Short and Sweet Weekend Recap
Good Monday morrow to you all. I hopeth thee hath much tomfoolery to reminisce upon from thine weekend. (Damn that would be exhausting to talk like that all of the time.) We've had biblical rain all week and weekend so road tripping would've been out of the question. No one wants to drive on slick roads for hours so we were stuck at home. I am pretty sure unless it's for pizza, we're done eating out for a while. I got so ticked trying to order from a new place and all of the hoops they wanted you to jump through that I said screw it and the Mr was ticked too and said they were shysters. ($42 for what equates to Chinese takeout "bowl". Nope.) Then he mentioned a BBQ place and I was resistant because BBQ always makes me sick, without question. I relented because we'd spent 20 minutes trying to find a place by that time and were both getting irritated. Not like we spent less than we would have if we'd gone to th...
Let the permanent telework begin as far as I'm concerned! Can't wait to work from Tahiti!
ReplyDeleteSeriously people - how do you use someone else's desk?! It made sense pre-pandemic when someone swiped my traveler desk because I had nothing on it but this???
ReplyDeleteAnyway, my current organization is on permanent remote with potential to gather as a group infrequently once it becomes safer. I was working most days from home anyway and I prefer it.
I had to laugh at your husband's remark - we are looking at working for a week at a campground in the Florida Keys!
ReplyDeleteI took a new job during the pandemic which is 100% remote - my company is hundreds of miles away! I've been in twice and I hope that the team will try to gather a couple of times per year. But I have worked at the beach, the mountains, at home, etc. I love the flexibility! There are a few things I miss, but overall I'm good!
With the nature of my job, it's been all hands on deck live and in person.
ReplyDeleteI am a teacher, and the only time I worked from home was from the end of March 2020-May 2020 during the beginning of the Pandemic. After Summer break that year, we have been teaching in person 5 days a week. No online learning for my students. It has been all in person.
ReplyDeleteMy school was remote spring of 2020, but went back in person in August. We had a few times where we were sent home for a week or so b/c teachers had to quarantine and we didn't have enough subs. Primarily though, we've been in person all the time since then.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently doing two weeks in the office and two weeks at home, so that the office building is only at about 50% capacity if you work in a cubicle. If you have a office, you are 100% in the office. We worked from home full time from spring 2020 to winter 2020. They sent us back 50% a couple of times and then when case numbers spiked they sent us back to work from home full time. In the last 20 months I have probably worked about 10 weeks in the office. Once everyone is back in the office full time then they are planning on a hybrid work trial where we work from the office Tuesday to Thursday and from home on Mondays and Fridays.
ReplyDeleteI've been wfh since 3/13/2020. My company did nothing to make our transition easier. There is no talk about returning but they have turned down my request to move out of state. Kind of silly as I barely worked with anyone in my office and spent most of my time on calls with others around the world. I'm trying to decide if I risk it and give a friend's address and escape Illinois and the high taxes.
ReplyDeleteFunny part is I took this position at a reduced salary because of the short commute!
I have several friends who have moved from IL due to the high taxes so I don't blame you there! (That's totally ridiculous about not letting you move. SO many people have just moved and let them deal with it or just found a new job when they found out. I wish we had that kind of gonads but...LOL)
DeleteJust wanted to let you know, for some reason a bunch of your comments went to spam and I didn't catch it. Grrrr!