Vaccine
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The COVID at home work for my consulting business has been great. I'm an old guy who spent 40+ years commuting 2+ hours every day and now that I am working on my own business and at home, I get more done in 6 hours than I did in 10+ (not including commute) hours every day running someone else's company for them.
I still get up at 6 AM or before but with no commute, I am done early afternoon, so I get to have a real life in the afternoons. It's been refreshing, except when Mrs. O's cats decide they are going to congregate on my office desk
I still get up at 6 AM or before but with no commute, I am done early afternoon, so I get to have a real life in the afternoons. It's been refreshing, except when Mrs. O's cats decide they are going to congregate on my office desk
Example of vax/boost--last Sunday a cousin and her husband had a party for her kids/spouses/grand kids/her brother/her sisters kids/sposues/kids; end result 15 Covid cases but thank goodness all mild, no hospitals. Another cousin from a different branch is a ICU nurse in a large hospital in Brooklyn--all Covid cases in ICU have not been vaxed. Food For Thought.
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To each his own, but I am far more productive at home than going into the office every day, and I find most of my colleagues and co-workers agree. I'm not spending 2 hours a day getting ready and commuting. I'm not distracted by all the office noise and hubbub. I'm not tied to a chair in a meeting for an hour that I can't multi-task at the same time. With today's technology, the meetings and interactions are great. The cat is out of the bag for most people and hybrid work schedules will be here to stay.mjmaherjr post=448355 said:
My daughter graduated in May 2020, and for the first year + she only worked from home. Since the end of the summer it has been a hybrid situation, which has now gone back to fully remote till at least the end of Jan. I expect it will be extended.. She has mixed feelings about it; she likes not having to get up and out early. I can remember being a college grad and starting work for a real estate firm in Manhattan, and the excitement of being in the office much of the day(I was out showing properties part of the day), learning the business, making new friends, making future business contacts, socializing with my colleagues, etc. One of the most special times in my life was the time spent in and out of the office with my colleagues, many of whom became lifelong friends and a few of whom I had romantic relationships with. For young people, IMO being in an office environment and having daily human interaction, is extremely important. For us old farts, not as much.
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While I don't disagree about the productivity working at home, it leads to another situation, no time off or boundaries. I have had days working on some big projects starting at 7 AM and finishing after 11PM. Late night Zoom or TEAMs meetings have been the norm, not the unusual. There are no boundaries at all when it comes to work hours. There are times I would open up a Laptop or iPad to do work while commuting and normally would respond to e-mails, but that time now is full blown work. Getting non-emergency calls at 9PM is also a norm now. I find myself (and many others I talk to) working much longer hours working from home with less down time.
My company went back to a hybrid in July 2020 (with 30% (15% on two teams) of people back in the office with M-W-F for one team and Tu-Th for the other team and the next week they would switch. I went back once a week (Due to a postponed due to Covid medical procedure) I didn't go back until November 2020 and that was once a week or every other week pretty much before I started a rotating schedule in January 2021 and the rest of the company went to the two team bit in June 2020. We went back full time in November 2021 but as of last week are back to the two team hybrid schedule for the next month.
Been working at home for almost 2 years.
I am, by far, more productive than at the office. Start earlier. Finish later. Fewer distractions.
Plus I get to pick up my kid from school each day.
I cannot imagine doing the 30-45 minute commute each way, every weekday again.
I am, by far, more productive than at the office. Start earlier. Finish later. Fewer distractions.
Plus I get to pick up my kid from school each day.
I cannot imagine doing the 30-45 minute commute each way, every weekday again.
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mjmaherjr post=448377 said:Happy Hour after work after a day in the office is funner than at home
My wife's boss mailed airline-sized bottles of booze to her team for Zoom happy hour this year.
My wife doesn't drink but I made sure her boss's good intentions did not go to waste.
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I'm about to shock you. At home we pretty much dont drink anymore in probably over a year. Since Nat got covid bad fro new years dinner. A couple times we did the outdoor fire thing in the backyard with neighbors and friends this year but not like the 100 fires we had going last year.Monte post=448386 said:Something tells me that happy hour in the Maher house is a lot of fun as wellmjmaherjr post=448377 said:Happy Hour after work after a day in the office is funner than at home
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Employees in general like working from home so much, employers are offering jobs that will permanently be hybrid or fully work from home at employees discretion to attract top talent.
mjmaherjr post=448377 said:Happy Hour after work after a day in the office is funner than at home
Our homebound happy hours were great throughout quarantine. My daughter took a couple bartending classes.
I prefer work from home but my department is siloed from most of the rest, just two of us and I like that my assistant has to think before calling me on teams rather than stopping outside my office all the time. We've been back full time since September but I work for the Hong Kong government. Somewhat untrusting lot. I think we may be switching to work from home again soon, though things in California are nowhere near as bad as in the midwest and northeast . . . yet.
We have been trying to recruit a mid level social/digital marketing manager, likely an early 30 something, and no one will interview with us without the guarantee of some kind of hybrid arrangement. 4 headhunters have told us the same.
PS my wife works for Mattel and they have further etended their return to the office from mid January to indefinitely. And have guaranteed hybrid to anyone who can do their work remotely also indefinitely. Many of their staff moved away and have maintained their jobs.
2020 starting in that march till november when they shut down new york 5:01pm was soooooo convenient in my backyard with the fire pit and our neighbors are all really cool so our back yard was the meeting place. Not sure how much the recycling guys liked it because our entire blocks recycling buckets were filled to the brim with wine bottles and whatever hard liquor everyone else drinks. They get big xmas tips from my blockaustour post=448430 said:mjmaherjr post=448377 said:Happy Hour after work after a day in the office is funner than at home
Our homebound happy hours were great throughout quarantine. My daughter took a couple bartending classes.
I prefer work from home but my department is siloed from most of the rest, just two of us and I like that my assistant has to think before calling me on teams rather than stopping outside my office all the time. We've been back full time since September but I work for the Hong Kong government. Somewhat untrusting lot. I think we may be switching to work from home again soon, though things in California are nowhere near as bad as in the midwest and northeast . . . yet.
We have been trying to recruit a mid level social/digital marketing manager, likely an early 30 something, and no one will interview with us without the guarantee of some kind of hybrid arrangement. 4 headhunters have told us the same.
PS my wife works for Mattel and they have further etended their return to the office from mid January to indefinitely. And have guaranteed hybrid to anyone who can do their work remotely also indefinitely. Many of their staff moved away and have maintained their jobs.
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I was considering using sterile masking tape to cover my mouth and nostrils, but then considered that the possibility of contracting the virus through my eyes. There may be other holes in this logic, so before I do it, I'll give it more thought.OhioFan post=448440 said:
I believe at this point, being triple vaxxed, 3 masks are excessive. It's really a pain, but everytime you touch something, you should wash you hands. We touch our nose and mouth so frequently and that would probably be more helpful than 3 masks.
in my old nyc parrish, a priest died from the covid. he was the first nyc Catholic priest to die from it. also 6 of his parrishioners that received Holy Communion from him also died from covid. so i stopped receiving the Host. once i got my third shot i went back to receiving the Host.
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