Working from Home

We recently received a memo in Cube City about working from home and how a new policy will soon be enforced across all cubicles. In the meantime, we were told that instead of working from home whenever we please, we can now work from home two days or less per month.

I rarely work from my safe place, so this doesn't exactly crush my soul, but it pisses me off anyway. I don't have to regularly use a benefit to be angry when it is taken away. Of course, now that it's being taken away, working from home is all I can think about. Dragging myself into the office every day has become a chore. I've let this cubicle mandate get to me mentally.

What bothers me most is that there are a few people in Cube City who can't handle a benefit. So they abuse it and get it abolished for everybody else. It's like baggage from high school when my oldest brother totaled his car doing stupid things with his friends, which led my parents to decide that none of the other kids in the family would ever have cars of their own. I mean, if I'd had a car in high school, I would've gone places -- literally and figuratively -- and wouldn't be sitting here crying into the blogosphere.

All this new policy does is up the ante for figuring out how to work the system. Now people aren't going to tell you that they're working from home. They're just going to be mysteriously hard to find...because they won't be in Cube City. They'll be at home in their jammies, watching movies on Lifetime, catching up on laundry, and laughing their asses off at the people who are following the policy.

If you need me for anything today and I'm not at my desk, I'm probably just mysteriously hard to find. Check my fake meetings on my calendar for my whereabouts, and have a nice day.