Bad indeed. This might be just the thing used to (steam)roll out the dreaded 5G.
A New Threat To My Cellar
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I am very grateful that I'm retired. If this virus came out in 1990-2017 I would be dealing with a huge nightmare.
My pool hall would be empty as would all my tenants in the plaza with me. My lawyer would be reading every word of my insurance policy looking for the way the insurance companies plan on screwing everyone.
I think it is going to be us as usual bailing out our inept government. I have dealt with some of the largest commercial insurance companies for over 20 years. They will try to fuck you and are good at it. They will deny every claim and then make you sue them because they know most people don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase their losses.
My pool hall would be empty as would all my tenants in the plaza with me. My lawyer would be reading every word of my insurance policy looking for the way the insurance companies plan on screwing everyone.
I think it is going to be us as usual bailing out our inept government. I have dealt with some of the largest commercial insurance companies for over 20 years. They will try to fuck you and are good at it. They will deny every claim and then make you sue them because they know most people don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase their losses.
Smoke while you walk: that'll make people take pains to keep as much distance between them and you as possible.
lol social distancing; I've got a secret- I actually had coronavirus 2 months ago(mid December right before Xmas)(I ordered some black tea directly from China, it arrived in sealed packets and I didn't suspect a damn thing drank it, loe and behold 2 days later I was VERY ill and couldn't move for a week with severe chest pain, and dillusions/agony) it eventually passed and I was fine. This is bad but not that bad.
That's it! I'm adding you to the Ignore list!
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My buying far exceeded my smoking, so the cellar is just fine.
Working from home has it's pros and cons like everything else. I've been at it almost 11 months now after about 10 years of 100 mile round trip commutes every day. Don't miss the lost life sitting in a car with the sun exposure and exhaust exposure of traffic. I easily removed about 15 hours per week of sitting in a car from my life but I probably give half of that back to the company in irregular/additional work hours because I'm home and it doesn't bother me.
So they actually get more hours out of me and I still come out ahead with personal time with the commute savings. I spend more money on food and electricity, but I save on fuel consumption. If something needs to be done during the day, I can go do it as I'm not stuck at the office. Plenty of other give and takes, but at least for me, I'd take it without thinking twice for it to be the "future". During the summer time, I go have lunch outside with the wife followed by a pipe. That's never happened before until now.
So they actually get more hours out of me and I still come out ahead with personal time with the commute savings. I spend more money on food and electricity, but I save on fuel consumption. If something needs to be done during the day, I can go do it as I'm not stuck at the office. Plenty of other give and takes, but at least for me, I'd take it without thinking twice for it to be the "future". During the summer time, I go have lunch outside with the wife followed by a pipe. That's never happened before until now.
If two weeks at home threatens your cellar, you need to get out your credit card and start buying.
Absolutely. I’ve doubled my smoking and cellar is shrinking now. I was calculating how many tins I’m going through a week. I’ve got to slow down. Past few months are getting pricey.
Working from home this long has proven to me that my smoking rate is more natural than imposed by outside factors, e.g. being at the office and being unable to smoke. I'm home all day and can smoke whenever I want, and my smoking frequency has increased about 10% at most. Good news for the cellar, and I estimate that I have between 30 and 40 years worth of stock. Also good news for the cellar is that my entertainment/restaurant/bar/tailgating/traveling expenditure has plummeted, and I've therefore spent more on tobacco than I would have under normal conditions.
Somehow I'm reminded of how George Jetson would occasionally bitch about his three hour work week.
When school was called off for snow in Northern VA when I was growing up, I LOVED it--the BEST!!! My Mom didn't mind, I think she liked getting to fix lunch for my sister and me--and it didn't stop her from her afternoon nap one bit!
mikeWell put, please disregard my last post--I hadn't read this yet. Alaskanpiper, you're exactly right--you gotta gift with words! My head would have "exploded" too
Even though it's been over a year since I've been WFH, I'm still processing whether I prefer it to going to an office. I miss my coworkers [some of them], but I don't miss the time suck of a getting ready in the morning and the commute (even though my office is only 6 miles away from my house). I don't have children, and my wife works out of the house, so while distractions are of course all around me, they are not as significant as they might be for others. I'm less productive per hour, but it's so much easier to be plugged in to my job longer each day, without feeling like I'm working more. The result is that I'm probably more productive per day without any real extra effort. I have the ability to shut it down for the day when I want to, so no one is hunting me down after hours.
Without going into too much detail, the company I work provides varied services to multiple clients, and I work for just one client, and I'm the only person on that job. I was "remote" from the client even when I was at the office, so the work in that regard is no different whether I'm in the office or not.
I save money on gas, and also lots of time. The getting ready/commute chunk of time is the most obvious, but the little bits of time saved throughout the week really add up: laundry, minor household stuff, etc. Instead spending hours on the weekend doing those things, I can spread it throughout the week when I feel like getting up from desk. I lease a vehicle, and finessing mileage (though never a real problem in the past) is now completely out of mind. In any event, my feelings on the matter are moot, as I'll be WFH even when the office fully reopens - the powers that be want to use the space for their multiple short term projects and make themselves more $$$ on the square footage.
Speaking of nightmares...ever try to do the break shot in a game of straight pool? Unreal! Willie Mosconi must've had nads of ivory.
I am also always remote for my company's clients, they are in the US and I am in Greece so that's not an issue.
What is an issue is the bolded bits: I find I start work later too, am less productive per hour, and as a consequence work longer hours, meaning I'm more away from my wife and kids, even though they are one or two doors away. I find WFH lacks the discipline of working from the office, both in the going to work as well as going back home, and a massive time sink as well. Overall my, and my coworkers' efficiency is in the toilet. We deliver the work but we do it in 2-3 more hours per day, at no extra pay, and with the cost of nerves, tiredness and lost family time.
The "little bits of time saved throughout the week really add up", are you sure? I am not having a go at you, but because I am in exactly the same situation I consider these extra time sinks and breaks of focus. Or if for example my wife or kids come to tell me something - if I haven't locked my door, which I now often do even if not on a business call - that can be up to 10-20 minutes or lost time. I am at fault, for sure, for not being disciplined enough. The work DOES get done in the end, but at a higher cost to me I find.
Frankly I think working from home will become the norm for a load of office jobs, I already hear from friend whose jobs (office job) are not renewing their leases and rents and moving everything to be remote working (no extra money dolled to employees though from rent savings etc!) but I'm firmly not a fan.
Interesting! I've been posting on this forum for over a year
And what a year it's been, good and less good, at least it's good to see I didn't say something different today!