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Finds me ordering the following items:
( a pizza, a chair, and a lift-top lap top desk )
Day started out well enough, then I read the paper, and went to work...and sigh. [ETA: Pizza has been delayed, they were waiting on the delivery guy, so should arrive closer to 7. Oh well, it happens.]
Crazy Workplace vs. Corona Virus
They are slowly bringing folks back but...the office workers or professional services/administrative support is kind of hard to bring back. In part because we've proven that working remotely from home - has been a great success. I find this whole thing amusingly ironic in that prior to the virus
what I and all my coworkers were most worried about was - the biometric clocks and being forced to work too close to one another - such as sharing cubicles or having even smaller cubicles. Why? That's the direction offices were going to conserve space - with people sharing cubicles, having smaller cubicles, and using biometric clocks.
Guess what? Not a problem any longer. Biometric clocks are now deemed unsafe and unsanitary and have been removed. So too has the idea of putting people closely together in cubicles or sharing cubicles. In fact, what Crazy Agency and everyone else is figuring out at the moment is it is actually easier not to mention much cheaper to let everyone work from home.
If there's a silver lining in any of this? That's it. I don't mind working from home that much - it has its advantages. I will however have to start buying stuff to outfit my "at home" office space. Such as a printer/scanner.
Although I may not need it - I've figured out how to turn documents into PDF electronically. But I might want a desktop, large monitor and keyboard going forward - also might want to switch to PC - to be more compatible with work place, then again may not require it. Mac is nicer - less virus problems and more user friendly in regards to conferencing.
Crazy agency is no longer worrying about tracking our working hours, as long as we are being productive and not going nuts or getting sick - it does not care. Nothing like a virus to put things into perspective.
Anyhow, I'm working from home for the foreseeable future. They may move me back into the office on a rotational basis. Come in two days a week, work from home three days a week. I like working from home - it's quiet, there's less distractions, I have a window, my own bathroom, my own kitchen, and I don't have to deal with pesky co-workers that make my blood pressure boil.
Also boss is so much easier to deal with at a distance. My working relationship with my boss has gotten much better as a result.
I do however miss reading on the commute, and my naps on the trains. Also miss being able to ask co-workers and folks in person - questions. I miss the people and the energy of the workplace. But alas, that may be gone for the time being.
Walk About
Since I was expecting a pizza at 6:30, I just took a quick walk around the block. (Note: the pizza came at 6:55 pm and was lukewarm, I had to heat it up. Not their fault. The delivery guy walked in the door of the restaurant at 6:40 pm. I called to check on it, that's how I know. The only delivery that came early this week and was completely dependable was Foodkick.)
Anyhow, I stopped and complimented a woman on her garden. She was an older room within my age range, and we were both wearing surgical blue and white cloth masks. She told me that I could take clippings from her herb garden at any time without asking. Very kind lady, her name was Sue. We exchanged names. There's the oddest sense of community right now - with people talking from their front door stoops, or porches, or meeting at catty corners on streets, or going to Greenwood Cemetery and sitting six to ten feet apart to chat. When before, people barely saw each other - and no one was ever in their front yards, gardening or anything else.
The city is slowly re-opening, I saw Con Ed working in the street today for the first time in a while. There are still twenty-somethings, or the kids as Chris Rock put it, who refuse to wear the masks. And people chatting on cell phones without one. But many wear them now.
New York vs. the Corona Virus and Racism
Our Governor today gave the speech that the idiotic President should have given, but did not. Instead, the Doofus got into another fight with Twitter, because he tween incited more violence - and Twitter put a warning on it that you should know before clicking that the tweet incites people to violence. I'd love for someone to charge Trump with hate speech. Less said about that awful excuse for a human being, the better.
The Governor read off all of the incidents since roughly 1999 - of black men and women killed by cops in the US. And stated firmly that he stood with the "protestors", that those who committed the crimes should be charged. As a former prosecutor, he would charge them with murder. That the re-ocurrence of this crime over and over showed we never learn, that we make the same mistakes again and again - and it has to stop. That it is not an isolated incident, that it is shameful, and this is not who we are.
And then, he stated that furthers his point about the inequalities in our society. The Corona Virus has hit the low-income and minority communities the worst. And we need to stop this. We cannot let this continue. At his press briefing he explained how they were going full-press against the remaining hot spots or areas in need.
New York has come down the mountain finally.
( tonight's email )
Gist? We've come down from 3,000 cases a day to roughly 200. And New York City along with Long Island are moving into Phase 1 next week or by June 8.
Phase 2 is sometime off yet. Although, I've been told that they may have me continue to work from home - hence the investment in a sturdy, adjustable and comfortable office chair.
As this, the tenth week of isolation comes to an end, I feel like I live in two countries - the Country of New York, which has a good leader, and kind people who are diverse, and rules in place protecting us, and America which has increasingly become a foreign entity to me, and one in which I cannot say I feel much pride in. I'm proud to be a New Yorker, but I'm not so sure that I'm proud to be an American.
Family
My mother ventured out to the bank and the doctor's office. (She lives in South Carolina - not New York.) ( Read more... )
Twitter and Facebook
Were all about what was happening in Minnesota and Lousiville. Meanwhile there were protests in New York about the idiot woman in Central Park who should get charged with a hate-crime.
