THROUGH a combination of hugely devastating unemployment, and the noble commitment from those still in jobs to look increasingly unkempt, the nation’s supply of shirts have gone unworn for another month, WWN can confirm. With the large numbers of people working from home content to conduct video conference calls equipped with a 4 month old… Read more »
WITH a new report suggesting that 50% of Irish people have increased their consumption of alcohol since the implementation of the Covid-19 lockdown, WWN have employed renowned drinking expert James Michael Phelan to help you through any problems that this increased intoxication may be having on you. With over 20 years of boss-dodging, breath-hiding hangover… Read more »
THE world may be experiencing the worst pandemic in living memory while gearing up to weather an economic crash that makes 2008 look like Mardi Gras, but that hasn’t stopped Waterford man Hugh Dowdall from going that extra mile when it comes to amusing his soon-to-be ex-coworkers with a succession of utterly hilarious, not-at-all annoying… Read more »
WIFE-Of-ONE Melissa Helton is having a long, hard think about her marriage this week, after 6 weeks of Coronavirus-imposed lockdown has ‘opened her eyes’ about how much of a bell-end her husband Alan is. Mrs. Helton wept openly as she discussed the endless Zoom meetings her husband holds with his IT co-workers, in which he… Read more »
WATERFORD woman Meredith Harkin has broken down and admitted that the thing she’s missing the most from her normal pre-Covid-19 daily life is the one thing she thought she hated the most; her despised co-worker, Sheila Whelan. HR manager Harkin, 32, sobbed openly as she attempted to discuss ‘that fucking dose Whelan’ in her Waterford… Read more »
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 »