Are you back to work yet?

[tvguy]

I've been working from home since March 20. At one point only 15 out of 120 employees were working the building. It edged up to 23 two weeks ago and corporate last week made it clear that was unacceptable. They want to get that number as low as possible. Given that states are reopening, and reading between the lines, I think corporate is concerned about a second wave of coronavirus, a wave that may be worse. While how we do work has changed, the work IS getting done. So I'm not sure corporate is in ANY hurry to repopulate our buildings.

 

[Southernmiss]

Nothing changed for me. Have been in the office like usual. In fact, I've worked more, not less. Now starting to take some earned comp time for things with my daughter.

Dh has been working from home since mid March.

Dd has been finishing senior year at home since mid March.

Son #2 came home 3 weeks ago from college. Has been doing a summer course online. He has to move towns for this upcoming school year. Will help him move in July.

Son #3 will come home from college this weekend, but likely will not stay long.

 

[tvguy]

My husband, a commercial electrician, has been working the whole time as an essential worker (doing work that is, IMO, non-essential).

You don't think commercial electricians are essential, or you don't think the tasks your husband has been assigned are essential? Emergency response operations around here have been frantically expanding remote operations, and that expansion has required electrical work. I mean to me, electricians are essential because of their skills to help those whose jobs are more essential.

 

[22Tink]

We are just in the process of getting the PPE required to reopen the chiropractic and registered massage therapy wellness clinic that I work the reception desk at. Most likely looking at the first or second week of June. My husband owns his own company and has been working mostly the whole time but they’ve had to lay off a lot of workers due to work shortages.

 

[monsterkitty]

We're both teachers so we've been working from home since March 13. Friday is our last day for students. We were supposed to go in on Tuesday to clean our rooms but they're not allowing us to do that. So Friday is my last day of school forever as I am retiring.

 

[Christine]

You don't think commercial electricians are essential, or you don't think the tasks your husband has been assigned are essential? Emergency response operations around here have been frantically expanding remote operations, and that expansion has required electrical work. I mean to me, electricians are essential because of their skills to help those whose jobs are more essential.

I don't think the particular job my husband is on is essential. He doesn't work response operations. He works new construction of commercial and government buildings.

 

[easyas123]

Both my husband & I have been working full time this entire time, and we are thankful for it because I think we would have gone stir-crazy at home. Both of our jobs (do different things at same Company) require some "hands on" situations. Luckily, we don't have school aged kids, so we don't have to deal with all that...I don't think we would have done very well!

 

[tvguy]

I don't think the particular job my husband is on is essential. He doesn't work response operations. He works new construction of commercial and government buildings.

Key word being "government". Government building construction jobs are at the top of the list of essential jobs.

 

[Snowysmom]

I am still mostly working at home doing my reduced hours. I do go into the office one 4 hour day a week. I plan on continuing this way for the foreseeable future. It really isn't worth the commute for 4 hours a day to be honest. I go in the day I do because a few other people are there and I am not comfortable being there alone. They do want to get the office open again to anyone who wants but I think most people are going to want to work from home. I don't see my hours going back to 40 hours a week until at least the beginning of 2021 and possibly a furlough.

 

[StageTek]

Live entertainment worker here - stagehand, pyrotechnician and camera operator.

I suspect we will be the very last to go back to work. Maybe some operating gigs (I hope) but live shows are unlikely to come bask for another seven to nine months.

 

[Carol_]

Never stopped working. I’m a consultant so I work whenever I want to and that’s been every day lately because they say they need me. I’ve had one day off since March.
Vacation cancelled in March...
rescheduled for late June...
Hair appt made for the 29th.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

Never stopped. I work for a hospital so I still go in except for the one day a week I’m forced to use PTO.

I’m thankful to still be working Outside of the home. It breaks up the monotony. I still get dressed, do my hair and have some normalcy. I get to socialize and chat with my coworkers. And help people in the community who need it most.

only complaint is the ones who are working from home, when they could be in the office, instead they’re dumping their extra work on the ones still coming in.

 

[sk!mom]

I’m a teacher. This is the last week of virtual teaching, and then a week of figuring out grades. By the time I go back to work, I will be so out of work shape, I can’t imagine.

My DH is an accountant. He went back to the office today. He had been home since March 16th. Honestly, his job is perfectly suited to being done at home so he loved the work from home part of the past two months. He set up an office on our covered patio. No kids here so it really was a peaceful time.

