I remember the last time I was physically in the office before the pandemic hit locally. We were all only half doing our jobs, and glued to news sites, wondering when it would get here. One of my coworkers found an article about the first case detected in a city two hours north of us, and at that moment I kind of knew I’d never see most of them in person again.
Since then, one has moved away, one has retired, one has been laid off (sadly), and one will never go to the office again because his wife is immune compromised. My team has expanded to include folks from all over the world, but none of them are local to me.
Of the people I used to work with, precisely one goes to the office now. He goes once or twice a month, timing it so there are very few other people there.
I go maybe once every four months, starting eight months ago. So, twice so far. I didn’t see him there either time.
It helped us hate each other more, so that ain’t nothing
