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Covid !!

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Had Covid twice … most recently about a month ago…. Funnily enough I worked all the way through the lockdowns coming into contact with lots of different people and travelling all over the uk which was part of my job… but I didn’t get it until the January after everywhere had opened up again.
Was annoyed though that I had to take a week off recently without pay.
 
tommye said:
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Hahahahaha, I see what you did there bruv lol
 

I was a contractor at the time and the industry wasn’t equipped to handle people working from home. I lived by myself and for the first 6 weeks of lockdown nobody could go into work. There was a time when we didn’t know if we were going to be paid but then we were told we would be after a week or so. I’d go on a walk and go the super market every day just to try and have some structure to my day and see people. For me I loved lockdown, I used to smoke weed and being off for 6 weeks paid I smoked it every day, I’d build a fire pit every night in the garden. It was bliss. The problem came when the world opened up and smoking so much weed in an isolated environment caught up with me. Luckily by the time the 2nd lockdown came my now fiancé had moved in with me. I worked from home and she was a teacher so worked at home for some of it. Eventually the pressure schools were under at the time became too much for my partner and she ended up leaving the profession. I lost my job as a contractor and now work permanently for a rival bank to who I worked for as a contractor. She’s had a full career change into the private sector for a business that delivers D&I training to businesses all over the world. Funny how much Covid impacted our lives even outside of the illness itself. Unless something comes along with a massive mortality rate no other generation is going to experience something like this again. I still work from home mostly but go into the office twice a week, my Mrs works from home full time.
 
PITA said:
I love the post-COVID work routine. Working from home means I get up at 8 or 8:30 in the morning. I used to commute into London every day. Always been something of an insomniac.

This week I have to be in London for 3 days which means getting up at 5:30. I’m like a zombie even at this time. I don’t know how I used to do it.
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On the flip side, it really did mess some people up.

My crazy mate, who hid away for over a year, kept his son who was four at the time, locked up in the house for months and as a result his kid has now got some real behavioural problems.

A mate who is a primary school teacher, tells similar tales of kids who are almost a couple of years behind in their development, as a result of being kept indoors for months and months and not mixing with other kids.
 
COYBL25 said:
On the flip side, it really did mess some people up.

My crazy mate, who hid away for over a year, kept his son who was four at the time, locked up in the house for months and as a result his kid has now got some real behavioural problems.

A mate who is a primary school teacher, tells similar tales of kids who are almost a couple of years behind in their development, as a result of being kept indoors for months and months and not mixing with other kids.
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Yeah, I know. Swings and roundabouts.
 

PITA said:
I love the post-COVID work routine. Working from home means I get up at 8 or 8:30 in the morning. I used to commute into London every day. Always been something of an insomniac.

This week I have to be in London for 3 days which means getting up at 5:30. I’m like a zombie even at this time. I don’t know how I used to do it.
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Same - I was lucky to live close by to my old job so only traveled for 30-45 min to work (and the same back obvs but we had paid taxis for the late shifts I guess), but still had to prepare and all that, and working in the middle of the city is tough on finances too cuz everything is double priced, etc.

I switched jobs to a "remote-first" company and now feel zombified when I have to go into the office once every week or two lol No idea how I got up early often and stayed late and was on call etc.

I also see problems like the ones @COYBL25 mentioned above though, some friends of friends are in a similar boat to the mentioned ones; my cousin and his wife's kid barely socialised as he was born bang in the middle of COVID so his first year or so was his parents or maybe an occasional friend/family member visiting... Kinda sad really.
 

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