Personal impact of the Wuhan Virus

[BobR]

I'm going to log about 65 hrs of work this week... but I'm salaried, so I get paid for 40

Our CEO sent out a message stating something along the lines of "Thank you very much for your dedication and efforts in these hard times.... we all have to make sacrifices...blah blah blah.... your merit raises are on hold until further notice"

First it was no merit raise and work less hours from home for my daughter, now it has become a 90 day furlough with no pay. Single mom with an autistic son, this is not a good thing for her (or millions of others in the same boat).

bob

[brimic]

First it was no merit raise and work less hours from home for my daughter, now it has become a 90 day furlough with no pay. Single mom with an autistic son, this is not a good thing for her (or millions of others in the same boat).

bob

I'm not complaining too much. I still have a job for the foreseeable future, and I really don't have anything better to do for now than work.
Work, eat, sleep. If I didn't have a dog at home that needs to be walked and taken care of at home, I'd probably just set up a cot in an empty office in my work site.
Life has never been simpler.
I'll worry about the bills and legal issues later.

[makattak]

I am very thankful my job continues on as I can work just as effectively at home as I can at the office. Unfortunately, the people I am supporting have much of their job put on hold, but I have a massive amount of work that will be just as valuable when they can start working again as it would be right now.

Also, we're prepping for a new computer system in 4 months, so I already had more work than I could do before then. We aren't concerned about my job.

My wife, however, has had almost all of her lessons cancelled. Only a couple have moved to online lessons. Her gigs have all been cancelled as well, so the "stimulus" check might cover her lost income.

Again, we aren't reliant on that income, but it's still nice to have. I'm well aware there are lot of people who are reliant on income of that sort that has just disappeared. I hope, like Trump, we're up and going before Easter, as well.

[RocketMan]

Just laid off from my new retirement gig yesterday after only a week and a half.  So I guess I have been directly affected by the CV, just not by infection.

[MechAg94]

We went to an A-team/B-team arrangement.  After today, I get to work from home until next Tuesday.  Fun. 

I heard the parent facility we work inside has 2 confirmed cases in the area with 5 or 6 more possibles.  They are taking people's temperature on the way in during shift change and plan to expand that.  I don't think my company has any confirmed cases in the US yet.

[TechMan]

I was declared essential on Monday 3/16 and have been reporting to a very empty office (only 5 people out of a 110) since then.  Everyone else in the company with the exception of 5 of us are WFH.  We had an all call and things are okay for us right now. SWMBO works for a school district here, the same one that the kiddos go to, and they are currently on spring break.

[brimic]

I was declared essential on Monday 3/16 and have been reporting to a very empty office (only 5 people out of a 110) since then.  Everyone else in the company with the exception of 5 of us are WFH.  We had an all call and things are okay for us right now. SWMBO works for a school district here, the same one that the kiddos go to, and they are currently on spring break.

Our parties dog farm up front is completely empty, only 4 managers left up front. It’s weird.

[makattak]

Our parties dog farm up front is completely empty, only 4 managers left up front. It’s weird.

.... either you have some misspellings or are using jargon I'm not familiar with.

Dog Farm?
Parties?

[AJ Dual]

I work from home always, except when I travel to customer factories which is all on hold until Covid is over, or things relax.

The company HQ in Canada went to work from home for everybody, and it's actually been an improvement as we all communicate over teams for voice and text anyway. And the at-home guys don't have the usual office goings-on to pull them away from me when I need one of them for something. They're more responsive and get back to me quicker, possibly because they now can relate to working at home and not being able to call over a cube to someone else.

[dogmush]

The hospital my wife works at had their death last night. I don't have any details on preexisting conditions in the patient.

[BobR]

We had out first death in Spokane the other day. Not much info other than he was in his 80's. I expect a few more, they found Coid 19 in one of our local Nursing Homes. They aren't saying if he had underlying conditions or not but at >80 years old I think that would be a given.


bob


And now our 2nd, a woman in her 50's, no other info.

bob

[Ron]

Week 2 of survey

Over 75% have no personal knowledge of anyone infected.

Most of those who've been infected in our survey are health care providers.

Nobody in our group has lost a friend or acquaintence to the China Virus.

Stay Safe

[BlueStarLizzard]

Wait, I do. And it's actually a board member. It's not a bad case though. He's at home.

