Along_the_Wire I know that feeling. I had a pig of a day earlier this week and just couldnt switch off at all for the evening, not good for mental health long term at all.
The Covid19 WFH Thread
gcw Another good thing our company have been doing, other than the mental wellness check-ins and company surveys/calls, is they’ve been pretty much allowing us to expense essential equipment and now they are going to roll out work station checks for home offices due to the complaints of back pains etc.
Whether they agree to sign-off on a 2k floating desk or an anatomically perfect swivel chair I dont know.
Am looking forward to the Soho House membership. I can ledge it up on the work front during the day and then ledge it up on the socialising front in the evening.
All under the same roof too.
Mustard.
Along_the_Wire The can improve Soho House by stopping it being crammed full of utter cunts. Much cheaper.
But then they’d lose their membership fees, which would actually be more costly.
Is there a cereal cafe in soho house?
Ffs. Ooh me back. Do a few deadlifts and have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up.
hugopal I know, it was just an excuse to say that it’s full of cunts.
Lol as I get nearer to the big 4-0 I do notice how my body doesn’t recover from things so easily!
Top buzz on the lack of traffic and improved air quality. Government should smack a whopper of a tax on all business and first class flight tickets now. They won’t, ever, but I can dream.
2 months later
I’ve had another massive cunt of a week this week and next week is looking awful - been in the office four days this week - lot more people in to, it’s actually been alright in that respect.
Today, I’m working from home and have properly taken my foot off the gas - I’m taking my pay cut back today and spending it mostly watching cricket.
Anyone else back at work?
worked the whole way through and this week we have made half my team redundant. lucky to still have a job but have a huge gap which now needs to be picked up by the remaining people whcih is completely impossible. 2 out 6 people in my team have now gone off with stress after the first week of covering.
We’re being encouraged to wfh and they’ve just recanted on a pay cut, said thanks for taking the hit and have paid it back in full with a 5% kicker plus a day off on Monday. So I can’t complain. My new contract is home based anyway so I won’t have to go into the smoke as much as I have done over the past 10 years.
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My mate’s sister is a nurse (England, South Coast) and apparently she said the cases she is dealing with now are much less severe than the initial wave. Is this true? Can a medical practitioner explain this? (I understand, vaguely, that the initial strain of a virus can be more deadly but then it weakens to become more transmissable as obviously killing its hosts doesn’t allow a virus to spread - but then I’ve also heard that viruses can mutate into more deadly strains too).
You’ll miss the train beers I’m sure. How long is your commute, timewise?
bosstrabs The number of severe cases in the UK is tiny (185) compared to even somewhere like Spain (617). It’s anecdotal, but it is a massive improvement