Who is staying home? Who will be going to work?

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Pen_man_ship said:
PSI will not be taking orders until further notice!
My wife and I are retired so we're all set.
Now I don't have to feel guilty for not wanting to leave the house.

On another note, the store that is selling my pens does not want exotic woods, they just want local wood.
I looked at our wood shed storing next year's four cord....told my wife we're sitting on millions!
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I just checked with PSI and they told me it's business as usual. They are still shipping product as I'm sure Exotic Blanks and others are as well.
(Edit)- PSI did just confirm that they don't know at this time how long they will continue to ship though.
 
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I'm an electrical engineer working for an OEM that produces measurement equipment for the power industry. We are business as usual except all meetings will be conducted online. My wife works for the NYS Appellate court and will be on call as needed for the next 2 weeks. My daughter is a college student who will be online for the balance of the semester. My son is a TSA agent at our airport and, as you can imagine, has seen a drastic decline in the number of people traveling. Yesterday there were 300 people total where he usually sees 300-400 per hour.
 
I'm in Industrial water treatment services. As long as we need electricity and gasoline we will be working. I can work from wherever I am at, though customer, company and employee meetings have been curtailed to online only.

My people are pretty spread out and mostly work alone. We have developed plans 3-4 levels deep in order to keep our customers in water. Other parts of the company take care of hospitals. Many are working from home and some will be working 2 weeks on site, 2 weeks off site in a rotation where possible.

Wife is normally home and we are good on supplies. Plus we moved to a smaller town and county, which helps. Oldest daughter is a bank teller at a small state bank, no changes so far but they can to drive through only if needed. Son works at a foundry is n maintenance, they are minimizing hours and slowing things down, so it will be dependent on the end users what the future looks like. Youngest daughter is in higher end food service in Houston. Tuesday they indicated they would shut down but continue to pay a basic wage and provide 2 meals a day to their employees and family's for the next two weeks then decide the future.
 
Still working for now, I work in a relatively small chemical plant. I am preparing to work from home, possibly an altered work schedule where I perform necessary onsite duties 1 or 2 days a week and the rest remotely. I suspect that we will move to a skeleton crew but that hasn't happened yet. Given disruption in supply chains, not really sure how much long we'll continue to run, but I guess that's the case for everyone.

We just today had our first confirmed case in our county, makes me a little uncomfortable but I knew it was coming. The individual does not have any travel history and no known contact with infected person, so it is community spread. Given the woefully inadequate testing in the US, this has probably spread quite thoroughly. For example WV is reporting no cases, but have only completed 80 tests, eight zero. Per the CDC website (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html) there have only been about 25,000 tests completed nationwide and we are over 4,000 confirmed cases. Now that states are being allowed to do their own tests I think we will see whole lot of cases piling up. Time will tell, but I'm expecting it to get a lot worse before it gets better. Trying to keep my head up, doing my best to prepare and position my family, and hoping for the best...
 
Staying home! Mostly. But then we are retired. We had to go into town yesterday for a doctor appointment, and while there we hit Costco. No huge lines, everything was orderly, most of the shelves were still full, and we scored the big three - toilet paper, paper towels and Kleenex! We were due to pick some of those up, so one pack of each. We will probably venture out on nice days and practice with our cameras, but that doesn't mean going where other people are. We are trying to be real careful as both of us are over 65. Take care all!

Scott.
 
I've cut back on my Handyman business, emergencies only. But I've been asked to increase my volunteer time at our local Food Bank. It seems the lack of food in the local Wally World is putting more pressure on our donations (which most come from Wally World!) Go figure! My customers for both my business and the Food Bank appreciate the effort.
 
I work in IT so our team already has a remote work rotation we all participate in, and have for years. That same remote infrastructure is available to any of our employees but is relatively lightly used, mostly by business travelers. Last week our company announced that everyone was to begin working remotely this week so it's been a bit of a scramble getting everyone brushed up on how to VPN and use 2 factor authentication but happily our systems are rock solid and no one is having problems related to our gear. I've gotten 2 hours a day back due to not having to commute, so I'm pretty happy about that. Wife is a project manager, also in IT and is also accustomed to remote working so our lives are reasonably unchanged with regards to work.

