Our next-door but two neighbour is an embalmer for a local funeral parlour.

THAT is not going to work too well when he starts getting home deliveries to work on.

I work in a regulated pharma manufacturing and testing organization. I have to be present on site to review documents and troubleshoot instrumentation and assays.

My company has made anyone who can work from home and divided our workforce into staggered shifts to increase less employees on site at once.

Mike

No, but we are looking into ways for cheap, easy to implement inter-office meeting ability with the option for outside client meetings. Guessing the option to contact via telephone or call in will be a requirement. GoToMeeting and Microsoft Teams are being explored, but not all employees have headsets and mics.

My wife’s employer, a bank, is going to drive through only starting tomorrow. My wife will be working from home every other day starting tomorrow. She is not in a customer contact position. People are to remain in their offices and limit contact with each other, text, etc.. Customers that have to conduct in person business are going to contact their person by text and be met to come inside.

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My only complaint is my chair is uncomfortable.

Missing my cushy desk chair at the office. Working at the dining room table at the house and the chair is NOT comfy. Will have to make a run to the storage unit to get the seat pad from my tree stand. LOL

Still at work in my usual chair, but my ass hurts. The imitation leather does quite a number when you only get out of it a couple times a day to hit the head. No in person meetings, no taking documents to anyone for signing, basically in the office, but locked in my own cell.

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My only complaint is my chair is uncomfortable.

Get a lap desk and sit on the couch or recliner. Just keep the TV off.

Better yet, connect your laptop to your TV and sit in your nice recliner.

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Can you help me set up a means to conduct investigations and make arrests while sitting on my couch in my boxers, streaming The Expanse, and sipping Irish whiskey?

Maybe some sort of automated appointment system, where I notify bad guys by email that they need to report to the local detention center at a specified time and place?

One of the local police departments put out a PSA that they would check your meth for Corona Virus. You could either bring it in to the station, or if you were afraid of catching ill, they would do a house call.

I shit thee not.

https://www.clickorlando.com/n...ugs-for-coronavirus/

Well, we just were asked to give our info on computer access, what might be needed to be able to do our jobs from home. They’re not sure if they have the resources to accommodate everybody. I do have a laptop assigned to me for work so would just have to get approval to sign on from home. Might find out next week. I wouldn’t mind, but some things would be hard to do.

I work from home.

I just surrendered my emergency laptop with my backup RIPs on it.

Seems we are sending graphics workers home to process files and I had the last available laptop with Corel on it. I have two more spare RIPs, so I will be fine.

My assistant and I have to work overtime. Machine operators have to come in.

Sales staff, planners and designers work from home.

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You've just described working economic crimes. Come to the dark side, brother.

Yeah, but I don't look good in reading glasses and a pocket protector.

I prefer to think of it as a plainclothes version of an "admin pouch/panel."

No, because I'm retired and am at home most of the time, anyway. However, all of my social contacts have been temporarily cancelled: church services (now on-line only); vocal choir practice; rehearsals of 2 handbell choirs. I'm pretty much alone with my 6 indoor and 2 outdoor cats. I do go out to get food for me and the cats, necessary medicines, etc. I also order food from drive-in facilities.

Even though I'm in the high-risk group (82 years old with Type II Diabetes), I'm not too concerned about COVID-19. I take precautions and believe God is with me.

ETA: Even if I were still working, doing it from home would not have been a problem--COBOL programmers spend most of their time typing on a terminal, anyway, and coordination with other coworkers can be done via e-mail or phone. There would have been little difference for me.

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We have all been told to work from home. I have the same setup at home as I do in the office. 2 27" 4k monitors, the macbook, a stand up desk and an aeron chair. I was only going to the office 1 day a week as it was.

I've home officed a couple days a month for several years now. Monday was my first day home officing full-time. Frankly, I should've started Thursday or Friday last week.

We're setting records for number of people on VPN at once so there initial login takes some time and there is a lag.

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My only complaint is my chair is uncomfortable.

Get a lap desk and sit on the couch or recliner. Just keep the TV off.

Better yet, connect your laptop to your TV and sit in your nice recliner.

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I have two 27" monitors set up so I can use two screens.

Just attended a company meeting today (groups of 4-5). Laptops being issued tomorrow, Thursday. Start working from home this coming Monday. Not going to be easy.

Office staff has been segregated from production employees for days. Utilizing different restrooms. Cafeteria shut down. No use of common areas at all.

Don’t know how this will all work out but we’re going to try.

Stay safe ladies and gentlemen. This will not have a quick resolution for the nation. Some trying times ahead.

I was halfway hoping to be among those "kicked to the house."

I learned today that's not happening.

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Originally posted by GA Gator:. . . I have two 27" monitors set up so I can use two screens.

I did some volunteer work, spent a couple of months in the operations center. All the computers there had such a setup. I got spoiled. As soon as I get back home, that is the first "improvement" I will make (I will sneak it in my wife's to-do list).

A little levity:



“My coworkers are singing loudly and keep trying to jump on me!”

Don't I wish. 10 - 14 hour days, Seven days a week. In the office, coordinating planning and preparation. If you got COVID bad tomorrow, you could do no better than to show up in our ED!

I'd bet my retirement on that, but I guess that's no longer much of an endorsement.