Who else is feeling the stress

I am finally getting to work from home. I have a computer set up, and my phones are forwarded from work. They let me do this because the city I live in has a shelter in place (I drive about 40 miles to get to work each day - and that town does not).

I am very much enjoying working from home. I actually can sit in front of a window now :slight_smile: . I am not suffering migraine issues all the time like I do at work, because I am away from all the fluorescent lights.

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Glad you have that option now. The South Australian government department I work for has finally sorted out the option with VPN access for staff with laptops and Citrix Workspaces for those that don’t. A large number jumped at the chance when this was announced on Tuesday - I being one of them.

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so happy for you :grinning: mistershipwreck

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Appreciate it :smiley:

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Anyone feel like some music? Since SXSW was cancelled, some PNW artists who were to perform there have taken their performances online. Dubbed NXNW:

Day 1: https://www.facebook.com/DicksDriveIn/videos/619539018625849/
Day 2: https://www.facebook.com/DicksDriveIn/videos/3271540499526050/

I’m not sure if there’s a Day 3 or not, but if there is, it hasn’t happened yet and they can be found at the Dick’s Drive In page on Facebook.

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My mobile provider has changed the network name displayed on the phone.

It used to just say Vodafone.de, now it is #Stay home VF.DE

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That’s great news! Hope it all goes well and you can continue to work at home after all this is over, too.

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The thing with working from home - I haven’t had this much interaction with my colleagues since forever!

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My carrier has changed from “02 4G” to “No Service”

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Meanwhile

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That sucks dude. I hope you get it figured out soon

The stress doesn’t come from WFH, the stress comes from the fact that our entire world is collapsing. What kind of world will it be when this is over? Can we go back to the good old days? Were they that good to begin with? And where the hell is my binky?

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@Mistershipwreck
Thanks, but I just go upstairs to get a 2G/3G signal, but mainly use WiFi calling, it’s just that when I looked at my phone, that’s what it said, didn’t realise WiFi was off.
Service is bad from all carriers at my house, but BT broadband on DSL is good at 65/12.
Not bad for copper!

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Oops, broken tower? Broken SIM?

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The world will survive, it’ll just be… different. Civilisation will adjust and adapt as has always done. Good old days just exist in your head :slight_smile:

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No @Pommster Just bad location

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I just found out my co-worker probably has it. I had to push her via text to even go to the doctor this afternoon. Luckily, I have worked at home since last Wed. She apparently got sick starting Friday evening.

She texted back that they have to wait on the test to come back, but the doctor was 85% sure she had it. She is still at the hospital, but they are about to send her home.

As if I didn’t have enough to worry about as it is. Tuesday (tomorrow) is the 7th day since I’ve been at the office, at least. 1 week down, 1 week to go.

Same here. At work my “500mbps 4G” contract with Vodafone reached around 0.2mbps on my old Mate 10 Pro, with my new Samsung Galaxy S20+, it has dropped down to 0.02mbps. :frowning:

I don’t want to worry you, but unfortunately, a person usually doesn’t show symptoms for the first 2 weeks of infection…

My god-daughter in the UK had it, has recovered and is back to work. Her boyfriend is still waiting on his test results, but he seems fine.

Edit: And Amazon are helping. Just got this through:
Aktualisierung der Rückgabebedingungen
Nichts ist wichtiger als die Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden unserer Kunden und Mitarbeiter. Aus diesem Grund verlängern wir vorübergehend unsere Rückgabe-Frist, damit Sie mehr Zeit für die Rücksendung bestellter Artikel haben. Die meisten Artikel, die zwischen dem 15. Februar und dem 30. April 2020 bestellt wurden, können jetzt bis zum 31. Mai 2020 zurückgegeben werden.

Basically, all returns from 15 Feb through to 30 April don’t have to be returned until 31st May, as the health of their customers and workers is the most important thing at the moment.

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This may be part of the decision but I think the main reason is that they are so busy with everyone isolating and ordering things that Amazon do not want to deal with returns atm while they can be selling things. Not that I am cynical or anything…

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