Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Disgruntledgoat said:
Exactly, my routine at the minute is to do what i can get away with and enjoy my life. I've been miserable in offices for 15 years, this is my time to shine!
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I don’t mind my actual job, and this is probably the nicest office I’ve been in, in terms of working culture.

It’s the whole grind that gets to me. Not having to travel to work will give me an extra two hours a day, and I’ll be lot less stressed not having to do that rush hour journey on then train.

Hope this becomes the norm for me now.
 
Disgruntledgoat said:
I'm spending a lot of the spare time working out what I actually want to do. I was off for 4 weeks with burnout before the lockdown started and I can't keep doing this forever.

The only problem is I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
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I've enjoyed minor success self-publishing horror novels in my spare time (what I want to be when I grow up...I'm 50!) but you would think with the lockdown and working from home I'd have finished the 2 novels I'm working on. Quite the opposite my head's been battered with it all and the uncertainty has robbed my fous..plus I'm high risk as is my mrs and my parents are in their 70s. So all the time I'd yearned for a couple of months at home to write...turns out a Pandemic isn't conducive to creativity. For me at least.

PS been there with the work burnout..hope you are on the mend.
 
Charro said:
I don’t mind my actual job, and this is probably the nicest office I’ve been in, in terms of working culture.

It’s the whole grind that gets to me. Not having to travel to work will give me an extra two hours a day, and I’ll be lot less stressed not having to do that rush hour journey on then train.

Hope this becomes the norm for me now.
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When our work finally go back, we can WFH two days a week as opposed to the one before. I think the dress code will be fully relaxed to. And a day off on your birthday each year as a 'thanks'.
 
AUXLEN said:
I've enjoyed minor success self-publishing horror novels in my spare time (what I want to be when I grow up...I'm 50!) but you would think with the lockdown and working from home I'd have finished the 2 novels I'm working on. Quite the opposite my head's been battered with it all and the uncertainty has robbed my fous..plus I'm high risk as is my mrs and my parents are in their 70s. So all the time I'd yearned for a couple of months at home to write...turns out a Pandemic isn't conducive to creativity. For me at least.

PS been there with the work burnout..hope you are on the mend.
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I'm only working this job because I ran out of road on writing for a living about this time last year.

I've taken the opportunity, however, to offer my sports writing services for the Belgian cycling races later in the year to all my contacts on the nationals. With the overlap on races in other countries at the same time and travel problems, you never know.
 
PhilM said:
You'd say not, however I suspect it'll eventually boil down to the balance of necessity versus productivity when we do eventually return to a close form of normality.

My wife for example has probably had the same workload (different tasks) and succeeded, but members of her team have had a much reduced workload.

On the face of it, it's been successful for them but will they be able to maintain the same productivity and expectations from home when what is required increases?

I think that'll be the acid test and there's no definitive answers because it will be dependent on individuals, businesses and their circumstances.

Yet, I do think there'll be a lot more flexibility because the mentality of having to work from an office all the time with similar start times has been disproven.
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I've worked from home regularly for years, but it's much easier to be productive while you're in lockdown when pretty much all you have to do is some food shopping and get some fresh air / exercise.

When things are closer to normal, there'll be many more distractions ( pub, restaurant, gigs, footie, whatever ) which mean the option of spreading your work throughout the day becomes less useful. If people have the discipline to do WFH under normal circumstances, it's great, but others find that easier by going into work.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
What was it he was supposed to be for Brexit? A visionary or something? Good grief. If Pete really has had a hand in sacking thousands of people with that kind of judgement of talent.... :confused:
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It's why he championed 'muddling through' as a serious approach to the consequences of Brexit, relatively speaking, it's probably his ace card ;)
 
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