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?
I have a friend who worked at a gym when COVID happened, and they were closed for like 6 months or something, but what I saw was a lot of what I called “rolling lockdowns” - one town would go into quarantine for a few weeks as daily cases hit a certain point, but the town next to them would be business as usual. And then another town would do the same, rinse and repeat, but never a mass quarantine across the state.
The other thing I saw a lot of was wealthy people fleeing cities to get away from COVID (and bringing it with them) and buying property in vacation towns not built to be lived in year-round. It didn’t take a full year for most to get bored of living there outside the vacation season and go back, but property values doubled during the craze and never really came back down. I think to this day, they’re still roughly 50% above what they were before quarantine. And they were already too high for locals to afford.
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?
I have a friend who worked at a gym when COVID happened, and they were closed for like 6 months or something, but what I saw was a lot of what I called “rolling lockdowns” - one town would go into quarantine for a few weeks as daily cases hit a certain point, but the town next to them would be business as usual. And then another town would do the same, rinse and repeat, but never a mass quarantine across the state.
The other thing I saw a lot of was wealthy people fleeing cities to get away from COVID (and bringing it with them) and buying property in vacation towns not built to be lived in year-round. It didn’t take a full year for most to get bored of living there outside the vacation season and go back, but property values doubled during the craze and never really came back down. I think to this day, they’re still roughly 50% above what they were before quarantine. And they were already too high for locals to afford.
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.