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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe mood at my work organization is turning very dark.
We feel pretty secure about our future employment, but the mood is decidedly dark, and that as before the Geoge Floyd murder. We've been told to work remotely through the end of the year and some took it as a gut punch.
Beyond that, typically cordial colleagues are snapping at each other, we all look like hell on Zoom, crying during meetings, out of things to be "grateful" for (something we share every morning). And it's all gotten worse since Monday. If we're somehow reflective of the country at large, it's going to be a rough second half to 2020.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Work from home. This despite more cases now then when we were ordered home and theyve done NO accommodations to the building and there are no windows for ventilation.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)Are everyone wearing masks?
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Several of them do not take the situation seriously.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)But, its like 60/40.
tulipsandroses
(5,094 posts)I forgot all about it until I read your post. But getting back to your post. I can definitely feel you and your co-workers' pain. I too am weary of working from home, zoom meetings, endless emails and IMs instead of actual human interaction.
I find work a drag now. I used to enjoy going to work, now I wake up dreading to turn on the laptop some days.
I don't have an answer for you. I just know its starting to wear me down.
Yeah and looking at myself all the time on Zoom, makes me more disappointed with myself that I gained all the weight I fought so hard to lose .
Yes it will be a rough second half of 2020 if I have to continue to work from home till the end of the year.
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)It is defcon 1 level suck.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)every time I wear a mask to the store I'm like, HOW DO PEOPLE WORK ALL DAY IN THESE THINGS. And that's just a flimsy cotton mask!!!
live love laugh
(13,009 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Just like anyone else, we're all just doing the best we can.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)DangerousRhythm
(2,916 posts)They just told us today that there's another case at my job, so yay for us I guess?
Xolodno
(6,341 posts)...don't expect to come back until the beginning of August. And then it will be voluntary with strict rules. Only two people at a time on an elevator, social distancing, every other desk empty...and expect to be told to go home if too many show up.
But meeting online have been fine, but we are working a hell of a lot more at home than we did in the office. The weeks have been flying by, I get to the weekend and think, "how did that happen".
tulipsandroses
(5,094 posts)Same here. There are a lot more Xs and Os to be checked working from home. And I spend half my time chasing my clients by phone or getting them to understand how to use zoom. In the office, they just showed up for their appts. I used to think working from home, would be ideal. But I have now changed my mind. That old saying is true, the grass is not always greener on the other side. Yes, I would rather get up earlier and get in traffic and go to the office.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Messages on social media, in LTTE, in conversations CAN make a difference.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)You have to come up with a plan when you don't know what the rules are. It's hard to get it right. Some organizations will get lucky, others perhaps not so much.
I remember the Great Y2K crisis. Which turned out to be not so much of a crisis in the end.
I was Chief Engineer on a containership at the time. I tested all the computers, control systems, logic controllers and navigation equipment. The only system I could not check was the elevator. After the tests we were pretty sure at least that we would not be dead in the water with the lights out in the middle of the night with no way to get things going again. We even had to forward order supplies in the event the purchasing dept. was out of service.
I think you just have to decide to do the best you can, think about as many possibilities and courses of action and then pick what seems to work and be able to alter course if indicated.
If a critical mass of people do this, it will probably turn out fine. Trump is a fuck-up. He'll fuck-up his election chances. It's in his nature.
Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)meeting on the Jolly Roger; capable, keen on the psychology of relationships, and oh so flexible that even when things have gone a little wrong, there's always another plan and persuasion of another crew, but they never seemed to mind having a woman on board and managed quite well without cell phone messaging. In the end, I guess the good ol' boys hierachy will take Nassau and hold it and the pirates in their service - the treasure boxes of profit win!