End of the week; end of my enthusiasm

My last day in the office for a while, as I have my enjoyable at-home training course next week. Mind you – it has been pointed out to me that if issues arise and my stand-in feels I am needed, I am expected to make my way into the office. It has also been pointed out to me that attendance at every session of the training is mandatory and therefore if I am missing from Zoom for any reason at any point during the course I will have to re-take the whole thing, at my own expense. I’m not sure how those two parameters can co-exist and be adhered to, but there we are – such is the standard of management in this company.

I’m quite looking forward to the change, really. I know lots of people who found a real benefit to the enforced working-from-home aspect of lockdown. I missed out on that, so this is my chance to experience a bit of what they went through. I’ve already worked out that, if I’m very careful, I can have my Wii set up off-screen behind my laptop and spend large chunks of the day playing Madden while the trainer prattles on incessantly online. As long as I listen enough to answer the multiple-choice assessment at the end of the week, it should be fine.

Today I have lots to do to get ahead of myself, so I don’t have to think about it over the weekend, so please stop distracting me now and let me get on with it.

Thanks.

RC 9-10-20