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irishmufc
Robbie Keane I love Vulvas Joined: 09 Aug 2011 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 25068 |
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Same here. Funny thing is I got pulled for being on Tripadvisor even though I didn't sign in on the work PC. Never had any hassle when I was signing in on ybig. Any website where you need to log in will always be a red flag to any monitored internet system in your workplace as you can potentially upload and attach work docs to your profile.
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16467 |
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You still working for the big blue Horsebox?
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McG
Moderator Group SISAO? What the hell is SISAO? Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Christmas Island Status: Offline Points: 26979 |
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In the office as normal. Possibly a more reduced capacity from next week.
TBH, i will continue to go into the office as it's (as bonkers as it sounds) a nice routine. Dress down fridays now applies to all days so less hassle ironing shirts and preparing to leave the house. My job is easier when in the office anyway. Requires a lot of meetings. Albeit done at a safe distance for now. Gym closed, pubs closed, f**k all else to do. Will get harder in the Summer months. A lot more outdoor activities. Social distance knacker drinking perhaps.
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Gabrieléire
Davey Langan Joined: 22 Jul 2016 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 758 |
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Work got me to send out somethings to help people who haven't WFH before - just somethings regarding mental health etc. Just thought I would share, take a read if you like.
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deise316
Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921 |
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Bump that in 3 weeks time..... WFH 2 out of 3 days since Monday, work have split teams and tried to ensure no crossover between them, as well as that giving room for social distancing in office for the people that are in there. 1st day ever WFH today, like Mayo mark said, weird, but I suppose I'll get used to it, and going into the office every 3 days will be a break from it too, though feck knows if that will continue long term. Did get a good bit done though, and for the first time in ages, had no 'wans' talking sh*te about love island and what they are wearing to their cousin's wedding next week, and what Johnny & Mary got up to at school, so its not all bad..... |
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Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.....
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Pipkin
Liam Brady Joined: 07 May 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1975 |
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Surprised WFH is not an option for all office based staff at this stage but anyway it will be forced upon all employers soon enough.
I find if there’s something you really need to focus on; WFH is brilliant. Otherwise not being around other team members is naturally inefficient. I do find people can tend to work harder from home because they are more conscious of managers questioning output- possibly again because no distractions.
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SuperDave84
Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384 |
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I work from home a fair amount but just about everything I do depends on in-person hearings and either preparing for cases or doing reports afterwards (I do a bit of decision making for a couple of state panels). I have about seven or eight reports to do for hearings I've had in the last few months but once those are done, I'm going to be out of work. It'll take me about a month, probably, at a rate of two a week, but thereafter I'm effectively unemployed. Still, I have work to be doing for the time being and no reason to panic just yet. I've been up with the folks (neither that old or with any underlying health issues, thankfully) in the north for almost a week at this stage and I plan to stay here rather than go back to Dublin. It's probably safer to be in a rural area than a city, anyway.
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dundon13
Ray Houghton Joined: 22 Mar 2013 Location: Limerick Status: Offline Points: 3782 |
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Work in grocery retail, finished my 11th day day in row earlier, next day off is this Saturday
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Deane
Liam Brady Joined: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 2945 |
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Wouldn't be unusual for me to work for home, normally only a day every couple of weeks or so though. Difference is this time ive a docking station and two monitors taken home from the office with me as I knew I wouldn't be back for a while.
We have to take 6 days annual leave before the end of April which is a bit crap.
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ProudAndLoud
Davey Langan Joined: 12 Sep 2016 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 801 |
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I'm flying back in from States HOPEFULLY Saturday and looks like other half and me will have self isolate for 14 days. She's a nurse so it's a strange one but I just have go with HSE directive. All for the common good.
