Are you working remotely now due to COVID-19?
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Are you working remotely now due to COVID-19?
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
Optional WFH is now mandatory (Score:4, Interesting)
Of the seven team members, two were regular WFH folks, and one more did remote working two days a week. After Monday, March 9, we were told to work from home and stay there till it was safe to come back. I originally thought that might be 2-3 weeks. What a n00b. It looks like we won't be back in the office until June or July. This is The Big One.
Stay safe, everyone.
PS: Location: Toronto.
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Yep, pretty much the same here. We can work from home as long as tasks are completed. But for now, we’re in mandatory work from home. The boss asks, “return when you’re ready when mandatory WFH is over.” I replied, “okay then, see you next year.”
[John]
Re:Optional WFH is now mandatory (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Nice graphs (Score:5, Insightful)
All with subsequent loss of viewership
04/01/2018: ~7,700 views, 134 hours of watch time, 11 subscribers
04/01/2020: ~76,100 views, 2,000 hours of watch time, 263 subscribers
A "loss of viewership" would indicate declining numbers over time. My numbers are not declining.
Re:Nice graphs (Score:5, Insightful)
It's more like a "slowdown in increase."
Just a three-month dip during a pandemic. Nothing to see here, move along. :P
CDR still sucks. Just sayin'
Actually, I'm a blower. You will need to wait for my PC vacuum vs. duster video to find out why.
Re:Nice graphs (Score:5, Insightful)
I am only 3 years older than you are and I rmember you from elementary school. I also remember secretly following you, your uncle and the bucket of lard in the woods back then. It is just too bad that we didn't have iPhones 6S (not pronounced iPhone sex) back then because that would have been an automatic best seller on tor websites.
Never mind that particular uncle died years before I was born, I've been to Idaho only twice in my life (1978 and 2004), and the latest phone tech back then was touch-tone phones.
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Thanks for spreading stupidity and misinformation. Among the most glaring gems on this page: "The virus has not yet been discovered".
Oh right. Must remember not to feed the trolls...
Will get 80% of earnings, UK (Score:2)
Not working, but should be getting a grant worth 80% of my earnings. I'm not a Tory supporter by a long shot, but damn, good move, I think these fkkrs just bought themselves another term in government.
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I think the unemployed option should have specified "because of Covid-19" with other kinds of unemployment (like normal retirement) under the Other category.
As regards the long-term economic consequences of Covid-19 on England, it's still much too early to guess. Though I tend to see things too negatively, I think that some countries are going to damage their economies with short-sighted remedial approaches. Maybe this is one of them, maybe not. I'm actually inclined to think things are likely to become so
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I think this is a good idea and I'm not just saying that because I'm getting it. This move prevents the worst economic collapse, food delivery services can now survive, any services that need customers with more than just benefits will have a better chance of surviving. Rents will get paid so the housing market won't collapse. If the housing market doesn't collapse then the construction industry will have a chance of not collapsing.
Keeping the money going round is important and this move will also deter sel
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I mostly agree with you, but I guess it's the 80% that bothers me in the case of certain people who might be making a lot of money. The urgent responses needed to be medical, but the economic responses allow time for more reflection...
I actually think the highest priority should be on making sure everyone can get fed, but some parts of the economy need to be lowered in priority. For example, do property owners deserve to continue getting rent payments from stores that are forcibly closed? You might say no,
Re:Will get 80% of earnings, UK (Score:4, Informative)
There is a cap on the 80%, IIRC it is for people who made £50,000 or less and the grant is also capped at £2500 per month and the grant is taxable.
People who claimed everything under the sun as expenses will be punished by their own greed because they will get grants related to how much profit they said they made. Since I was overly honest about expenses and paid tax due to higher profit, I will now get paid according to the profit I said I made.
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Sounds like a fairly rational approach. What about people who were already at the bottom and are being stressed by the missing 20%? I suspect a lot of people in the so-called gig economy wind up that way, but now I'm thinking there are also some slackers who may have been at that place more or less deliberately...
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Some gig economy workers will be faced with a choice of being behind with bills or working again and risking catching and spreading COVID-19. Since the 80% handout is a grant available to all self-employed who meet the initial criteria I suspect many will claim and continue to work.
In theory at least if people aren't earning minimum wage then there should be working tax credits / universal credits.
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We don't grow enough chickens for example, but the Netherlands grow plenty of chickens, so if push comes to shove, we could invade them pretty easily I recon ;-)
No need... we have so many chickens in the NL (4 or 5 per capita or so), if we get tired of eating them we will send them over to invade the UK. Be kind, and we'll just throw some eggs your way & leave it at that. :-)
And I'm staying home (Score:4, Interesting)
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I actually like coming in now and then for the tech chatter and general bullshitting with the team, but yea, at 63 I’m sticking as long as necessary. Fortunately other than a few aches and pains, I’m in good health. No issues other than rather low blood pressure.
