Bengaluru Flatmates Adopt Corporate Approach To Manage Household Chores

In a post going viral on social media, an X user share how she and her flatmates used the corporate approach to tackle their household chores. What makes it peculiar is that they used a shared document to assign tasks, very much like a corporate project.

Tanvi Gaikwad, a Bengaluru-based engineer commented, “Welcome to Bengaluru: Where flatmate duties are documented like a corporate project and the house gods might need their own Slack channel to weigh in on our mess.”

The Ultimate List of Chores

Gaikwad shared a four-column table, titled “the ultimate list of chores you did not sign up for,” detailing each flatmate’s assigned tasks. The table also included witty reasons explaining why these chores are important.

Some examples of these quirky reasons include: “Pay your rent on time or risk becoming a tenant in your own fantasy land,” “Pay the gas bill on time, or we might end up cooking dinner over a campfire in the living room,” and “Contribute to the Cook Fund or prepare to experience the ‘Chef’s Special’ sneeze-ridden food.”

Take a look at the post here:

How Did X Users React?

Gaikwad’s post sparked varied reactions on social media. One X user commented, “Honestly, this could either be the best thing ever or by day two this is in trash.”

Another user shared a different perspective, saying that boys are better at managing chores. “If someone feels like doing they do the chore else no one does it. Someday all of us together decide to do it. Going on for past 3+ years.”

Adding to the humor, one user posted a screengrab of a WhatsApp conversation where someone quipped, “Didi ne sirf dough chor diya hai. Iska bhatura banana padega.” (The cook has just made dough. We’ll have to make bhatura from this.)