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Today is day 1 of my son's new job.
He was so excited to go in to the office and meet everyone...
...he got an email on Friday telling him to work from home until further notice. His new laptop and some office supplies, etc. arrived in the mail on Saturday.
I woke him for work today and before I left for my office I saw him there in bed with his laptop. Ah, the joys of working from home in your PJs!
This might be me in the next few days.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Best wishes to your son!
Quote: This might be me in the next few days.
Probably.
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Forogar wrote: I woke him for work today and before I left for my office I saw him there in bed with his laptop. Ah, the joys of working from home in your PJs!
Nip this habit in the bud right now.
I've been working from home for over 12 years now, and I always make a point of not having a laptop in bed with me and putting on some actual clothes in the morning.
Why? Because once he actually needs to get out of bed, get prepared in the morning and, y'know, leave the house to go to work, he's gonna find it doubly harsh. I've never lost the habit and firmly believe it to be a plus.
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Yep. Work is a habit, and it's also a frame of mind - if you're in bed in PJ's then you aren't in the right "mental space" to work. Me? I wear jeans and an ironed white shirt - just like if I was in the office and had no custards to see - my hair is brushed, my teeth are dealt with, and I'm ready to to business.
Clothes affect your thinking - compare how you behave in a T and ripped jeans to a suit and tie. PJ's is the start of a bad idea that ends up camped in front of the fridge coding around mouthfuls of cheese... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: if you're in bed in PJ's then you aren't in the right "mental space" to work
Ain't that the truth.
Sometimes it's hard for me to make the disconnect between "work time" and "my time", because I remain in the same physical area. If I had the habit of having a laptop on me when in bed, I'd be afraid I'd start subconsciously associating that time with work, and it would start affecting my sleep patterns...in the same way that if I'm laying down on my bed to watch TV, then I have a hard time not falling asleep because that's how my body responds to being in that position for some amount of time.
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I was always comfortable in trackie daks and ugg boots but ALWAYS in the office. Even now I have a laptop that has not moved off the desk in 12 months.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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OriginalGriff wrote: Clothes affect your thinking - compare how you behave in a T and ripped jeans to a suit and tie. PJ's is the start of a bad idea that ends up camped in front of the fridge coding around mouthfuls of cheese...
I don't know all the jobs you are involved with but IMHO you could be a rather good writer.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Thank you.
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In bed with a laptop? Probably on his lap, which is a bad idea. Laptops can get hot, and I've heard of more than one case where this has led to a hospital visit with burns to nether regions. It happens gradually, so it's a frog in a pot situation.
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Two days ago I reported the case of the character who hoarded thousands of bottles of sanitizer to sell through Amazon at ridiculous prices. Amazon foiled his plan when they terminated his listing for price gouging. Well, it seems he suddenly decided to donate the items, when he started to receive death threats and the Tennessee attorney general started a criminal investigation, with him as target, for price gouging. Nice! That news brightened my morning! 
The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them[^]
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Cp-Coder wrote: to receive death threats
This story and all that surrounds it shows that the world has lost its mind. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I agree that death threats are not acceptable, but prosecution for price gouging is entirely appropriate!
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Cp-Coder wrote: prosecution for price gouging is entirely appropriate
At the corporate level, sure, but not at the individual level.
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17,700 bottles isn't exactly "individual level" ... 
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If it's just one dou... guy, it is.
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Two: him and his brother spent 3 days touring two states, buying every bottle they could find and clearing enough space to store it.
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Still just two individuals, not a corporate retailer with all that entails. Business license et al.
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Dear ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) has everyone gone mad! Personally I would like to know how 'Wash Your Hands' translates to buy all the Pasta, Rice & toilet rolls you can...
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Quote: has everyone gone mad!
Not yet, but we are getting there. This morning I went on my weekly run to the groceries store. One of the managers that I frequently chat with, told me that he had an ear full from a lady, because the store did not have a sign above the Kleenex tissues, warning people not to use tissues for toilet paper 
Apparently she bought a few boxes of Kleenex when she could not get toilet paper and that clogged her sewage line. And somehow that was the store's fault! 
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Paper towels would be a dumb thing to do, but Kleenex? Have they reduced the size of pipes so much that this has become a problem?
This must've been thought out by the same people who try to "save water" by making toilets that do such a poor job that they actually require you to flush more than once for everything to go...thus consuming more water.
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Kleenex don't break apart in the sewer line like TP does. The latter is more fragile. It's always been a bad idea to flush Kleenex. It won't always clog a line, to be sure, but, is more likely to than TP.
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I've seen TP brands that were a lot tougher to break down than some tissues. And some people use so much TP it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.
But if this lady switched to tissues and her toilet immediately clogged and it's to blame...I find that a bit unusual. Hey, not saying it's not true. But she's probably the type who would use a ton of either. I know someone who goes through a roll a day - by himself. And I'm not exaggerating.
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jackbrownii wrote: It's always been a bad idea to flush Kleenex.
 Not in the US.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Kleenex is wetproof, so it doesn't dissolve in water.
It's not meant to wipe your butt with, but rather to be used as a makeup remover and such stuff.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Kleenex is wetproof, so it doesn't dissolve in water.
This has gotta be a Kleenex[tm] thing specifically, as I buy various brands and don't get much of a different result between picking up spilled liquids with a tissue vs TP. I'm not familiar with your use of "wetproof" here. It's not like you can wrung out a tissue after dunking it in water. Or if you can, you're buying stuff that's a lot tougher than I've ever found on my local shelves. 
Jörgen Andersson wrote: It's not meant to wipe your butt with, but rather to be used as a makeup remover and such stuff.
I thought that's what those little round pads or cotton balls were for (clearly, I don't wear makeup). I use tissues pretty much exclusively to blow my nose. The Kleenex police has never shown up at my door.
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