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Started by Barrister, March 24, 2020, 04:57:44 PM

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How is your employment been affected by Covid-19

I'm "essential" - I still have to go to work
18 (22%)
I'm working remotely from home
49 (59.8%)
I've been laid off
9 (11%)
I wasn't employed to begin with
6 (7.3%)

Total Members Voted: 82

PDH

About all I get is to wear my "Wyoming Football" hat and have the locals look at me with confused expressions...
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Barrister

Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 05:51:37 AM
I miss sports, all of them. So much actually, that I have watched Nascar.

My son is signed up for a once a week hockey practice.  The rink is on a reserve, so exempt from provincial legislation for the most part.  Only 10 kids on the ice, you have to show up fully dressed in your gear, parents not allowed.

But even so - I was very excited just to go through and make sure all his gear was ready to go, re-taped his stick.  I miss hockey.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Josephus

Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 05:51:37 AM
I miss sports, all of them. So much actually, that I have watched Nascar.

Bundesliga
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

crazy canuck

Quote from: PDH on June 09, 2020, 09:37:10 AM
About all I get is to wear my "Wyoming Football" hat and have the locals look at me with confused expressions...

I think it is the speedo rather than the hat

PDH

Quote from: crazy canuck on June 09, 2020, 11:02:55 AM
Quote from: PDH on June 09, 2020, 09:37:10 AM
About all I get is to wear my "Wyoming Football" hat and have the locals look at me with confused expressions...

I think it is the speedo rather than the hat

Could be...
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Grey Fox

Quote from: Josephus on June 09, 2020, 10:49:53 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 05:51:37 AM
I miss sports, all of them. So much actually, that I have watched Nascar.

Bundesliga

I tried that, the timing is really bad. I watch sports at night, not in the morning.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

crazy canuck

Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 12:12:01 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 09, 2020, 10:49:53 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 05:51:37 AM
I miss sports, all of them. So much actually, that I have watched Nascar.

Bundesliga

I tried that, the timing is really bad. I watch sports at night, not in the morning.

record the games?

Grey Fox

Quote from: crazy canuck on June 09, 2020, 12:32:03 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 12:12:01 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 09, 2020, 10:49:53 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 09, 2020, 05:51:37 AM
I miss sports, all of them. So much actually, that I have watched Nascar.

Bundesliga

I tried that, the timing is really bad. I watch sports at night, not in the morning.

record the games?

I don't miss it THAT much.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.


Josquius

Premier league is meant to be starting soon with daily games.

Complete cluster fuck lower down the pyramid.
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merithyn

#910
Our CEO made the offer to anyone in the company who wants to WFH fulltime permanently to be able to do so.

I'm considering this option so that once things ease up and a vaccine is available, I can travel without having to worry about vacation days.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

mongers

Quote from: merithyn on June 12, 2020, 12:53:02 PM
Our CEO made the offer to anyone in the company who wants to WFH fulltime permanently to be able to do so.

I'm considering this option so that once things ease up and a vaccine is available, I can travel without having to worry about vacation days.

:cool:

Go for it Meri, though I'm guessing you're someone who does enjoy the company of Some of your fellow workers?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Savonarola

Alstom is re-opening its offices in waves.  I'm back in the office as part of the New Wave second wave; which is supposed to be 50% capacity.  Only a fraction of the second wave showed up, so there's five people on my entire floor (out of a capacity of 75) and we're all wearing masks  :ph34r:.  It's like an episode of "The Twilight Zone" where after the apocalypse everyone still shows up to their desk job in the office.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Tamas

Quote from: merithyn on June 12, 2020, 12:53:02 PM
Our CEO made the offer to anyone in the company who wants to WFH fulltime permanently to be able to do so.

I'm considering this option so that once things ease up and a vaccine is available, I can travel without having to worry about vacation days.

That's awesome. I'd take it.

merithyn

Quote from: mongers on June 12, 2020, 01:19:22 PM
Quote from: merithyn on June 12, 2020, 12:53:02 PM
Our CEO made the offer to anyone in the company who wants to WFH fulltime permanently to be able to do so.

I'm considering this option so that once things ease up and a vaccine is available, I can travel without having to worry about vacation days.

:cool:

Go for it Meri, though I'm guessing you're someone who does enjoy the company of Some of your fellow workers?

Yes. Very much so. It would likely be more of a "this month I'll be wfh" kind of thing than a "I'm a fulltime wfh person".
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...