Coronavirus

[tlombard]

Somebody just came around our offices to count the number of people in the building and to inquire as to whether we could work from home and if not, is there something that can be done to enable working from home. He started on the second floor and our area was the last to be checked on the floor. So far there are 65 of us in the office and I doubt there are too many more on the first floor. We do have some production labs down there who can't work from home for obvious reasons but I'd bet there are well under 200 of us in the building where over 700 normally are.

He also said that the company can solve the issues keeping most of the people from being able to work at home and is working to do that where possible such as temporarily providing hotspots for those who don't have Internet. It looks like we'll be forced to work from home by the end of the week.

My biggest issue with working from home is that I am much more productive in the office where I have multiple monitors, full sized keyboard, etc. compared to working from just the laptop. Plus, when I'm at home, I'm at home. I don't think about work. I have tried working from home before and I just can't get in the right mindset compared to being in the office. When I'm in the office, it's time to work. At home, it's time to relax and not think about work.

It seems like the company is going to tell us to just take the stuff home from our desk if that is what we feel we need to stay out of the office so I guess I'll be packing up a couple of monitors, docking station and everything in the next day or so and be stuck at home for days on end once they shut down restaurants and bars. I'm not sure how I'll handle that.

[Famous Mortimer]

I could do this job from home fairly easily, now there's no professors who need printing jobs, but it remains to be seen if they're going to pull the trigger and send us all home. Some of the adjunct professors are insisting on coming in to Zoom-conference their lectures, rather than doing it from home, so we can't fully close the campus. They may want me to stick around.

[Jocephus]

[Freed Roger]

A couple of personal connections:

My niece is nurse on covid19 floor in Seattle. She says so far it's ok (she didnt go in great depth on text).

I have visited my grandbaby in hospital for last 10 days (she is great, just had to come a bit early).

With surreal par for the course lately, it is extra surreal there. Covid19 is in the periphery of most thought and action, but rarely is it mentioned by name.

Cleanliness and self-quarantine have always been routine to hospitals. Sanitizer and signage about visitation abound.
So far I still get buzzed in the NICU for quick visit -and to help with communication with the staff -my daughter. , but we expect it just to be parents soon.

Hospitals have quite a bit of other health stuff going on- patients in rooms are just a piece of it. MRI and other health offices and waiting rooms with typically older people in them. Not quite a isolation segregation.

Then there is the ER-as most people know, are interesting places. I had to go thru to gain late night entrance one time. It was really weird. Check in with security, past people that appeared to have mental problems in addition to whatever else brought them. Security guy has a gun, of course, and sports the Charlottesville hairdo. I only noticed and mention this because it elevated the strangeness of the atmosphere.

Not really a containment zone in the ER is my point

Lastly, Food service and custodial workers there should be getting a hefty national emergency pay raise. I daresay every one of them is a minority and/or 1st or 2nd generation immigrant. They kick ass.

[Jocephus]

[Famous Mortimer]

We just had the "we're kicking you all out, go work from home" email. We'll probably get a day to prepare all the papers we need and so on, but I'm off.

[Jocephus]

[Freed Roger]

Someone younger told me #boomerremover is trending

[Jocephus]

[Jocephus]