Coronavirus - Overall
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@Duluth said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
One thing that amazes me (that shouldn't) is the different ability of teams to actually work at home.
Tech workers are outstanding at this. I've been doing a borderline tech job for two years now and have had to work from home for 1 day a week. I barely get anything done. Lots of fern time, mucking around, dealing with the kids, looking for ways to get distracted and talk to people - and I'm not really a people person.
But the real tech guys output is phenomenal when working from home. I'm talking 200% on what they do in a day in the office.
The commercial / sales guys are shit. But I think that's because most of them are borderline retarded, but can handle drinking with young traders.
I estimate I've worked from home at least 10 of the last 14 years. My productivity is far higher than when I was consulting
Some tasks are more suited to working from home. When you are writing code you get into a zone where you are very productive.. interruptions are the worst.
I've seen studies that claim it takes 15mins after each interruption to fully regain that level of concentration. That sounds about right to me.What you are talking about with 1 day WFH and 4 days in the office would be difficult too. The temptation would be to catch up during the 4 days so you wouldn't get the routine/discipline you need
Less of of an issue now..To me this just screams "everyone is different "!!!
It's so insane to expect every individual to produce at the same rate in the same environment
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Duluth said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
One thing that amazes me (that shouldn't) is the different ability of teams to actually work at home.
Tech workers are outstanding at this. I've been doing a borderline tech job for two years now and have had to work from home for 1 day a week. I barely get anything done. Lots of fern time, mucking around, dealing with the kids, looking for ways to get distracted and talk to people - and I'm not really a people person.
But the real tech guys output is phenomenal when working from home. I'm talking 200% on what they do in a day in the office.
The commercial / sales guys are shit. But I think that's because most of them are borderline retarded, but can handle drinking with young traders.
I estimate I've worked from home at least 10 of the last 14 years. My productivity is far higher than when I was consulting
Some tasks are more suited to working from home. When you are writing code you get into a zone where you are very productive.. interruptions are the worst.
I've seen studies that claim it takes 15mins after each interruption to fully regain that level of concentration. That sounds about right to me.What you are talking about with 1 day WFH and 4 days in the office would be difficult too. The temptation would be to catch up during the 4 days so you wouldn't get the routine/discipline you need
Less of of an issue now..To me this just screams "everyone is different "!!!
It's so insane to expect every individual to produce at the same rate in the same environment
Actually I think it's quite the opposite. In that workers can be bucketed.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
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@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
After we all get through this, knocking on wood I wonder what forever changes will remain?
I imagine that international travel will never be the same. (Proof of health, tracing and all that) I also how millennials (and others for that matter) will effect change in the way they think, it's not war time but it is a restriction of freedoms most have never seen before.Well I think we're probably back to 2 genders now rather than 67, hoping that lasts for a bit
would you fuck up about that stuff? you keep saying this shit! no one cares!
Look mate, I understand your stressed as balls like the rest of the world. I'm stressed to all hell and venting like everyone else, things are fucked, like proper fucked that most still don't really get it and sometimes having a rant or a blast on here helps just a bit. If what I write really gets to you that much then just block my posts I'm sure one of the mods here would be happy to help you. If you're just trying to get a rise out of me with these petty shots which up to now I've just ignored then great, good for you, hope it makes your life that little bit more bearable when you start harvesting those likes. If that's not enough and you want me gone great, you're a popular guy here, have a chat to a mod and I'm sure something can be organised. Up to you mate but I'm not going to give you any more time.
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THis is about Rio Giardinieri, a Florida man who was near death and asked for hydroxychloroquine:
*Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in New York.
Doctors at the Memorial Regional Hospital in South Florida diagnosed him with the coronavirus and pneumonia and put him on oxygen in the ICU, he told the outlet.
After more than a week, doctors told him there was nothing more they could do and, on Friday evening, Giardinieri said goodbye to his wife and three children.
After about an hour after taking the pills, Giardinieri said, it felt like his heart was beating out of his chest and, about two hours later, he had another episode where he couldn’t breathe.
He says he was given Benadryl and some other drugs and that when he woke up around 4:45 a.m., it was “like nothing ever happened.”
He’s since had no fever or pain and can breathe again. Giardinieri said doctors believe the episodes he experienced were not a reaction to the medicine but his body fighting off the virus.*
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat no shit! Unnecessary, and super-close proximity to people
laugh it up, my friend just layed all her staff off and is close to shutting her salon, because people are cancelling their appointments hand over fist
whoa, I'm definitely not laughing - just not sure that this should be deemed essential if this shutdown is as necessary as the authorities are telling us it is.
Its a deadset disaster for stacks of people, nothing funny about it
as i said, we are not at "essential services" stage yet. The government has been very clear about that. What they have shut down are places where lots of people congregate. The full lock down is coming, probably this week. And then the beauty shops will go too.
