Coronavirus - Overall
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@No-Quarter My workload has significantly increased as well as I'm the one implementing the online teaching at my workplace. I usually only work four days a week but have been five days the last two weeks, balanced out by working at home so I can take time during the day when I need it.
I too feel lucky that I have job security and setting up the online successful will help me down the line if we do have to start cutting staff.
Geez bro doing it tough, you're an absolute trooper!
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@No-Quarter My workload has significantly increased as well as I'm the one implementing the online teaching at my workplace. I usually only work four days a week but have been five days the last two weeks, balanced out by working at home so I can take time during the day when I need it.
I too feel lucky that I have job security and setting up the online successful will help me down the line if we do have to start cutting staff.
Geez bro doing it tough, you're an absolute trooper!
It's been a struggle, but it's a crazy time we live in at the moment, so I'm willing to make the sacrifice.
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I've been putting in a lot of hours from home - that I would never do in the office - because I can generally do it at a rhythm that suits me better. I tend to go into the evenings when I'm going down the hole on something. Not having to put on grown up pants also helps.
IMHO, learning a new software platform requires a complete absence of people coming up to your desk asking for shit, and the annoying noise of some co-workers (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).
Some of the guys in the team are struggling without the close camaraderie, but I'm probably less socially inclined when it comes to work.
Kids are effectively off school at this point. E-learning should be fun with the shitty internet in this country, but at least Google Classroom should help in that regard.
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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.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@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.
Oh they don't nark, but they mention and then in your performance review, words like "optics" are brought up
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@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.
Oh they don't nark, but they mention and then in your performance review, words like "optics" are brought up
That's insane. Would drive me mental. Lucky you props aren't as sensitive as us backs (even those of us who really should have been forwards)
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@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.
Oh they don't nark, but they mention and then in your performance review, words like "optics" are brought up
That's insane. Would drive me mental. Lucky you props aren't as sensitive as us backs (even those of us who really should have been forwards)
Remember, he's an Aussie Prop. That's almost the same as a back.
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in my old job, where the other manager up here had a team of 15 or so in a call centre, peole used to get in trouble for too many or long lunch/toilet breaks and had to make up the time, down to the minute.
One of the companies we work with set up a call centre in India last year and did a big promo thing to show us how great it was going to be...the people are basically kept to a minute schedule, not allowed paper on thier desk, they have 1 pen, which must be returned at the end of the day...but apparently the jobs are huegly desirable and often you get whole families who work there
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@taniwharugby what is the pen for?
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@taniwharugby what is the pen for?
Stabbing yourself in the eye when you've had enough.
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
We are all under the pump mate, just over 24 hours from now NZ is locked down.
Have people been self-distancing before the lock-down?
Had a FB post from a friend in Wellington detailing all his shopping activities, saying goodbye to neighbours and picking up 3-4 friends in his van before heading up to Paraparaumu.
Is this typical?
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@Victor-Meldrew I think a good amount of people seem to be doing what they should, but I still think plenty just arent taking it seriously
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Bones sorry, any scraps of paper, they had a note pad only, clean desk at end of day, mobile locked in a locker before work....
Sounds like LEAN. Mobiles locked away for security (the stories I could tell you....)
In insurance, we found many graduates took back-office processing jobs to get industry experience and then buggered-off shortly after being (expensively) trained. Huge churn rate and cost of training can really blow off-shore business cases out of the water.
Mrs M's son manages an international magazine distributors who have back-office operation in India & Thailand and they are in big trouble with Covid-19. Their BCP planners obviously didn't think an Asian pandemic was likely after SARS & Swine Flu.
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One of the more disturbing stories so far:
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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.
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@Donsteppa fuct.
I mentioned elsewhere my wife works in aged care. One of the centres in her company (BaptistCare) was the first to report a death in Australia. In fact, she was having a management meeting the week before at that facility
She's been working from home this week and is in the home care area, so naturally there is a fuckload more to think about there. For the oldies homes you just lock it down - tho all the workers at that particular centre refuse to set foot in the place now, so government nursing staff have been engaged. They go through about 800 sets of PPE a day as each resident needs a new setup.
In home care, the staff are going into private homes and are potentially carriers or recipients. They're helping residents shower, cleaning the house, or other close care duties. Would give you the heebie-jeebies...
You've got to think some of the aged dementia wards are super high risk, and very stressful for staff.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life We offer an essential service to Hospitals. One of our smaller branches the staff have refused to work. For too long this afternoon it looked like I was going to have to drive for 6 hours then spend four weeks working my arse off at a boring job - meanwhile running everything remotely and sleeping in the office. and hoping not to get sick.
That's still a real possibility if anyone else falls over.
Lock down doesn't sound too bad.
In health service and staff refused to work -- WFT?
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
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.
South African guy I was working with before my last move worked from home basically full time - when he was looking at a new property to rent the only stipulations were 4 beds and optic fibre.
But he had that addictive personality type for solving problems. 18 hours a day minimum. In fact he recently went on holiday to far north QLD and after 2 weeks there, stayed on another month (had his laptop with him) and continued working.
I'm splitting this time in the evening (2025 hrs here) with organising a new cloud platform for our team while I'm at home. Doing probably 50% more time than I would in the office.