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- You have a full place-setting of dishes and flatware in your desk because you hate eating dinner from Styrofoam containers using plastic utensils
- Eating dinner with your family or reading your kids a bedtime story involves the use of Skype, FaceTime or WhatsApp
- Seeing your family means looking at their photos on your desk
- You know where all the light switches in the office are – so you can turn on the lights in the morning and turn them off at night
- You’re on a first name basis with the after-hours cleaning staff
- You know how to make coffee for the whole office because it perks you up in the morning and keeps you perky at night
- You know what time the HVAC system in the office shuts down
- You’re texting your kids to check if they have brushed their teeth before bed
- Your parents are calling you at the office to tell you that Sunday dinner is ready
- Dinner at your desk is the leftovers from lunch at your desk
- There’s no traffic during your commute – either of them
- It’s too late to go to the “open late” food store on your way home
- You’re hungry but it’s too late for dinner and too early for breakfast
- The computer is logging you off so that IT can do maintenance work
- Your airline loyalty program is asking you if you can return some of your unused points
- Carrying over more weeks of unused vacation would mean being eligible to take off all of next year
- Your overtime bank is underdrawn
- The Employee Assistance Program counsellors are calling you to offer you counselling
- You don’t have time to attend meetings of your Workaholics Anonymous group because you are, um, working
- Your boss is threatening to take away your company car so that you HAVE to stay home for a few days
- Getting a midnight snack involves raiding the office vending machine