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Anonymous
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Anonymous
How are their products? I shudder at the thought of an unlined one-piece (the girls need some lift at this point), but they are cute. Other things are cute.
anne-on
I am very small chested and I really really disliked the one pieces. It reminded me of the 80’s style one pieces in that it kind of just smooshed everything down? I can’t see how someone more endowed would be able to wear one and move comfortably. The bikinis might be fine but I was looking for a cute one piece. FWIW, I really like La Blanca for one-pieces.
Anonymous
Any one in particular? I’m small chested and also have a short torso, so I have been a tankini person recently but the tops are often so long that they look funny. A one-piece that fits would be great. [This year I may only wear it on walks with a sarong, but a girl can daydream as she waits, no?]
anon
I also thought it didn’t have enough b**ty coverage, and I don’t even have that big of one.
anne-on
I like the ‘island goddess’ style – both the sweetheart neckline (might be discontinued, but zappos has it?) and the regular straight across neckline.
Anonymous
I have a vent and then a question. I’m a biglaw associate and my firm has allowed (but not made obligatory) working from home. I have been happy to do so when it comes to billable work, but I really don’t have the mental bandwidth to be doing non-billable stuff right now. I have been volun-told to draft a pretty extensive article that is being touted as urgent. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to be staying up late on my couch doing non-billable work while the rest of the world takes a breath and slows down. I feel like people in my firm have been so tone-deaf with all of this and I have dealt with it gracefully in the case of billable work (ie. staying up late to draft factums on my couch for hearings that may not even be deemed urgent enough to be heard via teleconference right now), but I feel like I need to draw a line for the sake of my own sanity. Unfortunately, my firm knows that I am house bound right now. Any thoughts on scripts I could use to push the deadline for this article out? I will draft the thing, but I refuse to work around the clock on it, which is what is being asked of me.
Anon
Not a lawyer so take it with a grain of salt, but I would consider something short and sweet like “Given the current coronavirus situation and resulting pressures, I suggest pushing back the deadline until ___ so I can continue to prioritize billable work.”
Anonymous
I’d rethink this.
In all likelihood, layoffs are coming. If you aren’t at 100%, I’d just get it done. Our clients are on us for all sorts of coronavirus-related new needs and there is so much guidance coming out that they need someone to pre-digest for them (in a non-billable client alert sort of way, but here it may lead to billable work promptly) and you want to be busy/useful not the person easily remembered for pushing back.
Anonymous
+1 Firms view associates who refuse to do their share of non billable work as not being team players. I would suggest you not get that rap.
Senior Attorney
Sadly, I agree with this unless you can manage okay if you laid off.
anne-on
I am having strong flashbacks to 2008, and I think we’re in for a more prolonged, harder recession this time around. There was no work/life balance because there were SO many people out of jobs, and firms totally took advantage of it because there were a ton of applicants for every opening. I was not far into my career and I really think it permanently changed my view of what a ‘normal’ work life balance was because for so long you were totally expendable and constantly felt the need to prove your worth.
Anon
+1, with sympathy.
Anonymous
+1, with sympathy.
Anonymous
This even worse advice.
I am senior enough to assign work to others who are junior. I need to rely on juniors to pull their weight or at least be responsive. And like it or not, not every task is billable. And not all billable work is awesome. I promise you, if I say something is urgent, it is. Maybe not to you but to someone up the food chain who decides who to keep and who to chop. If you ghost me when I need you to do things, I will never give you work again and actively advocate for you to be one of the ones cut. Some people are really holding things down under trying times and if you ghost, it will be noticed.
Anonymous
I disagree that the rest of the world is taking a breath… I’ve been extremely busy with very stressed out folks, and I’m sure the partners in your firm have been also. I don’t think this is the time to add more stress to someone’s plate by making them go out and find someone else who also won’t want to do this. That said, if you need more time to do the work at a high level, then you should absolutely say that. Maybe the article is way more extensive than they thought, maybe the scope can be narrowed, maybe they have some other research on hand that can help you?
