Vermont Skier Visits Down Significantly Due to COVID-19

[kingslug]

The "decision maker" not here...nothing approved
Comes in one day and I get 4 things approved...
Thats the difference. Its easy to blow shit off in emails....

 

[Hawk]

Machiavellian

Smellytele, I am not sure what you are referring to. Machiavellianism is a "personality trait that denotes cunningness, the ability to be manipulative, and a drive to use whatever means necessary to gain power". I don't want power, I want people to do what they say they are going to do. Just do your job and don't use covid as an excuse to stay home and not do your job.

 

[thebigo]

The "decision maker" not here...nothing approved
Comes in one day and I get 4 things approved...
Thats the difference. Its easy to blow shit off in emails....

I am curious if this is a perception or verifiable. Do you use document control? Does doc control keep metrics?

 

[NYDB]

You should hear all the excuses people are coming up w/ on why they can't return to work, but would love to stay if they could WFH.
For our full service clinics and the main hospitals the notification went out in May that July 1 was the return to the office date.

so how did it go? Mass exodus? or did people come back?

 

[kingslug]

I am curious if this is a perception or verifiable. Do you use document control? Does doc control keep metrics?

um...no...one guy approves...everything.

 

[2Planker]

so how did it go? Mass exodus? or did people come back?

Same for us. Notification was May 1 for full staff return on July 1.

About 15% have resigned, another 15% took last/this week as vacation and we expect many of them to give notice as soon as they're back or before.

So overall we'll loose 25-30%

 

[kingslug]

I find this amazing...not that I like coming in to work one bit...but I have to contend with: shootings, stabbings, random attacks from homeless...and NYC sux in general...but I've been going in every day. This could change though.

 

[NYDB]

Yeah. 30% I am surprised. Is everyone just going to become ski bums? Not that I am jealous or anything.

 

[HowieT2]

I find this amazing...not that I like coming in to work one bit...but I have to contend with: shootings, stabbings, random attacks from homeless...and NYC sux in general...but I've been going in every day. This could change though.

geez, where is your office? sounds horrible. My office is in the Bronx. Unchanged since the pandemic. no apparent increase in crime or homelessness here.

 

[2Planker]

I find this amazing...not that I like coming in to work one bit...but I have to contend with: shootings, stabbings, random attacks from homeless...and NYC sux in general...but I've been going in every day. This could change though.

Sounds like my old job as a Boston EMT in the Gang War/Crack years.
Working nights in Roxbury & Mattapan, a Bullet Proof vest was standard issue

 

[kingslug]

Soho..a lot of them down here. Plus its the subways you have to watch. I take the 6..that line had a stabbing a day for a while. I'm amazed that people still sit there with there music on and stare at their phones..totally oblivious.
The best was after a guy attacked a woman in Brooklynn..they interviewed some random woman about how she felt about it. "well I'll just have to turn my music down a bit when I walk around" holy...shit....

 

[BenedictGomez]

Soho..a lot of them down here. Plus its the subways you have to watch. I take the 6..that line had a stabbing a day for a while. I'm amazed that people still sit there with there music on and stare at their phones..totally oblivious.
The best was after a guy attacked a woman in Brooklynn..they interviewed some random woman about how she felt about it. "well I'll just have to turn my music down a bit when I walk around" holy...shit....

Ten years living in Manhattan....... worst subway story I can report?

1) Dude drops his pants & takes a steamer right in the middle of the #2 train at rush hour. People fleeing the car like someone had a gun.

2) Honorable mention - The crack pipes I'd find at 7am rolling around the #1 train.

 

[kingslug]

The trains are getting more crowded which appears to have cut down on the insanity for now.

 

[Hawk]

I have worked in downtown in Boston for 30 years. Took the train and subway for 15 years. I have never in my life seen anything that remotely resembles this kind of behavior. Just reinforces my belief that there are far more animals living in NYC. No thanks.

 

[2Planker]

I have worked in downtown in Boston for 30 years. Took the train and subway for 15 years. I have never in my life seen anything that remotely resembles this kind of behavior. Just reinforces my belief that there are far more animals living in NYC. No thanks.

Obviously your are not riding the Orange Line west of Mass Ave
Last week - Completely naked dude sleeping on the bench, covered in Urine, Feces and Vomit as commuters just walked by....

 

[Hawk]

No you are right. I have projects and Roxbury, Dorchester and Hyde Park but only have taken the orange line a few times down that end. I live on the north shore so it is the commuter rail or orange from Malden/Melrose or the Blue line from Revere.

Actually for the last 10 years I negotiated a parking spot so I drive. Covid was great. 30 minute commute door to door. But I can feel the pulse picking up. Soon it will be back to normal.

 

[2Planker]

No you are right. I have projects and Roxbury, Dorchester and Hyde Park but only have taken the orange line a few times down that end. I live on the north shore so it is the commuter rail or orange from Malden/Melrose or the Blue line from Revere.

Actually for the last 10 years I negotiated a parking spot so I drive. Covid was great. 30 minute commute door to door. But I can feel the pulse picking up. Soon it will be back to normal.

Same here, North shore to Theatre district commute is almost back to an hour.
Last spring/summer It was less than 20mins

 

[KustyTheKlown]

I find this amazing...not that I like coming in to work one bit...but I have to contend with: shootings, stabbings, random attacks from homeless...and NYC sux in general...but I've been going in every day. This could change though.

don't be dramatic. you aren't getting shot, stabbed, or attacked by homeless on your rush hour commutes to manhattan. the 'death of nyc' narrative is really fuckin overblown.

 

[kingslug]

A homeless guy stabbing a woman on the platform in the middle of the day isn't dramatic. I take the 510 train to Grand Central..thats a little before rush hour...shootouts in the middle of the day near Times square...https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/us/nyc-times-square-shooting/index.html
I'm here every day...its nuts. Our Mayor has let the place go to shit..not supporting cops was a really great idea..can't wait till this A hole is gone and hope the next one is better.

 

[HowieT2]

A homeless guy stabbing a woman on the platform in the middle of the day isn't dramatic. I take the 510 train to Grand Central..thats a little before rush hour...shootouts in the middle of the day near Times square...https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/us/nyc-times-square-shooting/index.html
I'm here every day...its nuts. Our Mayor has let the place go to shit..not supporting cops was a really great idea..can't wait till this A hole is gone and hope the next one is better.

I'm here everyday too. Your apocalyptic description of NYC doesnt comport with reality. Has crime increased since before the pandemic? absolutely. Not just in NYC, but everywhere. Crime in NYC remains lower than most other us cities on a per capita basis. The homeless problem has also increased, exascerbated by moving large numbers into vacant hotels in manhattan.