afternoon update, Friday March 20
Mar. 20th, 2020 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThis is mostly Covid-19 related stuff:
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The rental company is still trying to figure out how to deal with New York's new "only 25% of your staff can be in the office" rule.
The immediate result is that I will not be in the office tomorrow; Miss California will be on her own. This is partly because Saturdays are always slow except for tours (and we're past the frantic exodus of last weekend), and partly because we have a new policy that nobody can touch anyone else's computer. So I can't use Mom Boss's desk and computer like I usually do on weekends, and I will have to sterilize my desk and keyboard very thoroughly before I leave tonight. (We have ordered a second keyboard -- wireless, like the current one -- so Miss California and I will each have our own, but the spare hasn't arrive yet. *sigh*)
We'll probably also cut back office hours starting next week, but the details are still up in the air as we wait for further instructions from the state and also for Lawyer Man (our local COO) to make some decisions.
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As for Not the IRS, well, the federal filing deadline got pushed back to July 15 as of about 10am this morning, as per a tweet from Trump's administration. (Sidenote: what the fuck even??? Couldn't you rise to the level of basic professionalism and call a press conference, or at least issue a news brief? Government by Twitter is fucking embarrassing.) The company has yet to issue any guidance on what employees and offices should do.
At the moment, I'm still on the schedule for Sunday afternoon and I still have a confirmed appointment, so until I hear otherwise I plan to go in as scheduled.
Which will be slightly cheaper than usual, since TCAT has suspended all bus fares until after April 9, in an effort to provide some financial aid to passengers who are taking a hit from all the closures. They are also limiting buses to 20 passengers maximum, and spraying everything down with high-powered cleaners every night.
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My eye exam proceeded as scheduled on Tuesday, but the Visionworks office is now closing through April 4th so there's probably going to be a delay on picking up my new glasses. This is okay! My current pair still let me see just fine; the main reason I'm replacing them is that the right lens has a small but deep scratch and both lenses are losing bits of the anti-glare coating around the edges.
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I guess I will use my unexpectedly free Saturday to work on some writing, some internet organizational stuff, and maybe also making a batch of bean soup, which I've been meaning to do for a couple weeks but keep forgetting to actually get around to.
If I dump the beans into a bowl to soak overnight, that will force me to deal with them tomorrow. :)
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The rental company is still trying to figure out how to deal with New York's new "only 25% of your staff can be in the office" rule.
The immediate result is that I will not be in the office tomorrow; Miss California will be on her own. This is partly because Saturdays are always slow except for tours (and we're past the frantic exodus of last weekend), and partly because we have a new policy that nobody can touch anyone else's computer. So I can't use Mom Boss's desk and computer like I usually do on weekends, and I will have to sterilize my desk and keyboard very thoroughly before I leave tonight. (We have ordered a second keyboard -- wireless, like the current one -- so Miss California and I will each have our own, but the spare hasn't arrive yet. *sigh*)
We'll probably also cut back office hours starting next week, but the details are still up in the air as we wait for further instructions from the state and also for Lawyer Man (our local COO) to make some decisions.
-----
As for Not the IRS, well, the federal filing deadline got pushed back to July 15 as of about 10am this morning, as per a tweet from Trump's administration. (Sidenote: what the fuck even??? Couldn't you rise to the level of basic professionalism and call a press conference, or at least issue a news brief? Government by Twitter is fucking embarrassing.) The company has yet to issue any guidance on what employees and offices should do.
At the moment, I'm still on the schedule for Sunday afternoon and I still have a confirmed appointment, so until I hear otherwise I plan to go in as scheduled.
Which will be slightly cheaper than usual, since TCAT has suspended all bus fares until after April 9, in an effort to provide some financial aid to passengers who are taking a hit from all the closures. They are also limiting buses to 20 passengers maximum, and spraying everything down with high-powered cleaners every night.
-----
My eye exam proceeded as scheduled on Tuesday, but the Visionworks office is now closing through April 4th so there's probably going to be a delay on picking up my new glasses. This is okay! My current pair still let me see just fine; the main reason I'm replacing them is that the right lens has a small but deep scratch and both lenses are losing bits of the anti-glare coating around the edges.
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I guess I will use my unexpectedly free Saturday to work on some writing, some internet organizational stuff, and maybe also making a batch of bean soup, which I've been meaning to do for a couple weeks but keep forgetting to actually get around to.
If I dump the beans into a bowl to soak overnight, that will force me to deal with them tomorrow. :)
