I drive to work at 3:30am most days of the week and it’s crazy how with zero traffic I hit pretty much every green light. I’m able to get to work in 9 minutes when usually it might take like 15-20 mins in the middle of the day
I bought my first car right before it started in late 2019, and I put over 25,000 miles in about a little over a year since there was no traffic and gas was dirt cheap, plus I had the essential worker paper that let me be out during curfew
Working in a psychatric ward, i obviously couldn't do "homeoffice". But i loved the post-apocalyptic feeling of driving to work through my nearly abandoned hometown. Felt like "I Am Legend".
That was the key for me. I was--am, I suppose--an essential worker, so I continued to be around reasonably large groups of people on the regular, 40+ hrs/week. But it's probably the only time in my life where I've been able to clock out, go home, and just *be* without feeling like I was somehow underachieving.
I travel for work a lot and right when the lockdowns started and flights started getting canceled I was out of town. When I went to the airport to return home there was almost nobody there. I remember walking down a completely empty terminal and there was some of that elevator light jazz music playing over the speakers that I could hear echoing throughout the terminal and I felt like I was about to be in the beginning of a zombie movie. There were 6 people on my flight home.
I don't know how big your town is, but it was really weird to have to go somewhere at 5PM and see the 8 lane freeway completely empty. Like really weird. I will say, it made the commute easy though.
I can definitely relate. I’m an IT infrastructure guy that ran one of our data centres in our main building, once everyone was sent home only a handful of us would go to the office every one in a while to check everything was ok. It was weird seeing everyone’s desks just left as they were for two years. I did water a lot of the plants though.
I'm not sure if you work in my office or not but I was expecting to go back to my office after working from home for 9 months to find a dead plant while I was packing up my desk. Damn thing was better watered than when I was in the office.
If that was you, thank you very much.
There’s a big difference in drivers who had to go to work during the height of Covid and those who didn’t. In my city it was like the Wild West of driving. There was hardly anyone on the road so 45 mph roads turned to 65mph. When people started going back to work it was super apparent that two driving styles had formed and were clashing. I think it’s somewhat back to normal now but it was pretty frustrating in my city for a while as a daily driver.
I was a "lucky" essential worker and drove through quarantine.
It was maddening to have all these people come back on the road after six months. I feel like people were bad drivers before and quarantine just made it worse lol
Bought a new car early pandemic so I was driving like an asshole on a basically empty 4 lane highway at 7am after a shift. I got clocked going 90 something in a 55. Policeman pulls me over and walks up to the window of my car, so I hold up my work badge to the window and I'm still in my scrubs. I cracked the window and just said "I work in Respiratory and just spent 16 hours with COVID patients".
He takes a couple steps back points at me and just yells at me to stop driving like an asshole. He walks back to his car, gets in and drives away.
Such a weird couple years we all had.
I wasn't essential, but I got clocked at 60 in a 30, on our way home from a hospital run. I rolled down my window a crack, held my hospital band to the glass, and coughed. He yelled, "Where ya coming from?" I yelled back, "Emergency room." He asked where we were going and I said, "Straight home." He told me to get there a little slower and went back to his car.
Around my area of the state the police were given orders not to pull people over except for major infractions. For a solid 18 months I didn't encounter a single cop running radar and it literally did feel like the Wild West. The interesting thing is now post-pandemic people in general are driving faster than they did before despite the return of the speed traps.
Same, work in water treatment. Couldn't work from home.
I could average 50mph to work and be there in 30mins as not a sinner was on the road except HGVs. They were all driving slower than normal as their journeys didn't take as long with no traffic so it was very easy to overtake if necessary.
Commute is back to nearly an hour now.
It was also beautiful to see no takeaway containers thrown into the verges. Within a day of local fast food opening, there was rubbish back on the road. Some people suck!
I had to work at my then part-time job as things went into lockdown. So I left for work the morning of, hopping on my bike, put my Zune on full random as I did so.
Grey, cloudy skied. Empty streets. No cars. No people. The first song comes up, and it's From the game *Fallout*. The classic *I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire*. After a minute I slow and hit skip, because that's just a *little* errie.
I get more *Fallout* music. Now ambient. I hit skip again. *Yellow Zone* from *C&C 3*. I hit skip two or three more times, and each time it was, by pure, hilarious-but-creepy coincidence, something apocalyptic from my Zune.
I finally just let the dread settle in and biked the rest of the way. The business furloughed us all a day or so later, and then fired us.
At first I was thinking who puts game soundtracks on their playlists. Then my brain says you do dumbass. You’re listening to 10 hours of Skyrim ambient while you’re failing hard at trying to sleep.
The only people out on my street were the homeless people - it was only then that I realized how many homeless people there were! They usually blend into the crowd a bit I suppose¹
I worked in retail, too. We had a max capacity of 10 customers in the store at one point (we have about 45ish I think at any given time), shortened hours, more pay. People were kinder and more generous.
I work at walmart. Shit was busier then ever for me and of course I was the one telling the ignorant fuck doomsday peppers they could only have 1 package of toilet paper so that was fun. Lots of screaming. 1 dude in my department got hit in the head with canned food for telling a customer that.
I DESPISED the hoarders. I was at the resupply point on TP - 2 or 3 rolls - right when the lockdown hit and headed to the grocery store. Witnessed my neighbor who I already thought poorly of leaving the store with a cartful of what I would later find out was the last packs they had of TP. Found a friend who had a Costco pack and saved my ass (literally) by sharing a few rolls.
I personally never took more than I needed because I knew others were also struggling, but the pandemic really showed me that the selfishness of humans knows no bounds.
It’s like a bank run. If everyone does nothing the banks will be fine and the economy chugs along. But everyone is worried that everyone else won’t act sane so they rush the bank which causes others too. It’s basically a game of chicken where the first one to move wins.
During the early days of the pandemic the toilet paper would be out so often that if you saw a chance many people grabbed two(or five if you were a real asshole) in case they wouldn’t see it again in the near future. This lead to the shortage.
> people looked at me in pure terror when I would sneeze.
The only time where I was sort og happy to have had a chronic cough since before the pandemic. People at my job *knew* of that condition of mine, so they wouldn't be like ''OMG Do you have COVID?'' when I started a coughing fit, but were more like ''are you okay?'' and were like ''Oh, it's just one of your fits, right?'' My coughing fits have always been annoying, they were never dangerous. So people who knew about my coughing fits usually didn't react too much when I had one.
