Majority rules is a bummer in so many contexts. The preferences of the majority are not more important than yours are, and in this case they aren’t even mutually exclusive. I hope your boss can see the value in flexibility, and not just revert back to the status quo because it is easier. I’m so sorry that you deal with chronic pain.
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My 79 year old uncle is back in the hospital with things other than coronavirus. Of course nobody is allowed in to see him. His kidneys are not functioning, he’s got pneumonia, and congestive heart failure, and is all together just unwell. He is my moms favorite sibling, and so she is understandably terrified that she will not be able to see him again. I hope he recovers enough that they can at least talk if not be together in person.
ETA he was in the hospital while ago, and was better enough to go home for a few weeks now so this new setback with the kidneys added in seems like bad news.
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Hugs. This is so hard. Thinking of you and your family. 
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Majority rules didn’t even help us at my company. My work is in the process of constructing a new building on the site of an old building on campus, everyone else was shifted to working in some of the other buildings in the mean time. There was a company wide meeting last week and they had gotten a lot of questions about potentially working from home in the future whenever we get back to our new normal and I’m sure the higher ups thought they put it nicely but their response was basically “You’ll work in the new building and you’ll like it.”
Sigh. They’re so excited about this shiny new building and all I can see is yet another cube farm, but now they’ll have coworking spaces on the side instead of proper meeting rooms with walls or doors. But it’s going to be so great!! 
Curiously the execs all seems to have offices of their very own. I think they should have to share an exec coworking space and then share one office with doors in case they need to have private conversations and they can use a shared calendar to book space in that room - just like the rest of us peons.
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This has consistently been my experience. Ugh.
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Ugh, that is frustrating. I don’t know why if work is getting done at home with no issues, work can’t continue to get done in the same way after this situation is over? It really all comes down to people sitting in chairs, being visible to managers . Not about productivity, or what is best for the company and employees… just as my bosses boss says “accountability.”
I sit in more of a “pod” type area of 7-8 cubes, and it’s not like call center loud, but it is still distracting. There is nowhere to have a private conversation. I work best in complete silence, so it is hard for me to focus at my desk in the office. I did mention this to my boss when she wondered aloud how I could like working from home so much…and she was like, “oh I do have an office with a door I can shut when I really need to focus” well there you go! I like office chit chat and banter as much as anyone, but there is a time and place, and the people I work with are all very good friends (and super nice) and love to chat. Most of them work for a different segment of our business than me, and they are way less busy (by the sounds of their chit chat) than me and I have a hard time getting things done effectively with all of the noise.
Also I should mention that my boss lives in another state and does not work in my office, none of my bosses do! The only “accountability” I have from sitting in the office are my other two teammates, and if someone else’s boss wants to tell my boss I was 5 min late, or something like that. 
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I was 15 steps away from my daily step goal, and then I watched a couple episodes of Community. When I got up it was after midnight and the counter had reset to zero.
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Us too
We had frost last night so I had to bring in all my plants before bed. There is not enough space under the grow light for all of them and it is still below freezing so I can’t bring them back out. Grrrr. At least it didn’t snow.
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Power (plus internet and cell towers) was out all day yesterday. This complaint is tiny because some of my neighbors lost homes, barns, and fences to the tornado that did no more than block our driveway (with little trees). The victory is no one in my valley was killed and all the large livestock was recovered (cows, horses, not necessarily all the chickens or guineas).
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My vacuum cleaner won’t turn on. It’s less than two years now, but definitely not a fancy or expensive vacuum. Do I just…buy a new one? I am not exactly a handy person and I have no patience to watch youtube videos and attempt to take it apart.
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Vacuum repair shop?
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I am sure those exist and are maybe open? I really don’t want to go anywhere though.
And how much does it cost to repair a vacuum? What if it’s almost the price of a new one? Gah. Stupid appliances! You’re not supposed to break during a pandemic! (You are definitely not the person I should be complaining to about this, by the way! This is such a minor thing.)
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I’m tired from bad dreams (involving bug eggs hatching into grasshoppers all over my kitchen floor while Girl Kitty snoozed peacefully among them, and when I tried sweeping them up they emitted clouds of poison gas) and I slept on my arm funny so now my elbow aches and doesn’t bend properly. And I swear, any time I feel the tiniest bit off these days I assume I’ve got the 'rona. Shut up, brain.
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I did a vacuum repair years ago and I was surprised by how not much it was. The vaccuum I was getting repaired cost $100 (surprisingly good for being a cheapy, we knew we were ripping out our carpet a couple years in the future so we didn’t want to spend any more than we had to), the repair was much less than that.
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My friend who runs a house cleaning business says that vacuum repair is a good deal. I have nothing to add this because all I have is a broom and it doesn’t break.
Don’t be weird about complaining to me. I have a billion petty complaints. I love complaining. Like: it’s fucking cold and winter is never going to end. Waaaah.
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Word to that, my friend. WARM THE FUCK UP ALREADY. It’s spring! Supposedly.
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OH FFS now it’s snowing.
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Ughhhhhhh. That’s supposed to happen here this afternoon.
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Maybe it will keep people inside.
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