( Read more... )
( a pizza, a chair, and a lift-top lap top desk )
Day started out well enough, then I read the paper, and went to work...and sigh. [ETA: Pizza has been delayed, they were waiting on the delivery guy, so should arrive closer to 7. Oh well, it happens.]
Crazy Workplace vs. Corona Virus
They are slowly bringing folks back but...the office workers or professional services/administrative support is kind of hard to bring back. In part because we've proven that working remotely from home - has been a great success. I find this whole thing amusingly ironic in that prior to the virus
what I and all my coworkers were most worried about was - the biometric clocks and being forced to work too close to one another - such as sharing cubicles or having even smaller cubicles. Why? That's the direction offices were going to conserve space - with people sharing cubicles, having smaller cubicles, and using biometric clocks.
Guess what? Not a problem any longer. Biometric clocks are now deemed unsafe and unsanitary and have been removed. So too has the idea of putting people closely together in cubicles or sharing cubicles. In fact, what Crazy Agency and everyone else is figuring out at the moment is it is actually easier not to mention much cheaper to let everyone work from home.
If there's a silver lining in any of this? That's it. I don't mind working from home that much - it has its advantages. I will however have to start buying stuff to outfit my "at home" office space. Such as a printer/scanner.
Although I may not need it - I've figured out how to turn documents into PDF electronically. But I might want a desktop, large monitor and keyboard going forward - also might want to switch to PC - to be more compatible with work place, then again may not require it. Mac is nicer - less virus problems and more user friendly in regards to conferencing.
Crazy agency is no longer worrying about tracking our working hours, as long as we are being productive and not going nuts or getting sick - it does not care. Nothing like a virus to put things into perspective.
Anyhow, I'm working from home for the foreseeable future. They may move me back into the office on a rotational basis. Come in two days a week, work from home three days a week. I like working from home - it's quiet, there's less distractions, I have a window, my own bathroom, my own kitchen, and I don't have to deal with pesky co-workers that make my blood pressure boil.
Also boss is so much easier to deal with at a distance. My working relationship with my boss has gotten much better as a result.
I do however miss reading on the commute, and my naps on the trains. Also miss being able to ask co-workers and folks in person - questions. I miss the people and the energy of the workplace. But alas, that may be gone for the time being.
Walk About
Since I was expecting a pizza at 6:30, I just took a quick walk around the block. (Note: the pizza came at 6:55 pm and was lukewarm, I had to heat it up. Not their fault. The delivery guy walked in the door of the restaurant at 6:40 pm. I called to check on it, that's how I know. The only delivery that came early this week and was completely dependable was Foodkick.)
Anyhow, I stopped and complimented a woman on her garden. She was an older room within my age range, and we were both wearing surgical blue and white cloth masks. She told me that I could take clippings from her herb garden at any time without asking. Very kind lady, her name was Sue. We exchanged names. There's the oddest sense of community right now - with people talking from their front door stoops, or porches, or meeting at catty corners on streets, or going to Greenwood Cemetery and sitting six to ten feet apart to chat. When before, people barely saw each other - and no one was ever in their front yards, gardening or anything else.
The city is slowly re-opening, I saw Con Ed working in the street today for the first time in a while. There are still twenty-somethings, or the kids as Chris Rock put it, who refuse to wear the masks. And people chatting on cell phones without one. But many wear them now.
New York vs. the Corona Virus and Racism
Our Governor today gave the speech that the idiotic President should have given, but did not. Instead, the Doofus got into another fight with Twitter, because he tween incited more violence - and Twitter put a warning on it that you should know before clicking that the tweet incites people to violence. I'd love for someone to charge Trump with hate speech. Less said about that awful excuse for a human being, the better.
The Governor read off all of the incidents since roughly 1999 - of black men and women killed by cops in the US. And stated firmly that he stood with the "protestors", that those who committed the crimes should be charged. As a former prosecutor, he would charge them with murder. That the re-ocurrence of this crime over and over showed we never learn, that we make the same mistakes again and again - and it has to stop. That it is not an isolated incident, that it is shameful, and this is not who we are.
And then, he stated that furthers his point about the inequalities in our society. The Corona Virus has hit the low-income and minority communities the worst. And we need to stop this. We cannot let this continue. At his press briefing he explained how they were going full-press against the remaining hot spots or areas in need.
New York has come down the mountain finally.
( tonight's email )
Gist? We've come down from 3,000 cases a day to roughly 200. And New York City along with Long Island are moving into Phase 1 next week or by June 8.
Phase 2 is sometime off yet. Although, I've been told that they may have me continue to work from home - hence the investment in a sturdy, adjustable and comfortable office chair.
As this, the tenth week of isolation comes to an end, I feel like I live in two countries - the Country of New York, which has a good leader, and kind people who are diverse, and rules in place protecting us, and America which has increasingly become a foreign entity to me, and one in which I cannot say I feel much pride in. I'm proud to be a New Yorker, but I'm not so sure that I'm proud to be an American.
Family
My mother ventured out to the bank and the doctor's office. (She lives in South Carolina - not New York.) ( Read more... )
Twitter and Facebook
Were all about what was happening in Minnesota and Lousiville. Meanwhile there were protests in New York about the idiot woman in Central Park who should get charged with a hate-crime.
( Read more... )