The following are my five favorite recipes from a 1950s publication The Ford Treasury of Famous Recipes from Famous Eating Places.
I recently changed departments at the State and went to 100% in office for the month of February. Talk about difficult! In March, I went to a hybrid M/W/F in office. I like that schedule. Being a social person, it was like a prison sentence being confined to home. Now eerily quiet, sometimes I am the only person working at my cubicle on the entire floor.
The Department I work for is moving toward a return to office. All have been informed if they want to keep their offices, they will need to return a minimum of three days a week. If not, they will be sharing an office with 1 or more individuals. If a person chooses to remain 100% remote, there will be no office to return to.
I think it is long past time that people return. You tend to develop anti-social tendencies. The majority of people don't even appear on camera for remote meetings. So not only do you not see them in the office, you don't even see them remotely. It will be interesting when we finally all meet in person at mandated monthly meetings.
I have also applied for a parking spot in a desired downtown structure. It is my hope some of those never-returners will be giving up their monthly parking spaces.
Those recipes looked interesting from days long gone by :)
ReplyDeleteI bet it would be strange to return to the office after being remote for so long. I worked temp jobs pretty much throughout the pandemic that had to be done in an office setting (opening up mail for unemployment and now working processing termed employees for a major grocery store). However, the majority of the workers still have not returned to in house though plans are for them to start returning in May, albeit on a hybrid schedule like you mentioned with days in the office and days at home. It is eyrie how empty the office is and the parking structure. In fact I did a post about it for E for Empty. I had worked at home for 30 years prior to these temp jobs and enjoyed doing so, but now working outside the home and among people, it really is nice and I am finding I like it a bit more than all the years I worked from home.
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I love those recipe pages!
ReplyDeleteRemote work does not suit me at all -- having clients "in my house" (via camera) is just... *shudder*
All kinds of NO, thank you.
I'm very glad that things in my line of work have largely returned to "normal."