35 Hilarious Tweets That Show What People Learned About Their Partners While Working From Home
Since countries began to actively fight the spread of coronavirus what now seems like ages ago, more and more people who are fortunate enough to have jobs that can be done remotely have started working from home.
But this arrangement comes with its own set of challenges, such as additional distractions, not being able to unplug, or... your significant other!
Don't get me wrong, it's fun to have an impromptu mid-morning coffee date in the kitchen. Maybe even a quickie. But as cohabiting couples will tell you, working from home together has its ups and downs.
To paint you an accurate picture of what it looks like, we at Bored Panda put together a list of tweets from people who have first-hand experience. Enjoy!
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all you people replying that "you could just text" Why would you want a text instead of this good gurl coming in for pets and treats?
It's easy to type behind a keyboard and say whatever you want to a complete stranger, but seriously everything doesn't have to be up for debate. The dog is cute, maybe the couple wants to interact outside of texting and the dog gets a little cardio win-win. Otherwise they'd just be texting and the pooch would be laying around somewhere doing nothing. Chill
To better understand the authors of these tweets, we contacted Becca & Dan, an NYC-based couple who work remotely and run the blog Halfhalftravel. After having traveled the world working from their laptops, now they are sharing plenty of useful remote work tips and tricks and have extensively covered what they believe are The Best Ways to Work From Home With Your Partner.
"Some of the biggest challenges couples face when working from home are being each other's roommate, coworking buddy and romantic partner, all at the same time," Becca & Dan told Bored Panda. "Were couples supposed to have all these obligations to each other? The main challenge is fulfilling all these roles in a relationship and adding in the professional aspect of overhearing each other's meetings and being near or in each other's working environments constantly."
Some people have no idea how lucky they are. I'd give ANYTHING to 1) have a job that paid enough 2 live on 2)have a job I could do from home 3) have the kind of job I wasnt embarassed about 4) have a partner at all 5) have been in love with someone who loved me back at 1 point enuff 2 get married and still care enough about not 2 get divorced 6) know that all my childhood dreams and potential werent completely wasted and ruined by a life time of mental illness and suffering which when stable, is only cuz of meds that mess with ur mind & memory so much that u lose a good 30 IQ points, have zero ability 2 understand or accomplish the kind of work u flew thru in 8th grade and where u once lived a life of a gifted child u now struggle 2 not get fired doin data entry/admin work, all ur coworkers think ur slow in the head and literally laugh and dont believe you when u tell them ur SAT score & IQ.
My 8 years old daughter makes a point of running into my office during Zoom calls and saying Hi to all my coworkers
Some of my coworkers' children like to join meetings. They're always welcome.
Load More Replies...Our little dog I swear does not bark until I'm on the phone with the zoom call with my boss
Some of the practical advice that Becca & Dan provide in their article for couples who want to preserve their bond while working from home include deciding on the most ideal time to wake up, talking about the morning work-from-home routine, choosing to take breaks together, for a stretch or a walk, and speaking of sounds, and getting noise-canceling headphones.
"To avoid the relationship getting hostile (if it got hostile!), set boundaries. Communicate," they highlighted. "Set hours for the usage of different areas of the home office(s) and give solid reasoning as to why one person needs something and the other should take a turn afterward. But also, have fun! Eat meals together, plan break times, start the day together with coffee, and communicate about when work should end for the day."
You make that sound as if that's not an obvious given.
Load More Replies...Just hope she doesn't accidentally do that when you're on a zoom call 😂 😂
Then it would be a gift well shared I guess 😉
Load More Replies...The kind of thing I'd do for my man if he had to work from home. I do that all the time 🤣
Same! I usually do a little funny dance at the same time to make him laugh 😂
Load More Replies...Had my crush-worthy housemate do this while I was taking a call - a customer service call... for an electric company... at the onset of COVID... from a customer looking for hardship assistance with billing... Let's just say my brain had to do a quick reboot before I could go any further with the call 😳
This works even better if the couple work in uiversity admin - "We can't fire her, she's got tenure"
Me too! And I rotate dogs because I have four: Lucy must have left a plate in the living room again; Barrett got distracted while folding laundry; It was Zelda's turn to unload the dishwasher; Roxy forgot to take the trash out. It works brilliantly, except for the dogs not having thumbs part.
Load More Replies...At least the one that crawled was wearing underwear,
Load More Replies...You know, if they do exist, they can't just be males...