[John]
Re: And I'm staying home (Score:1)
Same here. Used to go to workplace a few times a week for meetings, but these are done remotely now and are actually more efficient. Clearer and more focused conversation and shared documents are easier to read on your own screen than on a projector/tv. Also frees up 4-6h commute time weekly which is significant.
I now just need to go maybe a few times a month to exchange hardware in development or to evaluate test setups.
A large home+land and a well equipped lab helps. I couldn't be more happy with the situ
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Re: And I'm staying home (Score:1)
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Retired isn't an option? (Score:1)
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Here Here. I mean I am also retired.
I guess the young are not going to get to retire, so its not an option.
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Mixed bag on my side... (Score:2)
Canada checking in (Score:2)
This is week three of working from home for my company (we make software, and didn't have any ridiculous legacy IT restrictions, so it was relatively easy).
VPN's been holding up well, which has been a pleasant surprise.
The biggest drawback seems to be that "WFH" means "constant Zoom meetings" for some reason. My productivity was already in the dumps from anxiety, being interrupted constantly doesn't help.
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Yep -- fellow Canadian reporting that anxiety was really tough to deal with the first week. It's easing a bit, but I've noticed I get quite claustrophobic going into stores -- I want to get in, find what I need, and get out again quickly.
Now I feel like we're hunkered down for the next month or two. It's going to be quite an adjustment, especially when the weather turns nice.
I have daily Zoom stand-up meetings and a weekly one-on-one, so that's not too many meetings. So far.
I'm also in my early 60's, and wo
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Basically the same for me. A bit of chaos we started using MS teams the day before we started wfh and were still figuring it out. But I went from about 3 meetings a week to about 2 a day. Though some of that is intentionally just to make up for watercooler type chats I think. See everyone first thing in the morning get an idea what everyone in our small company is doing.
We are actually working longer hours now from home than in the office. We had a looming project anyways so 50hr weeks with lieu time piling
Re: Canada checking in (Score:2)
Fellow Canadian, WFH. I do embedded development, so needed some gear from the office (couple of Xilinx development boards; lab power supply, etc.) One person working in the office packed up the stuff and brought it out. Then he stepped back like 5m and I picked it up. Like a spy movie!
I don't mind working from home, but not being able to go anywhere is a bit tedious.
Remote Team (Score:2)
My immediate team has members in 3 countries, so it was common to work from home at least a couple days per week. We all have designated offices which are on hard lock-down at least through the end of April.
Started 16 March... (Score:2)
...when my state was at 21 confirmed cases. The company is not a WFH-friendly org, overall, but we were able to transition pretty quickly.
Same place (Score:2)
I can't be the only person here who works in a hospital?
Getting loads of other people to work remotely and doing most of my on-calls remotely as usual. Need to come in though. replacing hardware needs my physical presence...
WFH (Score:1)
Drug Store Monkey (Score:1)
Re: Drug Store Monkey (Score:1)
Are you a vulnerable host for the virus, i.e. immune compromised? You might already have gotten the virus and recovered, in spite of extreme precautions you are taking.
Yes ... surprisingly (Score:2)
I work at the FAA, but do dev work so I don't need to be in the office. However they always frowned on people that did it more than one or two days a week. Suddenly 3 weeks ago we were told everyone that could telework was to telework full time and you can only come in the office if you have to, with supervisor approval. The govt can spin on a dime when necessary.
Now not sure how this will end my dev group has about 40+ folks and teleworking seems to be going very well.. not sure how they will close th
Working at Work (Score:1)
I am working at work, the same as always.
I'm furloughed with pay (Score:2)
I'm furloughed with pay. But if called for I can work from home.
About face (Score:2)
My employer had been pretty hostile towards modified schedules and WFH. The outside access used to bounce through the east coat office rather than add a west coast VPN server. They had to scramble and suddenly embrace WFH. The new normal is an laborious approval process just to enter the office that has just 3 non-banned people for some 40,000 square feet. Strange times.
Working from Home (Score:2)
Been working from home, with the exception of one day that I was required to come into the office, since March 16th. I work with a geographically diverse team that was mostly WFH already, and I'd done it on a regular basis for the last three years at my previous gig, so it's really nothing new for me.
The tough part now is that I'm a contractor and the contract is due to end in May, unless the company hires me on full time. If I don't hear something about that in the next week or so well, yeah...
Wife on the
Working From Home (Score:1)