Adjusted again

[owlmoose]

My employer announced yesterday that our return to office plans have been delayed indefinitely, from "sometime after Labor Day" to "we'll have another announcement in late October." This is fine, except I'd been sort of counting on being able to go into the office in September, when T is planning to redo our upstairs floor (replacing carpet with hardwood). This is a project we were supposed to do last summer and have been talking about for years, so I am reluctant to put it off any further (the carpet is ugly, falling apart, and possibly the source of our long-running moth infestation), but working from home with a construction site overhead is not my idea of a good time. So we'll see what happens.

Comments

[lassarina]

Oh no :( I mean, I'm glad your office is being careful about return but yeah, working during construction is not the best. I recommend noise cancelling headphones. (Having, in the past 18 months, gone through our roof replacement, the neighbors' roof repairs, and a thoroughly upsetting amount of road construction....)

[owlmoose]

Yeah. I'm not excited about the prospect of lots of dust, either. But we'll have to see how it goes.

[zahraa]

I'd be so overjoyed to get an announcement like that. I hope you can get the floors put in, though, it sounds great. Zxywvut and I lived in our living room and kitchen for a month or so while we were having all of our bedrooms refloored and painted a few years ago. We had to pack the dining room and parts of the kitchen with all of the stuff from the bedrooms. We did it after Anais died but before we got Patience and Fortitude.

[owlmoose]

Well, recall that I'll never be forced back into the office if I don't want to. So my situation is a bit different than yours. (Do you have an RTO date yet?) At least for the remodeling work time, it would be nice to have the option. I might still be able to argue for it -- we're allowed to work in the office if it's necessary. Since our condo doesn't really have separate rooms per se, there's no where here I can really shut myself away from the noise and sawdust. How Tori is going to handle the disruption is definitely an open question!

[zahraa]

My RTO date is currently 9/27. I am hoping that will be extended; other large firms are extending them. Zxywvut and I will be on vac from 9/10-26. I hope Tori handles it OK!

[oracne]

Maybe you can request permission to be in the office for some of that time.

[owlmoose]

It's a potential option. Anyone can ask to come in, you just need to complete a safety training (which I already did, back when I packed up my old office space in February) and get approval from your area VP. One of the officially approved reasons is "it's a hardship to work at home" and I suspect this qualifies.Also a friend who owns a small law firm in downtown SF has said that I can come work in her office if I ever need to, so that could be an option as well.