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Chas Newkey-Burden

‘Irony’ as Zoom calls staff back to office

And other stories from the stranger side of life

The company that epitomised the trend of working from home during the Covid pandemic is telling its employees to come back to the office. Zoom said it’s now enforcing a “structured hybrid approach”, meaning that employees who live near an office “need to be onsite two days a week” because it’s “most effective” for the company. “Putting aside the irony”, said CNN, “Zoom isn’t excluded from the return to office trend that’s sweeping tech companies”.

Split leads to testicle row

A man is refusing to return his ex’s testicles, which he keeps in a jar in the fridge following their break-up. Brianna Kingsley, a transgender woman, has filed an affidavit claiming that her ex, William Wojciechowski, “retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles”, which he keeps “in the fridge next to the eggs”. However, reported Detroit News, Wojciechowski insists that Kingsley has been harassing and intimidating him since their split.

‘Meteor’ was ‘Russian rocket’

There was a “flurry of social media posts” after “flaming debris” was seen blazing across the night sky in Melbourne on Monday, noted the BBC. Following speculation that the episode was a meteor, the Australian Space Agency said that the flashes of light were “likely” remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. The rocket had been used to launch a satellite earlier.

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