Woman ‘Working from Home’ Sends Strategically-Timed Emails, Fools No One

“Let’s see, Wendy sent a completely meaningless email around 9:30am, CC’ing the whole marketing team. We should expect an equally meaningless and bothersome email around 11ish,” said Marsha Petersen, a coworker of Wendy Messermen.

“Wendy works from home quite a lot, and she sends emails every couple of hours to prove she’s actually being productive. Must be a pain typing in the old iPhone while you’re on the stair climber at the gym, driving to the shore or hitting the sale racks at Bloomingdales?”

“It’s pretty obvious she’s not working,” said marketing assistant Doug Barry. “All her emails just ask trivial questions she already knows the answer to, or inquires about the status of something.

It’s never like, ‘Here’s the edited copy for that ad you needed last week’ or ‘I’ve finally finished your performance review, what else ya need?’ That would be actual work. I usually just wait a half hour to respond because I know she’s out the door as soon as she sends it.”

“Why can’t we just be honest? When I get to work from home… one day, I hope… I’ll just send an email to all with the subject line: ‘Playing EverQuest all day, with an occasional masturbation break, don’t you dare interrupt me.’”

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