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CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 28, 2025, 03:46:21 pm ---I wondered if the answer would be something like that. In which case, can you just leave them up through early July to cover Flag Day and Independence Day?
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No, at the end of June the windows go through a quick change.
:laugh:
Patriotic stays up until June first. One the first they get taken down, and the rainbow pride lights and pride flag go up.
Then that gets taken down July 1st and the patriotic stuff goes back up. :laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on April 29, 2025, 01:51:33 pm ---On the first they get taken down, and the rainbow pride lights and pride flag go up.
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Oh, of course! Duh! Silly me -- Pride is a much bigger (and longer!) celebration than Flag Day. Don't tell MAGA. :laugh:
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!
long time, no see on my blog!
Hope everyone is doing well!
I received notification that my office location for work is being closed. Not sure if it will happen the end of September, or the end of the year.
My job is not in danger, my position was made 100% remote during Covid quarantine, but I was going back to the office 2 days a week when it became safe again, just to see coworkers.
So I will be busy boxing up and/or shredding our files, so that the space will be empty by the time we need to get out. What I'm thinking I may do is work from the apartment on Monday and Tuesday, so I can be home to do chores and such. Wednesday through Friday will be at the parents' home, just to get out of the apartment and do laundry. This way, minimal chores will need to be done on the weekend, which will free up my time.
Had a good holiday weekend. Saturday I did nothing but relax. Sunday was lunch and hanging out with the family. Monday I had a bbq at my friends' home to go to, there were about 20 of us there, just hanging out and having fun.
Today, it's back to work!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on May 27, 2025, 09:10:54 am ---My job is not in danger, my position was made 100% remote during Covid quarantine, but I was going back to the office 2 days a week when it became safe again, just to see coworkers.
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This is more or less what happened with my employer, though after I retired. We worked remotely during Covid. Then afterward, and after I retired, they reclassified jobs, so that my former coworker was made 100% remote, except she would have to come in to the office for occasional meetings and so forth.
Does the bank you work for own the building where your office is/was located? If it doesn't, that would be a big difference. My former employer owns its building. In fact, many years ago now, they added a 10-story addition to it. I don't know what they're going to do with the space.
What they might do might be affected by a pending crisis in public transportation in Philadelphia. Unless the state of Pennsylvania comes through with a lot of money, beginning in September the transit authority will begin cutting back service (buses, subway, regional commuter rail) up to 45%. Five regional rail lines alone will be discontinued (Amtrak owns the tracks, and the transit authority has to pay for using them).
This would devastate the region economically. Thousands of people will lose their jobs (including, of course, transit workers). Kids won't have a way to get to school. Thousands of people who don't have cars will find it very difficult to get around--to work, shopping, etc. Traffic and parking will become a nightmare.
My guess is that thousands of people will be able to work from home, as they did during Covid, but then that will affect a huge number of small businesses, like coffee shops and restaurants that served people who work in the city, which will probably have to close, throwing even more people out of work.
:(
(Of course, if I begin to need to keep a car in the city, that will directly affect me, too, :( )
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 27, 2025, 10:49:54 am ---This is more or less what happened with my employer, though after I retired. We worked remotely during Covid. Then afterward, and after I retired, they reclassified jobs, so that my former coworker was made 100% remote, except she would have to come in to the office for occasional meetings and so forth.
Does the bank you work for own the building where your office is/was located? If it doesn't, that would be a big difference. My former employer owns its building. In fact, many years ago now, they added a 10-story addition to it. I don't know what they're going to do with the space.
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No, the bank doesn't own the building, it leased the space, and if I'm remembering correctly, the lease is up in 2026.
They have space in NYC for meetings and such, but I will attend, I'm not about to trek into NYC for a meeting.
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