Anonymous
Same. I am in-house and am working non-stop. I am also relying on outside counsel more than at any other point in my career right now.
Diana Barry
I would do it tonight and get it over with. Don’t be the squeaky wheel right now.
Anon
+1
Anon
I (not big law) would write back with a reasonable deadline within 48 hours of the proposed one. Something like “I’m happy to do that but because of my current workload I can’t have that completed until 4 pm tomorrow. Do you still want me to do it?” Also, if the same partner is assigning the billable work, ask which one they want done first. “I’m happy to do that. Do you want the article or the Jones matter completed today? The other will be done first thing tomorrow.”
anon
I would absolutely do all the work asked of me, billable or not. The economy is about to tank and people will lose their jobs. Pushing back on being asked to work is an easy way to be first on the chopping block.
Small Law Partner
Former biglaw partner here and yes this. If biglaw isn’t for you, I feel that (see my name), but you can search for a job much more easily if you protect yours now.
I also disagree that the rest of the world is catching a breath. I’ll admit to working slightly less hours per day and things like trials and in-person are postponed, but we’re still moving our cases forward. There is no reason not to.
That being said, even in my more than a decade in biglaw I stayed up all night maybe a half dozen times? If you are needing to stay up all night to write an article, can you reassess the scope and make sure you have that right? You may be trying to do too much (or the people you work with are unreasonable, but I’d rule out the former first).
Anon GC
Former biglaw partner, now in-house. I’m usually the queen of “manage up, set reasonable expectations, your personal life and wellbeing matter, etc.”
That’s not true right now.
The rest of the world isn’t slowing down and taking a breath- your clients are working longer hours than ever before (for a lot less money) trying to keep their companies afloat and preserve jobs. Layoffs very well may be coming to biglaw. If they do, you want to be the associate that partners fight for, not the one they remember saying no to them. It doesn’t matter if it’s billable or nonbillable. You can ask them for help prioritizing – that’s the partners’ job – but this is not the time to decide to die on the hill of not doing nonbillable work. You can only draw those lines right now if you’re okay with being unemployed in a bad economy (and you may be In a financial situation that makes you comfortable with that – there’s no moral judgment there).
I know for a fact that partners at my old firm are already coming up with their informal layoff lists in internal conversations.
Is it crappy? Sure. Does it likely feel worse because your firm isn’t handling this well? Undoubtedly. But nobody’s having an easy time right now.
Anonymous
+1
I am in BigLaw and having to WFH and homeschool right now. I am exhausted and yet I have never been more certain that my clients really need me and value our work right now. But some practice groups are pencils-down on their work right now, suddenly, and are feeling very nervous. And we are closed officially, so they know that partners really can’t go out and drum up more work b/c everyone is too busy to talk or has nothing that they need to talk about. And our friends in other businesses are terrified — our city has had waves of layoffs already so that people could go on unemployment but we think they are coming for white collar people too.
Anonymous
Strongly disagree re personal life and wellbeing not mattering right now. There have already been numerous studies on the effects this is having on people’s mental health. At a time like this it is crucial to take care of that part of ourselves, and it sounds like OP is trying to do so. She didn’t say she would refuse to write the article, she said for the sake of her sanity she wants to do it on a more reasonable timeline.
Anonymous
It sounded like “everyone has free time and I don’t and this isn’t even billable so I don’t want to.”
Anon GC
She can do that but she needs to be realistic about the job risk. I wouldn’t draw these boundaries right now unless I were at an utter breaking point, but I graduated into the 2008 recession and the associated layoffs and remember how long many of my friends struggled to find work. I have friends who were not in full-time paid employment again for years.
anon
+100 Mental health matters but posters here are just being realistic about the consequences of taking certain actions right now. I suspect OP is too young to remember 2008 but I think if you weren’t around then it’s bad advice to tell someone (especially in biglaw) that they can realistically push back in this context without putting their job at risk right now.
