The new normal

[social]

Good friend of mine owns a business where appearances have always been important to him

He pays 35k per month in rent, employs graduates from top unis and travels constantly

Has worked out that there’s a better way

 

[Adders]

 

[social]

It’s not actually funny as half his staff are going to be out of a job

World is changing at warp speed

 

[sledger]

The problem I've had is that socialising on Zoom only really works with 4 or 5 people max, but it's hard to organise an event that size without feeling like you're leaving people out.

Yeah agreed. There was an IT law socialising event a few weeks ago I dropped into. About 15 people there, but just dominated by the usual "ooh look how clever I am" types. so left immediately.

 

[Burgey]

I miss the face to face interaction at work. A lot of one liners and banter which works in face to face hearings falls flat or isn't attempted over the phone/ online. Plus the people I work with are a good bunch and I consider them friends.

It's also much harder to gauge a witness's credibility and demeanor over the web compared with face to face. That and less cases are settling which means more work!

This morning I took the car over for a service, grabbed a take away coffee and got an uber home and it felt so normal. It was just fantastic to do something so prosaic and basically put me in a good mood for the rest of the day until I logged in here and read a zorax post.

 

[Shady Slim]

OT activity to be maintained

ask yourself: did OT come so so good because of the rona, or did it come around when shady slim came back to grace it with his presence

 

[Gnske]

When everyone got Bet**y P**s accounts

 

[GIMH]

ask yourself: did OT come so so good because of the rona, or did it come around when shady slim came back to grace it with his presence

Because of the rona

 

[zorax]

ask yourself: did OT come so so good because of the rona, or did it come around when shady slim came back to grace it with his presence

not often you get to say that the rona is better than someone

maybe NP10 would say that about Tom

 

[cpr]

I miss the face to face interaction at work. A lot of one liners and banter which works in face to face hearings falls flat or isn't attempted over the phone/ online. Plus the people I work with are a good bunch and I consider them friends.

It's also much harder to gauge a witness's credibility and demeanor over the web compared with face to face. That and less cases are settling which means more work!

This morning I took the car over for a service, grabbed a take away coffee and got an uber home and it felt so normal. It was just fantastic to do something so prosaic and basically put me in a good mood for the rest of the day until I logged in here and read a zorax post.

Christ being back in the office has been wonderful. Banging through the country lanes every morning, doing an hours work over a brew then nipping out for a bacon butty, its just felt great acting normal. Working from home was driving me nuts - didn't help that we didn't have any broadband (BT have been putting off reconnecting the old phone line for months), but still, sitting in a corner of my lounge staring at the wall all day was horrid. I was starting to resent my own front room the amount of time I spent in there. Plus I couldn't take all the files home so was constantly without some information i needed. Actually found myself working twice as hard at home than I did in the office, which is frankly appalling,

 

[trundler]

This has all definitely made us view things from a different angle

That should get a reaction from the physicists here

This is what I get for trying to be a good poster. No more quarky puns.

 

[Shady Slim]

not often you get to say that the rona is better than someone

this is the kettle calling the pot a kettle tbh

 

[Burgey]

Christ being back in the office has been wonderful. Banging through the country lanes every morning, doing an hours work over a brew then nipping out for a bacon butty, its just felt great acting normal. Working from home was driving me nuts - didn't help that we didn't have any broadband (BT have been putting off reconnecting the old phone line for months), but still, sitting in a corner of my lounge staring at the wall all day was horrid. I was starting to resent my own front room the amount of time I spent in there. Plus I couldn't take all the files home so was constantly without some information i needed. Actually found myself working twice as hard at home than I did in the office, which is frankly appalling,

Sounds fantastic tbh. The issue I have is I'm working longer and harder here at home than I normally do. I usually come home and do at most a couple of hours work most nights but that is about it. I'm sitting here atm punching out a decision at nearly 11pm. Fmd Saturday night Mrs Burgey and I were both in the office downstairs doing work. Been that way since we started wfh.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

I miss the face to face interaction at work. A lot of one liners and banter which works in face to face hearings falls flat or isn't attempted over the phone/ online. Plus the people I work with are a good bunch and I consider them friends.

It's also much harder to gauge a witness's credibility and demeanor over the web compared with face to face. That and less cases are settling which means more work!

This morning I took the car over for a service, grabbed a take away coffee and got an uber home and it felt so normal. It was just fantastic to do something so prosaic and basically put me in a good mood for the rest of the day until I logged in here and read a zorax post.

Give me your phone number and I'll quote you lines from The Simpsons.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Coincidentally also my pickup line.

 

[Burgey]

You must be very lonely

 

[Pothas]

Am just really looking forward to having a day off sitting around doing nothing knowing that I could go out and do something if I wanted.

 

[cpr]

Sounds fantastic tbh. The issue I have is I'm working longer and harder here at home than I normally do. I usually come home and do at most a couple of hours work most nights but that is about it. I'm sitting here atm punching out a decision at nearly 11pm. Fmd Saturday night Mrs Burgey and I were both in the office downstairs doing work. Been that way since we started wfh.

I was finding it too. The MD couldn't resist calling at all times - he's always like that as he's so reactionary to things (had to try talking him out of absolutely balling out a member of staff he'd just sacked at 8pm last night. Turns out I failed....), but with me having the PC to hand I'd always jump on and work on whatever he'd mentioned. I think he was doing it a bit more than usual because he was really struggling without the office base. Now we're back in work he's more relaxed about letting me do things. So now I'm back in the office I'm clocking off at 2/3pm most days when I know he's got bored for the day, rather than being perched deskside until 5pm just in case he calls.

 

[Prince EWS]

I've pretty much hated everything about it. I guess I kind of like the conference call meetings sometimes, and the influx of bored trolls into OT has produced some insightful and/or funny posts at times.

 

[GIMH]

Haven't seen any trolls personally, unless you count passive aggressive moderators as trolls I guess