Are you back to work yet?

[RamblingMad]

I’m back. It’s weird.

 

[Meriweather]

Retired......so no change here

 

[lifesavacation]

DH is essential so he never stopped.

I’m a small business owner and have worked during the closure at our warehouse, along with my son and husband.

 

[mmbrad02]

I'm an accountant and work in manufacturing. I work in an open office environment and can reach out and touch my coworkers. They have put up plexi glass barriers and doing temp checks at the door and requiring masks. Production on our plant floor resumed two weeks ago but administrative positions were encouraged to work from home as much as possible and divide up departments. My boss and I are now doing two days in the office and 3 days at home, with us not seeing each other. I will do my first two days back in the office this Wednesday and Thursday.

Dh works in hospital IT and has primarily worked from home during all of this, but goingin when necessary. This week he is working completely in the office because its a hectic week of work stuff, but he has the flexibility to work at work or home without really having to report specific schedule to anyone.

The headache for us is trying to line up childcare for our 9 year old while our schedule is still fluctuating. I had a sitter lined up for a full time basis. Before she even started I cut it down to 3 days. DH isn't comfortable working at home with the sitter here so I know for certain he and I will be in the office the same two days for sure when the sitter comes. The problem is I won't always work the same two days each week. DH may return to the office full time, I don't know. I prefer us home as much as possible as it just feels safer, but admit a "normal routine" sure seems appealing too.

 

[1GoldenSun]

I teach at a university so will continue working from home for the summer. Summer semester just started today. It's going to go better this summer having had the opportunity to plan for distance learning rather than being thrust suddenly into it as we were back in March. It remains to be seen what'll happen this fall.

 

[monarchsfan16]

I'm a school SLP so I've been working from home since mid March. Evidently that will continue for summer school. And who knows what fall will bring.

My husband just went back to an almost normal schedule on Saturday. They had split the team into 2, and put them on rotating schedules, so he was doing 7 days on, 6 off, plus some overnight security shifts on off nights, thankfully being fully paid, for the last month and a half. It's a relief to have him back to an almost normal schedule (he has one "work from home" day each week, which is new). With him out of the house, I don't have to worry about his video games clashing with my Google meets and zoom sessions for bandwidth use.

 

[China Expat]

No date yet as to when my school reopen.

 

[MamaLema]

Still home. Tomorrow my province will make a big announcement regarding my field and when I’ll be back to work.

 

[HeatherC]

I’m back. It’s weird.

It must be weird. Everything is so weird now.

 

[nene0182]

I’m still working from home. There’s been no decision on when we will go back to the office. My husband is a maintenance supervisor for a food processing facility and has worked the entire time. DS17 went back to work at the restaurant he works at about 2 weeks ago

 

[AndreaDM]

Started working from home mid-March, furloughed mid-April. No idea when/if I’ll be called back, boss calls me every 2 weeks to update me, no change so far. It’s fine, I had been planning to look for something else soon anyway, had only been there 6-7 months but soon realized it wasn’t where I wanted to be long term. I’ll take the unemployment for a while and keep doing home projects and hopefully get to enjoy our club pool soon.

 

[RamblingMad]

It must be weird. Everything is so weird now.

It felt weird driving in. Most roads are still pretty empty.

 

[DoryGirl1963]

Our biz has been open with all employees in coming in full time this whole time so no change for me .

 

[Elle23]

I am an essential worker so nothing ever changed for me. I have been going to my job as usual the entire time.

My husband is a teacher and has been working at home since mid March. We are really hoping school starts up normally next year and isn’t online!

 

[aprilgail]

Still laid off- I am fine with it though since I am making more staying home.

 

[StageTek]

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.

True that! My sister is cafeteria manager in a good size school system and they are still providing meals even though the schools are shut down. Considered essential and she would rather be sitting at home. I'm in live entertainment which isn't considered essential and I'd rather be working.

I'd say most people not working would rather their business be considered essential so they could get a paycheck.

 

[disneychrista]

Never stopped. I work for an essential government service, so we never closed. We modified operations and some groups of employees are working on a rotating schedule. I’m “super essential” so I’m working my regular schedule. All employees are still getting paid.

 

[jesusfreak75]

Wife works in healthcare and I work for a business deemed essential. We’ve been in our respective offices every day since this started.

 

[Christine]

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".

There's a whole generation out there who have likely never seen body hair and are probably in some sort of shock right now (or have serious razor burn)!

 

[runnergrl]

Nope, and likely won't be for awhile.
Have been on "stay at home" orders for... this is our 11th week I believe. I live/work in upstate NY and my company will likely open in phase 4, since most of our jobs can be performed remote anyway. The good news is that we've actually been hiring people during this time.