Who's still working?

[Mustonen]

Bleh, good luck with the ever tightening financial controls then. If they aren't going to bother doing their jobs properly, perhaps they should look for others.
Get them to own the messaging around returning/non-compliance and watch how quickly they're willing to fall in line...

For every voice in favor of compliance there’s a voice against. None of the messaging is particularly attractive to own.

My personal feelings about masks and distancing and wfh aside, I get annoyed with parsing the degrees of non-compliance. I want to point to the order and move on so we can focus on the actual business.

[Mustonen]

I’m back to WFH mostly full time. Not really due to the pandemic, but the fact of it made the decision easier. Office shuffling going on and the easiest solution ended up being me giving up my office for the next couple months.

More topical: we’re preparing for a second round of lockdowns, and we don’t expect this one to be as pretty. Possibility of things like more proactive layoffs are more openly being discussed.

All of this is so tough to plan for. A complete and severe lockdown in March, April, May with strict mask enforcement and comprehensive testing and contact tracing would have been great. Hopefully if we go into that mode again we do the full monte and don’t fuck around with the halfway bullshit. The uncertainty is a killer.

[KathrynMann]

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[El Chupacabra]

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[fastfred]

never stopped waiting for the implosion to happen and I can't see it anywhere all the doom and gloomers say it's going to happen soon like they been saying that for at least four years now that its right around the corner
keep hiring more employees too I'd hire two more tomorrow but the american labor pool work force is pathetic underskilled lazy and over all laughable
booked out through late june of next year
worst thing is how am I going to spend a month in scottsdale this winter
my seat of my office chair smells like a ripe fart

[liv2ski]

After working balls to the wall for the last 6 months, it feels like business is finally slowing down. Just in time, because I was getting burned out from the 7 day work weeks. Maybe I can start surfing a few days a week again in October and if business fades out, just retire in 2021.

[getoutside]

nothing like reaching out to a colleague on your delivery team to congratulate him for some great work the client recognized this morning, only to find out that not only he was laid off, but your company just laid off employees 6,000 worldwide. 6,000!!

[TBS]

My largest client filed for Chapter 7 protection in October. I’m drawing PUA until the dough runs out and skiing the winter away.

Could be worse

[liv2ski]

My youngest (restaurant mgr) was laid off yesterday. Her HR is projecting being closed for 6 weeks. Poor kid has had a shitty year and is pretty depressed again.

[Bobcat Sig]

I consider myself fortunate as I've been working my ass off during the pandemic. Professionally, I've never been busier. Our customers are seemingly as eager to work with us as we are with them, mainly due to the way that they will forever change how they do business. The company that employs me has been on a tear, growing fast, even keeping pace with its estimates pre-pandemic. In my department alone, we're trying to hire a few dozen more people before the end of January.

On one hand, while I consider myself lucky to be in such a great place, I was a bit burned out there for a bit. Now that things have slowed a bit, it's nice to catch up on life. All good things, really.

[Bunion 2020]

^^^ pretty much in the same boat, revenues up by 20% this year and next summer looks strong. I plan to cut back on the number of clients and concentrate on the ones I like working with.

I have the next 4 months at about 1/2 the load to catch up on office shit and then back at it.

[SHarmon]

Still thanking God that I still have a work today, Christmas is coming, yes it will be a merry one, aside from the money spent.