Poll: Rep Retirement Lodge 204: Covid 19

[Swansong]

Jesus. What the hell happened to this place? I take a few months off from here (work has been nuts - working in healthcare IT during a pandemic is time consuming) and suddenly the board is a disaster too?

 

[leswp1]

Jesus. What the hell happened to this place? I take a few months off from here (work has been nuts - working in healthcare IT during a pandemic is time consuming) and suddenly the board is a disaster too?

It is a conspiracy to drive us all away. It is awful.
Can't imagine trying to work how to document and track in all this crazy.

Good Evening Lodge!

The wind blew my plants off my deck. P00p! We picked the stuff out of the veggie garden before it hit 20 cukes and 40 tomatoes. The tomatoes are going to be ridiculous if they all make it.

 

[ericredaxe]

Jesus. What the hell happened to this place? I take a few months off from here (work has been nuts - working in healthcare IT during a pandemic is time consuming) and suddenly the board is a disaster too?

The new format is awful and I’d guess that posting is way down because of it.

 

[The Rube]

The new format is awful and I’d guess that posting is way down because of it.

The above isn't a guess.

Evening, Lodge. A couple gas stations around me are now only doing debit/credit cards due to the coin shortage. Yay.

 

[The Rube]

Just booked a second weekend in Houghton/Eagle River for next summer....with some beer geeks. They have never been. This should be a complete sh*show.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

Good morning to tLodge!

Survived the storm but lots of tree damage all over. No power since 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Today ought to be fun...

 

[Ralph Baer]

Good Morning, MEUSA!


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

The above isn't a guess.

Evening, Lodge. A couple gas stations around me are now only doing debit/credit cards due to the coin shortage. Yay.

I didn't know that there is a coin shortage. Considering how little people pay in cash, that is surprising.

 

[ericredaxe]

I didn't know that there is a coin shortage. Considering how little people pay in cash, that is surprising.

I think it is because the coins that people do get in change when using cash are not making their way back into the circulation (bank lobbies are closed etc) so they are all sitting in peoples piggy banks.

 

[Scarlet]

My brother is running out of quarters to do his laundry. He went to the supermarket and wanted to pay in cash so he could get change, and instead the supermarket was giving change as points (or credit) on their loyalty account. I asked him what if you didn't have one?? He thought maybe they would put in a gift card. Then he went to three banks and none of them had coins. I said his building manager should swap out the coin part of the machines with a card reader. How will people be able to do laundry if all that is available are coin operated machines? I have coins but I think it would be hard to ship. Unless I roll them and put in a box with lots of padding?

 

[The Rube]

I think it is because the coins that people do get in change when using cash are not making their way back into the circulation (bank lobbies are closed etc) so they are all sitting in peoples piggy banks.

That's most likely the biggest reason for the shortage. I always have coin jars, and cash them in once a year before my vacation. Had about $250 this year.

 

[Swansong]

I have a giant coin jar and my bank is offering (or was) some sort of bonus for trading in coins for foldin' money.

 

[leswp1]

I have a giant coin jar and my bank is offering (or was) some sort of bonus for trading in coins for foldin' money.

Shoot- we could have a field day if they did this for our banks. We have a big Tupperware canister that mr les drops all his change in. And a can of pennies that we have had from about 25 yrs ago- at least 30$ worth.

Good Afternoon Lodge!
Did a CEU thing this morning and cleaned my whole armoire desk during it.
We had massive winds that blew the pots off the deck. They are very heavy so it was impressive. Luckily never lost power

 

[Scarlet]

Just got word that we are on mandatory work from home through end of 2020. We were supposed to do a pilot return in two large offices mid September, but that's been pushed to January. Since we won't go back till after the pilot, I probably won't be back in the office till March. So, I guess I will move forward with my plan to re-arrange my second bedroom, call 1-800-GOT-JUNK and have them remove the big roll top desk and the large TV with picture tube. Then I will buy a smaller desk and order a monitor that I can use at home. And a new TV for my living room and move my living room TV into that second bedroom. Or so I say. May not happen. But I really should try to make it happen!

 

[leswp1]

Just got word that we are on mandatory work from home through end of 2020. We were supposed to do a pilot return in two large offices mid September, but that's been pushed to January. Since we won't go back till after the pilot, I probably won't be back in the office till March. So, I guess I will move forward with my plan to re-arrange my second bedroom, call 1-800-GOT-JUNK and have them remove the big roll top desk and the large TV with picture tube. Then I will buy a smaller desk and order a monitor that I can use at home. And a new TV for my living room and move my living room TV into that second bedroom. Or so I say. May not happen. But I really should try to make it happen!

