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Thread: Who's still working?
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03-26-2020, 04:05 PM #201
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03-26-2020, 04:25 PM #202I drink it up
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People are nervous and edgy and stressed. My entire day today was soft management stuff. I don’t think I actually got anything done that wasn’t some form of validation or soothing or mediating. It’s uniquely exhausting, especially for somebody who tends to be a bit of a caustic asshole.
focus.
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03-26-2020, 04:26 PM #203
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03-26-2020, 04:42 PM #204Registered User
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03-26-2020, 06:37 PM #205
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03-26-2020, 06:44 PM #206
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03-26-2020, 07:06 PM #207
Highway maintenance/snow removal. Essential service atm to keep goods and services flowing until the last avy shoot. 3 more weeks. Hasnt been a ton of snow lately so just doing laps scouting lines to ski and kicking off the odd rocks or snowbslls that hit the road. With the good vis and ez pace lately is been good scouting but beyond painful knowing its all closed now. Its a long ways to the alpine in the spring without the highway access to my 20ish new possibilities
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03-26-2020, 07:08 PM #208
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03-26-2020, 07:32 PM #209
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03-26-2020, 08:08 PM #210Banned
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I'm hoping, if anything, that comes out of this is we see these weaknesses. Kind of like a learning lesson. 10 steps, whatever. We come out of this stronger for the next one,.which is coming. #history
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03-26-2020, 09:59 PM #211
Wifey is a CPA, she is busy as hell. She probably got ten panicked calls by noon demanding answers on the new tax Regs, tax implications of stimulus money, tax implications of unemployment (for both workers and companies), and general financial and investment advice...which she doesn’t actually do. Probably thirty calls all day...when the hell would she have had time to read the bill (that came out this morning, 1200 pages) between all of the calls?
(And the fact that it hasn’t actually passed yet)Last edited by rideit; 03-26-2020 at 10:29 PM.
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03-26-2020, 10:58 PM #212
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03-27-2020, 01:07 AM #213
Really sorry to hear about all of the folks losing their jobs. I hope this passes quickly before too much damage is done. NMChoi so sorry to hear that you got it. Glad you are doing ok. I own a lawn mowing company and we do lots of HOA's, apartments, and a few hundred residential clients. We did not get mentioned in the exemption here in Washington state but we fall under the umbrella of essential home services ( at least so far) .Been running all of our trucks with a single worker working longer shifts and instructed clients to call the office and not talk to the worker on their property. If we get shut down and the grass goes for months the grass will be waist tall with spring in the NW. One of my friends owns a large furniture store and sales dried up 3 weeks ago and he is really freaked out now that the shutdown is here.
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04-04-2020, 10:13 AM #214
I've been doing computer graphics at an office with hundreds of other people for years now. We've never really had a strong work-from-home (WFH) culture or infrastructure, but that changed real quick several weeks ago. It took a while to get the kinks worked out, and for everyone to get used to it; but now I think I work about as efficiently as when I was physically there for most things. We actually have a shitload of work to do right now, and I can spend my 1 hour RT commute time either working, or at home doing what I want, which is way better. The flexibility of being able to start/stop work is definitely a better fit for the nature of the work as well. If I have to wait 30 minutes for a computer to do something, I can do the dishes or go for a jog or whatever and not waste that time. I'll definitely be pushing for WFH in the future. 2-3 days a week would work well I think. Honestly it's not just the commuting time but the stress/hassle/unpredictability of traffic that I am glad to miss. Some days I bike to work and I really enjoy it, but at over 2 hours RT it's just too long to do more than a few days per week.
I'm feeling incredibly lucky to have a job that I can still do and am so worried about all the struggle that so many are going through and are about to go through. I hope that we can find a way to prop up so many that have been affected by this until things can get going again.
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04-04-2020, 10:24 AM #215
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04-04-2020, 10:26 AM #216
Update to my situation.
We had a few tradesmen test positive the other week. We shut down the site for a few days, had a disinfection company come through and fog the areas / wipe down site.
We are back up in running. All of us are now on a 50:50 schedule. Labor is now working 4-10s to give the site 3 days to disinfect itself. We have full time labor just disinfecting everything. We had our plumbers build a bunch of hand wash stations. Manpower is way down. Under 100, was 550ish preCovid.
At first it was like why do we keep jumping through hoops to keep this job running. We are considered “essential” but it’s not like we are building a firehouse or repairing a bridge. Then I see some close friends loose their jobs this past week and my paycheck came on Friday.....
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04-04-2020, 10:27 AM #217Registered User
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I was able to eke out a couple of hundred bucks for March but this month I'll be lucky to see $250, probably more like $100. When your income is 100% commission based and you can't get out to work what happens? Yeah I'm fucked.
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04-04-2020, 10:31 AM #218
Windows, rdp, HyperV VM Linux, vpns, proprietary OS's, games, graphics, tcp, memory managers
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04-04-2020, 10:34 AM #219
Had no idea, which system? PM if you don't want to reply here.
I was declared essential and construction in Montana rolls on. I sent my clients an e-mail yesterday saying I would not enter any close spaces or offices without checking 1st and all contacts would be by cell/text/e-mail and that I would maintain my current schedule of bi-weekly site visits for as long as I can.
Most everything I am working on is non-essential IMHO.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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04-04-2020, 10:56 AM #220
I've been sitting in my basement engineering for the last 6 months, I haven't noticed a slowdown at all but I can see a lot of people reigning in their future plans real soon. Slowdowns typically take 3 months to trickle down to the engineering level. Right about then government spending starts making it to engineering. 3 months later people have had a look around and decided it's a good time to build but they don't have any plans so engineers get buried.
I'm also working in a bike shop part time. Bicycle repair is considered an essential service.
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04-04-2020, 11:08 AM #221
Mine too. She is the Director of Finance at The Kimball Art Center which is a non-profit in Park City. Although, the Kimball has been closed for 3 weeks, or so, she still manages to work as much, if not more, than when it was open. Right now, they are temporarily transitioning into on-line art classes thru Zoom. If anyone is interested (adults and kids) it is on its website and called Creative Quarantine. It is a great way to keep your kids/yourself busy, while appreciating art. The big questions for the art center right now are whether and how the gala, the Arts Festival and other fund raisers will occur this summer.
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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04-04-2020, 11:21 AM #222
I'm still working at doing nothing all day.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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04-04-2020, 11:27 AM #223
^^^ Pace yourself
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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04-04-2020, 11:45 AM #224
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04-04-2020, 11:50 AM #225
It is. I try to push myself to have breakfast before noon.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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