…because I need to steal more printer paper!
So, what trivial reason do you think it will be to make you think about going back to your office?
Somewhere, in some obscure office up a forgotten stairwell and down a never-traversed hallway, an administrative assistant will have brought a big box of donuts.
There’s a lovely lake surrounded by a walking trail near the campus that I walk daily in the cool(ish) months. On campus there are several 6+ story buildings, all linked with cat walks that provide my exercise the rest of the year. Plus we have a museum quality art collection that graces pretty much every wall so there’s tons of beautiful things to look at.
Wow, what serendipitous timing for this thread - I just went back to my office today to retrieve a backup laptop of mine that had been gathering dust in my locker for the past one and a half years.
When we were ordered to begin working from home back in March 2020, I waffled over whether to take this laptop home or not, eventually deciding against it because I thought the lockdown would last just 6 months. Had I known back then what I know now, I definitely would have brought it home then.
Is going back to the office to get away from my wife’s vacuuming every day trivial enough?
(Obligatory Monty Python clip…)
I love to go out to lunch, and there is a Japantown and a Little Saigon within easy driving distance of my office. I’ve been back at my desk for a month, and have had several nice lunches of tempura and sashimi, and today I just had a comforting bowl of pho.
Where my home is, there are only a couple of good places, and I’m sick of them. And sick of my own cooking, too.
There’s a Thai restaurant a short drive from my office that had the best Pad Thai. I used to go there weekly, and I haven’t been in a year and a half. I hope they’re still in business.
There’s also a good Pho place in the same strip mall as the Thai place which I miss, but not as much as the Pad Thai.
Oh, and an Indian place also a short drive away that had excellent lunch buffets.
And, how could I forget, an Ethiopian place that also had outstanding lunch buffets.
I’m hungry now.
I no longer have a parking pass, so I’ll get a nice walk in from off-campus.
I just realized that it’s more than a year since I’ve eaten a doughnut.
Huh.
Ah, yes, that’s another reason: the food court has this hole-in-the-wall Chinese place, that does the best “crispy beef” I’ve ever had. I keep trying other places, but no one else does it quite like they do.
And since this food court’s business was about 99% from the offices around it, which have been 99% empty for a year and a half, I have no idea if they’ll still be there…
Most everyone got kicked out of the library in March of 2020, given laptops, and told to work from home. I left some cute Cthulhu plushes in my office. Now we are going back to the library, on Monday, August 16. So I can look forward to seeing my stuffed Lovecraftian horrors, once again!
Sadly, the nearest restaurant, a Brueggers, has gone kaput. Fortunately, there is still Subway and Panera, so it won’t be so bad…
That’s why you’re depressed!
.
(Seriously. I dealt with ‘Distanced Depression’ last year by dropping in to our Gourmet Kosher Doughnut Bakery once a week)
I need to charge my iPhone?
I go into the office about once a week to water the plants.
Delta came along just as our dusty desks were getting a spring cleaning.
I’ll go back and put fresh batteries in the wall clocks. 
Because my commute on the subway is the only chance I ever get to do any reading.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid of the subways, given the low rate of mask regulation compliance and the total lack of enforcement of the regulations by the NYPD, who, on those vanishingly rare occasions when they make an appearance, will also not wear masks. None of them.
So I get to and from work by bicycle, weather permitting.
Not even an open bar would make we want to ever go back to an office again
Once in a while I’ll remember how handy it was to be able to bring my excess produce to work.
It looked like the office was going to force me to start commuting in September. The same day I had to go in to get my parking pass and photo ID (I was hired earlier this year), I received an email asking me what I really preferred: office full time, office 3 days and home for 2, home almost full time. I had planned to go for the second option but; traffic seriously sucks to this location and there is no public transit option that works for me, and delta variant covid has me very, very wary. So I explained why I would prefer the third option. Fingers crossed that I get it.
Well, won’t it be nice to have dibs on all the goodies left in the office fridge?