How are you handling social distancing in light of COVID-19?

[FAH1223]

I'm working from home. No 40 min to 1 hour long commute to the office and that drive back.

I can go back to sleep after Fajr in the morning and wake up quarter to 9 and pull up my workstation and get on the first Zoom call

But I do feel some type of way when I go to the grocery store

[Nubis]

Good topic.

[FarhanYare]

I envy office workers working from home right about now lol, but I've noticed workload gone down quite a bit last week so it's been a breeze. Social distancing comes easy with me since am not really social to begin with

[Tuushi]

This is when it sucks a lot if you work in health care. I have never been more exhausted. So glad I change jobs after 1 more week of this crazy panicky world. Essential service my ass.

[Nubis]

[FarhanYare]

This is when it sucks a lot if you work in health care. I have never been more exhausted. So glad I change jobs after 1 more week of this crazy panicky world. Essential service my ass.

On the bright side your field is recession proof or so we hope.

[sahal80]

i work for a year a good Turkish family we got on well very respectful guys who came to the uk in mid 90s from germany so their boys who work with me were born in the uk and now r in their mid-20s so they dont have middle eastern mentality at all. they never shouted at me even one day and one of the guys who is the manager is an engineer and has a good deen doesnt go to the mosque but he doesnt date girls or smoke shit and i teach him arabic. so im off on week days and fridays. last thursday(my payday) i told them im not gonna come back you have to sort out yourself in this weekend and their father has been ringing to me and i said sorry i cant. today the manager rang me begging me to continue for 3 days and i accepted it bc he promised me that i will be back when things get better.

our customers r white and i never experienced the racism black people talk about. i just dont say im from somalia i look abit for them ethnically ambiguous. not skinny or tall and cut my hair too short.

[FarhanYare]

i work for a year a good Turkish family we got on well very respectful ceeb who came to the uk in mid 90s from germany so their boys who work with me were born in uk and now r in their mid-20s so they dont have middle eastern mentality at all. they shouted at me even one day and one of the guys who is the manager is engineer and has a good deen doesnt go to the mosque but he doesnt date girls or smoke shit and i teach him arabic. so im off on week days and fridays. last thursday(my payday) i told them im not gonna come back you have to sort out yourself in this weekend and their father has been ringing to me and i said sorry i cant. today the manager rang me begging me to continue for 3 days and i accepted it bc he promised me that i will be back when things get better.

our customers r white and i never experienced the racism black people talk about. i just dont say im from somalia i look abit for them ethnically ambiguous. not skinny or tall and cut my hair too short.

Sahal, I feel like doing the same not turn up to work. I hate toxic work environment more than the idea of slaving away in job

[paperino]

i work for a year a good Turkish family we got on well very respectful guys who came to the uk in mid 90s from germany so their boys who work with me were born in the uk and now r in their mid-20s so they dont have middle eastern mentality at all. they never shouted at me even one day and one of the guys who is the manager is an engineer and has a good deen doesnt go to the mosque but he doesnt date girls or smoke shit and i teach him arabic. so im off on week days and fridays. last thursday(my payday) i told them im not gonna come back you have to sort out yourself in this weekend and their father has been ringing to me and i said sorry i cant. today the manager rang me begging me to continue for 3 days and i accepted it bc he promised me that i will be back when things get better.

our customers r white and i never experienced the racism black people talk about. i just dont say im from somalia i look abit for them ethnically ambiguous. not skinny or tall and cut my hair too short.

In short, you look like Caucasian.

[sahal80]

i work for a year a good Turkish family we got on well very respectful ceeb who came to the uk in mid 90s from germany so their boys who work with me were born in uk and now r in their mid-20s so they dont have middle eastern mentality at all. they shouted at me even one day and one of the guys who is the manager is engineer and has a good deen doesnt go to the mosque but he doesnt date girls or smoke shit and i teach him arabic. so im off on week days and fridays. last thursday(my payday) i told them im not gonna come back you have to sort out yourself in this weekend and their father has been ringing to me and i said sorry i cant. today the manager rang me begging me to continue for 3 days and i accepted it bc he promised me that i will be back when things get better.

our customers r white and i never experienced the racism black people talk about. i just dont say im from somalia i look abit for them ethnically ambiguous. not skinny or tall and cut my hair too short.

