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Parul answered on Mar 18 2022
Interview #2 Alena
1. 17:48:10 Hi, Alena, Thank you for joining me.
2. 17:48:15 I just wanted to ask your permission to record this.
3. 17:48:20 I will be asking questions regarding my research paper. My topic is on How did Covid-19 affect Rowing University students and their mental health?
4. 17:48:25 My sub-research questions are, What mental health support
5. 17:48:30 Did the University provide to students or staff? How did Covid-19 affect your daily routine academically and professionally?
6. 18:01:42 Oh, it''s all right, you''re recording Okay now my question is, where do I see the writing?
7. 18:01:51 I can see it on my end. Oh, here, if I want to see the Okay perfect.
8. 18:02:04 So thank you for joining me for the interview for our class.
9. 18:02:10 I just wanted to make sure that. you give me permission to record this for later using to reference back to for my transcript and to submit it along with my research paper that only myself and the professor will be viewing
10. 18:02:25 is it okay with you? Yes, So my research topic has to do with.
11. 18:02:39 Okay, So my research question is, how did Kovan 19 affect Rowan University students and their mental health?
12. 18:02:46 The sub research questions are: What mental health support did the University provide to students or staff along with?
13. 18:02:51 How did it affect your daily routine academically and professionally so?
14. 18:02:58 What were your thoughts when you first heard that the university was closing?
15. 18:03:04 I was initially surprised because I actually work at Ron University 2 and human resources.
16. 18:03:10 So I was surprised that they shut down I didn''t think they would. but I guess because you know they had to that they did. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Surprised
17. 18:03:21 It was in such like a hurry that nobody was prepared. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Hurry
18. 18:03:26 You know we we didn''t have work laptops at the time, and we had just happened to buy a laptop because I knew I was coming to this program and starting.
19. 18:03:36 It. So I happened to have a laptop I just bought which, thankfully, else I want to have had anything you might work on. So I was.
20. 18:03:46 I was just surprised. and I didn''t think anyone in the office understood the magnitude, and I really expected to be back in the office in 2 weeks. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Surprised
21. 18:03:55 Okay, So how did they like tell you guys like, Were they very like secretive about it?
22. 18:04:00 Or they were just very like, Listen this is what we''re gonna tell the students like heads up like it''s coming or away, or
23. 18:04:09 We heard rumors terms of being in the office. There was chit, chat among like the like. the directors, and my one could work at a time. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Rumors
24. 18:04:21 She was a director, and she very much is a gossiper.
25. 18:04:22 So. Oh, she we kept hearing things from her saying, and to happen is gonna happen.
26. 18:04:27 But as a professional staff like we weren’t being officially told anything. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Weren’t
27. 18:04:32 It''s just from this one co-worker who you know want to share the news. And then eventually we got an email about having a department meeting or a call. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Eventually
28. 18:04:44 It was on a phone call and So they did a phone call with everybody and told us that we''d be working remotely from home for 2 weeks to plant the curve. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Working from Home
29. 18:04:58 And at that point they set out, meeting with staff via video 2 days a week. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: meeting with staff via video
30. 18:05:05 For the first 2 weeks. Okay, and then, when the university informed you that you had to return to campus, this was after like you thought it was 2 weeks, and it got extended. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: extended
31. 18:05:20 Then it got extended. So what were your sorry That''s My Sarah, who is getting her?
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33. 18:05:49 So yeah. So we''re working from home for a while and Then it was.
34. 18:05:56 So we started working for home in March full time and then it was around June that they told us we''re gonna be coming back part-time to the office. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: part-time to the office
35. 18:06:06 So 2 days a week, and we''re going to stagger schedule.
36. 18:06:12 So cause the directors have their own offices, but the rest of us we share an office.
37. 18:06:15 So I have an office with my coat, my one coworker.
38. 18:06:19 So we rotate schedules, or one week. I came in Monday, Tuesday, and she did Wednesday, Thursday, and then we flip, and then we had worked 3 days from home.
39. 18:06:28 So 2 days in the office, 3 days, working remotely, and I was fine with that because I like working from home. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Like working from home
40. 18:06:36 But the 2 days in office was nice, because some things are easier to do. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Nice
41. 18:06:40 Work rise, and you know, and to focus more in terms of, you know, getting certain things done. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Focus
42. 18:06:47 So I was. I was fine with that. I mean I was a little apprehensive in terms of Covid. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Apprehensive
43. 18:06:53 I didn''t want to catch it. but I hardly saw anybody since they staggered our schedules, and then it was a year later let this pass on last August of 2,021 that they told us who were Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: catch
44. 18:07:05 coming back 4 days a week, and work remotely only one day a week.
