I think it’s probably fair to say that there is very little that Jacob Rees-Mogg says or does that I agree with. We don’t move in the same kind of circles.

Fair enough, we are both Roman Catholics but his idea of Christianity and mine are somewhat different so the less said about that the better.

So on to more mundane matters. Mr Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency went viral on social media recently with two posts doing the rounds.

One was a tweet which said: “Anyone worried about paying for food or their gas and electricity bills should consider a career in the armed services where this is all provided.

"There’s still plenty of opportunities for people in this country and no excuse to go without.”

The second post was a picture of a memo said to have been left on the desks of civil servants in Whitehall saying: “Sorry you were out when I visited.

"I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon. With every good wish, Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency.”

I showed both of these to my wife and asked her which, if any, were genuine and she was adamant they were both spoofs.

Not so, I’m afraid. The ‘join the armed forces’ tweet is fake, but amazingly the passive-aggressive ‘why aren’t you at your desk, I’ve got my eye on you’ memo is completely genuine.

If I’d received a note like that from my boss, I’d be off to see my union rep before you could say workplace harassment.

The PA news agency understands that Mr Rees-Mogg has taken to carrying out spot checks of Government buildings which he has oversight of since being placed in charge of government efficiency during Boris Johnson’s February reshuffle.

Mr Rees-Mogg is understood to have left his ‘calling card’ in a cabinet office area following a tip-off from a minister that the space that can fit ‘dozens’ of staff had been left ‘completely empty’.

Needless to say, civil servants aren’t happy. Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA union, which represents civil servants, said the notes were “the most crass, condescending act I’ve seen from a minister”.

He has said there was no rationale for Rees-Mogg’s fixation on forcing people to start commuting again: “Ministers’ obsession with ending flexible working and micromanaging the civil service increasingly just looks vindictive.”

According to theguardian.com, Penman said the government was “sounding like Luddites, while the rest of the economy is embracing hybrid working”.

The practice of ‘hot desking’ has apparently been commonplace in the civil service, while flexible working had been in place since before the pandemic.

But this doesn’t suit Mr Rees-Mogg who has argued that forcing civil servants back into the office would help realise the “benefits of face-to-face, collaborative working and the wider benefits for the economy”.

Strangely, I can sort of see both sides of the argument, despite the fact I am a big fan of working from home. I was more than happy to ditch the commute in order to work from home from before the first lockdown until December last year.

My dining room table became my office. My commute was however many steps it took me to walk down stairs.

But I accept that I had a job that was ideally suited to remote working and not every office-based job is. I didn’t need to be with people for planning meetings and I was at the stage of my career where I didn’t need to be present in person in an office to further my progression.

I also concede that it’s difficult to have those creative conversations over Zoom or Teams and that sometimes face-to-face meetings are valuable. I also accept that it’s incredibly difficult for people starting out on their careers to pick up the necessary knowledge while working remotely.

But for some people and for some jobs, working from home is not only useful but positively beneficial, both for the worker and the organisation.

But my boss (in best Jacob Rees-Mogg style) didn’t see it quite that manner and we eventually had a parting of the ways. For what it’s worth, I still think I’m right and that Ress-Mogg and my old boss were wrong.

In this instance, one size most certainly doesn’t fit all.