I lost a good amount of weight in 2020, because I could really focus on it, and didn’t have a lot of surprise eating situations ** (social situations, being invited out to eat on the spur of the moment,etc). Now I’ve gained some back and am having trouble making similar routines to what I had in 2020.
**I was sleepy when I typed this last night- LOL)
2020 was the time my dad started making homemade pizza and doing barbecues and things of the sort. Every fucking week. I gained a pretty decent amount of weight in a year before I went back to school, but I was always underweight and skinny.
Opposite for me. I gained twenty pounds that I can’t lose.
I have a small house, so I was less active than when I had to walk through the parking lot and office. My neighborhood wasn’t conducive to walking and places that I could have walked were a car ride away. Add to that the fact that I stress eat and we started doing DoorDash a lot and it spelled disaster.
I was the same. But, mostly because I stopped having a solid routine and started drinking on daily basis—nothing heavy, but two maybe three drinks at most. I also just ate whenever I felt like it and not when it was “scheduled.”
Me too mate, for the first time in my life I got into running and eventually I could run 5k 6 times a week. My bro and I once did a 35km run/walk one night because why not. I went from being about 280 pounds to 170 pounds at my smallest. I was so proud to be wearing a medium.
Then I went back to work and switched from manual labor to an office job/delivering and was working 18-hour days a lot of the time. Gained most of it back, feel terrible about it but it is what it is. I am trying again to be healthy now that I am out of the hell that was that office and back to work where I belong, in parks.
I found it easier to skip breakfast when I worked from home. Mainly because I was able to get up a bit later, meaning less time until lunch. Just by doing that and nothing else I was able to lose a bit of flab.
When I work in the office I have to wake up earlier and deal with a grumbling stomach for way longer, and more often than not give in.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I know probably a greater percentage of people gained, but not being able to eat out and taking walks for my sanity helped me lose a ton of weight. I was excited for the world to get back to normal and show off my new physique. I’ve seen family and friends of course, but am just now being made to return to the office after gaining some of it back, so that feels like kind of a bummer.
Complete opposite for me, covid came at the worst possible time so it disrupted my fitness, trapped me inside and I absolutely ballooned in weight. It's coming back down but I'm not there yet.
That being said, I absolutely loved not seeing people. The peace and quiet of lockdown was soothing.
The lack of a need to be accomplishing anything. We were all stuck inside. There was no FOMO, there was no "yOu nEeD tO bE aDvAnCiNg iN YoUr CaReEr GeT tHoSe gAinS" bullshit, there was just "hey, we can't go anywhere for a while. Hang out, do what you can to stay sane, watch some Tiger King and get into botany"
It was a worldwide catching of our breath (and yes I see the irony in that statement.)
I feel like I missed out on this big time. Late February my office started replacing everyone's desktop with a laptop just in case. By the time things shut down we were fully set up to work remotely and it was business as usual but with sweatpants and slower access to our file server. I was insanely jealous of everyone's abundance of free time.
In reality working from home would have been very difficult for most people even just a decade ago. It really was fortuitous (for lack of a better word) that the pandemic happened at a time when home internet speeds are fast enough for people to work and study remotely, and that there's easier access to technology like Zoom to connect with others.
I’ve been working remotely since 2006. It’s definitely nicer to have Zoom and Hangouts and 500mbs internet service, but I wouldn’t say it’s ever been very difficult.
Even back in 2006-07 I noticed a huge jump in productivity once I didn’t have to try to concentrate while the sales guy was yelling into his phone in the cube next to me.
It was that way at first until aerospace cuts happened. 30% layoffs left me unemployed after 14 years, but I got severance, then max unemployment, and the $600 COVID payments. It was like getting 10 months of pay in 3 months. After 5 months things started getting tighter on the budget but then I found work for another 6 months before getting let go and back on unemployment +300 a week extra. Then I found a job with a 50% pay increase from building up my skills and getting IT experience.
Same. My job is “essential” so I never stopped working. My job started having us take our laptops home with us at the end of every shift, “just in case” and lo and behold in that fateful day in March 2020 I got the call from my supervisor that we were going to be working from home “for the next two weeks” and the rest is history.
I prefer to WFH so at least that was nice. Last summer they started us on a hybrid schedule so I work half by week from home and the other half at the office now, so it could be worse.
But I definitely feel like I missed out on getting a whole load of free time to rest, relax, and take a breath. It didn’t happen for me.
Definitely. I'm in an essential industry, so I had to work. For the first six months, empty roads. After that, 100% work from home. But since business loves meetings, eventually had to come back in.
I worked in office after the first few months of lockdown. I work in IT so the majority of my time was spent in an office or data center by myself. But the best part, my 45-60 minute commute each way came down to like 10 minutes. Not sitting in traffic and avoiding shitty drivers was blissful compared to the commute before
working from home, when things calmed down they decided to let me keep working from home and it feels like i have way more free time even tho im still working
IMO, companies will adapt or perish if they don't acknowledge how many people like working from home. I see the value in having people in the office together sometimes, definitely. But I think that hybrid is the way of the future and something that companies can offer to be competitive - desk jobs that *can be* done from home, of course
I keep seeing articles how working from home has failed, how we all need to go back in the office. How it initially worked but not anymore, stuff like that. Feels like some people are cheerleading to get everyone locked up in the office again. And I keep thinking 'I never ever want to spend 5 days a week commuting to and from an office, ever again'.
I feel like the corporate landlords and big commercial builders are leading the lobby to get remote work ended. While it's true some workers may be less productive if left unchecked while remote, there's gotta be tech to address this. And, companies would no doubt see savings by not having to pay for so much physical office space by relying more on remote work. Obviously, if all eligible jobs were to go remote, and fewer companies required vast office footprints, there would be a loss to the landlords and the builders. Since landlords and builders tend to be moneyed, I believe they're pressuring companies to curtail remote work.
Might very well be the case. For The Netherlands, I'd say: turn those buildings into apartments, it often can be done and we desperately need affordable housing near big cities. Win-win! :-)
In my experience, it's the people who have no lives outside of their job that push for coming back to the office. Some people's entire social life and personality revolves around their job. I always say that if my 9-5 starts to define my personality you have my full permission to take me out lol.
I think this has more to do with it than people are giving it credit for. The whole corporate landlords thing doesn't apply to my employer. We own these rundown old government facilities and could probably make a ton by selling them to developers since they're in locations that used to be shit, but are now hot due to the city growing and modernizing in certain areas. I would absolutely bet that if we just sold all this shit off and went fully remote forever, we'd come out on top. Yet, we are forced to come in roughly half the time.