Load More Replies...Except he is not scratching something that dare not be scratched in mixed company. lol
As Mara Olekalns and Jessica A. Kennedy wrote in Harvard Business Review, it's important to remember that conflicts around the roles that Becca & Dan previously mentioned are amplified; tensions between work and family roles escalate in the absence of clear physical demarcation between work and home.
"In close relationships such as domestic partnerships, we tend to place greater emphasis on protecting our relationship than on getting our needs met," Olekalns and Kennedy explained. "We then avoid issues that should be tackled directly, or we capitulate before reaching optimal agreements. The cost of the subsequent lopsided outcome can be resentment that further fuels conflict."
One break area at my job has a sign "Please clean up after yourself, the kitchen fairy is on vacation."
Load More Replies...I deliberately bought a loud mechanical keyboard so it makes sound, because I work for a call center and use a sound suppressing microphone, so when I'm typing on a regular keyboard, customers think the call dropped, and I'm not good at typing and talking at the same time. The loud keyboard makes sure they know in still there without having to speak!
Load More Replies...i used to type up all the results of our client's tests for their counselors. it was a task that they normally do themselves but, due to having surgery i wasn't supposed to be moving around too much afterwards. after doing this for about a week i was told that i typed too fast and the noise bothered them. wtf? is it my fault that i learned to touch type and they used the biblical method - seek and ye shall find the right key? instead of slowing down to minimize their issue i made sure i typed up as many as i could each day.
You think keyboards are loud. I learned to type on a typewriter (the one where the letters were on a "spinning ball.") And it "dinged" when it got to the end of a line and "zzzzzipped" back to the front of the line. (Back in my day!) Meanwhile, nowadays, I can't stand the relatively quiet clacking of a keyboard. I love phones and tablets. Shhhhh.
how can you not type noisily?? lol I refuse to accept that accusation!
It can be very very annoying indeed but how can you type without noise? My pet peeve that i found out in quarantine is the noises during eating! I don't have misophonia there's just no patience left
I'm a loud typer, but there are different degrees of loudness in typing/keyboards. Regular typing on a "soft" keyboard can be heard, but it's just background noise. Then there's regular typing on a louder keyboard. Some just make more noise than others. I can type quietly, sort of. Or in a normal way, that's a bit louder. Or really fast, louder still. Or when agitated I really hit the keys. Not slamming, but there's a big difference. So different keyboards and different ways of typing make all sorts of noise combinations. Not saying anyone should type without noise, but loud typing on a loud keyboard is definitely a bother (coming from someone who typs loud on a loud keyboard)
Load More Replies...Have you got a real manual typewriter? If not, borrow one and let him really hear what 50 hangry woodpeckers sound like.
CEO: Note to self: Don't let this man go. Happy husband, productive worker.
Not necessarily. Some folks with unhappy home lives are all the more productive at work, either because they relish the time away from family or because their dedication to their work is precisely what's made their families miserable.
Load More Replies...There is a big chance the CEO didn't even notice this as (s)he might have been busy playing cards on his laptop.
So don't avoid the issues. Address small frustrations and annoyances as soon as they occur. Problems that are ignored grow and emotions that are suppressed intensify.
"If your partner's loud typing disrupts your work, talk about it before you break the keyboard," Olekalns and Kennedy said. "Individuals who treat adversities large and small as transformational opportunities are happier and healthier, and couples who reframe these moments as opportunities to share and better understand each other’s needs emerge with stronger relationships."
As with many things in a relationship, being able to talk through your issues and finding ways to adjust together is key!
I dont think we every really grow out of the coolness of a blanket fort or why a single balloon is so much fun. 😏
Load More Replies...If you're wearing appropriate business casual attire, I don't see am issue of conducting business inside the blanket fort.
Blanket forts are on the list for equipping a home office and lending that professional air one must maintain in order to accomplish quality work on a timely basis.
Have you tried "percussive manual maintenance"? (I.E. hitting the wi-fi router with your fist)
Yep, this is my workplace. I hate Zoom meetings so much, I always look for ways to avoid them if I can. And if I can get away with having the mic and camera off, they will be off!
Load More Replies...We actually have a 90 minute, team wide “Meeting Free” block on everyone’s calendar where no meetings are allowed to be scheduled.
I put up a poster about how meetings were a waste of time. It very quickly got torn down and HR kept staring at me as I walked past! See below.
