Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
3 days?!? What is that?
We get pretty chintzy sick time, but better than that. And since I'm salaried and can work from home when I'm not feeling well but not super sick, I've done pretty well piling it up over time, but when I was hourly, boy, they will nickel and dime you out of all the PTO if you aren't careful.
For some management, allowing WFH means they can't micromanage or feel like they can. Which, OK, if you're dealing with teenage employees at a Burger King drivethrough window might be slightly defensible, but these policies are being extended to workers who have demonstrated years of discipline (just getting through college and multi-year careers) that fundamentally disrespects them.
People have gone batshit crazy about the masks. The one other person who's scheduled to be in the office Tuesday-Wednesday was having fits yesterday because one of the instructors using our conference room was not wearing a mask. She interrupted me on a conference call to see if I could find a mask and get him to wear it (no). And the people who won't wear masks ... there are the (fake) exemption cards people make up and there's a (fake) "Freedom to Breathe Agency" with people going around saying that anyone trying to make them wear a mask - in a store, with signs posted - can be fined and spend a couple days in jail for doing so. They have (fake) badges and (fake) paperwork laying out the penalties. oy
HOWEVER, Illinois recently passed a law making it a felony specifically for anyone who assaults a worker for trying to make them wear a mask. yay?
The anti-mask sentiment is so ridiculous. I get it, they're uncomfortable, I hate wearing mine all day at work, but it's such an incredibly minor inconvenience to prevent spreading a virus that even if it doesn't kill you has a 1-in-3 chance of causing long-term health effects.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
I'm so angry about Trump and Fox News playing the pandemic as a partisan plot. You can't put that genie back even if you reverse course later. The virus isn't fucking playing politics.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
It would be just dandy if only the anti-mask idiots got sick, but it unjustly doesn't work that way. I am totally okay with all these idiots getting sick. Also, I hate this change in my previously peace love dove personality.
Fivethirtyeight has released its forecasting model:
(I'm not entirely sold on the design, it feels like dumbing it down.) It currently gives Trump a 28% chance, which sounds about right to me. If the election were held today, it'd give Biden a 93% chance, which also sounds about right.
Can we please have the election today? I want this over with so very much.
I'm more worried about what happens when Biden wins and Trump refuses to leave office.