Covid Lockdown Activities

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Originally Posted by spike021

Currently going stir-crazy...

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Originally Posted by p1l0t

I rented a Ferrari at Speed Vegas. I look so stupid in it, haha. YOLO

Did they let you drive it - or just sit in it - ??




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[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

One dead weight drags down way more than just what he/she fucks up.

We usually hire a temp for the warehouse by Memorial Day. I don't want them to see either of these two and think what they do is the norm and acceptable. I don't know how the heck they get away with it but I don't have authority over that department. I should just write them up anyway. The worst that will happen is I will get told not to do it again

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I never could either, but for other reasons. Home is where I relax, eat, sleep, and other things. Not work.

My first WFH job was back in CA in the 60s and lasted about 3 years. I was a regional research representative for a large chemical company, covering CA, AZ, NV and HI.

Since they didn't have office space for me at the research center they paid me to build an office at my home (so I added a room).

Yes, I found that it did take some self-discipline. This was before computers were everywhere, so it was FAX or phone or jump in my company car and travel to the various universities and USDA research facilities (OK, I flew to HI).

That was a tough tour of duty -

(that was my office, stuck onto the master bedroom)


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[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

One dead weight drags down way more than just what he/she fucks up.

At my old place there were certain very highly paid people typically assessed as a net negative on team productivity. Why were they kept around? Well 3 reasons:
1. Being able to claim the company had "the most experienced people" working on one thing or another because their resumes looked impressive to people not familiar with the "promoting out of the way" practice.
2. Increasing the cost and therefore budget of a project (and therefore profit and prestige).
3. High-value layoff fodder.

Ok and 4. Idiots to make fun of at lunchtime. Ah good times....

Anyway, these people's income was usually twice as much as everyone actually doing the work and it was infuriating.

Edit:. Forgot to mention they had engineering titles. I suppose that is the particularly offensive part.

[Leonardo]

Chopping kindling

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Originally Posted by Leonardo

Chopping kindling

I'm starten ta worry bout you, there Leonardo -


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[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Did they let you drive it - or just sit in it - ??









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Oh I got to drive balls out for a whole 7 laps (with an instructor in the right seat)

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[Leonardo]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'm starten ta worry bout you, there Leonardo -


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I'm just trying to stay busy. I been clearing brush, chopping kindling, and making boxes of dry stuff to burn. My wife and I have supplies to last week's without leaving our our property, but my firewood stash could be better. So I have be scrounging...

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Oh I got to drive balls out for a whole 7 laps (with an instructor in the right seat)

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Always wanted to try one of those things out (between Vegas or the one in LA I think?), never got time when I was out there. My neighbor's adult son did rent a 458 for his birthday so I did get to sit in that.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

I could never do it. I can't go more than 5 minutes of absolute silence. My internal monologue turns into a screaming jerry springer show of issues i can debate with myself, and the i randomly lash out at the most mundane things.

Our minds have interesting ways of responding to isolation.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Leonardo

I'm just trying to stay busy. I been clearing brush, chopping kindling, and making boxes of dry stuff to burn. My wife and I have supplies to last week's without leaving our our property, but my firewood stash could be better. So I have be scrounging...

How large is your property?

Maybe when you finish choppen kinlin, you could take up this?




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[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Our minds have interesting ways of responding to isolation.

I'm never alone, I always have little voices in my head that are talking to me -


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[JD001]

Posted this in the wrong thread...