Sahal, I feel like doing the same not turn up to work. I hate toxic work environment more than the idea of slaving away in job

im not your sort of well educated guys so i didn't like to risk losing my nice job and i hate long hours xamaali warehouse jobs but i was like who will look after my daughter if i die. manager was saying to me come on bro your believer i said to him bro this is like yawm al qiyama the judgement day i added incase he doesnt understand allah said وقل اعملو فسيرالله عملكم do your best and i will be with you.

i work for a year a good Turkish family we got on well very respectful guys who came to the uk in mid 90s from germany so their boys who work with me were born in the uk and now r in their mid-20s so they dont have middle eastern mentality at all. they never shouted at me even one day and one of the guys who is the manager is an engineer and has a good deen doesnt go to the mosque but he doesnt date girls or smoke shit and i teach him arabic. so im off on week days and fridays. last thursday(my payday) i told them im not gonna come back you have to sort out yourself in this weekend and their father has been ringing to me and i said sorry i cant. today the manager rang me begging me to continue for 3 days and i accepted it bc he promised me that i will be back when things get better.

our customers r white and i never experienced the racism black people talk about. i just dont say im from somalia i look abit for them ethnically ambiguous. not skinny or tall and cut my hair too short.

In short, you look like Caucasian.

kkk stop trolling me warya!. i just dress well i never wear hoodies or cover my head. and i dont smoke shit. i was trained by the manager on having good manners though. the problem of black people is lack of manners. i dont wanna change the topic so let us stop here.

[AbdiWahab252]

I get up at my usual time each morning, take a shower and now have enough time to cook a decent breakfast. I don’t miss the 40 mile commute and traffic.

I do hate the video conferencing calls. They are too annoying and find it harder to focus compared to meeting in person. I admit it’s harder to work from home at times due to distractions like wanting to take a break and watch TV and do some day trading.

When I do go out for a grocery run, I try to stay far away from folks. I only shop for milk, eggs and fresh vegetables. I admit that I panic shopped back in late February and have a ton of dry foods, canned vegetables, frozen fish etc.

I try to remain fit by using my free weights and using the exercise bike. I do go running in the late afternoons as the sunsets fall back.

I don’t socialize any more. I avoid having guests and have even stopped flirting. I am avoiding Rona and she is out there stalking folks.

Stay safe and isolate.

[AbdiWahab252]

This is when it sucks a lot if you work in health care. I have never been more exhausted. So glad I change jobs after 1 more week of this crazy panicky world. Essential service my ass.

My little sibling is a doctor in NYC. He is crazy to be working there in this crisis. I tried to get him to move to Somalia with me and get a high paying job doing the same kind of work. He said it was too risky yet he is willing to work in the coronavirus infested city. He says that the crisis is real and is being under reported.

[AbdiWahab252]

I'm working from home. No 40 min to 1 hour long commute to the office and that drive back.

I can go back to sleep after Fajr in the morning and wake up quarter to 9 and pull up my workstation and get on the first Zoom call

But I do feel some type of way when I go to the grocery store

Have you seen how all the essentials have been wiped out? My local Giant looks like a store in Harare Zimbabwe. I stocked up after word of the pandemic leaving China. I am so glad I exited out of stocks in early January though i felt FOMO as it ticked up higher and higher but glad I wasn’t a chump to believe the Trump bump was here to stay

[FAH1223]

Have you seen how all the essentials have been wiped out? My local Giant looks like a store in Harare Zimbabwe. I stocked up after word of the pandemic leaving China. I am so glad I exited out of stocks in early January though i felt FOMO as it ticked up higher and higher but glad I wasn’t a chump to believe the Trump bump was here to stay

No toilet paper, no cleaning supplies... just crazy panic shopping.

The Trump bump in the markets was always a mirage... ever since late 2016, I knew the bubble would burst. I didn't think it'd be a pandemic.

[FarhanYare]

Nz will be in lock down in the next 48 hrs which includes school closures. The number of cases are sky rocketing and people are evading the mandatory 14 days in isolation upon arrival. Panic buying continues.. Thousands of Covid 19 casualties already being forecasted