I look forward to the day that COVID-19 is behind us. I work in a lab. For awhile, we were split up into teams, so our Tech Center could not be wiped out. I am in the lab 90% of the time, so it was not practical to work from home more than 1 day a week. I was with younger people who both had a bread baking obsession. I thought the topic would go away after a few weeks, but it didn't. We started a second shift in our building at that time and us first shift people were supposed to minimize overlap time with them.
On Fridays, I was paired with two colleagues of similar age to myself who worked in person Friday to Sunday. One of them took off of work on a Friday. The phones seemed to ring 50 times that day. I put those pink phone message pads by all three of the lab phones by 10 AM since our admin was working from home 80% of the time and when you are busy doing something or several things at once, it isn't easy to run to a phone that may be 60 feet away instead of 10 feet or 2 feet.
When we came back together after a number of months, our Monday morning staff meetings continued to use Teams as we sat at our individual desks to maintain separation. We did the same for lunch. I had stopped eating my lunch in our "dining center" a month or two before we were split up. On Friday, I was in a Teams meeting with 5 other people, none of which were on my side of town and some were out of state. It reduces travel and time even though the 30 minute meeting lasted 45 minutes.
Monday, I was able to get an Omicron 4 & 5 booster after work and it had no after effects. It was the first day of availability here. Mrs. Adsfan received one on Friday. I have never had COVID and I am trying to keep it that way. We are down to about 50% of people in the US sharing that state with me.
I like to speak to people in person. The only WFD days, 1.5 of them, were when my boss got COVID. I took the call from HR on a Friday morning. I already had 40 hours in, so I packed up my laptop and some papers and went home. I was able to write reports on the next Monday. I took 4 vacation days. At the time, I wasn't happy about it. It turned out to be my longest time off of work in 2020. Looking back, it was good for me.
Good health to you all!
On Fridays, I was paired with two colleagues of similar age to myself who worked in person Friday to Sunday. One of them took off of work on a Friday. The phones seemed to ring 50 times that day. I put those pink phone message pads by all three of the lab phones by 10 AM since our admin was working from home 80% of the time and when you are busy doing something or several things at once, it isn't easy to run to a phone that may be 60 feet away instead of 10 feet or 2 feet.
When we came back together after a number of months, our Monday morning staff meetings continued to use Teams as we sat at our individual desks to maintain separation. We did the same for lunch. I had stopped eating my lunch in our "dining center" a month or two before we were split up. On Friday, I was in a Teams meeting with 5 other people, none of which were on my side of town and some were out of state. It reduces travel and time even though the 30 minute meeting lasted 45 minutes.
Monday, I was able to get an Omicron 4 & 5 booster after work and it had no after effects. It was the first day of availability here. Mrs. Adsfan received one on Friday. I have never had COVID and I am trying to keep it that way. We are down to about 50% of people in the US sharing that state with me.
I like to speak to people in person. The only WFD days, 1.5 of them, were when my boss got COVID. I took the call from HR on a Friday morning. I already had 40 hours in, so I packed up my laptop and some papers and went home. I was able to write reports on the next Monday. I took 4 vacation days. At the time, I wasn't happy about it. It turned out to be my longest time off of work in 2020. Looking back, it was good for me.
Good health to you all!
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