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May 8, 2024

Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box #167 Work from home

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The stress of working from home calls for all sorts of adaptive behaviour, and Mandy has worked out certain methods to help herself along.

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1 COMMENT

  1. Love Mandy’s take on real life. cookaburra’s interjecting on conference calls tends to discombobulate Emerald City inhabitants too. the bane of the home worker would have to be video conference. A must have is the demure button to the throat shirt, or risk cleavage cam. The natural reflex to adjust skirt & bum sweat, forward and up from your chair, creates cleavage cam close-up – the antithesis of gender neutrality which is accepted workplace de riguer. dare I say, a booby-trap

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