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Post by tracyarts on Apr 14, 2020 23:46:22 GMT
Yes, my husband has coworkers (auto insurance industry) who are field appraisers, who are still having to go out and personally inspect damaged vehicles and property that has been damaged by insured's vehicles. They're doing as much as possible via photos, phone, and video calls. But some claims are complicated enough that damages have to be documented and assessed in person. That can be anywhere, so no way to do it no-contact. His one coworker in particular he has started training for a transfer into an office position is anxious about having to go out around people all day, but is wearing masks and keeping as much distance as possible.
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Post by Why on Apr 15, 2020 9:40:46 GMT
Yes. Neighbor does repair/install furnaces (some days are short due to work load) and family member working supervisor grocery business (but he is working 7 days a week).
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Post by artbabe on Apr 15, 2020 12:32:18 GMT
My ex works in audio-visual design/installation. There are usually about 40 people at his company. Now it is just the president and him. Evidently he is the only one who is "essential". They laid off a portion of the company and the rest are working at home. He knows more about the business than a lot of people there and he actually does the physical putting equipment together so he can't work from home. He is only making 2/3 of his normal salary- the people working from home are down to 2/3s, too.
He said it was creepy until he decided to take his dog to work with him. Now he says a lot of the time it is better than having all of the other people bugging him.
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Post by ModChick on Apr 15, 2020 15:58:49 GMT
I’m still working but a lot has changed. I work at a bank. I have 8 coworkers and we normally work m-f 830-5pm with 7 of us there (2 are part time tellers that split the week).
Now, we are working in 2 teams with no overlap. Meaning team one has 5 people and my team 2 has 3 of us and we rotate 2 weeks in branch 2 weeks at home. We’ve been told to self isolate during our two weeks at home and cannot visit any banking center so as not to expose each other. It’s weird not seeing half the team but we now group text each other many many times a day. We are a tight branch and miss seeing each other.
We work client facing 10-4pm but are in branch from about 830-430. We now have sneeze guards up and many clients comment that it’s like the old days with the big piece of plexiglass separating us. We sanitize often but don’t have super easy access to a sink (it’s in the basement) so using a ton of hand sanitizer. We have signs everywhere restricting access to 2 people at the atms in total and one person inside bank at a time. Everyone else stays lined up outside. We have floor stickers that indicate where to stand. No in office meetings and the bank has quickly been able to adapt to mostly online or over the phone for mostly everything. A few things that clients need to come in to sign which they do at a counter while the FSR / FA keeps their distance and so on. Safety deposit box access is prebooked and we ask a lot of prescreen questions
I have to say 95% of people have really appreciated these changes. We are located in a small farming/orchard community and have a high senior population. We also have senior only hour in the am during and after pension cheque day. And we have front of the line service for seniors. This is harder though because we have so many seniors that we’d never get to the other clients if we always brought each senior to our front of the line with only one teller working. I’m sure this is a fabulous new policy for some of our locations across the country but we’ve not been about to utilize it much, errrr maybe more accurate to say we haven’t needed to since most of the line are seniors.
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Post by gale w on Apr 15, 2020 16:49:09 GMT
My son is. He disinfects all surfaces in his office between customers (he's a car salesman) and wears a mask whenever he's talking to a customer. Lots of hand sanitizer too. He says the masks are "useless fabric ones". 🤔
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Post by SunnySmile on Apr 15, 2020 16:53:50 GMT
My daughter, who runs an Amazon store for her company's business is expected to come in, even after she requested to work from home. There are only 5 people in her office, and they could all work from home, but the boss says no. It's like he's afraid they won't work or something if he lets them work from home. Dd is pretty miffed about it, but on the bright side, it's easy for them to social distance.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 15, 2020 17:05:49 GMT
I have one kid that works outside about 55 hours a week for work and another one who is indoors in a job where he is considered essential. Most of the people are working from home in this business, but his department is testing and writing the handbooks for creating the objects, so he has to go in. His fiancee is in healthcare and it was good to hear all of the precautions they are taking. She has to change clothes (scrubs) anytime she goes in certain rooms.
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Post by used2scrap on Apr 15, 2020 18:03:32 GMT
The people I know still physically going to work aren't really regular 9-5 jobs; FEMA, military, firemen, paramedics, plumbing construction, hvac repair, healthcare and a cable lineman. Everyone else I know is working from home (teachers, some 9-5 jobs) or non essential military hanging out at home.
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Post by gale w on Apr 15, 2020 18:52:12 GMT
I guess my husband is still working like normal. He's never around anyone though.
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