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So how was everybody's week? Things got weird, right?
I joke that social distancing is my natural state, but we'll see how working from home goes. We have a big virtual Zoom meeting on Monday to go over things.
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So how was everybody's week? Things got weird, right?
I joke that social distancing is my natural state, but we'll see how working from home goes. We have a big virtual Zoom meeting on Monday to go over things.
Pushed the trip to LA back to May. Got more time to make a relocation decision (I’m 70% decided to go anyway.) My employer opened up full time telecommuting indefinitely.
So how was everybody's week? Things got weird, right?
I joke that social distancing is my natural state, but we'll see how working from home goes. We have a big virtual Zoom meeting on Monday to go over things.
Due to normal cold and flu season, I've been driving into work rather than taking the bus for months. Traffic's been really light this week even during what are normally peak hours on Rt. 65 heading to and from the city. I think that many commuters here in Pittsburgh have been told to remain home for the duration of this disease outbreak.
It's been pretty bad, business wise. I'll be okay financially should we have to shut down for a while, but I worry about our hourly staff and/or those who already living pretty close to the financial bone to begin with.
A fellow staff member has been staying with me for the past year; while I don't generally tell others how to spend their money, i told him that he might want to rein in his spending for the immediate future as there is a good chance that his hours are going to be severely reduced or that he might be laid off. He's was a child during the last recession, so he doesn't remember just how tight things became for so many. On the bright side, he won't have to worry about rent or food should the worse occur for a while, i.e., he's laid off. He could always earn his room and board by helping me get the yard and outside of the house in tip-top shape! I do have a porch that could use a good power washing and scraping before it gets repainted.
Taken as a whole, people tend to be bad with money management; major events like this cause one to realize just who's been living life up to the hilt and who doesn't. There are too many echoes of 2008's economic crisis in my mind for comfort.
Oh--on top of this I called off from work sick today--and I *never* call off. I felt "off" yesterday and had a dry hacking cough that I chalked up to seasonal allergies. That progressed to fatigue, aches, chills, more coughing, and vomiting. Good times. I just hope that I didn't pass along the "ick" to my coworkers.
Try to stay well, friends!
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So how was everybody's week? Things got weird, right?
I joke that social distancing is my natural state, but we'll see how working from home goes. We have a big virtual Zoom meeting on Monday to go over things.
This is something I’ve yet to encounter. I’ve been given the next week off of work. With no loss of leave time. I have visions of cleaning, organizing, and training. Might be more naps and day drinking than anything.
This is something I’ve yet to encounter. I’ve been given the next week off of work. With no loss of leave time. I have visions of cleaning, organizing, and training. Might be more naps and day drinking than anything.
Went to the store yesterday and it was a ****show, all kinds of stuff was cleared off of the shelves. Surreal as hell to me. Store was packed and there was a weird frenetic energy in the air.
Didn't dig the vibe. I also noticed the hooch section was pretty low. Leaving Las Vegas came to mind......
Went to the store yesterday and it was a ****show, all kinds of stuff was cleared off of the shelves. Surreal as hell to me. Store was packed and there was a weird frenetic energy in the air.
Didn't dig the vibe. I also noticed the hooch section was pretty low. Leaving Las Vegas came to mind......
I stocked up. Two different kinds of whiskey. The home brewed beer should be ready in anytime now. 36 bottles worth. 12 pack in the fridge along with 2 from the first 6 pack. Wait, only on left from that. I started drinking two hours ago.
So how was everybody's week? Things got weird, right?
I joke that social distancing is my natural state, but we'll see how working from home goes. We have a big virtual Zoom meeting on Monday to go over things.
I worked hard to be able to work from home, one of the only in my office. So now that everybody there “gets” to work from home I feel strangely resentful like: “Sure all the rest of you had to do was be threatened with pandemic? I’ll go back to slacking now.”
I recognize I’m the B word, it’s ok.
I feel like I already self-quarantine as I have everything including cat litter delivered, so it’ll be no stretch. The fun thing you’ll find out about Skype or telephone/speaker phone meetings is, no one knows you’re nodding off.
Do you think this guy’s too young for me?
His laugh kinda makes me weak in the knees.
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I worked hard to be able to work from home, one of the only in my office. So now that everybody there “gets” to work from home I feel strangely resentful like: “Sure all the rest of you had to do was be threatened with pandemic? I’ll go back to slacking now.”
I recognize I’m the B word, it’s ok.
I feel like I already self-quarantine as I have everything including cat litter delivered, so it’ll be no stretch. The fun thing you’ll find out about Skype or telephone/speaker phone meetings is, no one knows you’re nodding off.
Do you think this guy’s too young for me?
His laugh kinda makes me weak in the knees.
I may be the only one on my team that DOESN’T want to work from home. At the office I have three screens instead of a very small laptop screen at home. I get to leave a small townhouse for a few hours. And I can get groceries super easy before heading home. To me, the work life balance gets messed up is my home is my workplace, meaning it doesn’t feel like I have a break when I stop working. I’ll keep going to my office until they tell me not to.
While life is not open, I’m going to get reacquainted with my Xbox One.
I may be the only one on my team that DOESN’T want to work from home. At the office I have three screens instead of a very small laptop screen at home. I get to leave a small townhouse for a few hours. And I can get groceries super easy before heading home. To me, the work life balance gets messed up is my home is my workplace, meaning it doesn’t feel like I have a break when I stop working. I’ll keep going to my office until they tell me not to.
While life is not open, I’m going to get reacquainted with my Xbox One.
True, it dies take some getting used to and an effort to separate yourself from your “office” when you’re done with your work. That’s where a few hours of Uber here and there saved me from myself. BUT not doing that now, for obvious reasons...good thing the weather’s good enough to go for a walk after I’m done at my desk at least.
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I do have a porch that could use a good power washing and scraping before it gets repainted. 
