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  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    I've been asked to return to the office 1 day per week
     I went in last monday and I felt sick during the 10 minute drive to work. I booked a room to isolate from others. When I got home I developed a cold. Needless to say I wont be going in this week. Although it's easier to wake up earlier this time of year, I'm not that excited about going in. I'm way more productive at home and love having my dog with me all day. I dont have to get ready and prepare lunch, etc. Although I dont mind going into the office occasionally, I'd much rather work from home!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    So who’s back at the office? Never left? Dreading the return? Are “offices” stupid? Wearing a mask? Demanding vaccinations? Where you sitting?

    I'm still have my very small on-line business but no more working at the bookstore except to stock used records after hours.  March 15, 2020 killed it (actually, I chose to leave due to my iffy immune system). 
    As for offices, I worked in a corporate office for six months once and totally hated it.  If I were now, I'd much rather work from home.  But some people like the social aspect of office work so it the are vaccinate, I say go for it.
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    I've been asked to return to the office 1 day per week
     I went in last monday and I felt sick during the 10 minute drive to work. I booked a room to isolate from others. When I got home I developed a cold. Needless to say I wont be going in this week. Although it's easier to wake up earlier this time of year, I'm not that excited about going in. I'm way more productive at home and love having my dog with me all day. I dont have to get ready and prepare lunch, etc. Although I dont mind going into the office occasionally, I'd much rather work from home!
    Get well soon, Dreamgirl.  Lot's of fluids, 1,000 mg vitamin C and 5,000 IU's of D3 daily, puppy snuggling, and a good book should get you there.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    God bless you @brianlux
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,813

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    God bless you @brianlux

    :hug:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,389
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,324
    Working in the maintenance department at a Correction Facility, we were considered essential. Other than taking a few days off a couple of times, I have been here the whole time. We were able to get vaccinated January due to our risk of exposure. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,389
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,389
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Working in the maintenance department at a Correction Facility, we were considered essential. Other than taking a few days off a couple of times, I have been here the whole time. We were able to get vaccinated January due to our risk of exposure. 
    What prison do you work at?  I built about 30 of them across the US.  Maybe I built the one you work in?
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,324
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Working in the maintenance department at a Correction Facility, we were considered essential. Other than taking a few days off a couple of times, I have been here the whole time. We were able to get vaccinated January due to our risk of exposure. 
    What prison do you work at?  I built about 30 of them across the US.  Maybe I built the one you work in?
    Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle Indiana. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,389
    JeBurkhardt said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Working in the maintenance department at a Correction Facility, we were considered essential. Other than taking a few days off a couple of times, I have been here the whole time. We were able to get vaccinated January due to our risk of exposure. 
    What prison do you work at?  I built about 30 of them across the US.  Maybe I built the one you work in?
    Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle Indiana. 
    I built one in New Castle.  A little bit a ways from you.
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,324
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Working in the maintenance department at a Correction Facility, we were considered essential. Other than taking a few days off a couple of times, I have been here the whole time. We were able to get vaccinated January due to our risk of exposure. 
    What prison do you work at?  I built about 30 of them across the US.  Maybe I built the one you work in?
    Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle Indiana. 
    I built one in New Castle.  A little bit a ways from you.
    I have been to New Castle once to help with repairs of a system.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler

    Staged?  No way!  This was taken right before they all got up and started doing one of those chorus line numbers!  :lol:    
    But seriously,  I would be totally freaked out by this kind of work:


    Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigoNo way!!!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,324
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler

    Staged?  No way!  This was taken right before they all got up and started doing one of those chorus line numbers!  :lol:    
    But seriously,  I would be totally freaked out by this kind of work:


    Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigoNo way!!!

    I get freaked out with heights, so there is no way I could do that.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,813
    JeBurkhardt said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler

    Staged?  No way!  This was taken right before they all got up and started doing one of those chorus line numbers!  :lol:    
    But seriously,  I would be totally freaked out by this kind of work:


    Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigoNo way!!!

    I get freaked out with heights, so there is no way I could do that.

    That famous "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" wasn't the Chrystler Building, it was @30 Rock, which was called the RCA Building.

    Also, it was staged. 
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,389
    F Me In The Brain said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler

    Staged?  No way!  This was taken right before they all got up and started doing one of those chorus line numbers!  :lol:    
    But seriously,  I would be totally freaked out by this kind of work:


    Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigoNo way!!!

    I get freaked out with heights, so there is no way I could do that.

    That famous "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" wasn't the Chrystler Building, it was @30 Rock, which was called the RCA Building.

    Also, it was staged. 
    That's what it's called.  I should remember that...  My other favorite is Lunch atop the Waldorf.
    A Look Back During The Early Era Of Skyscraper Construction
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,389
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler

    Staged?  No way!  This was taken right before they all got up and started doing one of those chorus line numbers!  :lol:    
    But seriously,  I would be totally freaked out by this kind of work:


    Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigoNo way!!!

    See the guy in the middle holding that cylinder?  That was to catch the red hot rivets that the two gentlemen are putting in.

    We sometimes come into older riveted construction and they want them replaced in kind.  We use a TC bolt now to mimic it for looks and strength.  The other cool thing we sometimes run across is cast iron beams or columns.  We can't weld to these because of the carbon makeup so we have to bolt a modern piece of steel to the structure and weld/build off of that.

    The things I get to see in new and older construction in NYC is really cool sometimes.  I got to walk on top of Grand Central Station and got to walk on Manhattan Bedrock below the earth among other things.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Never left the office.  Worked here the whole time.  Business as usual.  Only 5 of us or so here.  No one is vaccinated.  None of us caught covid.  We are spread out and everyone still washes their hands and uses sanitizer.
    Unlike these guys!
    Chicago iron workers recreate Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph - Curbed Chicago


    HA!  That's a good staged pic.  Trying to recreate the Chrysler building pic I would imagine?
    10 The Construction of the Chrysler Building- 1920s ideas chrysler building building chrysler

    Staged?  No way!  This was taken right before they all got up and started doing one of those chorus line numbers!  :lol:    
    But seriously,  I would be totally freaked out by this kind of work:


    Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigoNo way!!!

    See the guy in the middle holding that cylinder?  That was to catch the red hot rivets that the two gentlemen are putting in.

    We sometimes come into older riveted construction and they want them replaced in kind.  We use a TC bolt now to mimic it for looks and strength.  The other cool thing we sometimes run across is cast iron beams or columns.  We can't weld to these because of the carbon makeup so we have to bolt a modern piece of steel to the structure and weld/build off of that.

    The things I get to see in new and older construction in NYC is really cool sometimes.  I got to walk on top of Grand Central Station and got to walk on Manhattan Bedrock below the earth among other things.
    Wow. The Brooklyn Bridge isn’t even lucky enough to have reached Manhattan bedrock. 
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