Coronavirus - How is your work handling it?

[jx820]

We make things that are used in oxygen systems so we are going as hard as we can for as long as we can stay open.

We've made a bunch of small adjustments. No touch paper towels and soap dispensers. We got in front of the pandemic and got a supply of purel to keep people as safe as possilbe. Trying to prop non-fire doors open so people aren't touching knobs. Little stuff. Converting everyone possible to work from home. Cancelling all site visits, most meetings, doing more stuff over email and the phone than previously. Unfortunately we are going to run out of lysol even though we stocked up, and people can't really manufacture from home. So IDK what things will look like in 2 weeks.

We are trying like hell to keep everyone breathing.

 

[all caps]

There are a few people at my office that are shook as hell by this. I want to be sympathetic to their fears but it's hard sometimes. Life is life and it just happens

 

[GarbageGuy]

Started working from home today and I'm fairly bored. A lot of my job cannot be done remotely, but whatever, they're paying me so I'm not going to bitch.

yeah same for me

 

[Smokes]

wow what do you do and where are you located?

UPS. In Albuquerque. They even bringing us in early cause volume is picking up cause of online shopping.

 

[thomnasty]

I work for a city gov. My position is considered non essential. We closed the building I work at to the public for the week but we still came in today. I’m expecting any minute they will tell us we have to stay home.

I’m a little worried because I just started this position 2 weeks ago. My benefits don’t kick in until next month and money has been a little tight.

 

[CoolB]

Casino's in Ontario began to shut down yesterday. They are still opened for emergency services at the moment but I think that may even come to an end. They took too long to react in many peoples opinions. I tapped out Saturday. Took a few vacation days just to get the fuck out of there. Now that's it's closed down those days should get cancelled and I'll have to apply for employment insurance.

 

[MixMartialFarts]

UPS. In Albuquerque. They even bringing us in early cause volume is picking up cause of online shopping.

oh shit, well yea I can see why they'd be busy. Thats shitty for people like you who work in delivery services, grocery stores, truckers, hospital workers, etc. Good luck man

 

[kahiljabroni]

I'm just trying to get an idea of how most offices are handling the coronavirus with employees. We are running business as usual now, but I think that is going to need to change soon. We can't really work entirely from home. We are incredibly busy right now which really doesn't help matters.

On a side note...any idea what a prime 15 year refi will be with new rate cut?

 

[Smokes]

oh shit, well yea I can see why they'd be busy. Thats shitty for people like you who work in delivery services, grocery stores, truckers, hospital workers, etc. Good luck man

Yeah it sucks but they aren't even trying to follow any guidelines. No space between partners and working side by side all day and not even trying to help with saftey. They could be 4 people in one trailer at any time

 

[drstrangelov]

My offices are closed, a couple cases among my staff members and I’m located in a building with medical offices, so better safe than sorry.

More globally, I’m dealing with thousands of high risk patients on experimental drugs, with no consistent or authoritative guidance on how to keep getting them on treatment. So, I’m lobbing mitigation plans at health authorities all over the world to see if anything sticks or might help push them towards formal adjustments to standards and regulations. I feel like wait and see isn’t gonna work right now.

 

[blaseblah]

I already work from home

 

[Cyrano200]

Last week they instituted a 30 person limit for training or meeting, with many being canceled as a result. I conducted my training (I train the instructors) this morning for 10 students, but was instructed to "spread them out". The training I scheduled for tomorrow, 20 attendees, my managers just had me cancel.
We're federal employees, so they just made all of us complete the online teleworking training in case things go that far. We have students from across the country here, so I'm not sure a) how telework can work with them here at our facility already because b) the DOD has placed a stop on all travel.

 

[Oblivian]

On a side note...any idea what a prime 15 year refi will be with new rate cut?

I do not. I'm not on the lending side. I'm on the title side, mainly commercial.

 

[chrisdiaz]

We sent everyone home on friday. 800+ people biomedical campus. My work is scrambling. We dont have infrastructure to cover everyone working offsite. I have minimal tools to help 100's of old researchers try to connect to their work PC. Its a nightmare. Thankfully Im home and can take bong loads to deal with the madness. Im just glad I wasnt sent home completely.

 

[K-Bag]

At work right now we are looking into moving everything to remote/from home. We have an issue as a research center/part of a hospital with HIPAA and protected information, and we see patients in the facility (no more) so its going to limit what we can actually do remotely but we're going to have to bite it and do what is possible probably starting Wednesday..Those who can do stuff from home (me and a few others) are already doing so. Otherwise its business as usual until a decision gets made on how to actually implement, except no meetings so everyone is holed away in offices.

The logistics are tough however.

My wifes job (she works in advertising) left the office open but encouraged everyone to work from home effective this morning.

I'm in the same boat.

 

[tru3f4n]

I'm just trying to get an idea of how most offices are handling the coronavirus with employees. We are running business as usual now, but I think that is going to need to change soon. We can't really work entirely from home. We are incredibly busy right now which really doesn't help matters.

I tried calling my Union Hall today and no one answered I'm sure those lazy fucks are just happy with time off.

 

[syct23]

We just pushed back our entire case docket depending on severity for the next two weeks..

And what ever court cases we do have lined up or get, they will and have all been arranged to be via telephonic/video hearings..

Apparently we are also going to have to find a way to start issuing early release on inmates as well to open up the jails/detention centers in case of contamination....

 

[TheNinja]

Entire company, globally, was told to work from home unless absolutely necessary in the factories.

 

[Jesus X]

most of our business is with 45 ft containers from china so they laid off like 60% for the employees in my yard and warehouse.

they only thing running is 53 ft trailers from the u.s. this domino effect started at the port cargo boats are parked in the middle of the ocean next to the queen mary.

the more worrisome thing is a lot of people are unemployed right now in several industries due to this and crime will skyrocket here.

 

[Henry Swanson]

Office was closed on Friday until further notice. Majority of our people are working from home now. Not a big deal for me because I work from home a couple of times per week already so I had everything set up ahead of time. I was scrambling to get people set up with head sets and VPN access early last week.