When you work from home where do you work?

[moolarkey]

I just watched this HGTV show.  The couple was moving from Texas to California.  I think every house they looked at the husband complained about how small the bathtubs were in all the bathrooms. Turns out he works from home often and he does his work in the bathtub so he needs a place to balance his laptop so it won't fall in the water.

I might see occasionally using a laptop or ipad in the tub but not often and, for me, certainly not to do most of my work. 

Do a lot of other people do most of their work, when at home, when in a bathtub full of water?

[Deleted]

That's just bizarre. Why would you use a laptop in a bathtub full of water??

On the occasions where I do work from home I work from the dining room table.

[candreco]

lol, no! I work in our office when I telework, occasionally on my bed or on the living room floor if I need to spread a lot of stuff out. Can you imagine being on a conference call with this guy and hearing water sloshing in the background?

[Deleted]

That's freakin' hilarious. I don't use an electronic device in the tub. I know me and I know I'd drown it in about 10 seconds.

When I work from home I work in either our designated office space so I have access to all the files/papers I need or at the kitchen table if I need to spread a lot out.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Niiiice. I've heard people flushing the toilet on a conference call before.

I have my desk in our guest room.

[treedimensional]

WTF. What kind of work is this, I wonder?
I work in my home office. My spouse works in his home office. Neither of us has ever taken a laptop into the bathroom.

[ktzmoh]

So strange. I go the more traditional and less dangerous route and work at the desk in the guest room/ home office

[heliocentric]

What? Why? Wouldn't you get soggy pretty quickly? What if you dropped the device into the tub? So many questions.

I have a dedicated office, but haven't used it in years. I sit at the kitchen table, DR table or at the coffee table on the floor. I have a lovely clawfoot tub, but it never occurred to me to work in it!

[TBM]

I am guessing that the guy probably joked about working from the tub and the producers jumped on it and made that his assigned issue/complaint/drinking game phrase for the episode.

I just don't understand people using electronics in the bathtub....I am such a klutz that I know that I would ruin whatever I took in with me for sure. Besides, my laptop has a bad battery and has to be plugged in, and I have watched/read too many mysteries where the person was murdered in the bathtub by electrocution. lol

[sillygoosegirl]

Wow. I can sort of see how you could do that briefly on occasion, but my laptop batteries wouldn't last long enough to work all day in the tub. And using something that plugs in while you are in the tub is just dumb. I mean, there are worse things that could happen than ruining your laptop!

When I worked from home, at first I set up a desk in the guest bedroom, but after a while I decided I didn't really like it up there. So I set up a desk in a little nook off the kitchen and worked from there. When I needed a change of pace, I'd sit on the couch, but that was less ergonomic and I'd be sore at the end of the day if I let myself sit there all day. Occasionally if I didn't need to talk much on a call and the weather was nice, I'd sit on the back porch so I could listen to the bird song.

[pitterwoo]

I usually work from the bed. I have a lap desk that I set up.

Sometimes I read blogs in the tub, but I can't imagine staying in there long enough to do work.

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[niknik]

No, i won't even read my kindle from my bath tub and I love baths. I buy real books just for bathtub use.