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fortnightly update
24 Jul 2020 20:18The good: I wrote this for The Old Guard. Which I enjoyed a lot and went on about a bit here.
The bad: I went from Thursday afternoon "nobody is going back to the office unless they ask to" to Friday morning "you are starting back at the office in ten days" and I have whiplash because I sure as shit did not ask. I am in a High Risk Group and do not want to take the subway to work in a space that Facilities hasn't even done the walk-though yet to determine safety protocols, let alone replaced the air handlers or figured out what to do with the bathrooms that were a disaster before all this. And the ugly is that my boss is basically offering us all up as sacrificial lambs because if he actually dared to tell his bosses "not everyone's ready" they would have said "fine," but he won't because he's got his eyes on the prize and that includes never even offering a modification to their requests, no matter what kind of dumbass results may come. This isn't dumbass, this is something else. I won't be going in every day, but that does not make this better.
The good: baseball and hockey are back and returning. My Mets rocked today's opener like it was a 2019 AU where Yoenis Cespedes didn't lose a fight with a wild boar and Edwin Diaz didn't get the yips at being in NYC. (And if you think I'm making up the part with the boar, you don't know my baseball team.) I suspect the NY Rangers will have a brief adventure in the Toronto Bubble, but I'll take it.
Three things make a post, so I'll stop griping now.
The bad: I went from Thursday afternoon "nobody is going back to the office unless they ask to" to Friday morning "you are starting back at the office in ten days" and I have whiplash because I sure as shit did not ask. I am in a High Risk Group and do not want to take the subway to work in a space that Facilities hasn't even done the walk-though yet to determine safety protocols, let alone replaced the air handlers or figured out what to do with the bathrooms that were a disaster before all this. And the ugly is that my boss is basically offering us all up as sacrificial lambs because if he actually dared to tell his bosses "not everyone's ready" they would have said "fine," but he won't because he's got his eyes on the prize and that includes never even offering a modification to their requests, no matter what kind of dumbass results may come. This isn't dumbass, this is something else. I won't be going in every day, but that does not make this better.
The good: baseball and hockey are back and returning. My Mets rocked today's opener like it was a 2019 AU where Yoenis Cespedes didn't lose a fight with a wild boar and Edwin Diaz didn't get the yips at being in NYC. (And if you think I'm making up the part with the boar, you don't know my baseball team.) I suspect the NY Rangers will have a brief adventure in the Toronto Bubble, but I'll take it.
Three things make a post, so I'll stop griping now.
