Current Events > How's your work dealing with the coronavirus?

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For my company, the decision is down to the group (each group is ~20 people).

For my group specifically:
Half of my group will be in the office M/W/Fr, the other half will be in the office Tu/Th this week. Next week, swap. We are "expected to work from home" on the days that we are not in the office, but due to the nature of our work, we cannot actually work from home; so it's just free time at home.

The best deal I heard from other groups:
Schedule three 4 hour days at the office, stay home the rest.

The worst deal I heard from other groups:
Three 12 hour days and one 4 hour day at the office. Schedule this such that half of the group is not in the office.

As myself and my friends in these other groups are all salaried, this is pretty great. For represented employees, the company still has not negotiated a proper "time off from work" policy with the union reps; so they have to go to work as normal schedules.

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I do security at a muni court.

City hall is shut down. Probation is doing appts over the phone.

Court is still going. Still searching through germy ass bags

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No affect.
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Nothing has changed yet. Sucks because I hear all about oil prices dropping so low our industry is in real jeopardy. Taking it one day at a time for the time being. Down in South Texas, fyi.

still the same. mine won't close down or limit the schedule.

My previous employer is giving everyone indefinite leave

My current one ain't doing shit

Grass ain't always greener

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all departments within the office were split in half - half are working from home for 2 weeks, half are in the office for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks we switch. I'm part of the crew that's in office.

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Working from home for the next 3 weeks

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The place I volunteer at is still open but all activities are in house right now.

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Small impact, truck drivers not allowed in the office anymore

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Poorly. They want people to work from home but the system can't handle all the additional remote workers and is lagging everyone out

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Work remote starting tomorrow

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Just cleaning more than usual. Still the same work hours.

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I work in a grocery store so we're getting pounded more than Pamela Anderson

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I work at a clinic, and I was just told a patient I met with last Friday tested positive today after being brought in the ER with flu-like symptoms. Great. Here we go.

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I work at a university and the govt just decided to have all teaching be done remotely for the next half of the semester. Campus is closed down for students, only staff are allowed. Many are working from home.

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scar the 1 posted...

I work at a university and the govt just decided to have all teaching be done remotely for the next half of the semester. Campus is closed down for students, only staff are allowed. Many are working from home.

https://kotaku.com/professor-turns-into-an-anime-schoolgirl-to-teach-his-s-1842374594

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just added a hour of disinfecting and we have to distance ourselves from each other at lunch and clean more thoroughly.

i opted to use vacation to stay home in addition im trying to get short term leave due to a back injury from 2 weeks ago. im in ontario so im just waiting to hear if a lock down happens.

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Currently school is closed until April 6 here.

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100% work from home right now until the 1st.

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wfh From 13th until the 30th unless noted otherwise

I work at Safway, and we've had significant changes. We have shopping hours designated for the elderly and other people most at risk for the virus. We've also closed the caf seating area and the in-store Starbucks and halted refunds and rainchecks. We're also taking greater care in cleaning up and sanitizing our workspaces.

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We closed the casino, restaurants, and bars. Our hotel, moter lodge, RV resort, and gas station/covenience store are all still running. I get to work 4 days a week because we are using the time to completely clean and remodel the place.
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We're allowed to telework this week and next.

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No/medium impact? Everyone is working from home, but we're still working our normal shifts for now.
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work from home until further notice

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Working from home half the time.
shorter hours.

Trump himself would have to show up and enforce policies.

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Work in long term care pharmacy. My job isn't going anywhere. Elderly need their meds. We're more vigilant with cleanliness, using bleach on stuff instead of alcohol, etc.. But I still go in. I'm at work now.

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We're closed until April right now

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KStateKing17 posted...

We're closed until April right now

how are you coping financially?

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Parappa09 posted...

how are you coping financially?

We were told that we should be receiving pay that averages the amount of tips we made in the past 3 months. Unfortunately the last week significantly lowered that average and my time was probably only 28-30 hours. I'm a little nervous to see how much it'll be.

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Nothing has changed unless you are old and on the support team, then you can work from home.

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Nothing major, but we make food and our production has increased.

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Parappa09 posted...

work from home until further notice

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I started spring festival on January 18th. I was supposed to return to work on February 12th. I likely won't return to working until mid April.

School in mainland China.

Also, I am not being paid for any of February or March (well I am, but it equates to about 10% of my salary).

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KStateKing17 posted...

We were told that we should be receiving pay that averages the amount of tips we made in the past 3 months. Unfortunately the last week significantly lowered that average and my time was probably only 28-30 hours. I'm a little nervous to see how much it'll be.

i hope youll be okay man

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since i work at IT as a software engineer, im working at home.

and it took them one week to send us home after reports of the first infected person here in Portugal...

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

since i work at IT as a software engineer, im working at home.

and it took them one week to send us home after reports of the first infected person here in Portugal...

I heard people went to the beach when they closed the schools in Portugal. Are people taking things seriously?

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I'm telecommuting.

I hate telecommuting but I'm glad I can at least do that and not just not be able to work.

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EvalAngell posted...

all departments within the office were split in half - half are working from home for 2 weeks, half are in the office for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks we switch. I'm part of the crew that's in office.

Oh cool that way everyone gets a turn to catch it.

Wait that's not cool at all.

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they are trying to get us to work at home as an option

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I am WFH and have found it okay thus far.

I do have some work going on thankfully cos im a bit worried about what happens if this is still ongoing in the medium term. unfortunately we've already hit our fee quote on one thing and it keeps running on and on which isn't good.

i wouldn't be surprised to see mass paycuts in a month or two. that'd be preferable to mass layoffs at least

Just had our work update will start when or if a lock down happens in our area, we'll be spilt into 2 teams one team work one week and has the next week off and vice versa the other team with full pay for time off.

Entire company is working from home. Also the company issued a statement that our entire medical bills would be covered if we caught the virus. Theyre also scheduling times to hand out essentials like TP and hand sanitizer to employees. I love my company.

M_Live posted...

They're making us work more. Seriously. It's a fucking lawncare company.

I do customer service/data entry, it's an office job. And they don't give us a work from home option, and won't give us any compensation if we get quarantined. Fuck this company so hard.

While Im sure spring cleanups are one of the busiest times for landscaping, is that wise to have 3-5 men in trucks driving around all day? Feel for and laborers, construction etc you might end up at job sites full of people with the virus.
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