Day 485 of “15 Days to ‘Flatten the Curve’” – Year 2, Week 16: “No More Independence from the Office” Edition

Vanity | July 10, 2021 | Me

[CheshireTheCat]

Today marks 16 months since the institution of the infamous “Flatten the Curve,” AKA The Deep State’s Plot to Drive Us Crazy, Make Us Stupid, and Take Over the World (in order to make the world safe for China and/or the Deep State and/or New World Order cabal to take it over).

Here in my neck of the woods, July 6th, the day after many people had off for Independence Day, was the date by which many people at many offices were supposed to return to their cubicles from having been able to wear bunny slippers to work for the past year and a half. I imagine this was the case in your neck of the woods as well.

Granted that there are other dates for returning to work for other people, such as July 31 or right after Labor Day, but July 6th was a big date for many.

I did not have to return to the office, as my workplace got rid of a building and went looking around for departments to put on permanent work-at-home. My department was deemed as one of the departments for which work-at-home made sense.

So I would like to know from those of you who had to return to work how things went. Were people excited? Grumpy? Weird? Heavier? What was the talk around the water cooler?

[CheshireTheCat]

For those of you who are retired, worked from home before the plandemic, or never worked from home because you are an ER nurse or something like that, please relate what your spouse, adult child, brother-in-law, etc. has told you about their return to the office experience this week.

[CheshireTheCat]

People where the S.O. works had to return to the office this past week. It was so bad that he hasn’t been able to talk about it yet. He will tell me when he is ready.

A number of people were allowed to continue to work from home, but there was no rhyme or reason as to which people, other than the people who whined the loudest were allowed to stay home. Those who are back at the office are complaining about the fairness of why the person who used to sit in the cubicle next to them is still home. They have a point.

He is in security and wasn’t asked his opinion about the security concerns involved with allowing certain people in certain capacities to work from home. If he had been asked, he could have discussed why, security-wise, certain categories of employees versus others should or should not work from home.

I would think there is a security concern with having so many employees feel as if people who are allowed to work from home are getting special treatment. There is no telling what they might do as their resentment builds.

[EC Washington]

It was delayed again. So many snow flakes still feel “unsafe” that the office open date was moved to August 2nd. This was the third time the return to work was delayed. Free vaccines were offered to those who would come back to the office.

Our VP of HR is a spineless coward who gives in to a few emails from the Biden voters who will always feel unsafe. But these same people were going out to restaurants, shopping, etc.

[WildHighlander57]

Before I retired in January, the boss told us around Oct/Nov that people wouldn’t all go back to being in the offices till a vaccine was available, and boss estimated it to be midyear.

Last month, per a neighbor that still works there, people aren’t all back in the offices yet, and he wasn’t sure about people needing to have had their shots.

[Sacajaweau]

If they didn’t quarantine WELL PEOPLE....this would have been over a year ago.

[packagingguy]

We never stopped going to work as our company is in medical manufacturing and deemed essential. Some of the office staff worked from home but I can’t see how they could tolerate it. If you have a young child in the home it would be nearly impossible.

The other problem with working remotely is this: it is very difficult to separate research/product development from manufacturing. Often a machinist or clean-room worker will identify a problem with a product or packaging. They simply walk down to R&D to show us the problem and we come up with ways to address it. You can’t do that from your living room.

[cgbg]

There is no telling what they might do as their resentment builds.

The good news is that if these disgruntled workers decide to bring down the company's computer system, the Bidet administration can blame it on Russian hackers!

[fastkelly]

Nothing has changed for me except my hours have gotten longer because there is about 25% less of us. I drive a city transit bus and deemed essential.

I worked every scheduled day and some overtime days all through this plandemic. I have not taken one sick day for the last year and a half.

[bgill]

In our area, no one stayed home during the initial two weeks. It was business as usual, including essential nail salons, this entire time.

[Big Red Badger]

All I ever heard was;
“Follow the SCIENCE!”
I’d ask;
Define ‘QUARANTINE’ and
It’s origin,
Crickets.
.
We are living in an
IDIOCRACY.