Who else is working from home now???

mc2hill said:
Fun stuff for the IT/Systems folks!
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My husband is his company's US based systems engineer. Having been in the business for over 25 years now he had already set up a plan B for when sh*t got overloaded and just switched everyone over yesterday.
 
Now the beer distributors are going nuts! Possibility of closing after today. Like sheep, I got my 2 cases this morning. Think I will get toasted and watch the sky fall. I swear it`s a inner ploy to make people instant hoarders. And the stores rich. $$ After it's over, the question will be asked "Why did I buy all the stuff?'
 
pro 4x said:
Now the beer distributors are going nuts! Possibility of closing after today. Like sheep, I got my 2 cases this morning. Think I will get toasted and watch the sky fall. I swear it`s a inner ploy to make people instant hoarders. And the stores rich. $$ After it's over, the question will be asked "Why did I buy all the stuff?'
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Some places will profit but the majority are going to be hit hard. And a lot of small businesses may not make it.
 
I work from home about 50% of the time. Now with this pandemic I’m working from home like 90% of the time. Very few people are willing to or want to meet in person. Fine by me. Today was my kids’ (5th grade and 2nd grade) first day of online learning and it went amazingly well. Friday they practiced for it at school. This morning, they booted up and reported for school at 8:30 and at 8:35 started their first class. Went all the way to 1pm. They even did karate over zoom and that went well. Thank god for technology.

I keep my wet bar and beer fridge fully stocked at all times so that wasn’t a problem for me. Funny thing is I don’t even drink much. Just like having it. I have been stocking up on dry goods for 2 weeks. Did it over time so as to not hoard the supplies and save some for others in my community. Hopefully this doesn’t last long. Been rationing food already. Lost 2lbs this week, lol. Maybe it’s water weight. Stay safe people.

Oh, and since water is still fine, I’ll keep,detailing my cars til I’m told not to.
 
Tomorrow will be my first day. I am in the regulatory department for an oil and gas company in Denver. I submit permits for new wells and new pads mainly. Today I cleaned out my office of everything I may need to do my job for the foreseeable future. Brought home a second monitor, keyboard, mouse.
Yesterday Denver announced all eat in establishments close till May 11, today most places didn’t open at all.
This will save me 45-50 commute each way.
Can’t wait to see how it goes. My wife and kids are also home with school canceled.
 
Thomkirby said:
Our company in Houston is doing the same, received notice that if we can do our jobs away from office. So it is going to be a very odd situation to deal with while the market tanks and oil prices below profit levels.

I work full-time in oil company, so that hurts jobs!

So working company laptop now from kitchen bar and working home PC. Now it tests the moral fabric, can I avoid eating while bored?
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I work in oil and gas also, my company has so many sweets and junk around the office working at home I will be more healthy
 
I'm a pilot, and my wife works in healthcare. No working from home for us. Really wish I did right now.

On the positive, I have a lot of downtime right now and we don't need to worry about childcare for our 3 and 5 year olds, so there's that.
 
Well, not working. But I'm home.

Governor Cuomo shut down NY state today for all non-essential workers.

So I am officially "Coronavirus unemployed" until further notice.

I guess one bright spot is that I might be able to try out my new DP prize package a little sooner that I thought............
 
We got 1st who die... In state
118 illness bu italy is much worst i sow that in one day die 500 people we got police hour from 20 to 05h oldest people cant go out at all feom 65 years...
 
I brought home both monitors, keyboard, and laptop power supply in the event that Houston is locked down this weekend....but as I'm typing this right now the Mayor Houston is on the news saying he is NOT shutting down Houston at this time! Outstanding! There are only two other officials that can shut down the city, the Governor and the County Judge. The Gov wont shut down the city at this point but the County Judge...well she's the wild card to say the least! Of course if things get worse here, then it's time to readdress the topic.
 
Jayfro said:
I brought home both monitors, keyboard, and laptop power supply in the event that Houston is locked down this weekend....but as I'm typing this right now the Mayor Houston is on the news saying he is NOT shutting down Houston at this time! Outstanding! There are only two other officials that can shut down the city, the Governor and the County Judge. The Gov wont shut down the city at this point but the County Judge...well she's the wild card to say the least! Of course if things get worse here, then it's time to readdress the topic.
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Mario Cuomo (NY Guv) said he would not shut down the state as late as Wednesday evening.

Less than 48 hours later, we are shut down. The incredible spread of this virus is becoming a stark reality.

I just hope all of my AG family takes this seriously, and STAY SAFE!.
 
Well my friends i finish from today am in carantin 14 days....... They call me from police...
 
Nothing new for me either. My job is home based. Only issue is I have no work now for a month.
 
The Orange County Mayor has shut down the county starting at tonight's 11 PM curfew. At work yesterday we were provided documentation stating we are 'essential workers' as we deal with banking and payment systems. Most in my office are working remote, but I am still not able to access all remote systems reliably, so I have been in the office each day.
 
I have had a home office since 2001 so the transition has been somewhat easy. The only problem is that I am a salesman on the road and I can't make sales calls. My customers are concentrated in the virus hotspots like Boston, New York, New Haven, Providence and Hartford. My company is deemed an essential business since we provide components to industries like power generation, wastewater processing, food processing, textiles and parcel handling. One of my customers makes thermoforming machines for Honeywell and 3M that are making N95 masks.
My wife is a mortgage underwriter and she was flooded with applications since they dropped the prime lending rate. She has set up shop at the kitchen table and will be there for some time.
 
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