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RandySF

(57,661 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:24 PM Jun 2020

The 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.

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The mood at my work organization is turning very dark. (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2020 OP
We're being made to go back to work even though we can onecaliberal Jun 2020 #1
Sending you 💕💕 MLAA Jun 2020 #12
Thank you. I will probably be the only one in a mask. onecaliberal Jun 2020 #17
They're the danger to you...so selfish! Karadeniz Jun 2020 #18
Yes I am acutely aware of that. onecaliberal Jun 2020 #20
Hopefully, November will bring a little light. I believe/hope we will all adapt and make it. Hoyt Jun 2020 #2
Thanks for reminding me I needed to fill out my survey about returning to work tulipsandroses Jun 2020 #3
I spend 12 hours a day exactly like this Maru Kitteh Jun 2020 #4
OMG Maru Skittles Jun 2020 #6
Thank you for your service. live love laugh Jun 2020 #7
Thank you for the kind wishes. Maru Kitteh Jun 2020 #11
+1 RandySF Jun 2020 #8
💕💕💖💖💕💕💖💖😻 MLAA Jun 2020 #13
That sucks. DangerousRhythm Jun 2020 #5
We were told... Xolodno Jun 2020 #9
but we are working a hell of a lot more at home than we did in the office. tulipsandroses Jun 2020 #16
But it is greener over the septic tank! Erma Bombeck Karadeniz Jun 2020 #19
Please encourage everyone to call for Trump-Pence to resign NOW, in disgrace. Grasswire2 Jun 2020 #10
These are difficult things to manage. Turbineguy Jun 2020 #14
Lol, I've been watching Black Sails, and you sound just like pirates at a Backseat Driver Jun 2020 #15

onecaliberal

(32,489 posts)
1. We're being made to go back to work even though we can
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:30 PM
Jun 2020

Work from home. This despite more cases now then when we were ordered home and they’ve done NO accommodations to the building and there are no windows for ventilation.

onecaliberal

(32,489 posts)
17. Thank you. I will probably be the only one in a mask.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 09:01 AM
Jun 2020

Several of them do not take the situation seriously.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. Hopefully, November will bring a little light. I believe/hope we will all adapt and make it.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:31 PM
Jun 2020

But, it’s like 60/40.

tulipsandroses

(5,094 posts)
3. Thanks for reminding me I needed to fill out my survey about returning to work
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:31 PM
Jun 2020

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.

Skittles

(152,967 posts)
6. OMG Maru
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:43 PM
Jun 2020

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!!!

Xolodno

(6,341 posts)
9. We were told...
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:58 PM
Jun 2020

...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)
16. but we are working a hell of a lot more at home than we did in the office.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 08:30 AM
Jun 2020

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.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
10. Please encourage everyone to call for Trump-Pence to resign NOW, in disgrace.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 11:59 PM
Jun 2020

Messages on social media, in LTTE, in conversations CAN make a difference.

Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
14. These are difficult things to manage.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 12:16 AM
Jun 2020

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)
15. Lol, I've been watching Black Sails, and you sound just like pirates at a
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:16 AM
Jun 2020

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!

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