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Who’s going in to work?
With lockdowns easing, wisely or not, are you headed back to the grind? Here in Savannah, Ga it seems like nobody is too worried. Mucho cars on the roads and families lining up for snow cones.
Me, I haven’t worked in nearly two decades.
Not a political thread! Just wondering what this perfect globular xsection is up to.
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Remote until late May. It’s possible we don’t go back ever in the same way we used to. I think the company is thinking we might be able to save a lot of cost if we can make some version of remote work, work.
Working from home for the foreseeable future, teaching via a “Distance Learning” model...
Word is we won’t be opening the schoolhouse doors well into the next school year.
as in @robertreynolds situation, the schools may stay with a remote model post virus.
i’ve never stopped going in , i wanted the break haha
I read about an IT guy in India now working from home. Firstly he makes three grand U.S. a year! Second, he saves four hours a day in commute time, but the scary thing is he does not have any cyber security for company data going over WiFi from home. How are companies managing this?
I’m a teacher, also in Georgia. We’ve been having “distance learning” all along. Our students in grades 3-12 have laptops, but it’s still been a struggle. Not everyone has internet, for example. Students will be finished two weeks earlier than originally scheduled, with an additional week to complete assignments. Teachers still get out at the same time, but I’m not exactly sure what all we’re supposed to do for two weeks of “post planning” from home.
OT OT - Ever check out Graveface Records in Savannah? That’s a great store.
I’ve still been going in to work on an “as needed” basis. So a few weeks ago I was going in for about 2-3 half days each week - but last week and this it’s been 5 days for about 4-6 hours.
But most people at my company are working remotely- so the building is very quiet. There’s 2 ladies walking around whose job all day is to disinfect door handles and surfaces. So I feel quite safe going in to work - it’s nice actually. Wish I could work about 6 hour each day instead of 8!
I feel extremely fortunate and grateful right now. I live outside Vancouver Canada and used to commute in. Now I save 12 hours a week, although the commute was comfortable so I couldn’t complain much back then. Anyway, I get to work from home now, even using my computer liberated from the office. I go for a nice spring walk everyday around a sweet local park for about an hour and get out around people only once a week to the grocery store where I am rubber gloved, masked and shaded. I love just being at home with the wife and before used to only get out maybe once every month or two to meet someone for lunch. So aside from the world state of woe, this is practically my ideal.
I have be physically at my job. The company is doing everything they can to enforce distancing. I’m glad to have income but feels weird. It’s shift work so I have 3 or 4 day work week. I Stay home the rest of the time. We have a rotating time off of 2 week furlough and I’m actually looking forward to it.
Operationally, the company I work for has been unaffected by remote working. As we discovered, we were already set up for it - it just worked from day 1. We have no plans to go back just yet - even though conversations about easing up are being had her in Australia - but I guess we will sooner or later. Maybe late May?
But I strongly think many of us will not give it up so easily and we will become a desk-share place with some people only going in when they need to. People have enjoyed the travel time they get back and now know they can do it all from home. That genie isn’t going back in the bottle.
As a AV hotel professional, business won’t be “normal” again for at least a year, maybe more. The blow to my industry was devastating. No sign of going back in until June, the earliest.
Precisely. And this thinking, widespread, is one of the central reasons commercial real estate is a leading poster child for this hiatus perhaps changing an industry for good (or bad).
I teach IELTS (the UK equivalent of TOEFL) in China, and that market has fallen through the floor due to the overly slow responses of most western countries. Very few Chinese students will go abroad to study this year. I am temporarily on a zero hours contract and have almost no work. Luckily I have savings (though app buying as a distraction from all this has been making a dent in them, lol) and I am enjoying having time to learn how to do the iOS music schtick, so I'm pretty happy. I meet up with friends but we go to quiet places or eat outside, go for walks, things like that. Some clubs and bars etc are open now, personally I prefer to avoid packed places for now.
In most cities in China now, life is already pretty much back to normal - people are going to shops and restaurants, there seems to be little evidence of social distancing, but not all schools are open yet and almost everyone is wearing masks when out (that is not compulsory but most people continue to do it).
But if things continue like this for another month or two I'm going to have to think about some major, major life changes. Racism against foreigners is also on the rise here, though much better than what Asians in Europe or the States have had to put up with these past few months. I fear very dark times ahead..
I even have to make extra hours.
They usually use a secure VPN, and have controlled access to specific folders based on your work profile. So, someone working in Engineering cannot access the same things as someone in finance. And vice versa.
Thanks, guys for your comments. This is really interesting. I kind of feel the world has slowed, at least for a moment, to the tempo I now do enjoy. I had a commercial illustration business repping illustrators worldwide from my office on Fifth Avenue in NYC from 1980-2000.
I’ve thought about those artists who survived the transition to computers and stock illustration. Both death blows to an incredible art form that drew a special type of artist. Where the fuck is advertising now, I wonder. Print advertising was certainly on the wane and spending a month on a piece of art for a Silicon Valley giant for up to five figures... now, more than ever, gone with the wind. Glad I could spend twenty years in the bustle of Manhattan, helping creative people and myself make a buck.
Now you can just get the Google art guy to know I off your image in a day... or better yet, pay a few hundred for a used piece of art. Times change. My generation thought they owned NYC thirty years ago. Every gen thinks the same. We don’t realize we are just visitors in the great cities of the world.
And now... even cities will be questioned and redefined. All with hidden and unexpected benefits, I am thinking. Like more time not spent commuting.
The closest equivalent now is in illustration for video games. Not the same thing of course but it is the closest.
I mean we are scraping the bottom of the barrel and our stimulus check will be gone before too long but we are headed out to work trade on some farms with the kiddos for the summer real soon.
