Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh, I'm so sorry, Cash.
Can you get your dad to block the calls from your brother? Or is he still using a landline?
W/rt WFH, my org of 44,000 individuals only currently has the capacity to give about 4,000 access to the network. They say they're trying to beef that up, but I suspect my WFH options will be limited: I keep a lot of files on the network, and I have to use a special app on our system for some of my reviews.
My brother-the-doctor is apparently 5 miles from me, treating patients coming off the Princess. Those poor people--and let's not forget they're keeping the CREW on the ship, putting them in quarantine on the ship, since most of them are not likely to be American citizens. It's awful. Nobody seems to know where the ship is going next.
We're getting some patients off the ship at Travis, but apparently only Americans with no symptoms who haven't tested positive. I found the press release thing about it super weird. I was pondering what my company will do if there's a general suggestion for people to wfh. The warehouse obviously cannot. Would it make any sense to keep the warehouse running and have office staff wfh? Maybe, but it seems wrong to me. OTOH, if the warehouse did shut down I would still have plenty to do trying to keep us ready to start shipping again as soon as we could, and I could do that from home. Ah well, utterly out of my hands.
I really want to ask someone at work if there has been any talk about what the company will do if stores have to close. Will we get paid? Have to use our leave? What if sales drop for those who are on commission. Right now they are telling everyone who has cold symptoms to stay home so I guess it won't count against you.
We are trying to sanitize as much as possible but some customers are just not thinking things through. Like one woman had her own stylus to use to sign things on the PIN pad. Ok. BUT she didn't disinfect the stylus before she put it back in her purse. One woman used a pair of gloves and then threw them away but she had clothes in her hands that she was buying. People touch that. They try it on. Her gloves aren't going to do much.
The Coronavirus panic has stepped closer to home: the San Jose branch of DH's school is Going WFH. I've seen only one person wearing a mask so far, but he was quite elderly. Interesting times, yo.
Oh yes, very interesting.
C.'s school has been closed since Friday because one child was infected. They're planning on reopening next Monday but I don't see that happening.
I was supposed to be meeting a friend tomorrow but we had to cancel because she spent the half-term holiday in the South Tyrol in northern Italy. Yesterday she told me she has developed flu-like symptoms and is being tested for Covid-19 today.
The new semester starts next week but I really can't see that happening either. If I don't hold my lectures, I don't get paid. I do have a job today, but I'm reckoning on it being the last for a while.
Fun times.
Cash, continued~ma. I am so sorry.
The new semester starts next week but I really can't see that happening either
Same. Israel is now asking from anyone who's been abroad to self quarantine, advising anyone over 60 not to leave the house unless needed, and forbids events of over 5,000 people to take place. And my campus has way more than 5,000 in it everyday.
Cat is slowly improving. Thank you for the ~mas and keep 'em coming. Love him to bits, but this is exhausting and so, so messy.
{{All of us}} What a mess. When I get discouraged I do think, don't lick the doorknobs, and that still makes me giggle. The handling of this by the idiot in charge is beyond frustrating.
Trump's brand new Chief of Staff self-quarantined amuses me. You know he has to be super annoyed about that.
NY showing 143 cases and FL 14. That only means that one state is testing and sharing results. My sister is visiting and flies back to NY on Thursday. She is 72 and packing clorox wipes. She said everyone was wiping down their seats and areas on her plane flight here. We can't talk her into staying because she rightly points out it isn't going to get better any time soon.
{{All of us}} What a mess.
That's about the shape of it.