Anon
Agreed.
Airplane.
I’m sympathetic, but I would narrow the scope and hand in a draft of the article. Maybe re-evaluate your stance that the rest of the world taking a breath and slowing down? I feel like everyone in corporate america is busy dealing with coronavirus fall out and preparation for economic recession.
Anonattorney
Yikes, this post is a bit tone deaf and demonstrates a fundamental lack of knowledge about how law firms work. If you have at-home circumstances that are impacting your ability to work, by all means talk to HR or a mentor at work and address those issues. But don’t assume that these circumstances generally should allow you to slow down.
Anonymous
Agreed. One firm in my MCOL city just matched NYC salaries for associates. Awesome, right? Not with work slowing down. It will make the pinch more acute and lead to more/faster layoffs. It’s so short-sighted, like hitting the accelerator on the off-ramp.
Honestly, I think we may tell 1Ls not to report on time like we did in 2010. Right now, we have to get management signoff on all new hires (instituted a couple of weeks ago, so that’s officially a sea change).
anon
I obviously don’t know what the subject of your article is, but I am now in-house and some of my former colleagues who are still in BigLaw just published an alert today on a relevant piece of legislation that passed a week ago. I care for these people’s well-being, but frankly, that information does not help me today, it would have helped me a week ago before I had to summarize it for my internal clients myself. Even on non-billable work, sometimes timelines matter.
Anonymous
Then call them and ask them for it and pay for it. You aren’t entitled to prompt free work when someone else is paying for their time.
Don’t be the problem.
anon
I think the posters point is that the article is in fact “urgent” if it’s going to be useful. If a firm is going to dedicate non-billable hours to doing an article, it should be useful for clients. If they don’t get the article out quickly enough and it’s not helpful to the clients, they just wasted everyone’s time (includign the associate who worked on it tomorrow instead of today)
Anonymous
You don’t get it. People read the first thing they get. It’s advertising for the follow-on call showing you’ve done the work to learn something new. This client probably read alerts by other firms and knows who to follow up with, and it’s not the firm that got stuff out late.
If you want to help on a pitch with a client audience, this is it. A day late is a dollar short.
No client is going to pay for a COVID summary that will then get recopied (at no additional cost) for other paying clients. They will call and pay for their specific work to be done.
anon
This. My firm is pumping out material like crazy. That material is non-billable work but the follow up questions/work that comes out of it is billable. Sending stuff a day or two later means the client has already engaged another law firm.
Anon
At this time, I need quick advice. Everything is changing by the hour.
I work with about 20 firms. The one putting out the best articles with speed are the ones who are getting my phone calls for paid work. Sorry – this is how it works. I’m working 16 hours a day to keep my business going.
And nobody’s going to pay for a research memo (which what these articles pretty much are). Sorry – I will read the article for free and then pay the firm for advice specific to my situation.
anon
Gently, I think you’re the tone deaf one in this situation. Biglaw senior associate here. We are heading into a recession that is going to be prolonged, which means layoffs. And even though you want to go in-house, in-house hiring takes a long time in normal circumstances and will be even slower here. Tons of companies have already laid off people. I’d expect hiring freezes of at least a year. Competition for those few jobs that will be available in the next 2 years will be fierce. I was talking to a senior partner yesterday who was trying to give me comfort about my future in the firm given recent events and even in that context he said that this is unlike anything he’s seen before and he expects it to be worse and longer term than 9/11 or 2008. Yes it sucks to have to work around the clock on something you don’t view as important but I promise you the partner is saying its urgent because a client is asking for it. At my firm, senior associates and partners are getting slammed with trying to advise clients in real time on various updates. If an associate tried to push back on timing right now for any reason other than billable work conflicting or life stuff (i.e., my mom is in the hospital not I want to sit in my PJs and watch Netflix because that’s what my friends are doing) they’d find themselves on the short list when (note, when not if) layoffs inevitably come. Advice from those of us who were around for the last recession, don’t give the firm any reason to put you on that shortlist unless you’re ok being unemployed for a while.