However that hasn't stopped people taking themselves away from the salon, with good reason.
so, to your original point, Australia isn't classing hair salons as "essential" they are just not places where lots of people get together under the same roof.
Seems ScoMo has closed the loophole!
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So the measures here are little tighter than announced Sunday, particularly weddings (celebrant, couple, witnesses) and funerals (max 10) but then it gets confusing...
You're not allowed to congregate outside in groups of 10 UNLESS you're a personal trainer in which case 10 is fine as long as you observe the distancing rules of 1.5m
Beauty treatments are out BUT barbers/hairdressers are fine IF the appointment is 30 minutes.
Adult entertainment venues: out.
The press conference is much like Sunday's - confusing as fuck. But then I don't expect much else from this lot.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat no shit! Unnecessary, and super-close proximity to people
laugh it up, my friend just layed all her staff off and is close to shutting her salon, because people are cancelling their appointments hand over fist
whoa, I'm definitely not laughing - just not sure that this should be deemed essential if this shutdown is as necessary as the authorities are telling us it is.
Its a deadset disaster for stacks of people, nothing funny about it
as i said, we are not at "essential services" stage yet. The government has been very clear about that. What they have shut down are places where lots of people congregate. The full lock down is coming, probably this week. And then the beauty shops will go too.
However that hasn't stopped people taking themselves away from the salon, with good reason.
so, to your original point, Australia isn't classing hair salons as "essential" they are just not places where lots of people get together under the same roof.
Seems ScoMo has closed the loophole!
Dunno that seemed soft actually. We're getting a very drawn out lock down. I think they really want to get to the school holidays
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@junior said in Coronavirus - Overall:
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
(loud, inconsiderate HR people who will spend all fucking day talking about nothing, but tell senior managers they saw you drinking a coffee for 10 minutes and what is up with that? etc).
Is that really a thing at your office??? Fucking HR time police narks watching you like a hawk?
That's extraordinary in this day and age. That's the stuff of law firms 5-10 years ago.
It still happens in law firms, mate
You can't take as many breaks as you want, provided you hit your targets?
Sure, but when you're not hitting your targets (which can be quite often over the course of a year, even if you hit your target at the end of the year) people tend to keep an eye on you
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
This is gold. Watch until the very end with the sound on.
I think you'll find that's a Welsh 'shut the fuck up'
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I think you'll find that's a Welsh 'shut the fuck up'
Nid oedd yn saesneg?
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So the measures here are little tighter than announced Sunday, particularly weddings (celebrant, couple, witnesses) and funerals (max 10) but then it gets confusing...
You're not allowed to congregate outside in groups of 10 UNLESS you're a personal trainer in which case 10 is fine as long as you observe the distancing rules of 1.5m
Beauty treatments are out BUT barbers/hairdressers are fine IF the appointment is 30 minutes.
Adult entertainment venues: out.
The press conference is much like Sunday's - confusing as fuck. But then I don't expect much else from this lot.
I thought Sundays was very clear. Today's was a mess
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
Centrelink is already overwhelmed, so they can't even do that right.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
My mate's theory is they are staggering this to ease the burden on Centrelink. It has merit.
Centrelink is already overwhelmed, so they can't even do that right.
So imagine it if all the non essential retail workers turned up tomorrow?
But who knows. I just don't get it.
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I went into Watches of Switzerland this afternoon to pick up an order and the shopping centre was sparsely populated. Some shops had closed too - Apple, Nescafe etc. doors shut, lights off and a note on the door.
The scenes captured yesterday are really worrying and if you're in an affected industry it must be terrifying.
That's the queue at Surrey Hills Sydney. The MyGov website crashed because they thought 55,000 concurrent users would be sufficient capacity whereas 95,000 tried to log on.
State and Federal governments are making this up as they go along. Terrified of their own incompetence after a cruise ship of all things docked and the sick wandered off into the populace.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I went into Watches of Switzerland this afternoon to pick up an order and the shopping centre was sparsely populated. Some shops had closed too - Apple, Nescafe etc. doors shut, lights off and a note on the door.
The scenes captured yesterday are really worrying and if you're in an affected industry it must be terrifying.
That's the queue at Surrey Hills Sydney. The MyGov website crashed because they thought 55,000 concurrent users would be sufficient capacity whereas 95,000 tried to log on.
State and Federal governments are making this up as they go along. Terrified of their own incompetence after a cruise ship of all things docked and the sick wandered off into the populace.
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Tubeway blues.
Put police at the stations or we'll WALKOUT! Tfl staff demand Sadiq Khan takes control of public transport farce or they will strike after Tube, trains and buses are STILL rammed on day one of Britain's shutdown
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@Salacious-Crumb Love it. Threat of strike action during these strange times.