2019 Novel Coronavirus

[jeb6294]

I thought he was in the home repair business or something these days?

Kind of disappointed. One of the Friday night concerts they were going to do after one of the Red’s games this season was an ‘80s night...Vanila Ice, Rob Base, Tone Loc, etc. pretty good chance I would have been working security when for the Motley Crue/Def Leopard/Joan Jett and Billy Joel concerts too. At least they’ve already rescheduled those two for next year.  

 

[Dleg]

 

[Road Guy]

I think the Karens are geographic specific - our Karens are more in line of chasing you down outside if you dont have a mask on..

So they only have 1 potential covid where the wife works currently, I post this just as a reminder to wear seat belt PSA for those of you with kids about to be that age, but apparently if you and your buddies get in a bad car wreck on the interstate and end up ejected from a vehicle  (& you survive) they have to take your skull off so your brain can heal from the swelling and they have a special little fridge to keep it in (assuming you dont die in that process) - it still amazes me to this day people dont wear seatbelts - Id guess they are nearly half of our yearly auto fatalities...

 

[Road Guy]

This guys a trip if anyone has seen his stuff...

 

[MA_PE]

Would you rather:

a.) work from home? 

b.) work at the office while wearing a mask?

That is our options at present.   I remain WFH.

 

[mudpuppy]

It's pretty much official that barring a miracle of Covid disappearing, we will be working from home at least until the end of this year.

By the tone of the survey our CEO sent out yesterday they're considering at least some of us never returning to the office.

 

[Road Guy]

I wonder if eventually people will either get offered say a little more or a little less to work from home? Wonder which it should be, company pays less for office overhead, you get the benefit of not having to pay for transportation expenses to go to work?

I am actually going to the field for the rest of the week to a project site.  Will be a little weird to be honest..

 

[csb]

I've been back in the office since April. I'm admittedly a little concerned about what happens with school in the fall and what that looks like for my work situation. 

 

[Road Guy]

^ Ive been back since last week in May. But we have a skeleton crew here - It will be difficult with a full house..

After a few weeks of relentless bitching our hood pool is opening today (every other pool in the state is open) we must have the most worrisome people on our HOA board, they agreed to open it but no chairs allowed?  I guess thats maybe a thing to make you not want to go? So dumb - I think if you got Corona from chairs there would already be 300 Million infected..

 

[Road Guy]

also, be prepared to hear the teachers whining for hazard duty pay if they have to do their jobs in person......

 

[aog]

I wonder if eventually people will either get offered say a little more or a little less to work from home? Wonder which it should be, company pays less for office overhead, you get the benefit of not having to pay for transportation expenses to go to work?

I heard that my employer offered those working from home a cut to stay working from home permanently.  I laughed when I heard it because I think the company should give them a raise instead of a cut--less overhead for the company.  Nobody took the offer apparently. Disclosure: I have not worked from home yet, so no firsthand knowledge--this is all hearsay.

 

[Road Guy]

I could see a slight trade off - Currently I lose 2 hours a day getting to and from work ( economic opportunity cost to me of a few thousand a year I would be able to spend that time doing what I want to do)- but there is also savings to me when I work from home -  my commute is 25 miles so  50 miles a day at .50 / mile mileage @ 260 working days is a cost of around $6500-  But depending on if the company actually reduced office size there likely would be more of a savings on there end - 

I feel I worked more when I was working from home - it was easy to slide into meetings online from 7 am to 6 pm & I think many in our company think productivity actually increased.

 

[Tiger15]

also, be prepared to hear the teachers whining for hazard duty pay if they have to do their jobs in person......

I think LOTS of people should be getting hazard pay right now. I know I wouldn't be risking my life for certain jobs without it. Unfortunately the little guy continues to get ******

 

[Tiger15]

I heard that my employer offered those working from home a cut to stay working from home permanently.  I laughed when I heard it because I think the company should give them a raise instead of a cut--less overhead for the company.  Nobody took the offer apparently. Disclosure: I have not worked from home yet, so no firsthand knowledge--this is all hearsay.

That

Is

Bullsh!t

 

[Road Guy]

I dont know, teachers just have a much higher tendency to whine about anything..

But Until they give it to the people who were trapped in hospital rooms treating 100% known infected then I think others can wait in line..

 

[csb]

Our agency is doing hazard pay. It varies based on who you had to interact with and it was not for everyone. Mostly it was for people who had to keep interacting with the public, like the DMV and troopers. 

 

[Dleg]

I know one thing for sure, WFH is making the deadwood stand out like a sore thumb. I have a couple of people who I now know for a fact aren't doing shit, and it isn't affecting my Division's productivity at all, so I know it wasn't just WFH. 

 

[jeb6294]

So phase 2 (people returning to the office who are not considered high risk) was supposed to start this week, but it was called off before it even started. I guess one of the caveats is a decreasing number of cases in the area which has not happened.

In my "media is trying to drag this out as long as possible" soapbox, SW Ohio is showing an increase in the number of cases, but I have not seen/heard anything about a spike in the number of deaths. I tried to find something, and I found a couple graphs that showed the number of people in the ICU and dying is still going down. To me, this seems to support some of the stories I've heard that the number of cases is going up because they are testing more people. For a while in Ohio, you had to have a not from your doctor, the president and the pope to get tested. Now they have drive thru testing.

The news and our idiot Governor are going on and on about how the numbers are increasing in Ohio, but I would think that if ICU numbers and deaths were going up we would be hearing about that too, but we are not.

 

[txjennah PE]

So phase 2 (people returning to the office who are not considered high risk) was supposed to start this week, but it was called off before it even started. I guess one of the caveats is a decreasing number of cases in the area which has not happened.

In my "media is trying to drag this out as long as possible" soapbox, SW Ohio is showing an increase in the number of cases, but I have not seen/heard anything about a spike in the number of deaths. I tried to find something, and I found a couple graphs that showed the number of people in the ICU and dying is still going down. To me, this seems to support some of the stories I've heard that the number of cases is going up because they are testing more people. For a while in Ohio, you had to have a not from your doctor, the president and the pope to get tested. Now they have drive thru testing.

The news and our idiot Governor are going on and on about how the numbers are increasing in Ohio, but I would think that if ICU numbers and deaths were going up we would be hearing about that too, but we are not.

Yeah, our Phase 2 date is getting pushed back too. We were never given an official date, just a general timeframe (late June), which clearly hasn't happened. Now it's just crickets.

 

[Tiger15]

So phase 2 (people returning to the office who are not considered high risk) was supposed to start this week, but it was called off before it even started. I guess one of the caveats is a decreasing number of cases in the area which has not happened.

In my "media is trying to drag this out as long as possible" soapbox, SW Ohio is showing an increase in the number of cases, but I have not seen/heard anything about a spike in the number of deaths. I tried to find something, and I found a couple graphs that showed the number of people in the ICU and dying is still going down. To me, this seems to support some of the stories I've heard that the number of cases is going up because they are testing more people. For a while in Ohio, you had to have a not from your doctor, the president and the pope to get tested. Now they have drive thru testing.

The news and our idiot Governor are going on and on about how the numbers are increasing in Ohio, but I would think that if ICU numbers and deaths were going up we would be hearing about that too, but we are not.

I'm definitely hearing about an increase in deaths. Don't know if that is true other places.