What's bugging you? (2020)

[TURBO]

Nope, it wasn't Buster... That I am 100% sure. I know and remember him.

[et bbal]

Sounds like it would something Andy Kaufman would do.

[TURBO]

Sounds like it would something Andy Kaufman would do.

 

Nope, not Andy Kaufman... He never went on to be a household name comedian. Probably pretty obscure.

 

Was just hoping someone had a memory the same as mine and maybe a clue for my search.

[homer]

Well we sports fans should have lots of time on our hands now to figure this out

[nodakfan17]

COVIN-19 will probably kill the XFL revival.

 

Trivial, considering it can kill actually people, but Vince McMahon purposely took 3 years to get it right and I appreciated the league for what it was. Some football is better than no football.

[stalton]

Well we sports fans should have lots of time on our hands now to figure this out

 

Steve Czaban was jokingly implying that sports talk radio was going change into video games and sports movie analysis

[OldSchoolSnapper]

COVIN-19 will probably kill the XFL revival.

 

Trivial, considering it can kill actually people, but Vince McMahon purposely took 3 years to get it right and I appreciated the league for what it was. Some football is better than no football.

 

I actually don't think it will. I think part of the plan was always eating a substantial loss in Year 1, something they did not plan for the first time. At least now there is no continued expense in producing the games. I think they will try again.

[MrTPlush]

So they canceled all the WIAA tourney events. Why? Well that is a good question because instead of being around a small number of people they now just have to go to school instead...where they closely interact with hundreds of people in close quarters.

 

This is getting to the point where things are getting canceled for no logical reason while things, like school...keep going on. Arguably one of the worst places while a virus goes on. Like the toilet paper craze. Everyone has a 2 months supply of TP now and I bet they have less than a weeks supply of food.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Cancelling school will be utter chaos. There are so many people who will not be able to work, or will be forced to leave too young of kids to stay home alone. It will just have devastating effects for so many people. It may be the right call at some point but I can see why they're reluctant to it.

 

The large corporations that remain open however, while almost all of the office functions can be done via VPN, are being negligent IMO. It's insane. They are waiting for 20 cases to pop up in Wauwatosa first, I guess.

[tmwiese55]

So they canceled all the WIAA tourney events. Why? Well that is a good question because instead of being around a small number of people they now just have to go to school instead...where they closely interact with hundreds of people in close quarters.

 

This is getting to the point where things are getting canceled for no logical reason while things, like school...keep going on. Arguably one of the worst places while a virus goes on. Like the toilet paper craze. Everyone has a 2 months supply of TP now and I bet they have less than a weeks supply of food.

 

Well, schools are going to be shut down.

 

For the WIAA. Yea, what did the girls have left? Like 8 total games in the next two days and without spectators. Don't think it would be crazy to finish that off. Boys too is so close to done, think you could get through this weekend without fans and then if there is huge escalation next week cancel or delay the finals. And this is coming from someone generally on board with all this stuff and that we should be cautious.

 

TP has been the dumbest part of this entire thing for me. Makes no sense to me. That should be very very low on the list of priorities if you're super worried about all this.

 

Another thing I'd say is in the overreact side is the "cancellations" of far out events. Like what's wrong with delaying or saying you're monitoring the situation and will decide later, while working on contingencies in the meantime. Take the Masters, it's a month away. Outdoor, players not on top of each other. Can't they just make a statement that as of now it's on but good chance we'll have to change. We'll update as the situation progresses. If this doesn't explode in the next two weeks it seems one that could be done without fans onsite. If this explodes, sure cancel it. But what's the rush this far in advance.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

So they canceled all the WIAA tourney events. Why? Well that is a good question because instead of being around a small number of people they now just have to go to school instead...where they closely interact with hundreds of people in close quarters.

 

This is getting to the point where things are getting canceled for no logical reason while things, like school...keep going on. Arguably one of the worst places while a virus goes on. Like the toilet paper craze. Everyone has a 2 months supply of TP now and I bet they have less than a weeks supply of food.

 

Well, schools are going to be shut down.

