Nobody Wants to Go Back to Work

Jennifer R. Povey
5 min readAug 5, 2021
Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash

This morning, my husband is back in the office for the first time since March 2020. The only reason he’s there is it’s his turn to water everyone’s plants, which the IT guys stopped doing when they went in to check the on site servers once voluntary return happened.

He’s coming back at lunch time.

Nobody wants to go back to work. Restaurants are complaining about shortages (although…

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.