Thread: COVID-19, is your workplace essential?

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Isn't just! A month ago I'd allow 90 minutes to get from Redland Bay to the City in peak hour. Did it today in 40 minutes.

Sadly though, the % (if not the sum) of idiots on the road remains the same if today's sample is anything to go by.

I am hoping people change their habits, and work from home a lot more once this virus issue is over.

Probably wishful thinking..

My work is classed essential - and the run to work today took 5m (that’s meters not minutes) to walk to the Recliner and kick the laptop into gear.

Work from home for me is being enforced on a roster / emergency basis. We have compartmentalised our operations and almost all avenues of cross contamination have been removed.

I’m back on site for my stint on Thursday.

In the meantime, electronic only.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

My house mate works for Home Affairs at the Canberra Airport business park - all the Senior Exec and senior managers are now working from home but the plebs still have to go to work. Layout in the workspace is unchanged but still probably meets the 1.5m rule, it is BYO hand sanitizer (you tried getting that lately) - the workplace is not providing any.

Well after a week - the plebs are finally allowed to work from home - no doubt due to bad publicity the Federal Public Service was getting due to making them go to work when the PM was saying everyone should stay at home wherever possible - I suspect the Mandarins were called in and given a good talking too in view of the bad look.

Originally Posted by Tombie

My work is classed essential - and the run to work today took 5m (that’s meters not minutes) to walk to the Recliner and kick the laptop into gear.

Work from home for me is being enforced on a roster / emergency basis. We have compartmentalised our operations and almost all avenues of cross contamination have been removed.

I’m back on site for my stint on Thursday.

In the meantime, electronic only.

Same here working from home but chose to spend 2 days in the office for my sanity.

Originally Posted by Tombie

My work is classed essential - and the run to work today took 5m (that’s meters not minutes) to walk to the Recliner and kick the laptop into gear.

Work from home for me is being enforced on a roster / emergency basis. We have compartmentalised our operations and almost all avenues of cross contamination have been removed.

I’m back on site for my stint on Thursday.

In the meantime, electronic only.

5 meters isn't far!
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Originally Posted by loanrangie

Is that Malteurop Neale ? grab us a sack or 2 can ya .

Sorry mate, I don't see the end product so not able to grab any.
I don't think they would be putting it in sacks either, it is malted in 300 tonne batches.

Originally Posted by Homestar

But it does sound somewhat crass IMO.

I like the rule:

It's always i before e, except after c. That's weird!

Originally Posted by 101RRS

Well after a week - the plebs are finally allowed to work from home - no doubt due to bad publicity the Federal Public Service was getting due to making them go to work when the PM was saying everyone should stay at home wherever possible - I suspect the Mandarins were called in and given a good talking too in view of the bad look.

My housemate has been working from home now for three days - on the first day he had to go back into work because the link would not work - got it sorted.

Day two was all OK but he found a pop up window which shows which other members of his team are online, none of them were on line so having a good time at home and not working.

Day 3 - today he needed access to the classified IT system which cannot be accessed from home, so off to work again. He went to his desk only to find all his IT equipment had been nicked by other workers who were still going to work - .

So he is working from home but really is a waste of time.

Garry