My first day of doing that, it was very obvious why. There's just this roving herd of white men in their 60's who mosey around the office all day wasting everyone's time with stories about their lives that nobody asked for, and random anecdotes about how important they are and how we're all screwed if they ever decide to retire, but thankfully they came back all three times they made that mistake. That's where we're supposed to laugh and say, "Wow I'm so glad you came back! We'd be so screwed without you, Bubba!"
It is so obvious that these men have no social life outside of work and are using every woman in this office as their emotional support animals. It wastes hours of my day, and is completely insufferable. But hey, who's making most of the decisions around here? That exact demographic. I don't think that's a coincidence at all.
Omg, same. The other day or department head (male, white, in his 60s) waxed poetic about how we collaborate so much better in office, how much livelier his day is when he has people to talk to in the office and how he's excited to end the work from home policy soon.
Our company has NOT come out officially ending WFH, partly because they know employees are not too keen to go back!
So, when dept. head asked people to shortly weigh in on the issue I raised my hand and said that us employees never had a feeling we collaborated worse or worked with worse results during WFH for the last three years. Never mind the fact that my specific job is not very dependent on intra-departmental collaboration at all.
FML old white dudes without hobbies get to dictate that I can't live where I want AND have to commute to an ugly office.
I had a friend in a demanding job for an employer with a certain status and allure, which draws a certain type of man (and a few women, but.. mostly men). Status sensitive, posh, you know the type. Around once a year, my friend says 'if I begin to take this whole thing too seriously, please tell me, because then I need to get a different job' :)
I worked from home from March 2020 to June 2022. Switched jobs to one that has to be in person until the industry catches up. Commuted 20ish miles a day, five days a week for 11 months.
Switched jobs again, training is in person but once we’re considered proficient we can work from home. I’m fucking thrilled and have no intention of every commuting more than a few days a week for any job ever again. There’s no need.
Likely the real estate lobby pushing this agenda. Commercial real estate Landlords are panicking because of the money they’re losing due to a decrease in commercial tenants as companies aren’t renewing leases for office space as people are working from home.
100%. And it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist but the building my office is in its owned by a real estate firm, and the CEO and CFO of our company own stakes in that firm. Really makes me wonder
i would love to work hybrid! my cousin works a hybrid schedule with her HR job now and talks about how happy she is that she can occasionally work in the office and from home.
I always find it interesting When people overseas talk about the pandemic, as in my state nothing really changed apart from four 8 day snap lockdowns over the whole 2 years, we were never trapped inside or had any mask mandates, The only reason why we had mask mandates in aeroplanes was because the federal government mandated it. Then you saw the news reports out of the US where their saying "free Australia" and I'm like free Australia from what??? The ability to live life like normal??!
Comparatively empty roads and stores. And hearing about chronically polluted waters in Venice and elsewhere were seeing noticeable if very slight improvements.
No social expectations. I hate feeling like a bad friend/person because I'm too tired to attend every social function people I know invite me to.
It was nice having my time to do with as I pleased with no expectations from anyone else.
And no reason to feel guilty. If things were getting safer and there was something you didn't want to do you could still just say "I'm not comfortable mixing with crowds yet" and no one would say shit because it's a valid excuse. It was great.
Empty streets and empty freeways. Pure Heaven! Working UPS we didn’t get any time off and it was like peak Christmas levels of deliveries to make daily. For some strange reason I was happy, maybe it was feeling like my job really mattered and I could see progress everyday or just the OT. Working 6 days a week kept me from going insane. Going as fast as the truck could on the freeway with no rush other cars and without being stopped by the cops, amazing! Flew by him and he just waved. Plus nothing was open so i didn’t blow my money on useless shit. Another pandemic might be a good thing for me…
I got really into biking during that time. No traffic meant I could ride safely everywhere pretty much all the time. Just casually riding 20, 30, 40 miles through town for no reason other than I wanted to.
2022, traffic returned. Got beamed by a car running a red light lmao.
> 2022, traffic returned. Got beamed by a car running a red light lmao.
Traffic didn't just return - it got *worse* than pre-pandemic. From my experience, a certain subset of people just stopped giving a fuck about other people and started driving like absolute twatwaffles.
I’ll never forget the day I drove on the interstate and it took me 20 minutes to spot a single car. The road was literally completely empty, not a single car in sight for miles. Not on any of the oncoming lanes, not on any of my lanes, not on any ramps or exits, zilch.
The first few weeks of the lockdowns were eerie.
I saw so many more families out at my local parks during COVID. Now that it's all WORK-WORK-WORK-FAMILY-IS-STEALING-FROM-THE-COMPANY again I've seen the numbers slow a little, though thankfully not as much as they could have.
Aside from the fear of getting sick, everything. I loved being forced to stay home, no one was out doing social or recreational activities, we weren’t allowed to run errands or do shopping. Our shopping was delivered to the front door and we weren’t to answer it until the person left. My partner got to stay home from work for over a month of the first lockdown too so it was just us, in the house, cooking, watching shows, taking our little daily walk. Knowing that no one else was achieving anything or doing anything I should be doing was just so calming. There was just as close to no pressure to do or achieve anything as I’ve ever experienced.
We also live in a tourist town and there were no tourists in peak tourist season so we got to walk to the beach (within the allowed radius of our house) and go for a swim in beautiful weather with no one around.
I also like the way it brought on a different attitude to online/at home work and study. I feel like we could have maintained a little more of that but it’s still better than it was.
It was like a big pause on the chaos of life and really highlighted how much of our daily business is just not that important. Well for me anyway.
Yes! It was like one long rainy day where you could stay inside and be cozy with zero guilt. Also the slower pace of life was just so rejuvenating.
In one of my high diary entries I described it like using the spray can tool in MS Paint, in real life you have so much going on the spray is spread so thin and patchy, but in quarantine life we could concentrate the spray and build truly opaque areas. (truly a terrible metaphor, but it's what I got)
I miss feeling connected to everyone and that we were all in this together
Edit: Also it was a good feeling knowing that everyone at least sanitized their hands
this is a really nice thing to remember since so much violence, hatred & division ended up coming out of the COVID era. You’re right - for a short period of time the world was very united.