45. 18:07:10 So now I only work remotely. on tuesdays which i''m kind of sad about. I would like to have at least 2 days remote, because I feel like there''s nothing I can''t do from home that I do in the office. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: sad Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: cant
46. 18:07:20 You know, I guess certain things are easier in the office in terms of having a monitor. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: easier
47. 18:07:23 But if I knew I was working remotely you know 3 or 4 days a week permanently, I was set up myself to have my mom or I''m a keyboard, and not just a laptop, but like were you
48. 18:07:36 scared in the beginning when they said like i''ll come back to the office like, Are you thinking like? Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: Scared
49. 18:07:41 Well, what if someone gets like closer than 6 feet to me or like, yeah, like, Should I wear like triple mask and double gloves, and, like, you know, shield and like change my clothes and all that process Yeah, it''s definitely Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: triple mask and double gloves
50. 18:07:54 apprehensive. come back because of that but like I said with the stagger schedules. I hardly saw anybody like how my office building is. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: apprehensive
51. 18:08:04 There''s 3 floors. so i''m on the second floor, and usually it was no more than me, and another person on the floor, and we''re like separate.
52. 18:08:12 It so I wasn''t too, worried when I saw this setup like that Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: worried
53. 18:08:18 And then, once the vaccines came out, I felt even more.
54. 18:08:24 I felt better because I was vaccinated, and then eventually Ron University mandated the vaccine for employees, so I felt better. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: better
55. 18:08:31 And once we came back 4 days a week you couldn''t avoid anybody. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: avoid
56. 18:08:36 You were sharing the bathrooms, and everybody likes to come into the office and chit chat. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: likes
57. 18:08:40 So everybody was in and I got a little nervous with that, because you''ll find out. So someone downstairs had Covid, and so so was talking to them. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: nervous
58. 18:08:50 And then they just came up to me and talked to me, but I had no idea that they were talking to somebody who, like, just locked, because they had a positive task to that may be a little apprehensive by I end. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: apprehensive
59. 18:09:03 Up dig catching covid this past january so it''s it was It was it was nerve racking. but I did the best I could of my mask and constantly wash my hands and having you Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: nerve racking
60. 18:09:15 know hand sanitizer. did the University provide you support during the pandemic like in the beginning towards the middle, or like, even recently, when you got covid like, did they provide you guys like funding scholarships like
61. 18:09:32 laptop or technical support, like testing sites and keeping you like in the loop with like recent information.
62. 18:09:40 Or I know some universities, even provided like hotlines to their students to call when they felt like they were alone, because they couldn''t be in contact with other people.
63. 18:09:50 Yeah it''s hard because like i''m in i''m a student.
64. 18:09:53 I feel like i''m an employee first so everything I received on the employee end, and if, like student is secondary, but in terms of technical support.
65. 18:10:02 At first. No, like I said if I didn''t happen to just get my laptop for school.
66. 18:10:07 I don''t know I would have done cause I didn''t have a computer part of that i''m at home, and I did have a work laptop as a desktop. so I don''t know what they would have done if I
67. 18:10:17 didn''t have my own laptop and it really wasn''t until probably like a year later, that they give us laptops, and I know that they were having issues getting them, because you know it was their shortage, you know shortages with the
68. 18:10:33 laptops. I don''t think that tech technology support was there. given certain things of how to log into my email at home and getting into my desktop. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: don''t think that tech technology support was there
69. 18:10:46 I had to find out through coworkers to who happened to know but didn''t come out from the university, and then come up from
70. 18:10:54 Our Vp. It was kind of like you had to figure it out yourself.
71. 18:10:59 And hopefully, someone you knew can help you so I didn''t think technology like for technology. we didn''t have the support. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: we didn''t have the support
72. 18:11:05 And then with mental health. I don''t and I know what student on the student, you know, signed Row, and sent out Some announcer is about know that their help was out their support in terms of like an employee, and the employee sign
73. 18:11:22 not at all. Not they can recall yeah I Didn''t. really. see there was any help like you know like with you know, with mental health there.
74. 18:11:37 And then I know just when I got Covid this past January, really a little surprised because I had a positive test, and I was able. Comment by Mukherjee Parul 5INHR: surprised
75. 18:11:47 I took off basically 3 days, constantly, really sick. And then Rowland called me and said I could come back.
76. 18:11:55 So I got it a deposit test on Thursday, and they told me I could come back to work on Monday, and I was like Monday, and I share an office, and they asked me who I shouldn''t write all the read the kids I
77. 18:12:05 gave them the contact information of my coworker. she told me.
78. 18:12:10 They now reached out to her, but she only knew I had it because I told her.
79. 18:12:13 But they, Nick, reach out to her to tell her that I had it, even though we share an office.
80. 18:12:18 But despite the fact, they told me, Come back Monday.
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