Dealing with the unexpected Part2 Chatty Friends and Family or Needy neighbors
When the words get out that you have started working from home, a lot of non working friends and family might want to drop in and check on you. Aunts or sisters or friends might just want to make sure everything is going on fine while there might be non working friends who may drop in to spend some time and there would be associates or neighbors who will want to drop in to see if things are going well for you and if they are… might want to know how you do your job and find out if they could start something similar as well! Then there would be some calling just to chit chat.
It is not that easy to tell someone you can see them because you are working from right then. Family or friends might just take offence if you tell them the working hours and ask them to come by later, the only thing you can do in such a situation is to let them in and to let them know you were in between something important and if they could just make themselves comfortable you would get over with your work and join them in a little while.
As for the calls, if you already don’t have a caller ID reader, an answering machine and a work number get one. Give your work number to your clients only and check in the caller id for the name and number of person who is calling you and depending upon your convenience take the call or let your answering machine take it and you can reply to it later on..
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