Thank you. I have been doing the same, asking supervisors about working this way for years. Im fairly well paid now (this is still a kind of recent development for me) and have excellent benefits, so I can handle the expenses associated with commuting pretty easily, but lots of people arent so lucky. I hate to go all…

it will push employees even further into at-will jobs. Companies will look back at this and determine what they were “forced” to do in the way of benefits and support of their staff ... and they will do whatever they can to keep that from happening again. Companies look at staff as easily replaceable and convenient…

Unfortunately many employers do not ‘trust’ their employees to be productive unless they can see a body in a seat hunched over a laptop.

I’m a lawyer. I do mostly complex documents that help people when they are incapacitated, dying, or dead (to transfer assets). I don’t need to sit in an office to do this. Most of my clients will find me wherever I am via cellphone or email because I’m a bit of a a “specialist” and only one of two attorneys in my…

To be perfectly honest, I probably work more hours now from home than I did 6 months ago. As a programmer, I can pretty much work from anywhere. The flexibility to attack things as I see fit and not be interrupted by random junk has made me MUCH more productive the last two weeks. Happier too!

I feel bad for all the impacted folks. Our business has reserves to cover more paid leave than most (and we will get tax credits for PTO if the IRS doesn’t fuck us), but it still hurts and we now need to keep doing it for workers who lost their families’ other incomes.

Well, that’s the other thing. OK, send humanitarian medical supplies to China to help them deal with their outbreak. But did Trump or any of his administration take the initiative to resupply the deficit and ramp-up production for a  possible outbreak?

It’s “rally round the flag” affect. During times of crisis many - i.e. white -  Americans are reluctant to criticize the president (as long as he’s also white). It happened with JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Bush with 9/11. It’s temporary and knowing this lunatic, he’s going to burn through it pretty fast.

He needs a small audience and/or to go fireplace chat, Biden’s strengths are his decency and comeraderie not big speeches 

This format of skyping from his basement may be the best fit yet for Biden. In fact he did two more of these today: half an hour on The View this morning, mainly with Whoopi Goldberg, and half an hour with Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC this afternoon; both went quite well (and well-selected, as he’s obviously knownand been…

Feel better and try manuka honey for your cough and sinusitis. I swear by it.

I work in a pharmacy, so we are essential, and we have been overwhelmed the last two weeks. We've filled roughly 50% more prescriptions than ever before, and that's between state board mandated hourly cleanings of all high-touch surfaces and the waiting area. I'm exhausted.

Shelter Catstravaganza!

When the restrictive social distancing methods everyone’s complaining about is basically a description of how you already live your life.

It’s not about the virus killing people.

The co-worker with type 2 diabetes has been approved to work from home. “Oh, you poor dear. You should stay home and not get sick. But the stone we’re squeezing blood from? Yeah, we’re gonna need her family’s blood, too.”

Or they can vote by mail like civilized states do.  

that would be fascinating to see what direction the primary would go based on people’s opinion of how each candidate handles the pandemic crisis.

Damn, didn’t there used to be a way to star articles or something? I also read the Jez article about deifying black people the other day. The 15 minutes combined I spent reading both of these gave a more in-depth, comprehensive view on what happened on Tuesday than the hours of tv and talk radio since. Who knew that…