Middle managers overly thrive on meetings. Or should we call them meddling managers?
Load More Replies...Haha this is literally my job. I'm a field rep for an automotive company and my whole work is preparing for meetings with the different sites I look after, having the meeting, having another meeting with my boss about how the meeting went and then on to preparing for the next meeting.
Very common saying in the UK. The sister of, 'X couldn't find his own a**e with both hands and an atlas.'
theres also if brains were dynamite they couldn't blow their nose
Load More Replies...My favorite is "I've seen better organized poo flinging fights at the monkey cage in the zoo."
I'm laughing so hard at this, that my legs are shaking - which woke up my cat. I'm still laughing because the visual is hilarious, and now Betty (my cat) is just glaring at me. I'm telling her it's your fault.
Load More Replies...Cyrus, I think I'm going to need a primer containing more of those Scottish sayings. You have my rapt attention, laddie.
If ya had brains, they'd roll around inside yer head like a BB in a boxcar...
That saying isn't specific to Scotland, to my knowledge its common through the whole of the UK (I have been born/raised in the South-West of England and been hearing this all my life . . . I'm almost 50)
Couldn't run a menage is a great Scottish expression for incompetence. Explanation here https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-social-history-menage-minodge-17524599
I live in Mexico... Also I've already seen people running to catch the street sellers, usually bread and corn lol
I'll allow it, yes. But my floors are awful, the ones in this picture are much better
Load More Replies...Sweatpants was the trend for two years now! Say hello to 2022 trend!! Blankets!!
Don't forget no bras for the ladies with neck up video on...lol.
Load More Replies...I don't understand why humans have moved away from wearing robe-style garments at all times. What could be more comfy? This man has got the right idea.
that's what I thought was his inspiration
Load More Replies...100%. If you schedule any meetings before 9am, between 12pm and 1pm or after 5:30pm you are a total a*hole.
It depends whether everyone is in the same timezone or not.
Load More Replies...At 7:15, all the kinderla are out of the house on their way to school, since we're all wide awake, might as well get it over with while it's quiet.
Well wait...will the call be with people in a different time zone? Then, that's his problem to get his own butt situated for it lol
7:30 isn't first thing in the morning. It's barley awake.
Load More Replies...I walked in with a 72 piece box of Cella's Liquid center Cherries...
Am I the only soul on the planet who doesn't give a damn about the microwaved fish smell? Should I be calling scientists to study me?
Yes. And have your sinuses checked out, because that smell is AWFUL.
Load More Replies...I don't microwave any food. YUCK. Ruin good fish be nuking it and tormenting others
I HAVE A LIL STINKY TOO!. (aka Jules) HER IS A MALSHI THOUGH. and she doesnt really stink (:
I call my husband puppies. I constantly say puppies quiet. Puppies out. Puppies no. Puppies I'm working. My coworkers sent me a gift basket full of dog treats and toys and they want to see my puppies on zoomcalls. 🤗
Well, now you’re committed, so it’s time to adopt some puppies. Maybe some kittens too—-the kid who will sleep on your desk and pop up to say hello on Zoom calls.
Load More Replies...I have a team meeting every Wednesday. If a pet wanders in, it is mandatory to show said pet on camera.
I’ll never accept the “your dog” to his own husband no matter what excuses you people come up with! Unacceptable! 😤
Help me out, what are the three things? Ari Shapiro has been married to Michael Gottleib since 2004, they have an English Pointer named Bruce, and he interviewed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the product of that interview was published mere hours after the tweet was made: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039799959/nato-secretary-general-on-this-years-united-nations-general-assembly
Load More Replies...I know this is meant to be a joke, but in all seriousness, maintaining my going-in-to-the-office routine has been critical for maintaining my mental health through all of this. It was a sliver of normality - I've now been out of my normal office for 21 months - I haven't even been near the building. I've forgotten what's in my desk drawers - I miss my stapler.
Pajamas yes. Hate himself?!? Maybe only for not realizing sooner that pajamas are great.
I am wfh. I have "office pjs" and "sleeping pjs" and they do not mix.
This Is so true!!! I have always worked from home, and even when challenging it was doable. Last year with schools closed and spouse it was almost impossible! Finally we found a rythm... By the end of the year!
Yup! I have been wfh for the last 8 years and it was madness at first with the hubs and my two teen spawn. I remember when it was just me, my cat, and my dog...bliss.
