressful gossip.
[46] OCTOBER 2021
www.dealersupport.co.uk
I hope everything gets back to
