Subj : Re: Stage 4 COVID
To   : Nightfox
From : Rixter
Date : Wed Dec 18 2024 10:19 am


>   Re: Re: Stage 4 COVID
>   By: Rixter to calcmandan on Tue Dec 17 2024 12:10 pm

> I'm not the person you were replying to, but I don't have kids at home, so
> I'm able to work from home without too much distraction.  There are times
> when I like working from home, and at my current job, there are days when I
> don't interact with anyone face-to-face anyway, so the commute sometimes
> doesn't seem worth it.  I generally do like interacting with people at work,
> and in the past, I generally have had at least a couple people I always
> enjoyed interacting with including non-work related things.  At my current
> job though, although I tend to have good interactions with people, there
> hasn't been anyone at work I interact with in depth aside from work-related
> things (at least, there hasn't been a whole lot of interaction about non-work
> things).

> I got divorced about 4 years ago, and at the time, I really enjoyed going to
> an office to work and interacting with the people there, and I definitely
> would have felt really lonely working from home.  These days, I'd probably
> like working from home more often.

> Nightfox
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I only have 4 more years until retirement and talk at work has started into the
30 % remote work mandate. I worked for this company 25 years and this is the
first time I heard the word mandate. I will tough it out and hope I am not part
of the senior staff included. We got 'younger' management group creeping in and
this generation uses that type of language, mandates, and rules, and policies
over and over again like a mantra of some type. I just tell myself to smile and
remember only 4 more years... only 4 more years... pension... 401k...
pension... 4 more years. My age group enjoys the product and pleasure of
creation and the upstarts are engrossed in corporate policy and rules, and now
mandates. They seem to lack joy to some degree. Covid did not have much impact
on the rural areas here and it was something we just saw on TV and we moved on.
I know it impacted 'some' areas dramatically so I guess that is where some of
this comes from. Not sure what Covid 4 is. I try to concentrate on more
pleasant and productive things. I would have set me up a 'bunker' here for no
distraction work from home. LOL I guess I could do it if I had too. So many
people coming by so often and inlaws and kids. good grief. Like yourself, I
like the office, the people and politics and stuff. I would miss it terribly. I
guess this old dog could learn a few new tricks if forced to.
Have a good day,
Rixter
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