Anonymous
Who is slowing down and taking a breather? I am in house and working 14-20 hour days and weekends without an end in site
Telco Lady JD
I really, really don’t miss BigLaw.
Monday
Looks like the prior post, first called Coronavirus Sales and then called Quarantine Sales, has been removed completely!
Anon
Better than nothing, I guess.
Anon
*cringe*
Senior Attorney
Good call.
Anon
Coronavirus Sales! Don’t forget the exclamation point.
Cat
Thankfully. It would be nice if K@t would acknowledge the misstep…
honestly I would not have minded a sale round-up at ALL had it been characterized better. Like, “obviously retailers are hoping to keep sales flowing in these challenging times, so many are offering bigger discounts than we often see.” would have been perfectly acceptable IMHO.
RR
Agree with this entire post.
Anon
Yes.
I’m the person (from yesterday’s online shopping post) who is trying to cobble together a postpartum wardrobe for going back to work in a couple of weeks, so I appreciate being able to buy things on deep discount. But the post still made me cringe, because the reasons for the deep sales are so heartbreaking. It also affects the workers at the stores; I’m hoping that if the retailers can at least clear out warehouse inventory and get some money in the door, they will have an easier time reopening in the summer.
Chicago In House
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Aunt Jamesina
You aren’t a licensed therapist or psychologist. Stay in your lane and don’t offer to help in ways that could be counterproductive or even dangerous for peoples’ mental health.
Anon
Yikes. This is a really harsh response to someone trying to help. I have both a therapist and a life coach and I benefit far more from my life coach. I actually have suspended my services with my therapist because of this. If it’s not for you, fine, but it might be helpful to others.
givemyregards
+1 that was way harsh, tai. It’s not like OP was offering to write anyone a script for zoloft or trying to pass as a psychologist. I’ve never worked with a life coach, but I have worked with career coaches that were very helpful -sometimes it’s just nice to have someone to talk to that’s outside of your circle or capable of helping you examine yourself in a structured way.
Anon
Wow, really mean. If it’s not for you it’s not for you ~scroll on by~. But why be so harsh to someone who is trying to help? Why? Just why?
Anon
+1
Is it possible for an unlicensed person to be helpful? Yes. It’s also possible to drive around without a seat belt and not die. Training and professional qualifications exist for a reason.
Anonymous
Where do you put clergy then? They are pretty much off-label social workers and therapists.
anon
My father was a minister, and he was aware of the difference between his role and that of a therapist, even back in the 80s and 90s. He referred people to therapy when they were looking for/needed more than general guidance, counseling, or life coaching. Toward the end of his career, it was not uncommon for younger ministers to have the same qualifications a social worker would have.
Anon
The OP is an attorney and is presumably very aware of the differences between a life coach and a therapist, because she’s already in a profession requiring professional licensure.
ohMinnow
Um she did say Life Coach, right ?
Cookbooks
Um she did say Life Coach, right ?
Out of Place Engineer
My sister is in the hospital, suspected COVID-19 case. Fever started last Thursday, went to the hospital yesterday afternoon and was admitted. Was tested, but they won’t have results until Friday. I am supporting the crisis management at work, so am seeing the bleak outlook and contingency plans. I am just trying so hard not to spiral. The sun is out and I was able to get out for a walk at lunch. I don’t know what I am looking for, but I love this supportive community.
Senior Attorney
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear this! Sending much love and support to you and your family!
Anonymous
Praying for her.
Anon
I’m so sorry. Sending lots of socially distant internet hugs!
Anon
So sorry to hear it. Please let us know how things go. I’m glad your sister is able to access care.
Vicky Austin
You’re taking great care of yourself! Big hugs.
Anon
Sending you and your sister love and good thoughts!
Housecounsel
I am so sorry to hear this. I hope she recovers quickly.
