[kj] OT: women & working from home

[Jiri]

Well, there goes my coffee all over the desk again...!

At an old PR job I would sometimes work from home during a 3 - 6 a.m. 
Web launch, where we'd be on conference call with some 15 or so members 
of the client company. I'd wake up, log on, join the call, then shower 
and dress for the "normal" work day after the launch was complete. 
During one of these calls, when my wife came up to me before leaving for 
work, she announced to me (and everyone else on the call whom I'd never 
met in person), "Must be nice to work in your underwear!" I never did 
hear the reaction because I immediately escorted my wife out of the 
room, but I always told myself my anonymity was preserved by the sheer 
number of people on the call.

fatpotanga wrote:

>I work from home and the radiant Mrs Fatpotanga is off work, looking after a
>poorly child.
>She's rather helpfully just shouted, somewhat grumpily I might add, "Have
>you been farting everywhere?!" very loudly through the door at me, unaware
>that I was on the phone to a client.
>For the record, I hadn't been, though I'm now giving serious thought to
>doing so.
>
>She seems to be making a habit of this.
>When  she was at home in the latter stages of pregnancy she was cleaning the
>bathrooms & prior to putting bleach down the downstairs loo shouted "Do you
>need a wee?" through the door at me.
>Again I was on the phone to a client.
>My client said nothing, but ended the conversation a good 10 minutes later
>with the words: "Well, I'd better let you go to the toilet"
>
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