Rugstore Company invents nouvelle concept - Working From Home
The Rugstore Company has invented a completely new work concept to adapt to the Covid19 pandemic. They are calling it “working from home”. Founder Shaggy Floor tells us that the idea came to him when he opened his computer one day. The lockdown rules were just introduced. Mr Floor was feeling anxious about keeping his business afloat. He opened his computer when the idea hit him; he can simply continue to work from the constraints of his home!
When we mentioned to him that several companies have always had their employees working remotely with non-existent offices, Mr Floor said that we should not confuse remote working with his “working from home” concept. It is a common mistake, but they are totally different, he says. He is waiting to hear back from the trademark office, but he is confident that the WFH abbreviation will soon be proprietary of the Rugstore Company.
We contacted some of Rugstore Company’s employees to ask them about this new way of working. One employee, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he had been requesting to work from home once a week, following a bad accident where he shattered 69 bones. The company however, always had a stern policy regarding showing up at work. In fact one of the company’s motos was “Being a teamplayer is about showing up at the office”. Another anonymous employee told us that their bonuses were directly linked to the length of stay at the office.
As a team, we have come up with some ingenious ways of working together, says Shaggy. We discovered this little known app called Slack. We creatively use this app to communicate via channels. Each channel represents specific departments of work. In order to make the discussions more intimate, we call each other on facetime. This way we even see each other, he says proudly. We do have the odd issue of an echo, but we manage. The other downside, he said, is that few of his employees did not have an iPhone, which meant they were not included in facetime. But we cannot please everyone, he says. If you decide to be a renegade and buy a non apple product, sometimes you miss out!
When we mentioned that “zoom” enables video calls for meetings, Mr Floor said that the zoom app was a myth and a false propaganda spread by the center left lobbies to instill fear in the common folk.
We told Shaggy about the working from home requests that some of his employees have been making the past few years. Ah! that was Joe Goodad, says Mr Floor. I believe he just had a new baby and asked me if he could stay home and work, a few days a week. As if that would work! At this rate, everyone who has children, will work from home! That is a crazy idea, he mused.
When asked if this will change their way of working once the pandemic ends, My Floor said that he was not very sure. You see, this work from home is an invention we came up with, to work around the lockdown. Once the lockdown is lifted, I will most probably expect everyone to show up to the office. Imagine me being stuck at home with my kids and wife, that would be daft! he laughed.
