How You Doin?

"glemon" (glemon) 03/18/2020 at 01:05 • Filed to: None

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Joey from Friends, a car guy in real life, wants to know.

I am usually not a fan of touchy feely posts on Oppo, but hope I am ok bending the rules tonight. The world has gone crazy and is shutting down, if you haven’t been asked to shelter in place you are probably about to, or maybe be laid off.

I am in charge of a small office and it has been a blast coming up with plans for work from home, canceling meetings, changing rules and procedures, communicating those changes to the public we work with. Come home to talk about everything again with my family and also worry about my 89 year old mother and 75 year old mother in law the  who WONT STAY HOME.

Would like to wrench to remove stress and just get away from things, but have been too busy or exhausted to do as much as I would like.

Upside, connecting with all family members and close friends and even colleuges from work , comparing notes, letting them know we care, all in this together etc, mostly have seen the good side of people, but I have been running hard the last few years (self inflected) and man I was looking fo a break. 

So anyway, how you doin ? Feel free to vent, praise, be hopeful, be fearful, or just say hey to your virtual buddies.

gettingoldercarguy > glemon 03/18/2020 at 01:39

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I’m well, trying to get some work done. Hopeful for the future. Was working on an hour rule post and some schmuck had to mess it up.

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Thanks

Svend > glemon 03/18/2020 at 01:49

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Where I am, were just getting on with it. Ye’, people are doing the panic shopping and staying away from public areas (other than supermarkets), but ye’, on the whole were checking up on each other from time to time, etc... just getting on with things really.

I know this one gets shown around often.

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Interesting little fact, this was intended to be used only if and when Germany has successfully invaded Bri tain, so it was never actually used, but found after the war and that’s wh ere it found it’s new lease of life).

https://www.keepcalmandcarryon.com/history/

With a bold coloured background, the posters were required to be similar in style and feature the symbolic crown of King George VI along with a simple yet effective font. The first two posters , ‘Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution will Bring Us Victory’ and ‘Freedom is in Peril’ were produced by His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO).

These two were posted on public transport, in shop windows, upon notice boards and hoardings across Britain. The third and final poster of the set was again very straightforward and to the point - it simply read ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’. The plan in place for this poster was to issue it only upon the invasion of Britain by Germany. As this never happened, the poster was never officially seen by the public.

It is believed that most of the Keep Calm posters were destroyed and reduced to a pulp at the end of the war in 1945. However, nearly 60 years later, a bookseller from Barter Books stumbled across a copy hidden amongst a pile of dusty old books bought from an auction. A small number also remain in the National Archives and the Imperial War Museum in London, and a further 15 were discovered in the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow to have been given to Moragh Turnbull, from Cupar, Fife, by her father William, who served as a member of the Royal Observer Corps.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > glemon 03/18/2020 at 02:00

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Genuinely worried about bankruptcy if my job I’m to start on the 30th opts to not move forward. I guess January was a bad time to buy a new house...

Longtime Lurker > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/18/2020 at 02:11

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Not like you could have predicted this. But we'll see how the gov and banks handle this. And you still have that Kia shaped card up your sleeve.

Goggles Pizzano > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/18/2020 at 02:21

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YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

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Jewish Stig > glemon 03/18/2020 at 05:33

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Personally, im fine, living out of 2 suitcases in a hotel room.

Since all my stuff is in storage.

I had a conversation with my brother last night, he is a chef at a small restaurant, which is closed completely since last week.

The uncertainty of what is going to happen to hi s job is unbelievable.

And i think that this uncertainty, which happens all over the world, will be the our undoing.

People are already going crazy, imagine having to stay locked in for months, not knowing where the next paycheck is coming from.

I don’t think that this will be sustainable situation

glemon > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/18/2020 at 08:07

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Hope the job works out, that is a tough one

mazda616 > glemon 03/18/2020 at 09:25

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Got to work from home yesterday. I was glad. Then, I got told today to come back in the office. Why? Because they said so. That’s pretty much the only reason I got.

I have a cold and I have to admit, I got paranoid. I had a sore throat and body aches. Made me scared because I have an 88-year-old grandma that I visit a lot. Never ran a fever or had any breathing issues or coughing, so I guess I’m okay. It is on the downhill slope now.

The main thing that scares me about all of this is the economic implications. My wife and I will both be fine but so many businesses and workers won’t.

pip bip - choose Corrour > glemon 03/20/2020 at 05:59

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wonderful