16 Reasons Your Cat Is a Better Coworker Than Karen

Working from home has pros and cons, but literally nobody misses Karen. Or Mike.

Jack Shepherd
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6 min readMar 23, 2020

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There are many things to miss about the office if you’re working from home, but even if you occasionally long for the office banter and the after-work drinks and the snack tables that you can’t get at home, let’s all admit that your home-office coworker, the cat, is just an infinitely better companion than Karen. And Mike. And Kevin, and Greg, and Jeanne, and Leanne, and Bill, and Dawn, and Devon, and Allie, and Chuck, and Dave. And goddamn Karen.

While you’re working from home, for instance, you do not miss Mike, who for some reason is simply incapable of remembering to plug in his headphones when he decides it’s time to really rock out to Imagine Dragons.

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Oscar, meanwhile, doesn’t even like music!

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And then there’s Kevin, who always takes the one good meeting room to work in even though he ISN’T HAVING A MEETING.

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Jack Shepherd
Jack Shepherd

Written by Jack Shepherd

I have a newsletter about crossword puzzles and a podcast about rom-coms. Formerly editorial director @BuzzFeed. Email: JackAShepherd at gmail

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