It’s amazing to me how much I simply can’t relate to people because I spent COVID being an “essential worker” (retail) and therefore spent the entire time working like I always do, and then the world went back to treating us like trash as soon as it ended.
For me, COVID was driving down empty highways with just the cop cars and one or two other cars for company where there should’ve been dead stop traffic, carrying a piece of paper that said it was legal for me to be out there.
I get a similar feeling seeing posts like this. I did work from home briefly as I worked in IT for a bank, but as soon as that wasn’t required, they had us coming back in.
I see posts like this and it makes it seem like there were many that stayed home for months. I don’t even have a concept of how long the average person stayed home. Was it a weeks? months?
Not sure I am an average person (not in a bragging way – literally don’t know if this is average or not) but I think most of our company worked from home for about eighteen months, give or take.
This was in the UK, so maybe we had different rules and coverage.
Holy hell, yeah I didn’t even realize some were sent home for longer than a year. Of course, it’s almost needless to say but I’m in the US where they care (that we make them money).
Not nearly the same, but I had a similarly odd experience in that I worked from home for years prior to Covid. For a while, the biggest change for me was that suddenly my coworkers were scheduling “beers over zoom” and other such oddities to not go crazy over… my daily routine.
First time I’d spoken to many of them since going remote and moving away. Was kinda grateful when they all seemed to get bored of that and returned to leaving me alone lol.
Since then, I’ve switched to a different job, where the whole team is generally remote, and have much better relationships with my coworkers, which is nice.
It’s amazing to me how much I simply can’t relate to people because I spent COVID being an “essential worker” (retail) and therefore spent the entire time working like I always do, and then the world went back to treating us like trash as soon as it ended.
For me, COVID was driving down empty highways with just the cop cars and one or two other cars for company where there should’ve been dead stop traffic, carrying a piece of paper that said it was legal for me to be out there.
We didn’t even get holidays off.
I get a similar feeling seeing posts like this. I did work from home briefly as I worked in IT for a bank, but as soon as that wasn’t required, they had us coming back in.
I see posts like this and it makes it seem like there were many that stayed home for months. I don’t even have a concept of how long the average person stayed home. Was it a weeks? months?
Not sure I am an average person (not in a bragging way – literally don’t know if this is average or not) but I think most of our company worked from home for about eighteen months, give or take.
This was in the UK, so maybe we had different rules and coverage.
Holy hell, yeah I didn’t even realize some were sent home for longer than a year. Of course, it’s almost needless to say but I’m in the US where they care (that we make them money).
Not nearly the same, but I had a similarly odd experience in that I worked from home for years prior to Covid. For a while, the biggest change for me was that suddenly my coworkers were scheduling “beers over zoom” and other such oddities to not go crazy over… my daily routine.
First time I’d spoken to many of them since going remote and moving away. Was kinda grateful when they all seemed to get bored of that and returned to leaving me alone lol.
Since then, I’ve switched to a different job, where the whole team is generally remote, and have much better relationships with my coworkers, which is nice.