Well. So much for going to work for the next indefinite time period.

[thewayne]

Just got an email from my boss. The library has been shut down indefinitely. COVID.

Just the library.

Working from home "for the next few weeks", but no info on us having to get tested, I expect we'll have more info and directives come Monday.

I was off last week and I feel fine, aside from a strep throat infection which I'm on antibiotics for and it's improving.

Comments

[graydon]

I was off last week and I feel fine, aside from a strep throat infection which I'm on antibiotics for and it's improving.

This is a remarkable sentence (here I am remarking on it) and I hope you're feeling better soon!

Sounds like whoever runs the library is numerate; I hope everything goes excellent well.

[moonhare]

“ Just got an email from my boss. The library has been shut down indefinitely. COVID.”

I’m waiting to see that future email myself, the way our State is heading.

Glad you feel mostly healthy :o)

[kathmandu]

"Off last week" sounds like a piece of good luck.

[thewayne]

It definitely was.  We're a small university branch campus library with three permanent employees.  There's the library director, I'm half-time, and one full-time.  And two  student work-studies.  We three perms rotate two weeks on, one week off, and this was my week off.  So sheer luck that I was not among the group exposed.

[motodraconis]

Bloody hell.

[silveradept]

Good that you weren't exposed, bad that other people were, and hoping that your closure doesn't result in job losses.

[thewayne]

The university has been extremely good about no job losses due to exposures. Now, we have been hard hit on budget cuts and did have like 4 FTEs eliminated, and that’s AFTER the budget hits mid-summer! Those FTE cuts did not hit us, we’ve already been hit. An unfilled FTE I believe was permanently eliminated, we’ve cut some databases, all of our periodicals we’ve cancelled their renewals so they’ll dry up, and we’re not binding the ones that we normally bind. Our operating hours have been reduced, and we’ve gone from three to two student work-studies.

The FTEs that were hit had one or two retirements and the others were relocated within our campus, so not a big deal.

We’re pretty much the most heavily-hit branch campus. Carlsbad got hit, but they’re out in oil country, and the oil companies came through with grants to make up the diff for them.