Kate
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Or, unfortunately sometimes it’s people who have been seen to have an attitude or be difficult.
It’s the more expensive people who are less of workhorses / less versatile.
Yeah, a lot of people I know are being laid off now / past few months. I hope it’s not you! Not that it’s fun to be one of the ones left, but it’s way better than job searching during a pandemic.
Lol, boomers could never handle this. They would just have to be like, “go outside and play, and you can repeat 5th grade next year.”
You know what’s crazy, my parents worked from home in the early 80s. Largely they were in the office but could wfh.
They worked for a computer company, and they could dial into a modem and check their “mail messages” and actually somehow work. They took the landline receiver and physically stuck it in this box thingy to connect, and if one of us picked up the other line it was a total disaster. One of them would typically be around in the afternoon while we were little kids, but actually just up in their office not paying any attention to what we were doing.
Also, my mom used to make slides for presentations, which, like, you drew? Or made on the computer and printed out and an admin turned them into transparencies. Once I tried to wake her up after I had a nightmare, and she mumbled, “let’s make a slide and review it.”
My Sorel boots sometimes hurt my shins, I felt like maybe they were making the seam of my jeans dig into my bone or something.
@Wendy, there is a percentage of women who agree the HH labor is shared, but there’s a big disconnect between how many women say that vs. men. I’ve been looking at a lot of stats on women in the pandemic for work. It’s pretty bad. It’s rarely the man who thinks about stepping away from work or taking a less demanding job.
And because we’re an investment company, we’re looking at it also from the angle of the financial impact to a woman’s retirement savings if she even takes a year off from work.
I’ve had Sorel snow boots and they are warm as hell, but heavy!
Last spring we went in a store and tried on the Canada Goose jackets, and goddamn. I sort of get the hype. It made my husband look like a fashion model. And it felt so good. The price tag is absurd, but.
Also, Ugg boots, of all types. I’m sorry, but they are just so comfortable and lightweight. I have white snow boots, the short brown classic boots, a Moto boot that’s waterproof, and slippers! I used to hate the idea of Ugg’s but I’m a convert. I like my fleece lined timberlands too.
I feel like kindergartners, moms, and people in nursing homes are having the worst time.
Moms are really fucked. Like one in four are thinking about leaving the workforce. And right now only 55% of women are IN the workforce. Men think they’re sharing the household burden, but women don’t agree.
Based on what the TV doctors are saying today, no one should be getting together for the holidays at all.
Agree, just be honest. Like my boss is talking as if everything she does is “distanced” with masks, but that is 100% not true, as I saw when I got there. And she claims to be in two “bubbles,” but obviously her direct reports she invited over are not part of either of those bubbles, so that’s BS too.