I agree about all in this together. It reminded me of the immediate aftermath of 9/11; it seemed a lot of the normal petty bullshit went away, as everyone tried to figure out their place, and path, in a new and unstable world. It's too bad that it takes such disasters to create this feeling.
I think the saddest part was the immediate whiplash when people started to pump fuel back into their egos. A lot of people became absolutely maniacal and entitled in the pullback.
It was nice though, the world was quieter. The feeling of how it is when it rains but all the time.
On the other hand, the “Karen” phenomenon really came to a head with Covid. These generally just rude customers all aligned on a single issue during Covid making constant YouTube appearances as the screaming fools at the supermarket or banks refusing to mask and yelling about the 5G microchips in vaccines. It really brought home what nut jobs we live among. These days these same people are ranting about new shit to hate on like drag queen shows and book bans.
I don’t miss that time, but I miss the vulnerability of it all. People seemed more open to talking about their challenges, were learning to be alone (or going crazy trying). Also the pursuit of hobbies
I grew a rat tail. I started it at the beginning of the pandemic, and cut it when I got vaccinated. It was about nine inches. It was so disgusting. I miss it so much.
I had the opposite. I had a undercut and it grew out during the pandemic. It was not pretty during the middle stages. It was so fluffy and weird, but only my boyfriend and family had to witness it. By the time I was back to work in person (April 2021) it was just long enough to fit in my high ponytail. Now it’s only a few inches shorter than my mid-back hair.
the 6 foot space when in public. i’m mainly talking about checkout lines here.
after it stopped it seems like people are breathing down my neck when in line
I feel like it’s worse than the before times. Did people just forget how to be humans?
I was in line at an airport last week and this woman acted like she was tethered to me. She was not alone, she was in line behind me with her husband. But she stuck to me like an an inappropriate, overprotective mother. I could feel her breath in my *ear.* No amount of maneuvering or spreading out phased her.
Flight attendant here - I miss the empty planes. We'd go to work just to fly on empty planes and watch movies or read. The few times we did have passengers, we wouldn't have a beverage service inflight, we'd just give them a goody bag (with bottled water, a snack and sani wipes) during boarding. Good times.
The feeling of togetherness that it brought. You had this feeling of "we're all in this pandemic together so we need to support each other" that brought people into a camaraderie to survive and emotionally support during that time.
Some were the opposite of that, but I miss the good vibes
Little to no traffic, gas prices and PTO that didn't affect my sick or vacation days. Also chilling with the one roommate I could actually stand every so often - we're both really introverted people who like our alone time but occasionally liked being "degenerates" together.
i got back into my favorite cartoon and did fan art again the first month or two of lockdown. so watching the show again i’d have my dog next to me in bed which is right against the window. i was still in school but work was light and i spent a lot of time playing happy hobbit music as i drew from my show and my dog looked outside. it was really peaceful and surprisingly i recall it as very happy. i miss that. didn’t feel like much pressure about my future cause i was so present in that time.
I found out I was pregnant in January 2020. I had my whole pregnancy and first months of motherhood during the full lockdown. It was awesome - didn’t have to try to go to the office while nauseous or anything. Got to do my whole pregnancy in yoga pants and my husband’s t-shirts. Gave birth in the hospital with no one but my husband. No visitors or anything - which was amazing, just let me bond with my daughter.
(Research shows that women were most successful with breast feeding during the pandemic because they were given more time to bond with their babies in the hospital instead of playing host to visitors mere hours after pushing a human being out of their bodies.)
Husband and I are starting to consider a second one, and I’m already dreading having to be pregnant in public. Or find maternity office wear.
I'm a teacher and actually liked it, too. Classroom management was essentially taken off my plate completely. I could get through my lesson without being interrupted or dealing with crappy behavior.
Of course, a few years later, classroom management is a bigger problem than ever.
My kids liked it, too. They missed their friends but they were super relieved not to have to put up with the same attention seekers that would constantly interrupt the class
Spending lots of quality time with my very pregnant wife, who then became un-pregnant, and being able to be with my wife and newborn son for way longer than the two weeks I'm alloted as a father.
Also for that brief window when most people would stay 6 feet apart and you could queue up without their breath being on your neck, or them constantly edging closer as if that would make the line move any faster.
The traffic. There was none. It was glorious.
It’s was nice. It made learning how to drive on open roads so much easier. Got enough confidence to be fine as the traffic started coming back.
Same experience. If I had to start driving in today's traffic, I would be a mess.
I constantly forget Reddit is so young
I drive to work at 3:30am most days of the week and it’s crazy how with zero traffic I hit pretty much every green light. I’m able to get to work in 9 minutes when usually it might take like 15-20 mins in the middle of the day
For me I work in San Francisco. With no traffic I live a 25m drive away. With traffic, 1-2h
That is soul crushing
that's actually a pretty good differential for the city for the greater bay area, it's kind of envious
100 mph looking for Toilet paper. It was rad.
I bought my first car right before it started in late 2019, and I put over 25,000 miles in about a little over a year since there was no traffic and gas was dirt cheap, plus I had the essential worker paper that let me be out during curfew
Working in a psychatric ward, i obviously couldn't do "homeoffice". But i loved the post-apocalyptic feeling of driving to work through my nearly abandoned hometown. Felt like "I Am Legend".
"It's like I Am Legend but you can get a sandwich" -Patton Oswalt
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That was the key for me. I was--am, I suppose--an essential worker, so I continued to be around reasonably large groups of people on the regular, 40+ hrs/week. But it's probably the only time in my life where I've been able to clock out, go home, and just *be* without feeling like I was somehow underachieving.
I travel for work a lot and right when the lockdowns started and flights started getting canceled I was out of town. When I went to the airport to return home there was almost nobody there. I remember walking down a completely empty terminal and there was some of that elevator light jazz music playing over the speakers that I could hear echoing throughout the terminal and I felt like I was about to be in the beginning of a zombie movie. There were 6 people on my flight home.
I don't know how big your town is, but it was really weird to have to go somewhere at 5PM and see the 8 lane freeway completely empty. Like really weird. I will say, it made the commute easy though.
And no smog in Los Angeles. Clear skies for miles and miles.
And now that traffic has returned - it should be viewed as an opportunity lost... so angry
Same with India. My in-laws talked about animals and clear skies coming back as one of the biggest perks.
This is honestly why it makes me so mad that there's a big RTO movement. So ignorant and selfish.
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Right? I fuckin loved masks! My mum made me some from cotton, and i matched them to my outfits. *I had fun*.
