dear world
Mar. 13th, 2020 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlCan we please keep calm and carry on a bit? I mean, absolutely take precautions. But literally, there was NO toilet paper in the store today. NONE. Ditto on ... ramen packets. ! I'm so very glad I bought toilet paper (out of need, not trying to stockpile for quarantine) last week. And I've been experimenting with making homemade broth for ramen/soup.
Every morning this week we have had half hour long meetings about COVID 19; none of it has been super helpful. The latest thing at work is the directive to stagger meetings. So, Monday is supposed to be an all staff meeting, but instead the boss split it in two and this will take four hours out of the day instead of two because the same meeting is being done twice so that fifteen people aren't congregated together.
People. Our office is small. We're all congregated together ALL DAY. It's borderline insane that we can't all be in the conference room or we can't all be in the lunch room for an hour...but we can be in the common office space for upwards of nine.
Oh, and speaking of that: the boss had booked a trip to Italy for her and her husband's wedding anniversary. Obviously, this was canceled. So, my coworker who seems to spent 80% of her time up boss's butt decided that we need to throw them a potluck. For their missed personal anniversary trip. Sorry, but no. I am not participating in that; it's only being done so coworker can be showered with praise for such a wooooonnnnnderful idea. Another colleague has to cancel a trip to Costa Rica.
Guess what? No potluck suggested.
Truly, it was a bad week for it to start with a full moon. PMS makes me wail and gnash my teeth during the best of times, but full moon? I'm full on werewolf with my emotions.
Also, what is with State Farm recasting Jake ... from State Farm??
Every morning this week we have had half hour long meetings about COVID 19; none of it has been super helpful. The latest thing at work is the directive to stagger meetings. So, Monday is supposed to be an all staff meeting, but instead the boss split it in two and this will take four hours out of the day instead of two because the same meeting is being done twice so that fifteen people aren't congregated together.
People. Our office is small. We're all congregated together ALL DAY. It's borderline insane that we can't all be in the conference room or we can't all be in the lunch room for an hour...but we can be in the common office space for upwards of nine.
Oh, and speaking of that: the boss had booked a trip to Italy for her and her husband's wedding anniversary. Obviously, this was canceled. So, my coworker who seems to spent 80% of her time up boss's butt decided that we need to throw them a potluck. For their missed personal anniversary trip. Sorry, but no. I am not participating in that; it's only being done so coworker can be showered with praise for such a wooooonnnnnderful idea. Another colleague has to cancel a trip to Costa Rica.
Guess what? No potluck suggested.
Truly, it was a bad week for it to start with a full moon. PMS makes me wail and gnash my teeth during the best of times, but full moon? I'm full on werewolf with my emotions.
Also, what is with State Farm recasting Jake ... from State Farm??
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Date: 2020-03-14 03:27 am (UTC)YOur job does not sound like it has thought through anything. How many people are in your office? I'm trying to stay away from some online spaces which tend to catastrophize badly - think it's a combo of the internet exaggerating/hyperbole plus the fact that a lot of people there seem to have depression and hang out there because that's their main social life. There were people panicking about art being over, ffs.
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Date: 2020-03-14 10:22 pm (UTC)That said, the one person in the office who has been scoffing the most (she always sits by me and I get her mumbled complaints about the government causing panics, the stats of the regular flu killing more people on average, yadda the whole time the boss is going over COVID stuff) CAME INTO THE OFFICE HOARSE AND COUGHING. I mean. Stay home. I've always said that. You sick? STAY HOME. I don't want your germs.
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Date: 2020-03-15 09:53 pm (UTC)