Quarantine Confessions (share yours here)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only Fed on telework that still actually has things to do?
My friend who works for another directorate at our agency told me her “work” has pretty much dried up and she has no idea how her boss is spending all her time.
Meanwhile, business as usual for me. I get no breaks. My kids are on video games and YouTube all day long because I have to get things done.
But hey, no bra, no shoes!

I am a fed. I have a ton of work. Outward facing so o can’t even pretend.

[Anonymous]

I went into the Asian market to look for toilet paper. Everyone had masks on.

[Anonymous]

All my friends are complaining but for me i's just good timing.
I am separated (no one to annoy me), my kid is fairly independent and between scratch, reading, and watching science videos his day is not too non-productive.
I basically can live my normal life but not feel guilty. I don't take the kid anywhere because it's responsible; I order takeout because it's the right thing to do - support businesses.
I am saving on aftercare and travel (I have to travel with kid but he is not that enthusiastic about it, so I have mixed feelings about traveling with him).
Also, a perfect excuse to not see people I don't care for, to wfh, no drop offs or pick ups, no stressing because of housework (I just fold laundry while on conference calls).

[Anonymous]

My confession is that I resent my boss. I’m a nanny and my boss is ‘working’ from home. She has done one 5 minute call and the rest of the time it’s, shopping, yoga, making giant messes left for me to clean, interfering with the kids day while I’m trying to home school, making more messes and just generally sitting around while I work 12hrs a day. She is going out and about not caring about other and now the boys are sick- with cold but who knows. I resent her because she doesn’t need me there 12hrs a day and I think she is lazy and a bad mom.

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and will start distance learning next week.
My confession: I’m worried I’ll have to quit my job, when my school district goes back to work but my sons remains closed. I also can’t stand my husband. I’ve asked him to telework from our family vacation house. He won’t go, so I think I will

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only Fed on telework that still actually has things to do?
My friend who works for another directorate at our agency told me her “work” has pretty much dried up and she has no idea how her boss is spending all her time.
Meanwhile, business as usual for me. I get no breaks. My kids are on video games and YouTube all day long because I have to get things done.
But hey, no bra, no shoes!

I am a fed. I have a ton of work. Outward facing so o can’t even pretend.

Super busy...trying not to be distracted by the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My confession is that I resent my boss. I’m a nanny and my boss is ‘working’ from home. She has done one 5 minute call and the rest of the time it’s, shopping, yoga, making giant messes left for me to clean, interfering with the kids day while I’m trying to home school, making more messes and just generally sitting around while I work 12hrs a day. She is going out and about not caring about other and now the boys are sick- with cold but who knows. I resent her because she doesn’t need me there 12hrs a day and I think she is lazy and a bad mom.

It's ok to feel this way. She sounds like a complete ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher. I make amazing lesson plans getting middle schoolers engaged and successful in math on a daily basis. I can scaffold and differentiate like no one else.

Confession: I am struggling trying to teach my 6 year old one on one.

I am bored, he is bored, I am ready to throw in the towel and have a Mario kart challenge all week instead. I downloaded abcmouse (boring) and adventure academy (“can not connect to server”) to be my savior, but they have failed me.

I am telling myself he was way ahead when schools closed, so missing a few months is no big deal and we will just bake cookies and it will be okay.

The Scholastic grade level activities look interesting and entertaining.

[Anonymous]

We are waking up at 9 am since Saturday. Always been a night owl and all of us are enjoying sleeping in.

[Anonymous]

I'm a longtime (10+ years) full-time telecommuter, along with my whole group. When we went telework, our productivity increased.

Right now, I can barely focus. But DH has been in the office until recently and he said the same thing. We're in crisis times and it's very difficult to concentrate on other things, which is not surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pulled up Bill Nye the Science Guy on YouTube for my seven year old so I could get something done. First he freaked me out by saying he had switched it to heavy metal until I realized it was just Bill Nye covering Nivana's Smells Like Teen Spirit with science lyrics. But then he stumbled on something with clips from Full Metal Jacket. Time to figure out parental controls.

Youtube is bad bad bad. If it's not influencers just aiming for clicks while kinda being a little right-wing-Nazi (like Pewdiepie), it's the influence of a LOT of money being spent strategically to brainwash your kids.

Conservatives use youtube to radicalize kids (Prager U is the most obvious funded effort).
So does the far right, and Nazis.
So do Muslim extremists.
The Russians spend money on Youtube to propagandize us and kids.
The Chinese spend money on Youtube to propagandize us and kids.
The Epoch Times, the Babylon Bee, Prager U, Jordan Peterson - it's cults and crazies ALL over Youtube.
The Boston bomber was radicalized on Youtube (perhaps with help from the Russians).
Many of the recent young white neo-Nazi types (Dylan Roof, the Montreal kid who watched and loved Peterson and Ben Shapiro) got some radicalization on youtube.

Youtube is basically a cancer on our society. And Google and Susan Wojciecki don't care. Because they're making big money. At our expense.

Please try YouTube Kids. They filter all the mess out. Except for Mattel and Disneyworld ads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pulled up Bill Nye the Science Guy on YouTube for my seven year old so I could get something done. First he freaked me out by saying he had switched it to heavy metal until I realized it was just Bill Nye covering Nivana's Smells Like Teen Spirit with science lyrics. But then he stumbled on something with clips from Full Metal Jacket. Time to figure out parental controls.

LOL that's amazing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pulled up Bill Nye the Science Guy on YouTube for my seven year old so I could get something done. First he freaked me out by saying he had switched it to heavy metal until I realized it was just Bill Nye covering Nivana's Smells Like Teen Spirit with science lyrics. But then he stumbled on something with clips from Full Metal Jacket. Time to figure out parental controls.

Youtube is bad bad bad. If it's not influencers just aiming for clicks while kinda being a little right-wing-Nazi (like Pewdiepie), it's the influence of a LOT of money being spent strategically to brainwash your kids.

Conservatives use youtube to radicalize kids (Prager U is the most obvious funded effort).
So does the far right, and Nazis.
So do Muslim extremists.
The Russians spend money on Youtube to propagandize us and kids.
The Chinese spend money on Youtube to propagandize us and kids.
The Epoch Times, the Babylon Bee, Prager U, Jordan Peterson - it's cults and crazies ALL over Youtube.
The Boston bomber was radicalized on Youtube (perhaps with help from the Russians).
Many of the recent young white neo-Nazi types (Dylan Roof, the Montreal kid who watched and loved Peterson and Ben Shapiro) got some radicalization on youtube.

Youtube is basically a cancer on our society. And Google and Susan Wojciecki don't care. Because they're making big money. At our expense.

Please try YouTube Kids. They filter all the mess out. Except for Mattel and Disneyworld ads.

DP. The problem is that YouTube kids filters a lot of good stuff too. What I need to start doing is let them go to town on YouTube kids and then watch YouTube with them.

[Anonymous]

I honestly think this quarantine will help so many families find a better balance, and help employers support flex time. We all work differently, and have optimal productivity in different environments. I’m very hopeful about the results of productivity after this is all over, hoping employers see cost savings of keeping people working from home, reducing busy work, supporting a better quality of life.

[Anonymous]

In my shopping frenzy I purchased several old-school snacks that I never eat and don’t particularly like. It wasn’t until I looked at the boxes on the counter that I realized that I had bought stuff that were my mother’s favorites when she was alive. I want my Mommy!