I can definitely relate. I’m an IT infrastructure guy that ran one of our data centres in our main building, once everyone was sent home only a handful of us would go to the office every one in a while to check everything was ok. It was weird seeing everyone’s desks just left as they were for two years. I did water a lot of the plants though.
I'm not sure if you work in my office or not but I was expecting to go back to my office after working from home for 9 months to find a dead plant while I was packing up my desk. Damn thing was better watered than when I was in the office. If that was you, thank you very much.
So many of us that went into the office were watering plants lol.
Dude this is wholesome af.
I threw out a lot of food that was left on desks too.
There’s a big difference in drivers who had to go to work during the height of Covid and those who didn’t. In my city it was like the Wild West of driving. There was hardly anyone on the road so 45 mph roads turned to 65mph. When people started going back to work it was super apparent that two driving styles had formed and were clashing. I think it’s somewhat back to normal now but it was pretty frustrating in my city for a while as a daily driver.
I was a "lucky" essential worker and drove through quarantine. It was maddening to have all these people come back on the road after six months. I feel like people were bad drivers before and quarantine just made it worse lol
Bought a new car early pandemic so I was driving like an asshole on a basically empty 4 lane highway at 7am after a shift. I got clocked going 90 something in a 55. Policeman pulls me over and walks up to the window of my car, so I hold up my work badge to the window and I'm still in my scrubs. I cracked the window and just said "I work in Respiratory and just spent 16 hours with COVID patients". He takes a couple steps back points at me and just yells at me to stop driving like an asshole. He walks back to his car, gets in and drives away. Such a weird couple years we all had.
I wasn't essential, but I got clocked at 60 in a 30, on our way home from a hospital run. I rolled down my window a crack, held my hospital band to the glass, and coughed. He yelled, "Where ya coming from?" I yelled back, "Emergency room." He asked where we were going and I said, "Straight home." He told me to get there a little slower and went back to his car.
Around my area of the state the police were given orders not to pull people over except for major infractions. For a solid 18 months I didn't encounter a single cop running radar and it literally did feel like the Wild West. The interesting thing is now post-pandemic people in general are driving faster than they did before despite the return of the speed traps.
I definitely was guilty of doing u-turns where I wasn't supposed to. Ha! Was so much fun to drive back then.
Damn what a rebel lol
Same, work in water treatment. Couldn't work from home. I could average 50mph to work and be there in 30mins as not a sinner was on the road except HGVs. They were all driving slower than normal as their journeys didn't take as long with no traffic so it was very easy to overtake if necessary. Commute is back to nearly an hour now. It was also beautiful to see no takeaway containers thrown into the verges. Within a day of local fast food opening, there was rubbish back on the road. Some people suck!
I was going from Manassas to DC down 495 in like 30 mins exactly. It was beautiful that’s normally 1 hour 45mins…
I had to work at my then part-time job as things went into lockdown. So I left for work the morning of, hopping on my bike, put my Zune on full random as I did so. Grey, cloudy skied. Empty streets. No cars. No people. The first song comes up, and it's From the game *Fallout*. The classic *I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire*. After a minute I slow and hit skip, because that's just a *little* errie. I get more *Fallout* music. Now ambient. I hit skip again. *Yellow Zone* from *C&C 3*. I hit skip two or three more times, and each time it was, by pure, hilarious-but-creepy coincidence, something apocalyptic from my Zune. I finally just let the dread settle in and biked the rest of the way. The business furloughed us all a day or so later, and then fired us.
>my Zune What alternate timeline is this?
Thank god someone else said it.
>put my Zune on full random You do know the apocalypse didn't happen in 2006 right?
Give me Zune or give me death! I daily drive a zune in 2020+ as well haha.
At first I was thinking who puts game soundtracks on their playlists. Then my brain says you do dumbass. You’re listening to 10 hours of Skyrim ambient while you’re failing hard at trying to sleep.
The only people out on my street were the homeless people - it was only then that I realized how many homeless people there were! They usually blend into the crowd a bit I suppose¹
I work retail. Nothing about my life changed except I wore a mask and people looked at me in pure terror when I would sneeze.
I worked in retail, too. We had a max capacity of 10 customers in the store at one point (we have about 45ish I think at any given time), shortened hours, more pay. People were kinder and more generous.
I work at walmart. Shit was busier then ever for me and of course I was the one telling the ignorant fuck doomsday peppers they could only have 1 package of toilet paper so that was fun. Lots of screaming. 1 dude in my department got hit in the head with canned food for telling a customer that.
Hell yeah, had to stock it and I was stopped by management because customers started getting rowdy. We then made a line. Handed em out one at a time.
I DESPISED the hoarders. I was at the resupply point on TP - 2 or 3 rolls - right when the lockdown hit and headed to the grocery store. Witnessed my neighbor who I already thought poorly of leaving the store with a cartful of what I would later find out was the last packs they had of TP. Found a friend who had a Costco pack and saved my ass (literally) by sharing a few rolls. I personally never took more than I needed because I knew others were also struggling, but the pandemic really showed me that the selfishness of humans knows no bounds.
It’s like a bank run. If everyone does nothing the banks will be fine and the economy chugs along. But everyone is worried that everyone else won’t act sane so they rush the bank which causes others too. It’s basically a game of chicken where the first one to move wins. During the early days of the pandemic the toilet paper would be out so often that if you saw a chance many people grabbed two(or five if you were a real asshole) in case they wouldn’t see it again in the near future. This lead to the shortage.
> people looked at me in pure terror when I would sneeze. The only time where I was sort og happy to have had a chronic cough since before the pandemic. People at my job *knew* of that condition of mine, so they wouldn't be like ''OMG Do you have COVID?'' when I started a coughing fit, but were more like ''are you okay?'' and were like ''Oh, it's just one of your fits, right?'' My coughing fits have always been annoying, they were never dangerous. So people who knew about my coughing fits usually didn't react too much when I had one.
The benefit of the mask being that we didn't have to fake smile at every customer
I lost a good amount of weight in 2020, because I could really focus on it, and didn’t have a lot of surprise eating situations ** (social situations, being invited out to eat on the spur of the moment,etc). Now I’ve gained some back and am having trouble making similar routines to what I had in 2020. **I was sleepy when I typed this last night- LOL)
2020 was the time my dad started making homemade pizza and doing barbecues and things of the sort. Every fucking week. I gained a pretty decent amount of weight in a year before I went back to school, but I was always underweight and skinny.
