Wednesday, April 08, 2020
Coronantine
10 years later...
So now it's 2020, and I'm stuck at home. As are many people around the world as we all try to avoid spreading the corona virus. It's been a bit over two weeks for me. I went home early on Monday, March 23rd. We didn't have any work and our production manager was telling us to go home under those circumstances. Earlier I had volunteered for temporary lay-off. Business is way slow and it was one of the strategies that Yoyodine had for surviving this crisis. (Yes, I'm still at Yoyodine. My low level of ambition hasn't changed.) Noddles is making more than I am and, between that and the savings, we can survive a financial hit. Our production manager, John Cousteau, said nothing would be decided until the end of the week. I didn't stop to think that he was only speaking of decisions at Yoyodine.
Monday afternoon, the governor issued his stay at home order. All non-essential businesses will close and they have 48 hours to comply. Oh, well. I emailed John Cousteau and asked him if I should bother coming either Tuesday or Wednesday. I didn't know what work had to get out or what they wanted us to do to shut things down. (I did know that I wanted to come in and fetch the book I was reading over lunch, but I digress...) He replied that Yoyodine was an essential business and would remain open, but I didn't need to come in. I read that as meaning he would prefer me to stay home, so I did. Weird. I gave him a call on Wednesday afternoon to see what he wanted me to do next. This time he officially told me to stay home. I was now laid off--well, I think he said "furloughed", since they want me back--but that Yoyodine still needed to set things up with the state unemployment office. He said he'd contact me with more details before the 1st.
So now I'm home all day. In considering finding new employment (Details on that in another post on another day), I realized that I should be doing some self improvement. I've worked on my html/css skills, started an exercise routine, and now I'm practicing my writing skills. Whether any of these small efforts will bear much fruit is unlikely. But it has to be better than playing another hand of solitaire.
So now it's 2020, and I'm stuck at home. As are many people around the world as we all try to avoid spreading the corona virus. It's been a bit over two weeks for me. I went home early on Monday, March 23rd. We didn't have any work and our production manager was telling us to go home under those circumstances. Earlier I had volunteered for temporary lay-off. Business is way slow and it was one of the strategies that Yoyodine had for surviving this crisis. (Yes, I'm still at Yoyodine. My low level of ambition hasn't changed.) Noddles is making more than I am and, between that and the savings, we can survive a financial hit. Our production manager, John Cousteau, said nothing would be decided until the end of the week. I didn't stop to think that he was only speaking of decisions at Yoyodine.
Monday afternoon, the governor issued his stay at home order. All non-essential businesses will close and they have 48 hours to comply. Oh, well. I emailed John Cousteau and asked him if I should bother coming either Tuesday or Wednesday. I didn't know what work had to get out or what they wanted us to do to shut things down. (I did know that I wanted to come in and fetch the book I was reading over lunch, but I digress...) He replied that Yoyodine was an essential business and would remain open, but I didn't need to come in. I read that as meaning he would prefer me to stay home, so I did. Weird. I gave him a call on Wednesday afternoon to see what he wanted me to do next. This time he officially told me to stay home. I was now laid off--well, I think he said "furloughed", since they want me back--but that Yoyodine still needed to set things up with the state unemployment office. He said he'd contact me with more details before the 1st.
So now I'm home all day. In considering finding new employment (Details on that in another post on another day), I realized that I should be doing some self improvement. I've worked on my html/css skills, started an exercise routine, and now I'm practicing my writing skills. Whether any of these small efforts will bear much fruit is unlikely. But it has to be better than playing another hand of solitaire.
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