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Originally Posted by rechu
My work is pretty solitary too. My last job was mostly remote, but I had to deal with co-workers more through chat and online meetings. Unfortunately, the atmosphere with co-workers there was pretty toxic. It felt like junior high, lots of catty backstabbing, so it wasn't ideal either. Here it's mainly just chat/e-mails with one of the owners and the operations manager but the advantage is they are nice to deal with. My husband is a lawyer and he's always on Zoom calls, Zoom court hearings, calling clients, talking to the other lawyers, I sometimes think it might be nice to have more interaction like that.
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Yes, I also think a bit more interaction would be nice. We have the occassional meeting on Teams, maybe once a month, but it's usually pretty short. A lot of people in the team - like me - have started when we were already in home office, so we never met. It does make for a different atmosphere, I think. Everyone is super nice but you don't really get to know anyone. In my last job, our team was pretty close knit. Everyone had their own tasks and we communicated about work stuff through chat, but obviously it's different when you see each other at the office every day.
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Originally Posted by rechu
The way it has dragged on for so long, has definitely made it tough, hasn't it? These constant threats of being sent back to full quarantine, which is has even MORE restrictive rules than last year, is doing my head in. I obsessively look at the local active cases here in fear of getting some bad news that we are going to be locked down.
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Yes! Especially now there's talk about losening restrictions. As much as I want life to go back to normal, I'm worried the numbers are going to rise again and then we'll be back to square one. They're losening up quite a bit back home, I'm glad they seem more sensible here. For me personally, nothing will change with schools opening or people under 27 being allowed to do group sports again. I'll still be in home office and concerts are still a good while off. But I'll suffer if numbers go back up and this keeps lasting longer and longer or we go back to stricter lockdown.