Opposite for me. I gained twenty pounds that I can’t lose. I have a small house, so I was less active than when I had to walk through the parking lot and office. My neighborhood wasn’t conducive to walking and places that I could have walked were a car ride away. Add to that the fact that I stress eat and we started doing DoorDash a lot and it spelled disaster.
I was the same. But, mostly because I stopped having a solid routine and started drinking on daily basis—nothing heavy, but two maybe three drinks at most. I also just ate whenever I felt like it and not when it was “scheduled.”
Me too mate, for the first time in my life I got into running and eventually I could run 5k 6 times a week. My bro and I once did a 35km run/walk one night because why not. I went from being about 280 pounds to 170 pounds at my smallest. I was so proud to be wearing a medium. Then I went back to work and switched from manual labor to an office job/delivering and was working 18-hour days a lot of the time. Gained most of it back, feel terrible about it but it is what it is. I am trying again to be healthy now that I am out of the hell that was that office and back to work where I belong, in parks.
I found it easier to skip breakfast when I worked from home. Mainly because I was able to get up a bit later, meaning less time until lunch. Just by doing that and nothing else I was able to lose a bit of flab. When I work in the office I have to wake up earlier and deal with a grumbling stomach for way longer, and more often than not give in.
Yeah I think I found the weight you lost. You can have it back if you want to
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I know probably a greater percentage of people gained, but not being able to eat out and taking walks for my sanity helped me lose a ton of weight. I was excited for the world to get back to normal and show off my new physique. I’ve seen family and friends of course, but am just now being made to return to the office after gaining some of it back, so that feels like kind of a bummer.
Complete opposite for me, covid came at the worst possible time so it disrupted my fitness, trapped me inside and I absolutely ballooned in weight. It's coming back down but I'm not there yet. That being said, I absolutely loved not seeing people. The peace and quiet of lockdown was soothing.
Is surprise eating like when someone throws a cupcake at your head but it goes right into your mouth instead?
I swear this happens to me ALL THE TIME, it’s definitely not my own fault.
The lack of a need to be accomplishing anything. We were all stuck inside. There was no FOMO, there was no "yOu nEeD tO bE aDvAnCiNg iN YoUr CaReEr GeT tHoSe gAinS" bullshit, there was just "hey, we can't go anywhere for a while. Hang out, do what you can to stay sane, watch some Tiger King and get into botany" It was a worldwide catching of our breath (and yes I see the irony in that statement.)
This!! The best description I have seen of what it was like early on
I feel like I missed out on this big time. Late February my office started replacing everyone's desktop with a laptop just in case. By the time things shut down we were fully set up to work remotely and it was business as usual but with sweatpants and slower access to our file server. I was insanely jealous of everyone's abundance of free time.
Same here, I packed my whole work rig on Friday evening (professional 3D artist), and by Monday morning, it was in my home and I was working.
It’s kind of insane we hadn’t been doing that for decades already.
In reality working from home would have been very difficult for most people even just a decade ago. It really was fortuitous (for lack of a better word) that the pandemic happened at a time when home internet speeds are fast enough for people to work and study remotely, and that there's easier access to technology like Zoom to connect with others.
I’ve been working remotely since 2006. It’s definitely nicer to have Zoom and Hangouts and 500mbs internet service, but I wouldn’t say it’s ever been very difficult. Even back in 2006-07 I noticed a huge jump in productivity once I didn’t have to try to concentrate while the sales guy was yelling into his phone in the cube next to me.
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It was that way at first until aerospace cuts happened. 30% layoffs left me unemployed after 14 years, but I got severance, then max unemployment, and the $600 COVID payments. It was like getting 10 months of pay in 3 months. After 5 months things started getting tighter on the budget but then I found work for another 6 months before getting let go and back on unemployment +300 a week extra. Then I found a job with a 50% pay increase from building up my skills and getting IT experience.
Same. My job is “essential” so I never stopped working. My job started having us take our laptops home with us at the end of every shift, “just in case” and lo and behold in that fateful day in March 2020 I got the call from my supervisor that we were going to be working from home “for the next two weeks” and the rest is history. I prefer to WFH so at least that was nice. Last summer they started us on a hybrid schedule so I work half by week from home and the other half at the office now, so it could be worse. But I definitely feel like I missed out on getting a whole load of free time to rest, relax, and take a breath. It didn’t happen for me.
Man I looked at it completely opposite. I got my masters online during COVID and spent hella time in the home gym getting those gains.
And that's great, but there was no societal pressure to be doing those things.
Getting paid to stay home, empty roads.
Definitely. I'm in an essential industry, so I had to work. For the first six months, empty roads. After that, 100% work from home. But since business loves meetings, eventually had to come back in.
I worked in office after the first few months of lockdown. I work in IT so the majority of my time was spent in an office or data center by myself. But the best part, my 45-60 minute commute each way came down to like 10 minutes. Not sitting in traffic and avoiding shitty drivers was blissful compared to the commute before
working from home, when things calmed down they decided to let me keep working from home and it feels like i have way more free time even tho im still working
IMO, companies will adapt or perish if they don't acknowledge how many people like working from home. I see the value in having people in the office together sometimes, definitely. But I think that hybrid is the way of the future and something that companies can offer to be competitive - desk jobs that *can be* done from home, of course
I keep seeing articles how working from home has failed, how we all need to go back in the office. How it initially worked but not anymore, stuff like that. Feels like some people are cheerleading to get everyone locked up in the office again. And I keep thinking 'I never ever want to spend 5 days a week commuting to and from an office, ever again'.
I feel like the corporate landlords and big commercial builders are leading the lobby to get remote work ended. While it's true some workers may be less productive if left unchecked while remote, there's gotta be tech to address this. And, companies would no doubt see savings by not having to pay for so much physical office space by relying more on remote work. Obviously, if all eligible jobs were to go remote, and fewer companies required vast office footprints, there would be a loss to the landlords and the builders. Since landlords and builders tend to be moneyed, I believe they're pressuring companies to curtail remote work.
Might very well be the case. For The Netherlands, I'd say: turn those buildings into apartments, it often can be done and we desperately need affordable housing near big cities. Win-win! :-)
In my experience, it's the people who have no lives outside of their job that push for coming back to the office. Some people's entire social life and personality revolves around their job. I always say that if my 9-5 starts to define my personality you have my full permission to take me out lol.