We’ve been in a rental for almost 2 months hiding out in staycation mode, but the nice vacation is over for now....
To me getting away from capitalist survival and getting my hands in the dirt is a needed reset. I had dreams of going back to the land before the kids came and just now realizing how important it is to teach my kids to grow food in this ever changing world we are dancing in.
The state we are currently in is opening up soon, but I’ll be staying at home the rest of our time here and staying away from the crowds of southern folk who are itching to get out and be in crowds. No fuxkin thanks yall
Working from home for the foreseeable future and they are already hinting at working from home permanently. I live in Los Angeles so I'm not going to complain since I can basically get an extra 90 minutes of sleep every day without having to commute...or shower or get dressed in the morning. If work from home is permanent I might consider moving out of CA for someplace cheaper
Been fully remote since 2016. No plans to change that any time soon.
Been remote working
Good stuff. Familiar. In the 80s in London I made a lot of money and spent most of it on a manageable horse habit. The place was booming, we believed it was us. Moved to Manhattan in the 90s and was working for a software company, fashion industry, making a lot of money and spending it all on cake, place was booming, we thought it was us. In Austin these past few years I meet with folks here and there to swap war stories and make bets, watch the skyline growing and folks counting money, place is booming, they're pretty sure it's them.
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UK 12 hours every night (Keyworker) busiest I have ever seen it, busiest roads, busiest shops, busiest parks etc, Lockdown here is a complete nonsense that nobody is taking much notice of.
Here in Norway we are under lockdown, but I don’t care, I use face mask and gloves, and lots of antibac
I have to visit my friend with a full studio every other day, and I go shopping. You can order online and pick up things at the parking lot of electronics stores. Schools are opening again soon, but strict rules will adhere.
Political or not... the political system in Norway works slowly. But the attorney general has instructed police to not punish people doing drugs, until the end of June. So Norway is smoking like Seattle now 😆 but the “big european shortage” seems to halt most of the smoke signals. Many strange things are happening during this pandemic. In the large studio of my friend, musicians are working hard, because all gigs are cancelled. And besides hard work there is also time to refine things. People come with new ideas, suggestions for new sounds, new synths... a whole lot to try out. And this “isolation” gives time to do that. Before corona it was mostly rehearsing for new gigs, no time for contemplation.
I have to go back to work this Friday. Wonder how it will feel after quite a few weeks. I do worry a bit though. Will be tough to maintain 2-meter physical distancing...
I’m wondering how the dynamics of starting a business will change. I was always shit at meeting people and the whole sales and persuasion and confidence thing. Consequently whenever I’d tell an employer to shove it and then leave to start my own business, nothing much would happen, I’d be at home and no customers would know I exist and that’s how it would go on until I run out of money. This, over and over for most of my life.
What I’m asking myself is whether there’s ways of starting a business that can keep a few people ticking over without immediate starvation, but not using the ‘usual’ contributing actions such as suit and tie, confidence and bullshit, handshaking and meetings. What I do know is the way I used to approach this 100% didn’t work, everyone else’s way seemed to work better. Now, their way of doing it is far less possible, so they have a disadvantage. Are there now new ways of bootstrapping a business that might work better for me?
Everything is going to be smaller scale from now on. Appropriate scale. A scale I’d have found more comfortable in the first place. No more chasing upward growth, only interested in making even more than last year. I think people would be happy with merely a viable business that has some level of ongoing stability. I’m open to ideas as to how people stuck at home like all of us are now and most of us will be for the future months can operate businesses ideally tailored to that mode (typically I’m thinking of high-tech ideas, not bakeries or farming businesses). I think none of us are geared for that way of operating yet. How can I find employees – devs/ops, sales/promo, accounts/law, etc – all operating from home, and get customers in – also all at home – and hit the ground running so that we can all have a pay packet of some description from month one, without it just drying up and leaving all of us in further debt.
This is my new preoccupation in between avoiding depression by sheer force of nihilism and doing almost nothing. Where are these new modes of success? One thing that occurs is that such a new business might make use of employees that are only a few hours a day, everyone is not only work from home but quite part time. In other words, they could also work elsewhere too. I don’t know. I’m searching.
Since I’ve worked from home for the last 15 years, this has made no difference at all - apart from everyone else being home. So I’ve gone from isolation to chaotic house and irritating neighbours. Work-wise it’s been weirdly more steady recently than the last two years, and could get busy next month. Long term prospects probably aren’t great mind.
Biggest impact is on my music making. Just before lockdown I was tentatively trying out some vocals, and had plans to sing on future tracks. With Jnr in the next room, and the Mrs downstairs providing phone support for vulnerable people, my loud warbling about wood and milk quotas will have to wait.
Instead my free time has been spent getting into portrait painting, which is coming along, and allows me to forget about ‘the situation’.
I’ve done no music at all this year. Nothing. Not inclined. Same with painting. Done two watercolours, from photos (not ideal, usually I’m out there “En plein air painting”, that’s where the energy is). No painting, no music, no lyrics, no creative stuff at all. Not now. Maybe later.
I’m working, but all my clients said to me: “there is covid” we’ll have to postpone payments. We’ll see if the situation will get better in September... so I call all people I owe money too for Running my business, saying the same. I don’t know if we can all resist working like this, at least I don’t know if ai can survive😂😂😂
I had a restaurant in the historical center of my city and I sold it in january. I was so lucky since the new guy went from about 300 people per day to zero😱living only with delivery with 15k or monthly rent😱😱😱
I’ve worked from home for twenty years pretty much but most of my bookings this year were for live events so not much happening right now. Pitching on music videos and fingers crossed that some regular BBC work comes in later in the year...