We onboarded multiple people during the pandemic. They did just fine. One of them was a top performer and actually left when management started forcing return to office.

People didn’t change. It’s not like people enjoyed their commute before the pandemic. We came in because it was the only option.

Now? We’ve seen that the technology and infrastructure is able to make it work. Everyone is seeing that they can do the exact same work, at equal or better efficiency, from the comfort of their home, without having to sit for an hour in their car, bus, train, whatever.

It means more time for sleeping, or to spend time with family, or for fitness, or hobbies. It means saving money on lunches (or time spent packing one, and healthier lunch too).

And now they’re being told to give that up and come back to the office, for vague indeterminate reasons like “we miss you” or “you have to be here for team building”.

There are three categories of people who seem to be pushing to kill telework:

• Senior management who can afford to live close to their office and who have a dedicated parking space

• extroverts who have no social life outside the office and rely on their coworkers to be their social life support

• Real estate/business owners who rely on commuters/office workers to make income.

I have no sympathy for any of the above.

I saw this, went to my kitchen and made some. Topped them with butter and marionberry jam. Mmm mmm.

Thanks for the inspiration!

> …tiny, rough drawings of figures – in one case, of a person with outstretched arms, reaching for another person who is holding up a hand to stop them … Hodgkinson hopes further study will reveal the meanings of these figures and the ancient transcription, which has so far proved impossible to translate.

Really, Hodgkinson? Are we going to pretend we all don’t “know” EXACTLY what these figures mean?

Some medieval dude had an unrequited crush on Eadburg. He doodled in the book with his stylus while he was supposed to be studying.

We’ve all been there.

Except Hodgkinson apparently. Lucky Hodgkinson.

Jokes on them, I’ll just ride the barrel down!