Boyfriend’s job is like this except on steroids. He has to fill out a work log that’s insanely detailed. Not even like “I spent 2 hours on project A”, he has to track the time it takes to, say, open a file. The time it takes to enter info in the database. The time it takes to upload something. They are SO paranoid that someone might be failing to work. FFS. Priorities, people!
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That’s good to know. I expect I will be doing any food shopping at ass o’clock in the morning in hopes something will be stocked and it won’t be too crowded. We weren’t able to get any wipes, those were the first to go here. I have bleach, though, and hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol so maybe I could make my own to wipe everything down.
Restaurants here are doing no-contact delivery where they just leave it on your front stoop, and I am wondering if that is safe? I came across some article yesterday where a health expert said you’re unlikely to get it from the actual food unless someone coughed in it, that it’s the contact with people you’ve got to worry about. I don’t know, though. Everything feels unsafe to me now and I’m having a hard time figuring out what is the least risky course of action.
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So pissed off. 70 minutes to check out. None of the self checkout lanes (they have a TON there and it’s the only way that place is bearable to shop at) were turned on except one small section for <20 items.
Maybe 4 or 5 human checkout lanes open and they’re so narrow you’re only 3 feet from checker and bagger (2 extra people touching your things). No sign of sanitation between purchases. So, basically, a choke point designed to infect people.
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My old job we had to account for every 6 minute block with a project code. Fun times.But his workplace sounds like a while new level of stupid.
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I mean, I have to do project code and task (the tasks are broad, like, production work, QC, meetings.) His company is insane. And also does not have billable hours like lawyers do,though this is being treated as such.
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That’s so backward with the time logging. You’d spend so much of your time just logging your time!!
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Did you also have to account for the time you spent accounting for your time?
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There is a time code to track how long it took to log your time.
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That was charged to overhead. Also bathroom breaks that took longer than 3 minutes. Yes, it was timed.
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To be fair, they started doing this even before WFH started. But now they’re super freaking out about OMG WE CAN’T WATCH YOU HOW DO WE KNOW YOU ARE WORKING
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I asked boyfriend if he has an “I was taking a shit” code - not yet, apparently, that is considered a break
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I’m at the hospital in the eye specialist building. They’ve moved check-in to a speaker system (very cool!) and they ask screening questions first. There are very few people here and we’re all staying far apart.
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Yep. It’s like that everywhere here.
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Oof. I’m rusty on thinking like a prepper but maybe I’ll just focus on eating out of our pantry and freezer and skip fresh stuff as long as we can tolerate it for.
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Today I’m coughing and have a stuffy nose. My throat is not sore and my chest is fine so I think I just have a very minor cold. It’s not great timing, when paranoia is an easy hole to fall into.
My daily fevers are perfectly normal for me. The risk here is that coughing and fevers are normal everyday things in my life. If corona strikes gently I’ll never know I had it.
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A friend said something to me that is starting to make me feel a small amount of panic.
I haven’t felt panicked about all this yet, but now I’m much more anxious.
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My uncle was in the hospital a month or so ago with pneumonia and got released. We thought he was better but today he can’t breathe and went back in. His wife is not allowed in! She was talking to a nurse from the parking lot via cellphone. I guess I understand it intellectually, but I’m really sad.
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@CalBal just posted about an earthquake and yup there was an earthquake in UT. And a volcano erupted yesterday in Italy.
I’m gonna admit upfront that this is weird, but thinking about the fires and heat wave in Australia and other natural events and now this, I did a quick skim of Revelations a couple of days ago. Some things match, some don’t. One of the things it mentioned was “a mountain falling into the sea.” And I squirreled that away in my little brain. So learning about both an earthquake and a volcano in the last 48 hours has got me very rattled, maybe moreso than when I first understood the choices they were making in Italy. I mean, this crisis is bad enough without layering natural disasters on top of it.
I’m going to go ride my bike.
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Yeah, I’ve been having anxiety about revelations even though I’m not religious.
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There’s been drama this morning.
I’ve been allowing one of Kid-4’s old high school friends, who has a really difficult home situation, to sleep here every night since…about June? She goes to her boyfriend’s house every day and only comes here at night to sleep (they won’t let her sleep there because they’re not married). Even that is pushing the rules because I live in subsidized housing and am definitely not allowed to let anyone live here. But I wanted to do what I could to give her a jumping off point for getting on her feet. I paid for and got her a state ID card. I got her a bank account. I’ve driven her a zillion places.
There have been a few uncomfortable moments over the months when I’ve realized that she feels entitled to be here on her own terms, and when Ive had a sinking intuition I’m enabling her not to make progress in her life.
With that background…two weeks ago she moved over to her boyfriend’s house because his parents went on a cruise and they wouldn’t know she was there. And then COVID-19 happened. I told her this morning that I was very sorry, but once the parents arrive back from being on a cruise ship (aka Petri dish), I couldn’t have her staying here for at least 2 weeks because I have high-risk family members I might need to see/care for. I was in the process of searching online for the cheapest lodging I could find and pay for for her for 14 days, when she blew up my phone with text messages about how livid she is and now she’s going to have to stay in a homeless shelter and how she never wants to see me or Kid-4 again and we’ve never done anything for her.
I’m a little dumbfounded and feel awful because I’m really averse to confrontation, but also in what might be a side effect of overcoming my relationship with XH and his abuse, I’m having a really strong reaction to the feeling of being manipulated and bullied.
Ugh. COVID-19 social distancing and my own previous doormat tendencies have probably ruined Kid-4’s friendship. Kid is so angry with friend’s behavior that she doesn’t currently care, but eventually she will feel the loss.
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