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Sweets nothings
One of the things I don’t miss about working in an office is when your fellow workers return from some obscure holiday destination armed with “sweets”. It would appear, the further east you go, the more inedible the food. Even though staying in a mud hut in Tibet “was amazing”, Himalayan Smarties are not like…
Mum, what’s calculus?
For many parents during Lockdown, while juggling work and video calls, there is also the requirement for home schooling. I’m lucky, insomuch as my youngest kid is 27 and so there is no need to force him to conjugate French verbs; draw an ox-bow lake or help make scones. However, I do wonder, should this…
Pussies galore
We’ve all got used to having unexpected things happening on video calls these past months – everyone loves to see a cat make an appearance, less so if it suddenly deletes the PowerPoint chart which you’re presenting. But how would you react if it was more than just a harmless pussy on your screen (insert…
Limbo dancer
There is a limbo, like that of being through Passport Control and not technically being in the country anymore, before the commencement of a video call. I have Zoom Professional because, and this article is an excellent example why, I am professional. A direct consequence of this is that I invariably control the “waiting room”. …
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Mike Richards is WFH 