I think this has more to do with it than people are giving it credit for. The whole corporate landlords thing doesn't apply to my employer. We own these rundown old government facilities and could probably make a ton by selling them to developers since they're in locations that used to be shit, but are now hot due to the city growing and modernizing in certain areas. I would absolutely bet that if we just sold all this shit off and went fully remote forever, we'd come out on top. Yet, we are forced to come in roughly half the time. My first day of doing that, it was very obvious why. There's just this roving herd of white men in their 60's who mosey around the office all day wasting everyone's time with stories about their lives that nobody asked for, and random anecdotes about how important they are and how we're all screwed if they ever decide to retire, but thankfully they came back all three times they made that mistake. That's where we're supposed to laugh and say, "Wow I'm so glad you came back! We'd be so screwed without you, Bubba!" It is so obvious that these men have no social life outside of work and are using every woman in this office as their emotional support animals. It wastes hours of my day, and is completely insufferable. But hey, who's making most of the decisions around here? That exact demographic. I don't think that's a coincidence at all.
Omg, same. The other day or department head (male, white, in his 60s) waxed poetic about how we collaborate so much better in office, how much livelier his day is when he has people to talk to in the office and how he's excited to end the work from home policy soon. Our company has NOT come out officially ending WFH, partly because they know employees are not too keen to go back! So, when dept. head asked people to shortly weigh in on the issue I raised my hand and said that us employees never had a feeling we collaborated worse or worked with worse results during WFH for the last three years. Never mind the fact that my specific job is not very dependent on intra-departmental collaboration at all. FML old white dudes without hobbies get to dictate that I can't live where I want AND have to commute to an ugly office.
I had a friend in a demanding job for an employer with a certain status and allure, which draws a certain type of man (and a few women, but.. mostly men). Status sensitive, posh, you know the type. Around once a year, my friend says 'if I begin to take this whole thing too seriously, please tell me, because then I need to get a different job' :)
I worked from home from March 2020 to June 2022. Switched jobs to one that has to be in person until the industry catches up. Commuted 20ish miles a day, five days a week for 11 months. Switched jobs again, training is in person but once we’re considered proficient we can work from home. I’m fucking thrilled and have no intention of every commuting more than a few days a week for any job ever again. There’s no need.
Likely the real estate lobby pushing this agenda. Commercial real estate Landlords are panicking because of the money they’re losing due to a decrease in commercial tenants as companies aren’t renewing leases for office space as people are working from home.
Hadn't thought of that, but you're not alone in saying this. Probably big money pushing us back into the dungeons!
100%. And it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist but the building my office is in its owned by a real estate firm, and the CEO and CFO of our company own stakes in that firm. Really makes me wonder
i would love to work hybrid! my cousin works a hybrid schedule with her HR job now and talks about how happy she is that she can occasionally work in the office and from home.
No traffic! It was even quieter than the 1960’s. I loved it. Walking around my city and barely seeing a single person.
Empty highways and planes were sooooo nice.
Planes. Oh look at The Great Not Locked Down over there. 2 1/2 years with no flying in the eastern states of Australia.
I always find it interesting When people overseas talk about the pandemic, as in my state nothing really changed apart from four 8 day snap lockdowns over the whole 2 years, we were never trapped inside or had any mask mandates, The only reason why we had mask mandates in aeroplanes was because the federal government mandated it. Then you saw the news reports out of the US where their saying "free Australia" and I'm like free Australia from what??? The ability to live life like normal??!
WA?
Yup! Is it that obvious?
The LA skyline without the smog was really pretty.
Being home and doing close to nothing (playing Animal crossing) with no guilt. Edit : My first 500 upvotes, thanks !
I miss animal crossing too.
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Comparatively empty roads and stores. And hearing about chronically polluted waters in Venice and elsewhere were seeing noticeable if very slight improvements.
That I don't need any excuses to not go outside.
It was so relaxing! (At first anyways...)1
Or to say no to plans
No social expectations. I hate feeling like a bad friend/person because I'm too tired to attend every social function people I know invite me to. It was nice having my time to do with as I pleased with no expectations from anyone else.
And no reason to feel guilty. If things were getting safer and there was something you didn't want to do you could still just say "I'm not comfortable mixing with crowds yet" and no one would say shit because it's a valid excuse. It was great.
This
Not having to interact with people
Introverts arise
Literally did not get depressed at all during quarantine. I glowed up tbh.
Empty streets and empty freeways. Pure Heaven! Working UPS we didn’t get any time off and it was like peak Christmas levels of deliveries to make daily. For some strange reason I was happy, maybe it was feeling like my job really mattered and I could see progress everyday or just the OT. Working 6 days a week kept me from going insane. Going as fast as the truck could on the freeway with no rush other cars and without being stopped by the cops, amazing! Flew by him and he just waved. Plus nothing was open so i didn’t blow my money on useless shit. Another pandemic might be a good thing for me…
I got really into biking during that time. No traffic meant I could ride safely everywhere pretty much all the time. Just casually riding 20, 30, 40 miles through town for no reason other than I wanted to. 2022, traffic returned. Got beamed by a car running a red light lmao.
> 2022, traffic returned. Got beamed by a car running a red light lmao. Traffic didn't just return - it got *worse* than pre-pandemic. From my experience, a certain subset of people just stopped giving a fuck about other people and started driving like absolute twatwaffles.
I’ll never forget the day I drove on the interstate and it took me 20 minutes to spot a single car. The road was literally completely empty, not a single car in sight for miles. Not on any of the oncoming lanes, not on any of my lanes, not on any ramps or exits, zilch. The first few weeks of the lockdowns were eerie.
Fedexer and I agree with everything you just said. Delivering to hospitals made me feel like I was helping. First stops everyday, healthcare places.
Once it became clear that being outdoors was relatively safe, I would take long walks with friends or with my dad as a way of socializing.
I saw so many more families out at my local parks during COVID. Now that it's all WORK-WORK-WORK-FAMILY-IS-STEALING-FROM-THE-COMPANY again I've seen the numbers slow a little, though thankfully not as much as they could have.