Load More Replies...This is me. I have been self-employed for decades. Now my husband is working from home and when my kid is home from college we are all sharing the second floor together. I have been begging for a door to my office and am now just going to hire a contractor and do it myself.
Yup, this is me. Suddenly everyone was working in my office, even the kids!
I think that even working in construction might be easier than handling a toddler
I own a construction company and I would rather lose 100 jobs than spend 10 minutes with a toddler.
Load More Replies...I don't understand why people do that. My camera is always pointed straight at my face so noone can even see what I'm wearing, much less my floor
Right? And the WALL is behind me, not the entire rest of the room!
Load More Replies...My wife had a zoom meeting with some higher ups. The one in charge of the meeting had her camera off, because she was getting dressed as she was talking. Well, according to my wife, suddenly she heard her shouting "NOOOO" as her cat jumped onto the laptop, and pressed the buttons to enable the camera, and everyone in the meeting got to see the boss in a tank top and panties. The lady was so embarrassed she began to cry. Meeting was adjourned until she was ready.
I have video conference meetings all the time and I work in the office (so, everyone is dressed appropriately and there are cubicles, conference rooms, isolation pods, etc for meetings. The number of people that have their cams on is maybe 1 out of 10. If you are presenting something, your slides are what shows, not you. I guess I never got why there are so many mishaps, unless some places require you to have your camera working for meetings.
You know your zoom call is getting good when you hear your partner start popping the popcorn.
I wonder if they bring a small towel over to fan their partner with. Or a spit bucket.
Most news anchors that sit behind the desk the whole time are wearing comfortable pants.
oh this is super common in news, i cant even count how many times ive been walking on the street and saw a news segment being filmed where the guy was wearing a nice ass suit top with blue jeans or khaki shorts bc you can only see their torso 😂
Except that Big Bird is a male bird. He should be dancing around showing off his beautiful plumage.
Load More Replies...That's the scariest thing I've ever read in my whole life wtf op
Load More Replies...I'm an internal auditor and I'm still chuckling at this. My husband doesn't get any of mine either.
Load More Replies...They hear my son and boyfriend shrieking with laughter, which my headphones prevented me from hearing, and asked me to please mute their joyous sounds. At least they thought my family was wonderful.
Yeah, I have colleagues whos does that too and the ones who does absolutely nothing with their inbox. And somehow the ones with "clean" and "nicely archived" folders are the ones who constantly has missing emails and documents :D
Maybe because they’re archiving and deleting without reading, or even looking, first. I delete trash emails, and archive old but important ones.but that’s after looking at them and at least reading enough of each to determine where it should go.
Load More Replies...I have a coworker who flags for follow up every single email she gets. I watched her do this to one that just said "thanks". That was amazing and horrifying.
I used to do that when I was working. Nothing ever got deleted, but I had about 11 archive sub-folders to keep everything organized and searchable. My desktop was also minimalist. My coworker asked me if I was a serial killer ha
That's me. I hate having anything in my inbox. Once the issue is sorted I archive or delete.
Funny - my 'work email' I would have separate folders and archive things... and my 'inbox' would only have maybe 1 or 2 things in there that were 'do right now and asap' - and that was actually used as an excuse by one of "THOSE" co-workers to loudly comment "Are you not doing any work??? Are you just deleting important things? WHY does your inbox not have anything? ARE YOU NOT DOING ANYTHING?" - of course... this was back in the 'go to the office' days... maaaybe that's one reason I love work from home...
I delete what I don't need and archive.. aaccidentally... what I don't need. Lol. I hate clutter. I am not OCD, just understand how to use things correctly, like a delete button.
I go through my archives periodically and delete stuff that no longer applies.
Load More Replies..."Let me be clear" is the introduction to an explanation why you think a co-worker is an utter asshole so he doesn't get it wrong.
My husband is 5 10, 145lbs. When he walks about the house, whomever I am on zoom with asks if I am experiencing an earthquake.
Weight has nothing to do with it. Our CATS sound like a damn stampede!
Load More Replies...I'm the same. I need to gather all the things I'm going to drink and eat at my table before joining zoom, and that makes me late cause I forget stuff to bring and keep going back and forth. I did the same thing at work going back and forth from staff lounge to office to get food and drinks.
Totally get it. Now there are several rooms in which to lose your "favorite" pen!
