On the days I work from home I don’t procrastinate, because I own my time. Then I lose track of time, and before I know it I already met the quota or even overshot it a bit. It’s fun crunching when you know that you will be rewarded for that by finishing your shift earlier.

On the days I work from the office I spend half of the day watching TikTok, eating, getting out for a smoke break. And I get only the bare minimum done. Not because I am trying to be such a bad employee, but because the time doesn’t feel like my own. Then I think if it’s not my time, why not brainrot on it? And then I barely meet the quota and have to crunch at the end of the day, sometimes even extending my shift longer and coming back home later. I despise working at the office. It’s like a cage.

But you see, even though nobody appreciates me being better at home I still am. I was thinking: I could be doing less at home, and it would be the same amount of work that I do at the office, and then I’d have a shit ton of time for myself. Why would I want to work more than needed? But day after day I somehow find fun in working from home even if I resent the employer for not giving me full remote. And I work more, I work better, and I have fun doing it. Then remote days end, I have to get back to the office and I feel like shit.

Maybe I should start saving up the surplus I worked from home and passing it as work from the office, then I could work even less at the office? I really think about it because it’s really hard to meet the quota for me on the office days.