 

[Darcy03231]

I'm considered essential so have not stopped working, but am working remotely 4 days a week and in the office one. Our days are staggered to keep as many people out of the office as possible. On my day I'm the only person on my floor in my wing. We've been told this schedule will continue to the end of this month and they'll re-evaluate. I wouldn't be surprised to see it continue into the future. I doubt that I'll ever end up going back to 5 days a week in the office.

 

[starry_solo]

Both DH and I have been working from home since March 16, looks like it will be indefinitely. Both of our employers already announced no vacation days can be carried over to next year. After having to cancel our March break trip to WDW, we each have 5 weeks vacation plus personal days (medical appts, etc) to use up by year end, with nowhere to go.

Will they let you cash some time out? At least a week?

 

[tvguy]

I don't think the particular job my husband is on is essential. He doesn't work response operations. He works new construction of commercial and government buildings.

You might be amused. I'm in Sacramento and there are people protesting at the State Capitol right now demanding that beauty shops be allowed to reopen because, as one protest sign says "waxing is an essential service".
Working in a TV newsroom and answering viewer calls it has been interesting the divide people have on what is essential and what isn't. People sitting at home with no income seem to think their jobs should be considered essential, and people whose jobs ARE considered essential think they should be home.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

Both DH and I have been working from home since March 16, looks like it will be indefinitely. Both of our employers already announced no vacation days can be carried over to next year. After having to cancel our March break trip to WDW, we each have 5 weeks vacation plus personal days (medical appts, etc) to use up by year end, with nowhere to go.

I hate using PTO to do nothing but I would rather use it than lose it. It sucks !

have you been allowed to carry over days before all of this?

we are allowed to carry over one years worth Of days to the next year and that hasn’t changed. My SO can carry over 80 hours and that didn’t change.

 

[DisneyOma]

I'm a teacher's aide so I'm still home. Thankfully my state voted to continue to pay all school employees during the shutdown so my income hasn't changed. Though it has been pointed out to me that I would have been much better off on unemployment with that extra $600/week. Lol, $600 is about $150 more than I make in a week

But aren't you doing some work from home? Being part of the zoom meets, or whatever, sending emails to kids, or other things to help out the overwhelmed classroom teachers? I'm a tutor, and I'm teaching two small groups, helping a few other kids at other times, sitting in two classes, and contacting as many kids as I can to see how they are doing. I've made manipulatives for kids to use (and the teacher picked them up and delivered them to all the students) and created a database of resources for our life skills classes.

Nothing changed for me. Have been in the office like usual. In fact, I've worked more, not less. Now starting to take some earned comp time for things with my daughter.

Dh has been working from home since mid March.

Dd has been finishing senior year at home since mid March.

Son #2 came home 3 weeks ago from college. Has been doing a summer course online. He has to move towns for this upcoming school year. Will help him move in July.

Son #3 will come home from college this weekend, but likely will not stay long.

What college has stayed open through all of this?

Never stopped. I work for a hospital so I still go in except for the one day a week I’m forced to use PTO.

I’m thankful to still be working Outside of the home. It breaks up the monotony. I still get dressed, do my hair and have some normalcy. I get to socialize and chat with my coworkers. And help people in the community who need it most.

only complaint is the ones who are working from home, when they could be in the office, instead they’re dumping their extra work on the ones still coming in.

Maybe they can't get childcare? Maybe they are anxious about working in an unsafe environment because they are immune compromised or otherwise at risk if they catch COVID?

 

[tex1989]

Working from home since March 16th and my wife is retired. Our office is returning 15% of the staff on June 15th. I am not in that group and may not go back till September. But I work on a Trading floor where everyone has 48 inches of desk space and people on either side of you and behind you. I can do everything I need at home and quite frankly I think that many of us will never go back. I work for a Major Energy company and we have had global positions in the US (live here and report to someone in another part of the world) for years and so working from home is not an issue. Our systems are all set up to handle it. Since I only have 2 to 3 years left I want to work I am hoping to do the rest of my career from home. We have all been offered severence packages and mine would come out to 1 1/2 years of pay so I have thought about that as well.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

What college has stayed open through all of this?



Maybe they can't get childcare? Maybe they are anxious about working in an unsafe environment because they are immune compromised or otherwise at risk if they catch COVID?

I’ve worked with these people for over 8 years. We all know a lot about each other’s lives. No childcare issues. No anxiety. They’re using this to their advantage.

Everyone has to be back in the office next week anyway. No more working from home.