Any work that requires thought and iteration to perfect is like that. It may be something that looks simple as a finished product but the thought and practice, the trial and errors are almost never seen. I have lost count of people telling me to just "whip" something up quickly. No Bill, this ain't Hogwarts and if I'm going to whip something up it's going to be your behind.
So people honestly think art just manifests itself? Artwork takes a lot of time and detail oriented work. My first husband is an artist and he would spend 10- 12 hours just drawing up the concept for a piece of artwork (mixed media- pencil/ acrylic/ oil and digital). Usually took him at least a week of 12 hour days to finish commissioned pieces.
Humans are really the only species that think time is linear. It's circular for most creatures
Load More Replies...Actually it means you won't be in your normal workspace/office and might be unavailable.
Anthropomorphizing misbehaving objects makes them more difficult to throw out the window.
I, honestly, thought this was normal. Everyone I know does this....
I double space because I learned to type on a typewriter and that's just what you did.
I broke myself of the habit, but I don't blame you for keeping it.
Load More Replies...No to the double space, but a big yes to the Oxford comma.
Load More Replies...On my first day on the job, there was a group discussion to find out if I was Team Double-space or Team Single-space. I am Team Double-space, and our Director cheered bc his team count went up. Lol
I double space with both typing and texting. And if I forget, even in a text, I delete correct it. Cause I'm not a heathen.
That's also how I learned it, but it wasn't that hard to unlearn. I recently saw some crime show or other in which they analyzed some text and concluded that the author must have been "an older person" because of the double spaces after the periods. I'm not sure exactly when this changed. Was it just a matter of switching from typewriter to word processor, or did it take awhile? And who decided it, anyway?
if you double space after a period, the next word is automatically capitalized. Unless you shut all that stuff off like I usually do.
jokes on you, the 3 monitors are my private computer that's here to distract me. Work setup is just a laptop.
Years ago my son was obsessed with the song It's Raining Men. He'd randomly belt it out in the car, when I was on the phone, in the middle of Target, etc. At least your hubby got to move to the basement 😂😂
If these couples think this is fun, just wait 'til you're both retired.
My husband and I both work from home, and currently we share office space in the living room. People on my phone calls hear him on his phone calls through our wireless headsets louder than they can hear me. :(
Sit with a wall to your back. No one will see anything other than you and the wall.
We'd have to significantly reorganize our furniture to make this possible in our house, and it would greatly decrease the amount of space we have to walk around.
Load More Replies...Found out i fart entirely more than my husband does. So now he just jokes it off that someone is talking s**t behind me and I cant help but laugh everytime
I voulnteer for a ministry and did a FB live video a few hours later a office wide email went out that said "be sure you check your background before going live, making videos or doing zoom calls. I had to watch my video many times to see if I missed something. Finally I asked and it wasn't me, boy I could have saved some time and asked before I spent hours watching my video over and over. Yet curiosity still has me wondering a year later what someone missed lol
My husband gets mad when the birds start going off and a customer hears them (he works for a bank) I have to remind him that it's now 2022 and if people don't understand you're WFH then they live in a cave. lol
Some people really had fun in lockdown, huh? Unlike us. It's been hell and it's gonna be hell this year too.
If these couples think this is fun, just wait 'til you're both retired.
My husband and I both work from home, and currently we share office space in the living room. People on my phone calls hear him on his phone calls through our wireless headsets louder than they can hear me. :(
Sit with a wall to your back. No one will see anything other than you and the wall.
We'd have to significantly reorganize our furniture to make this possible in our house, and it would greatly decrease the amount of space we have to walk around.
Load More Replies...Found out i fart entirely more than my husband does. So now he just jokes it off that someone is talking s**t behind me and I cant help but laugh everytime
I voulnteer for a ministry and did a FB live video a few hours later a office wide email went out that said "be sure you check your background before going live, making videos or doing zoom calls. I had to watch my video many times to see if I missed something. Finally I asked and it wasn't me, boy I could have saved some time and asked before I spent hours watching my video over and over. Yet curiosity still has me wondering a year later what someone missed lol
My husband gets mad when the birds start going off and a customer hears them (he works for a bank) I have to remind him that it's now 2022 and if people don't understand you're WFH then they live in a cave. lol
Some people really had fun in lockdown, huh? Unlike us. It's been hell and it's gonna be hell this year too.
