Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[Tamas]

Good point Sheilbh, I am guessing I would tell my manager that I can't really work but that I would try and keep email flows going, letting them know if I couldn't even do that.

My company has just now announced new policies re. WFH, they will come into effect from next year officially, but we are asked to start keeping to them already. They are about people having trouble separating working and private hours, and the seemingly ever escalating number of online meetings. So we are introducing daily time periods where meetings are forbidden unless absolutely necessary, and we are supposed to be exact with timeboxing them.

Makes sense overall. I always try to keep it to emails and text chat if that's viable but often it is easier to have a call. But that's been increasingly harder as even technical people started to have their calendars filled up, and managerial people have had nightmarish calendars for a while now. I am not sure if removing several hours in a day where I can talk to them will help that, but it is a good idea to try and address it.

[DGuller]

Does anyone else find it weird being ill when you're WFH all the time? Like I've had a couple of things in the last few months and I sort of feel like I should still try and work in a way, but I know I'd probably call in sick and not go into the office.

Yeah, very weird, I had what felt like a cold a couple of days ago as well.  Given that I didn't do any Covidiot stuff and never eased up the distancing stuff, I was puzzled as to how I could get it.  Now I'm wondering whether it was just a bad allergy with post-nasal drip giving me symptoms.  I also wonder if some colds could be sticking with you permanently, waiting for your immune system to slacken to flare up.

[Barrister]

Yeah I had a cold back in September (runny nose, sneezing, negative Covid test).  I did everything you're supposed to do - social distance, wear a mask, etc. so I was like "how the hell did I catch a cold"?

[Josquius]

Does anyone else find it weird being ill when you're WFH all the time? Like I've had a couple of things in the last few months and I sort of feel like I should still try and work in a way, but I know I'd probably call in sick and not go into the office.

Definitely.
When sick in the regular work world though doesn't everyone work from home very lazily?
Its been years since I had an actuall full-on can't work sick day.

[garbon]

As a shut-in, I'm not quite sure how I'd get sick.

[Sheilbh]

As a shut-in, I'm not quite sure how I'd get sick.

Current status?


Have you got sick at all in you shut in phase?

[mongers]

As a shut-in, I'm not quite sure how I'd get sick.

Current status?


Have you got sick at all in you shut in phase?

I think at issue here is our own definitions of sick and how those might have been warped by the lockdown/coronavirus lens.

My own view is runny noses and occasional periods of coughs are normal for Autumn and Winter.

[Sheilbh]

Maybe - though I am also fundamentally of a weak constitution and collapse at the merest sign of illness   

[garbon]

As a shut-in, I'm not quite sure how I'd get sick.

Current status?


Have you got sick at all in you shut in phase?

No, just a few allergies but nothing else.

[Tamas]

It felt like I had a cold for a week or so a couple of months back but maybe it was some kind of allergies.

[merithyn]

I don't think that it's specifically because of the COVID spike - though I know it doesn't help - but I have matching cold sores on my top and bottom lips.  That's forever how my body reacts to stress, and right now, things are at a crazy, all-time stressful moment.

Also, trying to calm my anxious son down who is worried that the latest lockdown in Portland is going to break him right as he's getting ready to move into his own place again while trying to explain to his sister why getting on a plane to Portland with her boyfriend just after Christmas isn't the wisest move at the moment... I'm so worn out over the whole COVID thing.

EDIT: Oh, and Oregon is on a two week "freeze" of social stuff, while Portland one-upped that and froze stuff down for four weeks.

[grumbler]

Maybe - though I am also fundamentally of a weak constitution and collapse at the merest sign of illness   

Be careful how you use the term "constitution" on Languish. 

[crazy canuck]

Maybe - though I am also fundamentally of a weak constitution and collapse at the merest sign of illness   

What is your amending formula, we might be able to fix you.

[Barrister]

Maybe - though I am also fundamentally of a weak constitution and collapse at the merest sign of illness   

What is your amending formula, we might be able to fix you.

Meri strikes me as a 7-50 type gal.

[The Brain]

Maybe - though I am also fundamentally of a weak constitution and collapse at the merest sign of illness   

I'm exactly the same, but with work.