The Covid19 WFH Thread
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.
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
Cheers. What about when you go to London?
2 hours plus each way
Am still WFH and hating it.
My bants has defo taken a hit.
Still top drawer though, natch.
Am a bants machine Dave.
You know that!
I love working from home. I can’t really listen to music in the office, or browse the internet in peace because people always wanna be chatting and doing drive-byes of my desk/office (depending on office setup). I like only dealing with people when I need/want to, and working from home allows for a better work/life balance for me. My commute wouldn’t be too bad, but I’m still glad I don’t have to do it.
how long before we have a retirement thread? 
If someone can just help me out with some venture capital, I’ll be on my way….my thoughts exactly. working less the last couple of months seems like the way to go.