I had a continuing ed thing this morning online and spent the time rearranging my armoire desk while I watched/listened. I figured if I am going to be on my laptop for 8 hrs a day doing virtual clinical. I also probably need to relace my laptop. Turns out it is 3 yrs old instead of 5 but if the paycheck is coming in it would probably be smart to get one while there are back to school sales and we are having the second paycheck.

Last week I ordered curtains for the bedroom. They don't match the current paint so that will force me to do something about repainting it.

Now, if I can muster the mental energy to follow thru that would be good.

 

[Swansong]

BILH has no plans for remote employees (like me!) to come back to the office any time soon, and my CIO said he had no intention at all of bringing us back this year and maybe not even ever. Our office building's lease expires next summer anyway so we were going to have to move. Now we may just combine with some open office area we are leasing and most people will just be remote in perpetuity.

That's led my girlfriend and I to look at houses further from Boston, which has been very nice. You get a whole lot more house in Lowell than in Waltham...

 

[Ralph Baer]

My brother is running out of quarters to do his laundry. He went to the supermarket and wanted to pay in cash so he could get change, and instead the supermarket was giving change as points (or credit) on their loyalty account. I asked him what if you didn't have one?? He thought maybe they would put in a gift card. Then he went to three banks and none of them had coins. I said his building manager should swap out the coin part of the machines with a card reader. How will people be able to do laundry if all that is available are coin operated machines? I have coins but I think it would be hard to ship. Unless I roll them and put in a box with lots of padding?

We use a card for the machines in our condo. We can add many using a credit card using a machine in an obscure corner of the lobby. I think that machine also takes bills.
The only problem was when they changed companies several years ago, and I lost $20 of $30 on the card from the other company. I now don't add a lot of money at one time. I also kept the old card in case they go back to the previous company the next time the contract is up for renewal.

 

[St. Clown]

I have a giant coin jar and my bank is offering (or was) some sort of bonus for trading in coins for foldin' money.

A Wisconsin bank made the news because they were offering $5 bonus for every $50 of coins cashed in.

And my office has been steadily moving back our date of returning to the office. Yesterday we were pushed back to October 1. I fully expect it to be an even later date once September starts. This crap ain’t goin’ away no time soon.

 

[leswp1]

More and more schools in our area are going online. Know a bunch of people who have been told they will not be going into office in the foreseeable future. The school I work for is going to go forward- full court press. (Read their plan- it is not going to go well)

Saw something the other day about how this is causing a reassessment on the part of many people about what they 'need' vs what they 'want'. People were going a million miles an hour, not stopping to think about what they were purchasing or what the impact would be. Now things are more complicated, people are thinking before purchasing, making plans. So this has accomplished what nothing else has been able to. It has made people consider consequences.

This is surely true for our household. Not only do we have to think about the $$ but we have to think of if it will cause risk to being able to work. I never thought I would be so excited to get a pizza (I can tell you how many times we have eaten outside food since March) or so sad when they messed it up.

 

[The Rube]

More and more schools in our area are going online. Know a bunch of people who have been told they will not be going into office in the foreseeable future. The school I work for is going to go forward- full court press. (Read their plan- it is not going to go well)

Saw something the other day about how this is causing a reassessment on the part of many people about what they 'need' vs what they 'want'. People were going a million miles an hour, not stopping to think about what they were purchasing or what the impact would be. Now things are more complicated, people are thinking before purchasing, making plans. So this has accomplished what nothing else has been able to. It has made people consider consequences.

This is surely true for our household. Not only do we have to think about the $$ but we have to think of if it will cause risk to being able to work. I never thought I would be so excited to get a pizza (I can tell you how many times we have eaten outside food since March) or so sad when they messed it up.

I, for the most part, only shop at local/small businesses. There are a couple exceptions. Talking with the employees/owners, they have noticed an uptick in their business, relatively, due to the Rona. Many have realized that to keep these places open, we have to buy from them more often. I have mentioned before, one local brewery had to shut down for 2 weeks because they ran out of beer. They couldn't make it fast enough. People knew they wouldn't survive this pandemic if they didn't buy from them.

As for work-at-home, this will cause a major economic shift as more companies realized that their employees CAN work from home, and everything is still very productive. We're talking letting the brick-mortar buildings being empty, and maybe forcing cities to re-zone, or spot-zone, etc., just to fill that space. It'll also possibly affect the business construction industry. Why build new buildings with all these vacancies?