Can't say I'm not worried. Not worried for myself but just where is this going. I'm usually a strong happy person but it's hard to be happy now about anything. Even stupid Coronavirus social media clips are pis**ing me off now. Maybe I'm too old :)
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Shedite
Jack Charlton Joined: 09 Dec 2011 Status: Offline Points: 9816 |
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With work, I'm in financial advice which is something that is drying up naturally, so my working day is likely to get shorter and shorter over the weeks. In spare time, been trying to get a few things sorted. Bought some stuff for the garden to get that sorter for summer, the wife had a wishlist from ikea so got plenty of DIY to get through, and have started trying to teach myself about the stockmarket. It's something I always wanted to understand more, and it's one activity/sport that's still going on, so there's plenty of news to follow. Might even make myself a bit of money someday.
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 9994 |
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Similar to you working in a busy office with no social distancing, don’t think it’s plausible for us to work from home so we are pretty much working until we are forced to self isolate, four in the office doing this already. With this corona virus our work has doubled too so we are in a difficult position. Stress levels on the rise.
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Trigboy 10
Liam Brady Joined: 02 May 2015 Status: Offline Points: 1322 |
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Liam Brady Joined: 03 Sep 2015 Status: Offline Points: 2091 |
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The Huntacha
Roy Keane Joined: 27 Mar 2012 Location: Dubai Status: Offline Points: 12761 |
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Have been off for the last 2 weeks. UAE schools were closed about 10 days before Irish ones. However, this was due to the government bringing forward the scheduled 2 week break at the end of March, giving themselves time to implement and test out online teaching platforms. It was convenient timing for them, rather than any great foresight into the seriousness of the virus.
Schools re-open on Sunday, however students are told to stay at home for another 2 weeks. We'll all be in our separate offices but I share one. It's a government controlled media over here so we're limited in the news we receive about how serious it is. And in true UAE form, all the figures released about cases of COVID-19 are attributed to residents from other countries. Apparently no Emiratis have caught it However, I will say that the limited news reports have prevented any mass panic/stockpiling of groceries, etc that you see at home. Shelves are still stocked with food, how long that will last though is anyone's guess. We're not on a lock-down (yet) so there's still a lot of people out and about. Bars, cinemas, gyms are all closed for about 3-4 weeks so that probably explains the amount of people around the beaches and parks. The temperatures have started to rise over the last 2 weeks though so if it gets much hotter, it will definitely lead to people spending a lot more time inside. |
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Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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Copy and paste from FB but it’s a useful read if you are in self isolation (Background: I have a lifelong disability and am a wheelchair user. After surgery I’ve basically been stuck living and sleeping in one room for three years. These are things I have learnt which may help, though with the caveat that everyone is different, and baseline mental health varies.) 1. YOUR MENTAL HEALTH WILL PROBABLY SUFFER - and although humans are social creatures, even the most introverted will chafe against boundaries enforced upon them by circumstance. The degree to which it suffers will be related to your mental health baseline and physical health. Understand that this IS NOT YOUR FAULT. Stimuli and enrichment methods are required. It’s why animals need such things in zoos and conservation parks. This leads us on to my next point. 2. COMPREHEND WHICH ACTIVITIES ARE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE FOR YOU Spending your confinement solely doing passive things (watching TV, Netflix, browsing the internet, scrolling through the internet) will take a load off your brain and make the time pass quicker. But if that’s all you do, the sense of disconnection increases over time. Activities which require you to *do* something, even if it’s just engaging your motor skills via video games, or lifting some cans of beans, or actively reading - these deliberate acts foster a tiny sense of achievement which gives your brain a dose of helpful chemicals. If you want to consider your activities, look up the work of Marshall McLuhan as regards “hot media” and “cold media” (See https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/MIDDMedia/Hot_versus_cool_media for basic premise.) Balancing out your media intake with hot and cold activities keeps your brain active and pumping tasty neurotransmitters. 