sailors fighting in the dance hall

[the_siobhan]

Today was the quarterly Town Hall at work, which meant going into a team meeting with the entire department at the Mothership. My first time there. I got lost. And I never did figure out how the passcards work.

It's days like today that make me wonder if I really am from fucking Mars.

There are thousands of people working in that building. The floor I was on was crammed solid - people sitting in rows and rows of desk, chairs jammed shoulder to shoulder. I was the only one in a mask.

They served snacks and coffee over break, my boss wanders by. "Aren't you having any coffee?" Um. I'm wearing a silicon sheath over the entire lower half of my face, do i look like I'm going to have a coffee?

This is where I start wondering if I'm the one who's crazy. How can it just be me? 

Comments

[dissectionist]

I first read this article a couple months ago but I feel like some of the concepts they discuss, like the disruption of anomie (well-explained in the article) and widespread desperation for normalcy, more closely get at what’s going on than ignorance. People who need others to continue respecting the pandemic are up against powerful psychological drives that are driving many people to do the opposite and “move on”.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/22/magazine/covid-pandemic-oral-history.html

[the_siobhan]

New York Times paywall blocks me far more often than I think is warranted by how infrequently I read New York Times articles.

[dissectionist]

Ugh, I thought that one was un-paywalled since it didn’t bring one up for me either of the two times I looked at it.

I use this to get around paywalls when needed. https://txtify.it/

[the_siobhan]

Sorry, I wasn't kvetching at you, I just find NYT totally random about whether or not they block their site.

Thank you for that link! I will definitely be bookmarking that site.