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Coronavirus SIP, Day 50
As far as I know, the shelter in place order has been extended to June 1st -- but with small eases to the restriction. It's the first sign that we've actually flattened the curve here and we might be able to start going out and being amongst each other again, which is great! I get the feeling this summer is going to be chock full of social engagements, parties and the like. Especially now that so many events have been cancelled.
I'm not really sure what the numbers are like here in California, and what the chart of infections looks like over time. To be honest, the coronavirus has slipped into the background a bit for me because work has taken pretty much all of my focus. It's been an...interesting time at the day job, let's say. Our sister department has been wading through an enormous backlog for over a month now, and we've been doing our best to help out with it. But that's meant a lot of long hours and fire drills. We're also training a new colleague from India, and that's been it's own bit of fun.
My manager, who also happens to be my friend and the person who referred me to this job, was basically given "mandatory" overtime last weekend and I'm just finding out about it. He's been really frustrated about that, and I could see him on the edge of burnout for the last week. In addition to working through the last few weekends, he's been working 3 - 4 hours every night training up the newbie. It's honestly too much work and I don't like that we've been backed into this corner by short-sighted marketing decisions we could have been better prepared for if we had been part of the conversation. I'm really hoping that he takes this weekend and doesn't do anything for work. He's recovering from the flu, for goodness' sake.
That being said, I'm definitely going to have to step up as much as I can. I've been leaning hard on the side of self-care and I've been open about being stretched to the limit, so I don't think they've let me in on most of the emergency stuff. You know what? I'm actually OK with that. I do care about doing a good job, but I also don't want to suffer because of competence. The problem is that if you really really care about the company mission and you have a hard time saying no, companies will absolutely take advantage of that if they can. They couch it in terms like "passion" and "mission-driven", but what they really mean is exploitable. I've gotten pretty disillusioned with start-up culture; there are a lot of employees who care about the ideals behind the company, but most of the people at the top really only care about the money they can make.
There really hasn't been a lot of time to do much else beyond work, and I'm not sure that'll change any time soon. Ah well, into the breach. :)
I'm not really sure what the numbers are like here in California, and what the chart of infections looks like over time. To be honest, the coronavirus has slipped into the background a bit for me because work has taken pretty much all of my focus. It's been an...interesting time at the day job, let's say. Our sister department has been wading through an enormous backlog for over a month now, and we've been doing our best to help out with it. But that's meant a lot of long hours and fire drills. We're also training a new colleague from India, and that's been it's own bit of fun.
My manager, who also happens to be my friend and the person who referred me to this job, was basically given "mandatory" overtime last weekend and I'm just finding out about it. He's been really frustrated about that, and I could see him on the edge of burnout for the last week. In addition to working through the last few weekends, he's been working 3 - 4 hours every night training up the newbie. It's honestly too much work and I don't like that we've been backed into this corner by short-sighted marketing decisions we could have been better prepared for if we had been part of the conversation. I'm really hoping that he takes this weekend and doesn't do anything for work. He's recovering from the flu, for goodness' sake.
That being said, I'm definitely going to have to step up as much as I can. I've been leaning hard on the side of self-care and I've been open about being stretched to the limit, so I don't think they've let me in on most of the emergency stuff. You know what? I'm actually OK with that. I do care about doing a good job, but I also don't want to suffer because of competence. The problem is that if you really really care about the company mission and you have a hard time saying no, companies will absolutely take advantage of that if they can. They couch it in terms like "passion" and "mission-driven", but what they really mean is exploitable. I've gotten pretty disillusioned with start-up culture; there are a lot of employees who care about the ideals behind the company, but most of the people at the top really only care about the money they can make.
There really hasn't been a lot of time to do much else beyond work, and I'm not sure that'll change any time soon. Ah well, into the breach. :)