Socially, lots of stuff cancelled and closed. Several weddings this year that have been or may be cancelled, the dance studio we go to is closing, restaurants not allowing dine in. All high class problems to be sure, but we're set to be hunkered down as long as needed. At least I am getting more shop time, right?
 
We are a 24/7/365 business and the operation crews are still working. I on the other have been off for two weeks now and will not return to the plant until 23April2020 to sign my termination papers and officially begin my retirement. I'm subject to call back between now April 23rd should there be an operational need or to be called back for Outage Safety Technician duties for the spring maintenance outage.
 
Sataro said:
Outstanding job on taking care of the student meals. For some students this is the only meal that they get in a day. So it is really beneficial to them.
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Here in Phoenix, the schools are providing meals to anyone under 18. Breakfast and lunch. The blind center is closed so I'm home. I still work as a computer consultant, but right now I'm only doing team viewer remote control consulting, and if someone has a hardware problem, they bring me their computer and I fix it here and then they come back and get it. And I wipe it down before I touch it!
 
Updated status-My part time railroad job has closed this week. City has offered me other options to continue working to make up my hours that I will miss. I think I will just sit home until this is mess is all over. Wife doesn't work, so we will just enjoy some time together. Plus I've been stocking up on pen kits for a while now. So I've got plenty of shop time ahead of me to enjoy. Hope everyone gets through this mess with no major complications in their life.
 
I'm a psychiatrist working embedded in a primary care setting, so i am going in every day. It's my patients who are staying home. For now i call them at home. Next week, we are going to start gearing up remote video appointments. Some time, i suppose that I'll be asked to stay home and video conference everything. One of the few perks of this whole thing is that the medical system is being forced to modernize over night.
 
pshrynk said:
I'm a psychiatrist working embedded in a primary care setting, so i am going in every day. It's my patients who are staying home. For now i call them at home. Next week, we are going to start gearing up remote video appointments. Some time, i suppose that I'll be asked to stay home and video conference everything. One of the few perks of this whole thing is that the medical system is being forced to modernize over night.
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Virtually all of our larger benefits clients have added coverage for tele-health this year, most were at the beginning of 2020, and the last few within the past 2 weeks. In addition, the virtual visits for minor conditions (which has been in place for a few years) is picking up volume. The virtual visits should not take the place of relationship with a primary care physician--which is where the tele-health has become valuable quickly.
From a plan design perspective, our general perception is that access to mental health providers seems to reduce the (often self-imposed) barrier to mental health services. Would be interested to hear your view on that topic--probably better off-line than to clutter this thread. Hopefully, your patients are responding well through telephonic means.
earl
 
Just started a three week lock down in the San Francisco Bay area. Work called to say they were temporarily laying me off - so now I have lots of time on my hands. I'm catching up on home projects and yard work. Today, after doing the yard, I opened the garage up and I'm getting it cleaned out. I would like to get going on some more Cigar Illusion pens and a couple of other ideas that have been hanging around for a while. We are fortunate because my wife is in health care. So job security is steady with her. I think I'm really going to enjoy my time off. Weather is nice and I don't mind being at home. I've also been enjoying turning spheres using the Soren Berger method. No hording of anything for me. I really don't understand the panic - especially in this area where people are so wealthy. We have a great neighborhood app that let's us keep in touch with each other and we are keeping an eye on our elderly and making sure they have what they need. There are others that work in health care and didn't have the luxury of getting supplies since they were working long hours. Now they go out to the store and it's cleaned out. So we are all pitching in to provide what is needed. It's a mix between people who are selfish or panicked and people who are generous.
There is still plenty of room out and about to go for a walk and breathe the clean air. It's also very quiet without all of the freeway noise. I never realized how noisy the freeway was, but now I can tell the difference.

Take care everyone.
 
I am splitting my time between home and office. I am the head of finance and we are working remotely as much as possible, but we still have to go in to pay some of the bills and make bank deposits 2x per week. My bookkeeper and I swap days in the building. Generally only one person at a time in our workplace.
 
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