[lupinus]

First confirmed case in my warehouse Thursday, said person had been out for ten days after noting symptoms. Security apparently viewed footage and folks they were in close contact with were notified. Don't know they personally, but it's the closest I've been aware of.

Work has been nuts, as I'm in distribution for one of the big pharmacy changes. On the bright side, they've been really good on this. They've put a lot of positive attendance policy changes in place and it was announced last week we're getting a bonus delivered near the end of April, and (amusingly if nothing else) they gave everyone a pack of TP and case of bottled water.

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[RoadKingLarry]

Nothing directly personal but the first case in my county was announced today. Three larger towns and a handful of smaller towns across the county but no info as to even general location.

My son works for a VERY LARGE, nationwide retail and grocery chain in one of their distribution centers. They are getting reports that other at least 2 other DCs have reported cases and despite claims from HQ that a DC would shut down 2 weeks for disinfection/cleaning in the event of an employee testing positive the DCs with positive cases are essentially business as usual.

[Chester32141]

I found this to be an interesting perspective ... 

The more sensible approach would be to isolate the elderly and the susceptible in order to protect them from the ravages of the virus. People who are young, healthy, able and willing should be allowed to return to work to restart the economy and hopefully keep it afloat through the coming depression.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/rising_to_the_challenge_can_this_be_a_great_generation.html#ixzz6I7P7SKOd

[RocketMan]

I found this to be an interesting perspective ...  

The more sensible approach would be to isolate the elderly and the susceptible in order to protect them from the ravages of the virus. People who are young, healthy, able and willing should be allowed to return to work to restart the economy and hopefully keep it afloat through the coming depression.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/rising_to_the_challenge_can_this_be_a_great_generation.html#ixzz6I7P7SKOd

Sensible and rational, meaning we will never adjust our response to match what is being suggested in the article.
Too many people in government at all levels hoping for tikiwiki.

[Fly320s]

I've been working from home for 9 days now.  Only because my flights are getting cancelled, yet i still get paid.   

We've cut at least half of our flights and probably more than that.  Our average load factor today was 25%.

[lupinus]

Someone came in today looking like death and with a fever. Was promptly told to GTFO once someone noticed, but by that point of course had covered part of the building, interacted around people, touched equipment, etc. Despite being given essentially free sick days as the company isn't counting call ins against you, and confirmed case or close contact to confirmed case such as someone in your household is an automatic two week paid vacation, which doesn't suck up any of your usual time off allotment. I give the company props, they've actually been responsive and made it as easy possible short of shutting down to keep your ass home if your sick.

So now we all get to be stopped on the way in to have our temperature checked.

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[Jamisjockey]

Someone came in today looking like death and with a fever. Was promptly told to GTFO once someone noticed, but by that point of course had covered part of the building, interacted around people, touched equipment, etc. Despite being given essentially free sick days as the company isn't counting call ins against you, and confirmed case or close contact to confirmed case such as someone in your household is an automatic two week paid vacation, which doesn't suck up any of your usual time off allotment. I give the company props, they've actually been responsive and made it as easy possible short of shutting down to keep your ass home if your sick.

So now we all get to be stopped on the way in to have our temperature checked.

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Dude, I work for the federal .gov with 4 hours of sick every PP, and yet people still come in sick (even before the kung-flu), and burn their sick days down to 0 balances because they don't feel like coming in.

[Ben]

Dude, I work for the federal .gov with 4 hours of sick every PP, and yet people still come in sick (even before the kung-flu), and burn their sick days down to 0 balances because they don't feel like coming in.

Man, I used to hate that. Thanks for making me sick so you can get  couple extra "vacation days".

[Boomhauer]

Due to our first quarter getting shot to hell we all get a 5% pay cut for the foreseeable future. Also no 401k match for the same.

Of course in the same email they exhorted us to “do more and go further” to “serve our customers and help the company”

[Jamisjockey]

Man, I used to hate that. Thanks for making me sick so you can get  couple extra "vacation days".

I took a full day for my son's appointment the other day, which took me down to 6 weeks. 

[lupinus]

For us it's all PTO, they just put a cap on how many times per year you can call in for an unplanned absence. It's great for the folks who bother to manage their time.

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[just Warren]

Two three four cases in my county now.

Eight now. But no word on severity.