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Anyone else still at work through this Coronavirus pandemic?

I perform IT Support for a financial services company, so I'm considered "essential" for now. My team has been diverted from our main project focus to deploying laptops and WYSE thin clients to other employees so they can work from home. We're scheduled to deploy another 50 machines next week, although the "kits" will be delivered to each employee via courier. A few weeks back the employees came in for training on the WFH hardware, but now they don't want to encourage that amount of face to face interaction.
 
I am in the bread business. Been doing this for 36 years in different capacities throughout the southeast. Consumer response to Covid 19 is different from anything I have experienced only in duration.

A hurricane scare and stores are stripped bare of everything in preparation for the storm. In a “snow scare” they primarily buy bread, milk, and drinks. Strangely enough they buy enough food for two weeks when the snow/ice will generally melt in a few days? Both of these are initially short duration events. IMO the hurricane preparation is justified.

Y2K presented an interesting run on bread and grocery stores for about two weeks leading up to the end of the world. It was the event most similar to what is happening now as it pertains to the grocery business. It has presented new challenges to those of us that feed the world.

I am in stores everyday. The things in short supply as you all know are toilet paper and cleaning supplies. If you need these things you need to think outside the box. As most grocery stores are getting them sporadically and they sell out in a few hours.

I would suggest different retailers that you would not normally frequent. The “dollar stores” of which there are several major chains. Janitorial supply outlets, drugstores and home improvement stores are good sources as well. Good luck in acquiring your supplies.
 
whoaru99 said:
Received a general announcement this morning. Furloughs starting Monday. Don't know yet if I will be still working from home or just at home.
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As I think I'd mentioned earlier, the industry we're in is considered essential and we all received our essential services papers.

However, business has taken a hit in this. So, despite being an essential industry, there has been a reduction in the workforce by furlough. Several colleagues received their furlough notification. I was informed I will remain on, albeit still working from home.
 
JimPA said:
I have a Christmas tree farm so I fall under the agricultural exemption.

Today I did some disc plowing with my tractor.

A video from last year.


My four legged coworker can't catch the Wuhan Coronavirus because of this.
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Ivermectin is in the preventive heart worm medication for dogs.
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I would not advise a human to take this since it's designed for dogs.
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We used to do that on our dairy farm, we had a 16 ft disk, but we would use a 5 bottom plow first, on 100 acres and 88 cows...
 
Just got cut back to two days a week, but that is in the hope we can keep enough people healthy in the long run to operate the plant. I work in wastewater, which cannot shut down even if the main plant does.....

Main plant makes medical grade plastic, and I heard we are shipping very large quantities (from a trucker friend who does the hauling).

Going to be a very "interesting" couple months.

I'm close to retirement, so I'm OK no matter what happens, but I'm spending a lot more money than usual at my local brewpub doing takeout every Friday -- seems a small sacrifice to help keep 25 people in food service employed.
 
hpmguy
CPO chemical process operator, is what you would be called in our can plant, we have 2 per shift.
We are down to 75% capacity due to the virus
 
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Still working so far this week. We had our first online only sale last Friday, the sale did well. This Friday our 2nd sale will happen. I am sorting out RR items for a sale end of this month.
 
We electricians are considered essential, as of the start of this thread we were still working as I posted. And we're still (working?) but the hrs are getting a bit thin, only 5 yesterday, we'll see what today has. Our office sent out a text allowing the use of vacation days to fill in for the missed time. That won't last long, hopefully they also let us use our sick days.

Still won't get very far but hopefully until the stimulus checks arrive and the unemployment filing issues have been resolved.
 
I'm still not working (by choice). However, I spoke with one of the owners of the company yesterday (who is still working) and he told me that most accounts (lab equipment) have postponed maintenance. They don't want anyone in their facility that doesn't absolutely have to be there. And I don't blame them. He's still doing repairs though.
 
Still doing extra hrs everyday filling in for the old at risk guys that we will not allow on site anymore. They are stuck in the office doing nothing. What sucks is while I cover them in the field they can’t cover my admin in the office “oh I am to old to start learning that computer stuff”

“Well them your use has come to an end, retire.”

Sorry just had that interaction
 
gadget73 said:
and most every position anymore.
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He pawns it off on his job leads, but now he can’t. It came to a head at lunch, our boss told him to figure it out or go home. It’s not hard, daily reports and such in Word.
 
Our new solar array was supposed to have been hooked up to the grid, and to our house, on March 19th. At that point, schools and churches had been closed since the 13th, but the stay-at-home order hadn't been issued yet (23rd). The solar company (SunPro) cancelled, saying the state inspectors were not working. So now we have a wonderful, useless solar array, and for how long? Will SunPro survive long enough to finish it?



Time's a wasting, and we're burning daylight. :(

But, we're still alive... :)
 
sqlsavior said:
Our new solar array was supposed to have been hooked up to the grid, and to our house, on March 19th. At that point, schools and churches had been closed since the 13th, but the stay-at-home order hadn't been issued yet (23rd). The solar company (SunPro) cancelled, saying the state inspectors were not working. So now we have a wonderful, useless solar array, and for how long? Will SunPro survive long enough to finish it?



Time's a wasting, and we're burning daylight. :(

But, we're still alive... :)
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You have tool box? :rolleyes:
 
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