fortnightly update

[domarzione]

The 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. 

Comments

[writerlibrarian]

I missed hockey so badly, yesterday I watched intra-teams Pens game on YT. 😂

I hope you can get safely to work and be safe at work.

[leonie_alastair]

Sorry to hear about the situation regarding work - that's scary. Can you at least control the hours you work? My son is going back to the office 2 days a week in August but he's going to be working 11am to 7pm so he can miss the worst of the rush on NJT and MTA.

[beradan]

yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes

[alessandriana]

I'm sure you've already thought about this, but can you go over your boss's head?

I'm also having to go into work. Right now it's only a few days every other week, but they want us back up to 80% capacity soon, which in a building of 5,000 people is a less than thrilling idea. We've had multiple cases already. I'm just hunkering down in my cube and wearing a mask all the time.

I'm halfway through The Old Guard and I'm enjoying it! Charlize Theron with an axe is my jam.

[marcelo]

That's awful - it's criminal that it's not criminal.

(Loved the fic, too.)

[vaznetti]

Your boss should be fired. I realise that he won't be, because that's not how life works, but that is really awful. I hope that his bosses start to rethink their own dumb demands before things get out of hand.

[musesfool]

That really sucks and is also stupid. How much do you trust your HR department? Because you can ask for a reasonable accommodation, i.e., working from home due to being high risk, and the HR department should be able to work that out for you with your supervisor.

#LFGM!

[blackrook]

Sorry about work:(
Wish you all the luck!

Heard on our news today that they will show NHL games with 4 seconds delay - to avoid players swearing getting live, because it could be heard with empty stadium! :)