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Working from home when there's no work to do 09:21 - Jun 25 with 4376 viewsThisIsMyUsername

What do people do when 'working from home' but there's no work to do?

My new job involves working from home sometimes. Today the one meeting I had to travel for has been cancelled. I'm now sitting at home with perhaps one or two scraps to do which will take one minute each.

What should I do?
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:25 - Jun 25 with 3654 viewsHerbivore

Have a w@nk, mate.

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:28 - Jun 25 with 3617 viewsbluelagos

Type sh1t and argue on message boards is clearly the default for many.

(For the avoidance of doubt I include myself in that)

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:30 - Jun 25 with 3599 viewstextbackup

Press ups, dumbell curls, planks.


Then of course, knock one out

We’ll be good again... one day
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:32 - Jun 25 with 3577 viewsBloomBlue

Ask for redundancy
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:34 - Jun 25 with 3557 views_clive_baker_

Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:25 - Jun 25 by Herbivore

Have a w@nk, mate.


That might be one of the scraps he’s referring to that’ll take a minute.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:41 - Jun 25 with 3503 viewsThisIsMyUsername

It's texters with the most productive and worthwhile suggestion. I think I will go to the gym at some point.

Seeing that none of you is particularly productive when in the same boat makes me feel a bit better.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:08 - Jun 25 with 3428 viewswischip

You come up with lots of diversity, equity and inclusion plus environmental and carbon emissions procedures that your company can adopt. That should keep you from being laid off.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:10 - Jun 25 with 3412 viewsCheltenham_Blue

Tidy the house, or she'll moan once she gets in, because, "You've been home all day", conveniently forgetting that you've actually been at work too.

Trust me.


Oh...then knock one out whilst she's not in.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:26 - Jun 25 with 3334 viewsbaxterbasics

Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:10 - Jun 25 by Cheltenham_Blue

Tidy the house, or she'll moan once she gets in, because, "You've been home all day", conveniently forgetting that you've actually been at work too.

Trust me.


Oh...then knock one out whilst she's not in.
[Post edited 25 Jun 2024 10:11]


100% this.

I don't often work from home, but can do when I need to be in for something like an appointment. When I do, Mrs will be texting me lists of chores. Get the shopping done. Do a laundry load. Tidy the lounge. FFS. All of which really eats into my 'knocking one out' time. Problem I have is usually I do have enough free time to fit some of it in so can't tell her I am too busy without it being a small fib. She gets in around 4pm and catches me with YouTube on my second screen, or even the Playstation on. Busted.

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:27 - Jun 25 with 3331 viewsleitrimblue

Working from home when there's no work to do on 09:28 - Jun 25 by bluelagos

Type sh1t and argue on message boards is clearly the default for many.

(For the avoidance of doubt I include myself in that)


Yep, this works for me. See also drink more coffee, walk the dog. Think up excuses why you can't do a teams call today.

If you get really desperate you could do the washing up...
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:28 - Jun 25 with 3324 viewsmutters


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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:46 - Jun 25 with 3255 viewsRobTheMonk

Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:10 - Jun 25 by Cheltenham_Blue

Tidy the house, or she'll moan once she gets in, because, "You've been home all day", conveniently forgetting that you've actually been at work too.

Trust me.


Oh...then knock one out whilst she's not in.
[Post edited 25 Jun 2024 10:11]


Haha, I've had this discussion with Madge before.

I'm a massive binge worker. Yesterday, had a job that if I was at work with distractions would have probably taken me the day to do. Went into our sunroom, that's currently acting as our office (and is really nice to work in), headphones in, three hours later, job done. Pretty much my days work done.

There are times when there's nothing to do though. Then you need to get creative. I work with lots of French people, so got myself a Babbel subscription and started learning French. Slow progress, but you start picking up words, phrases and structure. It's nothing to do with my actual work, but benefits both myself and the workplace.

There's also times where I'll just sit with my dog and watch Netflix lol.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:48 - Jun 25 with 3224 viewsvilanovablue

Get round to completing the mandated online training courses which are as tedious as you like but passes time. Otherwise post rubbish here.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:54 - Jun 25 with 3163 viewsElephantintheRoom

Well I was going carp fishing having been baiting up a spot for when my son had a quiet day

But it’s too hot so we’ll probably lounge by the pool instead

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:57 - Jun 25 with 3153 viewsleitrimblue

Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:54 - Jun 25 by ElephantintheRoom

Well I was going carp fishing having been baiting up a spot for when my son had a quiet day

But it’s too hot so we’ll probably lounge by the pool instead


In tiny skin tight speedos like a real European I hope
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 11:10 - Jun 25 with 3101 viewsThisIsMyUsername

Quite a few w@nkers on this thread.

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:04 - Jun 25 with 2954 viewsJ2BLUE

I have a tv mounted on the wall and a tablet mounted above my laptop.

Even when working I usually have something on. This is one of a number of walking channels on Youtube:

When literally no work I just stick one of the streaming sites on or Sky. Or do wordle. Or check TWTD. Read the news. Take a power nap. Can also get stuff done. Unload dishwasher. Put washing out. Hoover etc.

List is endless.

Truly impaired.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:20 - Jun 25 with 2875 viewsCaptainAhab

Working from home when there's no work to do on 10:28 - Jun 25 by mutters



Remember watching this with my missus when it aired. At the time I was doing a lot of "working from home" on our business. Most uncomfortable 2 minutes of my life watching that sketch!
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:26 - Jun 25 with 2839 viewsBuhrer

Recreational misuse and stick some thumping techno on? Keeps you fit and helps you keep up with the cleaning for when the missus gets in.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:29 - Jun 25 with 2820 viewsLeics_Blue

Sometimes just sit at my laptop feeling weird/guilty and try and find things to do......but mostly watch You Tube videos of people going round car boot sales and trying to re-sell shoes or Z list celebrities playing golf. Click on Team's messaging every now and again to keep the icon green.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:30 - Jun 25 with 2818 viewsnodge_blue

Have a cup of tea and sit in the sun. AS long as you have a mouse jiggler.

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:37 - Jun 25 with 2772 viewsleitrimblue

Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:26 - Jun 25 by Buhrer

Recreational misuse and stick some thumping techno on? Keeps you fit and helps you keep up with the cleaning for when the missus gets in.


I was told that when working from home its very important to have a very clear separation between working and leisure time.

So at exactly 4 o'clock I like to turn off the laptop, put phone on silent make an enormous coffee and roll a big one

Maybe stick on some old jungle..
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:48 - Jun 25 with 2721 viewsDaninthecampo

Having WFH for about the last 10 years you soon find things to do that isn't work!
I have lots of work I could do but only about 2 hours that I need to do by Thursday
My wife is currently driving to Portugal so home alone, which makes it even harder to work, with 2 games coming up later I've now just opened a beer and going to lay by the pool until then.
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Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:51 - Jun 25 with 2702 viewsHerbivore

Working from home when there's no work to do on 12:48 - Jun 25 by Daninthecampo

Having WFH for about the last 10 years you soon find things to do that isn't work!
I have lots of work I could do but only about 2 hours that I need to do by Thursday
My wife is currently driving to Portugal so home alone, which makes it even harder to work, with 2 games coming up later I've now just opened a beer and going to lay by the pool until then.


WFH - w@nk for hours?

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Working from home when there's no work to do on 14:06 - Jun 25 with 2484 viewsCoastalblue


No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
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