Anon
So sorry. Thinking good thoughts for you both.
Anon
Thinking about you, thinking about your sister, sending love and wishes for peace and health.
Out of Place Engineer
Thanks for all of the encouraging words. It really means a lot to me.
Cookbooks
Sending good vibes to you and your sister, and I hope your sister gets well soon!
Ses
So sorry you’re going through this! She’s getting care, it sounds like you’re informed of what’s happening with her care… but it so hard when that’s all you can do. Best wishes for all to go smoothly and a quick improvement. I’m hoping you can visualize a time in the near future where you can go for coffee and this is all in the past.
Anon
Frivolous questions, but any good sources for jeans for work for women approaching middle age? I can only find super trendy styles (cropped, bell bottoms, etc) or skinny jeans that are really jeggings and are skintight even if I size up. I can’t find anything that makes me feel good in my body and is remotely work appropriate. Catch is that I’m 5’11 and need tall sizes.
Anon
Prana has some options that come in longer lengths (their petite fits me and I’m 5-6) and are work appropriate in my office.
Anon
Levi’s 715. Basic, classic, thick fabric, comfortable, makes your a$$ look good and comes in Long. Doesn’t need to be reshrunk after each wear. And doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Anonymous
Check out the J.Crew vintage straight jeans (lots of different washes).
Anonymous
I am short and curvy, but also 49. I have had good luck with curvy items sold by the Gap, but sometimes I have to have the waist taken in and the legs hemmed (I’m 5-4, so often petite sizes aren’t scaled right for my torso). Gap sells dedicated talls and their regular items would probably fit up to 5-7, so maybe the talls would work for you. They tend to be accurate for items that are more straight-fitting vs curvy-fitting.
Lori Bauman
Look at Levi’s 724 High Rise Straight Jeans. I’m 5’10” and the 32 inch inseam works for me. Longer inseams are available.
Small Law Partner
I’m early 40s and my favorites are Adriano Goldschmeid and R13. R13 trends younger and more trendy. AG is more classic, has some great boot cut and straight cut. Also great denim jackets that don’t make you look like you are straight out of the 90s.
Anonymous
I’m in my 30s, love Adriano Goldschmeid, and will be checking out R13.
Silly Valley
IME you have to jump on non-trendy jeans in tall sizes when you see them so all of these may not have options at the moment, but it’s worth keeping on your radar: BR, Gap, and ON all carry talls. Boden supposedly has longs but I find them more like a regular and I’m only 5’9″; it may depend on your proportions. AT and Loft both have talls. Also check Madewell, JCrew, & JCrew Factory (not sure if the latter does talls) and BR Factory.
If you need really long inseams there’s Long Tall Sally. Check to see if any of Duluth Trading’s workwear collection is dressy enough for you, and cabi has a nice-looking trouser jean right now. Oh, and Talbots maybe.
Anonattorney
I like Athleta sculptek jeans. They come in tall sizes and have great support in the waist and butt. The darker washes are great for work.
It takes all day to do a task :(
I am falling into this trap while I WFH:
I may have 7 hours of work tasks to do. And since I don’t need to finish them so I can do something else (usually: commute, pick kids up from school, make dinner magically appear, triage emergency evening work, etc., etc. scouts, homework, kids activities, dreams of the gym), I try to get work done efficiently. And now: there is no reason to rush. Nothing that having time would make me hurry along. I am just running out the clock on the day, each day. And it has been raining — so it’s not like “finish up and you can go for a walk”.
I don’t want this. How do I break out?
Housecounsel
I don’t know but I am having this exact same problem. I should be getting SO much done and I’m not.
Anonymous
Same here. I just can’t focus, and the pressure to perform at above 100% to demonstrate my value (see thread above) paradoxically makes it even harder to focus. And I think you, Housecounsel, have way more excuse to be distracted than I do.
Housecounsel
Thanks, Anonymous at 4:38 p.m., but I really don’t. My daughter is feeling pretty good, attending her online classes and FaceTiming with her friends, and I think the rest of us are close to being out of the woods.
