A FRANKLY astonished 8-year-old Irish child is questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents after witnessing their half-arsed attempts at looking busy as they continue to ‘work’ from home. “Mum’s words-per-minute typing is fucking awful, she’s going at a snail’s pace and only using her index fingers, and himself? He’s been on the… Read more »
WATERFORD self-isolator Derek Smithlan is ‘all set’ for his work-from-home Skype meeting with the rest of his team, having spent the morning making sure that his laptop faces a backdrop that looks like he’s a well-read man with loads of books. Having felt great shame earlier in the week during a Skype call with his… Read more »
IN MANY COUNTRIES around the world people are being asked, advised and forced to work from home, and for some parents that means juggling a working day at home with a day at home with the kids. WWN speaks exclusively to a number of working-from-home Irish parents who share their stories: “Anna, I’m telling you… Read more »
THE staff at Waterford estate agency McGrimmon & Associates have stealthily gathered at the desk of Rory Haskill, where he sits with his headphones on, drumming away on his work surface with a pen, completely oblivious as to what is about to occur. Haskill, 27, is mindlessly tapping away at his desk, lost to his… Read more »
WITH no laws currently in place to make it compulsory for people who work together to declare their ‘office romances’, it is as tricky as ever for people to tell which of their co-workers are doing it with each other. As such, WWN have compiled a list of things to watch out for, so that… Read more »
A SERIES of embarrassing misunderstandings have led one work colleague to misread the signs and conclude that she is your friend friend and not merely your work friend, WWN can exclusively reveal. Noreen in HR has often provided amiable company in the office with polite small talk when passing in the corridor, however, her the… Read more »
IT’S NEVER been more important to advocate for parity of pay among the sexes. It’s 2019 after all. We here of the trailblazing feminist-first Gash publication know the importance of pursuing this issue more than anyone. For example; how the underrepresented are often placated with empty gestures such as a token, one-off article proclaiming the… Read more »
A REPORT has sent shockwaves through the business community after it revealed that the average employee granted permission to work from home does anywhere between ‘absolutely fuck all’ and ‘not a tap’ during the traditional working day hours of 9am to 5pm. Covert study of workers who work from home occasionally or everyday has produced… Read more »
THE votes are in; the new female hire at a Waterford office has been found to be ‘zero craic’ by her male co-workers, who have found her to be a poor replacement for the girl who just left, who you could at least talk to. The naturally shy Carrie Whelan was brought round and introduced to her… Read more »
HAS there ever been a generation more afflicted by such high stress levels than this current one? Trying to strike that work/life balance, paying bills, keeping a roof over your head – it can take all your energy sometimes to just keep on keeping on, suppressing that stress until you’re old enough to die of… Read more »