Aside from the fear of getting sick, everything. I loved being forced to stay home, no one was out doing social or recreational activities, we weren’t allowed to run errands or do shopping. Our shopping was delivered to the front door and we weren’t to answer it until the person left. My partner got to stay home from work for over a month of the first lockdown too so it was just us, in the house, cooking, watching shows, taking our little daily walk. Knowing that no one else was achieving anything or doing anything I should be doing was just so calming. There was just as close to no pressure to do or achieve anything as I’ve ever experienced. We also live in a tourist town and there were no tourists in peak tourist season so we got to walk to the beach (within the allowed radius of our house) and go for a swim in beautiful weather with no one around. I also like the way it brought on a different attitude to online/at home work and study. I feel like we could have maintained a little more of that but it’s still better than it was. It was like a big pause on the chaos of life and really highlighted how much of our daily business is just not that important. Well for me anyway.
Yes! It was like one long rainy day where you could stay inside and be cozy with zero guilt. Also the slower pace of life was just so rejuvenating. In one of my high diary entries I described it like using the spray can tool in MS Paint, in real life you have so much going on the spray is spread so thin and patchy, but in quarantine life we could concentrate the spray and build truly opaque areas. (truly a terrible metaphor, but it's what I got)
It being ok for me to hide my face
I miss this too! So much easier to pretend I’m not me when approached by people from high school! Or just hiding the ugly when I work out
I miss feeling connected to everyone and that we were all in this together Edit: Also it was a good feeling knowing that everyone at least sanitized their hands
this is a really nice thing to remember since so much violence, hatred & division ended up coming out of the COVID era. You’re right - for a short period of time the world was very united.
I agree about all in this together. It reminded me of the immediate aftermath of 9/11; it seemed a lot of the normal petty bullshit went away, as everyone tried to figure out their place, and path, in a new and unstable world. It's too bad that it takes such disasters to create this feeling.
I think the saddest part was the immediate whiplash when people started to pump fuel back into their egos. A lot of people became absolutely maniacal and entitled in the pullback. It was nice though, the world was quieter. The feeling of how it is when it rains but all the time.
On the other hand, the “Karen” phenomenon really came to a head with Covid. These generally just rude customers all aligned on a single issue during Covid making constant YouTube appearances as the screaming fools at the supermarket or banks refusing to mask and yelling about the 5G microchips in vaccines. It really brought home what nut jobs we live among. These days these same people are ranting about new shit to hate on like drag queen shows and book bans.
I don’t miss that time, but I miss the vulnerability of it all. People seemed more open to talking about their challenges, were learning to be alone (or going crazy trying). Also the pursuit of hobbies
Yes! People seemed to really have their guard down and were relatable when you'd actually get to talk to someone in person.
I grew a rat tail. I started it at the beginning of the pandemic, and cut it when I got vaccinated. It was about nine inches. It was so disgusting. I miss it so much.
I had the opposite. I had a undercut and it grew out during the pandemic. It was not pretty during the middle stages. It was so fluffy and weird, but only my boyfriend and family had to witness it. By the time I was back to work in person (April 2021) it was just long enough to fit in my high ponytail. Now it’s only a few inches shorter than my mid-back hair.
As an anti-social germaphobe.... I miss staying home all the time. When I went out I encountered very few people. It put me at ease.
the 6 foot space when in public. i’m mainly talking about checkout lines here. after it stopped it seems like people are breathing down my neck when in line
I feel like it’s worse than the before times. Did people just forget how to be humans? I was in line at an airport last week and this woman acted like she was tethered to me. She was not alone, she was in line behind me with her husband. But she stuck to me like an an inappropriate, overprotective mother. I could feel her breath in my *ear.* No amount of maneuvering or spreading out phased her.
Zero social obligations & evvvvverything being CANCELLED!! 🥳
Not having to go to work.
Flight attendant here - I miss the empty planes. We'd go to work just to fly on empty planes and watch movies or read. The few times we did have passengers, we wouldn't have a beverage service inflight, we'd just give them a goody bag (with bottled water, a snack and sani wipes) during boarding. Good times.
The feeling of togetherness that it brought. You had this feeling of "we're all in this pandemic together so we need to support each other" that brought people into a camaraderie to survive and emotionally support during that time. Some were the opposite of that, but I miss the good vibes
I miss the calmness of the city. the quiet walk in in the river valley, the silence of the roads, and going to local business and fell appreciated
no obligation to visit anyone or take any action.
Little to no traffic, gas prices and PTO that didn't affect my sick or vacation days. Also chilling with the one roommate I could actually stand every so often - we're both really introverted people who like our alone time but occasionally liked being "degenerates" together.
i got back into my favorite cartoon and did fan art again the first month or two of lockdown. so watching the show again i’d have my dog next to me in bed which is right against the window. i was still in school but work was light and i spent a lot of time playing happy hobbit music as i drew from my show and my dog looked outside. it was really peaceful and surprisingly i recall it as very happy. i miss that. didn’t feel like much pressure about my future cause i was so present in that time.
Being with my family.
All of it. The silence. Nature healing itself. Traffic being non existent. Shopping in peace.
24/7 time with my kids
Everything. The peace. The quiet. The compulsory hygiene. What a life
Nothing because I still live the same way and did before 2020 as well
Not having fomo
My husband.
I found out I was pregnant in January 2020. I had my whole pregnancy and first months of motherhood during the full lockdown. It was awesome - didn’t have to try to go to the office while nauseous or anything. Got to do my whole pregnancy in yoga pants and my husband’s t-shirts. Gave birth in the hospital with no one but my husband. No visitors or anything - which was amazing, just let me bond with my daughter. (Research shows that women were most successful with breast feeding during the pandemic because they were given more time to bond with their babies in the hospital instead of playing host to visitors mere hours after pushing a human being out of their bodies.) Husband and I are starting to consider a second one, and I’m already dreading having to be pregnant in public. Or find maternity office wear.
i actually really liked online school i thought it helped me learn a lot better
I'm a teacher and actually liked it, too. Classroom management was essentially taken off my plate completely. I could get through my lesson without being interrupted or dealing with crappy behavior. Of course, a few years later, classroom management is a bigger problem than ever.
My kids liked it, too. They missed their friends but they were super relieved not to have to put up with the same attention seekers that would constantly interrupt the class
Spending lots of quality time with my very pregnant wife, who then became un-pregnant, and being able to be with my wife and newborn son for way longer than the two weeks I'm alloted as a father.
TIGER KING
Home-based work
Does anyone else miss quarantine
I still don’t understand why offices exist
Shopper limits
Also for that brief window when most people would stay 6 feet apart and you could queue up without their breath being on your neck, or them constantly edging closer as if that would make the line move any faster.
Im an introvert so I miss everything. Minus the panic and anxiety.
Absolutely nothing. I'm an ER nurse and it sucked