Anon
Same.
Chicago In House
Hi All – I know this one! I’m a Certified Life Coach and a trained professional! :-)
We teach (and I use) a method that we call “Monday Hour One, Friday Hour Done.”
Here’s how it works. Take one hour in which you will do three steps: (1) List all the crap you have to do this week on one piece of paper. Work, personal, kids – all the things, all of it. (2) Figure out how much time each thing should take and write that down for each item. (3) Put each thing on your calendar in a slot that corresponds with the amount of time it will take. (Put in free time, your bedtime and meal times first before you start scheduling).
Now throw away the piece of paper. Here is the trick: when tomorrow comes and you have a crap ton of things on your calendar, you must honor your calendar! If you said finishing item X would take you an hour, work your a$$ off and make sure it takes only an hour. Your brain will say “I don’t wanna,” it will want you to fiddle around or go check Facebook. Don’t let it run you.
Planning ahead like this and managing your mind will let you get SO. MUCH. DONE. Seriously. It’s the secret sauce. I blow the lid off productivity and efficiency in my job with this system, and I never feel guilty enjoying my (planned) free time. It’s fantastic. I can teach you guys how – there’s more to it, but this is the basic framework. Text me if you want a free 20 minute mini-training session. 630-210-6288. You’re my people. I want to help you.
Anonymous
I’m amazed by people this works for. I don’t know if it’s because I have a lot of variability with my health and attention, but I am many times more efficient if I strike when the iron is hot, and I drag (and make mistakes) when I’m forcing myself to do something I’m not in the right frame of mind for. Maybe I could try something like this system but with an option to swap passive and active tasks as needed? Because I can say “X task will take an hour,” but sometimes it takes half an hour, or sometimes I fail completely and have to set it aside for another time.
Anon
Schedule SOMETHING at 4 pm or 5 pm. I don’t care if it’s a movie, a phone call to your best friend, a FitnessBlender video, painting your nails, or reading a book, but put something on your schedule for that time.
Anonymous
This is a good idea.
tunic-length shirts
I need a couple of longer looser long-sleeved shirts or even sweatshirts to wear now that my daily pants are leggings and gym-wear tops are too revealing. Bonus if it is from the Athleta / Gap / Old Navy since I have a credit from there and will be ordering enough kids’ clothing to qualify for shipping.
Housecounsel
Sweatshirt dresses from Athleta over leggings are one of my favorite WFH combos.
Anon
Thank you to the person who posted the otters! They made my day.
Anon
Same!
The Alaska SeaLife Center also has a Youtube channel that’s got some live cams set to very calming music. And I think they’re doing “classes” for kids there, too.
pugsnbourbon
Shoutout to whoever posted the zoom tip about the space bar. I looked very smart in my team meeting today!
For anyone who missed it – in a zoom meeting, your space bar acts like a walkie-talkie button. You can mute yourself, press the space bar to unmute and speak, and then release the space bar and immediately mute again. Might be common knowledge but I found it super helpful.
Anon
Thank you for passing along that tip – I missed it.
Ses
+1 thanks!
Anonymous
Well that explains why I was mysteriously unmuted after I responded to an email while on a zoom meeting….
letter of the law
In an effort to not just eat my stress, I made a “no cookies on a weekday” rule. I have complied with the letter of the law by making brownies and IDK what day of the week it is anyway, so I’m saying it’s Friday. Husband tried to ask if that was allowed and I said they’re brownies, NOT cookies. He responded by eating some somaos.
That’s where we’re at in our household.
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So I’ve been WFH for three years and usually it is fine. Even though technically my work situation hasn’t change, I’m still finding it so hard to get work done and concentrate and maintain the status quo. I’m single and no kids so my environment hasn’t even changed. I guess WFH always worked before because I had outside the house things to look forward to at night and on weekends, and without that I’m just crawling towards nothing. Anyone else in this boat?