My workplace, the whole county, went to WFH if you can.
Today we got in remote access and telework forms for most employees in our Dept, but some employees do not have home computers, so they will be coming in.
It is very frustrating for me that in the dept head meetings we are having each time a new announcement is made there are people saying things like "employees a & b can't wfh, they have nothing to do" or "if people are not coming in, my employees won't have work" - THAT IS A PROBLEM when all these people are office staff. It is not as if they are parks and rec field workers. These are the Dept Heads and they are having to be told by newbies like me that then the employees should be investigating and researching ways to change our processes to where we are less dependent on paper and doing every! single! damn! thing! face to face. Webex, electronic signatures, secure websites with individual logins to check off approvals, distance learning, voice over powerpoints with tests at the end for basic intro classes.... JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
This is a huge opportunity for us to think about ways to modernize and streamline process to be more efficient and use tech that already exists and they are dismissive of any suggestion.
Are people aware of the google extension Netflix party? ?!??!?!?!?
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Thanks for the good wishes, everyone!
Oh msbelle, that's so frustrating. It was one of the things that bothered me when working with government. I never figured out an effective way to break that anti-change log jam.
msbelle, I don't know how much sense this will make without context, but it seems relevant:
Robot Takeover
I've never had corned beef and cabbage. Normally today would be all about shamrock shakes and cupcakes from the bakery with green frosting, but I'm too paranoid to even go get those.
Dinner is take-out from the Tavern again. The brick oven pizza place is closed Mon & Tues, so could support them.
The liquor store had people in it, so I did not go in to look for 60% alcohol vodka.
Shockingly the martial arts place was having a class - doesn't seem smart.
I don't know how much sense this will make without context, but it seems relevant:
Robot Takeover
Questionable Content is a terrific strip.
I had an Amazon package that was marked as delivered yesterday, but it wasn't in my building. We had packages in our lobby for a different building, so I'm assuming it probably was misdelivered rather than stolen. I've tried calling the leasing office twice to see if I can locate it, but nobody is picking up. I can't go over there because they've asked people not to show up in person.
I think I'm going to stop now and resume dealing with this tomorrow.
Happy Anniversary Laura and Brendan! I had a hard time spelling it Brendan because Brendon Urie.
I am mostly dealing with COVID related fall out at work, rather than COVID related planning, but it is brutal. Since my stress response is rage, I am rapidly losing my filter.
Today I spent dealing with
Our Program Assistant was approved to work from home and be on a rotation with other assistants. Fine, but we have a customer facing phone. I have an interim plan, a back up plan and a ticket in to telecommunications
Many emails from people with clinical placements whose hospitals NEED them to continue their clinical placements because they are near the end of their program, and they NEED first assistants in case the residents are needed elsewhere or sick. Worked out that with the Dean, came up with a process, sent it out to everyone with a note that I have a spreadsheet where I am keeping track of it, please use the spreadsheet. Two out of three people replied with "Are you keeping track of this, because I think we should..."
My new leader keeps thanking me for doing my job, and for some reason that bothers me. Like, does she think I am a moron who can't do my job? Is she shocked that I did my job? I realize this is mt issue-- she is so nice
My colleague in instructional design has been doing zoom seminars on how to zoom. We asked IT to attend. We have been trying to combine efforts and send a consistant message. Today an IT guy who did not attend went rogue and sent an email to the whole school with information that condradicted the sessions and was wrong and confusing. This guy does this all the time, so it makes me even more enraged. He is lucky I was not in charge of communicating with his boss, because my recommendation is that he needs to be fired or kept from talking to people, because he TELLS THEM WRONG THINGS and when I tell them right things they believe him and not me because he is in IT. But seriously, people who already knew how to use zoom were confused by his email
My mom is sick. It is intestinal/stomach but she has chills. She is scared. I reassured her that it couldn't be Cornoa, but she is old. What if she needs to go to the doctor or the hospital. She had to leave the phone with me to vomit, which was fun. I am strongly suggesting she not go to the eye doctor today, but she also hates me on bossy mode!
I am still confused as to why holding a daycare in our school is better than having our students in our school and other students in their own young schools?
PS- I don't really like me in bossy mode either, but here I am. I flip from a Myers-Briggs INFP to an ESTJ
