July 9th, 2008



The Top 7
Disadvantages of Working From Home


7> Lack of porn filter of home PC has really decreased productivity, or increased it, depending on your view.

6> 56K connection makes downloading that 125MB Project file an all-day task.

5> It’s a little harder justifying the 22-year-old secretary to your wife.

4> You have to be willing to give up the master bedroom to finally have that corner office.

3> Kids won’t let you use the computer during the summer.

2> Interruptions by annoying co-workers replaced by interruptions by annoying Jehovah’s Witnesses and magazine-selling teenagaers.

and the Number 1 Disadvantage of Working From Home…

1> Water cooler discussions with the parakeet are ALWAYS about crackers.




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Credits:

Selected from 23 submissions from 8 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Doug Frank, Crosby, TX — 1, 4, 5 (Hat trick!), Banner tag (1st #1)
Glenn Anthony, San Jose, CA — 2
Frank Boneno, Baton Rouge, LA — 3
Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 6
Fletch McPherson, Jamaica, NY — 7
Mark Sweatt, Marietta, GA — President & CEO



RUNNERS UP list — Homeward Bound

Much harder to brown nose remotely.
(Bruce Kane, Charlotte, NC)

No chance to leave 1/16″ of coffee in the pot so someone else has to make the new batch.
(Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL)

Office gossip replaced by reruns of “Sex and the City.”
(Michele Lord, Lincoln NE)

Standard office ventilation systems are much more efficient at dispersing cube farts.
(James Knowles, Bellingham, WA)

The dog doesn’t understand speakerphone etiquette.
(Bruce Kane, Charlotte, NC)


Runners Up list name
(Doug Frank, Crosby, TX)