3. LIMIT YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE TO SOCIAL PURPOSES. Infinite scrolling as found on many social media platforms is a hot medium, as per McLuhan. The reason Likes exist is to give that little spike of interactivity. It’s not a conspiracy to say many platforms are designed to keep you on them so they can show you more ads. (See also https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopamine-got-us-hooked-on-tech-facebook-apps-addiction which explains the brain chemistry angle) However, DM’s and other messaging faculties are supremely useful. Use them to interact with your friends, indulge your fandom theories. Person to person interaction requires and enhances deep-seated neurological and biophysical reflexes. Text your mates. Skype/Facetime or otherwise call them. Use the technology of the 21st century for genuine social ends, deliberately. Catch up with their lives one to one or in groupchats. 4. PICK TIMES TO CHECK THE NEWS AND STICK TO THEM. This relates to point 3 - unfortunately we live in a 24hr news cycle, with constant liveblogging of important issues. This means that we’re constantly streaming anxiety inducing situations into our brains JUST IN CASE. That’s not helpful, particularly when you can’t actually DO anything about those events - the urge to DO something is why people are panic-buying. It’s a very basic primordial need to grab resources for defence. By picking times of the day to check news, you are again, making a DELIBERATE CHOICE, enacting some small level of agency, while at the same time limiting anxiety-inducing stimuli. If the news gets too much, then don’t check it as much - or at all - and do something else. 5. IF YOU DO THINGS WITH FRIENDS, SEE IF YOU CAN DO THEM ONLINE. Run that game of DnD/Other TTRPG you’ve been meaning to. Hold your book club online. Have a few drinks online over voice-chat if you are missing the pub. Hold watch parties for your favourite shows. The key, as ever, is to be engaged rather than passive. It’s harder if you’re ill, yes, but it can be done. 6. USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO CREATE THINGS. Write that fanfic. Start that novel. Design that game. Doodle. Paint. Humans have been creating since the day we became human. Consider things from the perspective of a pre-modern person. Make handprints on your own personal cave wall - contact each other and tell spooky stories. Build a complex fantasy world. Write an account of your confinement for some person to find pieces of years after you’re gone from the world. Think about a problem, and learn how to solve it via taking online classes (See http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses) Write an essay on your chosen passion or hyperfixation - nobody needs to read it but you. Treat yourself to intellectual stimulation, if that’s your thing. 7. IF YOU HAVE A SPIRITUAL. RITUAL, OR MEDITATIVE PRACTICE DO IT. It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect, or limited in scope. This also includes atheists and those who despise woo - you have personal rituals, things you do that have Meaning to you as a person. Maybe it;s alphabetizing your music collection, or spring cleaning or cooking your favourite meal like grandma used to make. Humans have patterns they perform. When you perform them DELIBERATIVELY (or dare I say MINDFULLY) you become aware that these are the scaffolds that structure human life. 8. STRUCTURE YOUR TIME. Following on from 7, we often don’t realise the structure of our lives until it is disrupted. When that’s removed, our minds can go into freefall. If you’re isolated/in lockdown, oftentimes you won’t be able to access those structures. Rather than wait for them to to become accessible again and risk a period of feeling lost and directionless, which can enhance depression and anxiety, it’s best to develop a new structure based on the resources you have. It can be as loose or as strict as you like, but sticking to it allows us to develop a rhythm which makes time pass in recognisable fashion and gives us a sense of being-in-the-world as some sort of engaged process. 9. KEEP YOUR SLEEP PATTERN REGULAR AND LONG ENOUGH. The key here is REGULAR. Following on from 8, it’s important to keep your body well rested, as this aids your immune system and cuts down on the possibility of your body having to deal with stress . If you’re ill it’s harder to keep this regular, because sometimes your body just needs sleep to regenerate NOW. Equally in isolation, particularly if you’re feeling mentally low, it can be tempting to sleep forever, because y’know, you’re feeling low and what’s the point. (Of course the point is why we have 8 in particular, along with all the rest.) |
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Croftman
Liam Brady Joined: 18 Aug 2014 Status: Offline Points: 2554 |
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Work in an insurance office, we're in doing admin and dealing with stuff over the phones & email but the doors closed to customers
The Mrs is working from home since last week but trying to juggle that with minding 2 kids which isn't easy
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Some people just deserve a slap
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ShamtheRam
Paul McGrath Joined: 05 Apr 2009 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 18135 |
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Still in work. People who can work from home have been told they have to come in. We supply pharmaceutical companies so not really in a position to stop.
Not sure how I feel about them refusing to let people work from home though.
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