 

For the WIAA. Yea, what did the girls have left? Like 8 total games in the next two days and without spectators. Don't think it would be crazy to finish that off. Boys too is so close to done, think you could get through this weekend without fans and then if there is huge escalation next week cancel or delay the finals. And this is coming from someone generally on board with all this stuff and that we should be cautious.

 

TP has been the dumbest part of this entire thing for me. Makes no sense to me. That should be very very low on the list of priorities if you're super worried about all this.

 

Another thing I'd say is in the overreact side is the "cancellations" of far out events. Like what's wrong with delaying or saying you're monitoring the situation and will decide later, while working on contingencies in the meantime. Take the Masters, it's a month away. Outdoor, players not on top of each other. Can't they just make a statement that as of now it's on but good chance we'll have to change. We'll update as the situation progresses. If this doesn't explode in the next two weeks it seems one that could be done without fans onsite. If this explodes, sure cancel it. But what's the rush this far in advance.

 

A lot of the early cancellations are because of insurance policies. If you wait until a week beforehand and cancel it can void the policy because at that point it isn't an unforeseen circumstance, it's something you ignored for 3 weeks. Generalizing here and can't apply it to everything but something to consider.

[OldHeidelberg]

Cancelling school will be utter chaos. There are so many people who will not be able to work, or will be forced to leave too young of kids to stay home alone. It will just have devastating effects for so many people. It may be the right call at some point but I can see why they're reluctant to it.

 

The large corporations that remain open however, while almost all of the office functions can be done via VPN, are being negligent IMO. It's insane. They are waiting for 20 cases to pop up in Wauwatosa first, I guess.

 

My company is pretty much built to work from home, we even ran a pandemic test just a couple of years ago yet the owners have not even sent an email on it yet. There are still people out there who just won't believe it is really a problem for Wisconsin until it really arrives I guess and I know my owners are that type. Amazing how the conversation changed yesterday once the sports leagues shut down.

[nate82]

Whenever I tell someone I can work from home they are like oh that is wonderful I would love to work from home. I absolutely hate working from home I had to do it last week for a resiliency test because of the Coronavirus. Long story short I lost track of time and when I looked at my phone it was 7:30pm and I had been sitting at my desk working on stuff since 6am and I had only taken a 15min break for lunch.

 

I absolutely hate working from home.

[nodakfan17]

Here’s what bugs me about the WIAA Girls’ Basketball Tournament:

 

The teams were already in Green Bay. Some had even played a game. Thousands of people brought their out-of-town germs to a county without a single Coronavirus case (knock on wood). The damage was done. At least play the games.

[young guns]

Whenever I tell someone I can work from home they are like oh that is wonderful I would love to work from home. I absolutely hate working from home I had to do it last week for a resiliency test because of the Coronavirus. Long story short I lost track of time and when I looked at my phone it was 7:30pm and I had been sitting at my desk working on stuff since 6am and I had only taken a 15min break for lunch.

 

I absolutely hate working from home.

That sucks. Just a suggestion maybe set some alarms at break times so you dont forget?

[PeaveyFury]

Whenever I tell someone I can work from home they are like oh that is wonderful I would love to work from home. I absolutely hate working from home I had to do it last week for a resiliency test because of the Coronavirus. Long story short I lost track of time and when I looked at my phone it was 7:30pm and I had been sitting at my desk working on stuff since 6am and I had only taken a 15min break for lunch.

 

I absolutely hate working from home.

 

Same. I thought it would be a refreshing change to my work week when we started last Tuesday. That was true for a day or two, but by the end of the week it felt pretty isolating.

[TURBO]

Given what we know now, it REALLY bugs me that with so many things shutting down, my school district has decided to stay open until after Wednesday's school day ends.

 

For the next 3 days, I'll be in a complete germ field. Knowing full well the rest of the world is shutting down, yet here we are, impossible to keep any social distance, watching kids sneeze and cough into the open air, etc, etc...

 

If Evers shut schools down starting Wednesday, why didn't he just do it starting Monday?

