The working from home thread: tips and advice

Imagine head butting that with a fairly solid, yet glancing blow. Go on, imagine it!

Also as I mentioned before, try and keep moving, go make a cup of tea or do some stretches once an hour. You get cold if your heart rate goes as low as possible for a while.

You get cold if your heart rate goes as low as possible for a while

This should help with that.

Repeated similar events led to the complete replacement of our cooker hood. Fuck that pointy sharp thing straight into a furnace to die in a melty fire.

Also - for those of you missing the sound of the office

https://soundofcolleagues.com/#

Thanks for providing the link, I've just done mine. From the below it sounds like you get the £6 per week for the whole of the 2020/21 tax year regardless of how how many days you actually worked from home... or am I being thick here?!

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Clearly i failed at articulating that point in my two posts but yes...

To avoid the cost to HMRC of processing bespoke claims for millions of people they're providing full tax year relief on £6 a week with the simple form.

Cooker hood is also at temple height for me. But, hopefully moving soon so that can just get suspicious looks from me until then.

At my parent's place, a suspended light fitting in their kitchen (big heavy metal fucker) was set to just above my Dad's head as he always though he would be the tallest person in the house. He's 5'10", I'm 6'2". Every, fucking, time. Bastard thinks it's hilarious.

But don't you dare use any of that money to give school kids a free lunch.

Imagine head butting that with a fairly solid, yet glancing blow. Go on, imagine it!

Thanks, I'm eating, food's crying.

You will need something like this in the new place

I don't know where the £6 a week number comes from, it actually works out as about £120 a year
https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2020/04/martin-lewis--working-from-home-due-to-coronavirus--claim-p6-wk-/

Yep.

https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2020/04/martin-lewis--working-from-home-due-to-coronavirus--claim-p6-wk-/

Isn't it tax relief on £6 pw, which would be close to £120

£6 a week is the gross amount.

6x52x40% (for higher rate taxpayer) is your ~ £120.

If you're not a higher rate taxpayer then it's not worth as much.

I don't know where the £6 a week number comes from, it actually works out as about £120 a year

It's tax relief on £6/week.

Not a tax rebate of £6/week.

works out as about £120 a year

... if you're a higher rate tax payer. Which apparently everyone else on this thread is 😢

£6 × 52 × 40% = £124.80

Edit: should have refreshed

what they said. I'm just trying to stop anyone getting their hopes up of getting £300 off the govt

Ah cheers, my company's 'HR department' couldn't tell me that for some reason.

Is it a revolution, cool, effective?

While battling with a printer, I headbutted the corner of a Ikea floating shelf with enough force that the shelf fell off.
Fortunately a flesh wound only, but gory scenes.

Going all high tech for Zoom/MS Teams/soft phone.

Cheap Condenser table mic
Cheap USB HDMI capture card to output from mirrorless camera (instead of silly price webcams)
Second hand Plantronics wireless headset ordered

It's only recent guidance. Past week or so.

It simply moves the pointy head denting part far above my accident prone cranium.

Not everyone in the thread pays 40% tax. Some pay 45