And You Thought You Had Problems!
I asked Jeff Landers from www.offices2share.com to forward some of the entries they received in the "Home Office from Hell" contest I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. These are my personal favorites. I laughed out loud at many of them, so thought I would share.
• When my wife runs the washing machine I have to pretend I am in an airport.
• Every morning I do the “pledge of allegiance” from my office, when the school does it over the loud speaker next door.
• I couldn’t actually have an employee. Cause at this point we’d have to share the chair.
• I can hear the phone ringing but I can’t actually see it.
• You know you need an office space, when your assistant comes to work but ends up taking a nap.
• No, the baby doesn’t go in the playpen…important papers go there so he can’t touch them.
• You discover that for the last week, your answering machine has instructed callers to "leave a message for Spider-Man."
If you want to read all the entries he sent, you’ll find them here.
December 1st, 2005 at 2:35 pm
Joan,
this entry is HILARIOUS!!! i LOVE this! jeff and i will read it live on the radio show–stay tuned!
rich
December 1st, 2005 at 2:37 pm
fyi, on the positive side of having a home office, before we moved to a bigger space for the StartupNation team, it was always fun using Max, my golden retreiver as a paper shredder for those sensitive documents…
rich
December 1st, 2005 at 3:35 pm
Yeah, I’m not even going to touch this subject
December 22nd, 2005 at 12:52 pm
These are too funny. I was in tears over some of the comments. These are funny but oh so true. I work from home and am sensitive to the conditions under which many are working. I think of this time as paying dues. The important point is to stay focused on the ultimate goal and not to get side tracked by the daily distractions (dishwashers, doggies, kids). Ultimately, you work from home until you can do better.