 

Ok, I'll even say going to school Monday is probably ok, let us touch base with our students, explain what they should be doing over this shutdown, etc...

 

But why Tuesday and Wednesday?

 

It's asinine.

[TURBO]

District Update:

 

My district has school through Wednesday, then on Thursday and Friday, teachers are required to report.

 

Geez... It just gets more ridiculous as time goes by.

[PeaveyFury]

District Update:

 

My district has school through Wednesday, then on Thursday and Friday, teachers are required to report.

 

Geez... It just gets more ridiculous as time goes by.

 

My wife's is the same, and she's equally frustrated. I think the Wednesday thing was to give districts and parents a chance to plan, but I think the weekend was largely devoted to sorting this stuff out anyway.

[MrTPlush]

Being a person who is remote as is I am going to be a bit upset if I don’t get to work from home soon. Usually I drive 40 minutes to sit in a companies crammed office that requires a space heater in the winter to stay warm. All so I can open up my computer and work on it...I could do that at home. Sometimes I go to different places and must go in, but a large majority I’m just wasting my time and gas.

 

I kind of look forward to doing what I should be able to do any other day for once.

[pacopete4]

My district simply shut things down on Friday as kids left for the day. If we need to grab anything left behind at our schools, we need to grab it tomorrow. Other than that, it’s shutdown, as it should be.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Whenever I tell someone I can work from home they are like oh that is wonderful I would love to work from home. I absolutely hate working from home I had to do it last week for a resiliency test because of the Coronavirus. Long story short I lost track of time and when I looked at my phone it was 7:30pm and I had been sitting at my desk working on stuff since 6am and I had only taken a 15min break for lunch.

 

I absolutely hate working from home.

 

Same. I thought it would be a refreshing change to my work week when we started last Tuesday. That was true for a day or two, but by the end of the week it felt pretty isolating.

 

when I worked for a telecom company on the internal help desk, I worked for four years from home. WHen I started working from home, they did a survey and asked the 30 of us what we thought would be the pros and cons of working at home (No pants!) and I couldn't think of any cons. After 3 years those of us still on the WAH program took another survey, and I listed "an overwhelming sense of isolation" as one of the cons. There were weeks where I wouldn't leave the house unless my wife was like "dude, you look like a hobo".

 

Working at home seems like it would be awesome, but it's not. There's a lot of drawbacks, and isolation is probably the biggest one.

[TURBO]

My district simply shut things down on Friday as kids left for the day. If we need to grab anything left behind at our schools, we need to grab it tomorrow. Other than that, it’s shutdown, as it should be.

 

That seems like the prudent thing to do...I don't understand how we can shut down, but still have teachers gathering. Knowing my district, they will have us in some kind of in-service, all in the same space...

 

Grrrr.

[nate82]

 

Same. I thought it would be a refreshing change to my work week when we started last Tuesday. That was true for a day or two, but by the end of the week it felt pretty isolating.

 

when I worked for a telecom company on the internal help desk, I worked for four years from home. WHen I started working from home, they did a survey and asked the 30 of us what we thought would be the pros and cons of working at home (No pants!) and I couldn't think of any cons. After 3 years those of us still on the WAH program took another survey, and I listed "an overwhelming sense of isolation" as one of the cons. There were weeks where I wouldn't leave the house unless my wife was like "dude, you look like a hobo".

 

Working at home seems like it would be awesome, but it's not. There's a lot of drawbacks, and isolation is probably the biggest one.

 

Isolation is the biggest drawback. I am not 100% social at my workplace due to my job being extremely demanding of my time especially when there are back to back meetings from when I get in to about 11am. When I do have some free time to stretch my legs and talk with the people around me it is a nice break in the day. Plus I prefer working at the office as I normally go to the bar across the street for lunch and have a beer or two. That allows me to relax and distress before coming back to work it also allows me to catch up on sports and news for the day or send out some text messages or phone calls.

[GAME05]

I went into a McDonalds and their tv-type menu included an ad where for 10 seconds you could no longer see the menu. Super annoying.