A THIRD of the UK’s homeworkers plan to do their jobs from a rain-lashed beach during severe gales in Britain this summer.
Homeworkers, who can do their jobs anywhere there is wifi, are heading to the British coast where they believe the abject misery of huddling in a shelter battered by storms will reflect how they feel inside.
Carly Ryan, a contract lawyer, said: “My home’s nice. Too nice to ruin with the grinding, relentless tedium and petty twats of my job.
“To avoid besmirching it with negative associations, I’m spending July and August in a static caravan in Filey where every day I’ll sit on the beach in the drizzle, soaked to the skin, staring at a grey ocean under a grey sky. An environment to match my working mood.”
Compliance officer Joseph Turner agreed: “So what if people are jealous when I join Zoom calls in a cagoule, occasionally fighting off an aggressive seagull I refer to as ‘Black Peter’? They just wish they’d thought of it.
“And it finally means I can look at the office-bound disparagingly, muttering ‘well it’s alright for some’ about their dry clothing and flesh not bleached blue by the freezing rain.
“Have I got the Q2 reports? No, sorry, they blew away along with the stones holding them down. I cut my foot on broken glass while chasing after them, if that’s any help.”
