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Robert Williams Oral History, 2021/02/22
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Title (Dublin Core)
Robert Williams Oral History, 2021/02/22
Mini oral history with Robert Williams, 02/22/2021
Description (Dublin Core)
This interview is with Robert Williams who speaks about how working from home during the pandemic had some positive impacts.
Recording Date (Dublin Core)
Creator (Dublin Core)
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
Partner (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
audio interview
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Technology
English
Labor
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
silver linings prompt
Collection (Dublin Core)
Over 60
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
02/22/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/22/2021
05/05/2021
05/07/2022
08/02/2022
08/03/2023
Date Created (Dublin Core)
02/22/2021
Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)
Matthew Williams
Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)
Robert Williams
Location (Omeka Classic)
Hackettstown
New Jersey
United States of America
Format (Dublin Core)
mp4 audio
mp3 audio
Language (Dublin Core)
English
Duration (Omeka Classic)
00:02:03
abstract (Bibliographic Ontology)
This interview is with Robert Williams who speaks about how working from home during the pandemic had some positive impacts.
Transcription (Omeka Classic)
Matthew Williams 0:04
Okay. Hello, my name is Matthew Williams, and I am a graduate student intern with the COVID-19 Archive at ASU. The date is February 22 2021, and the time is 5:55pm, and I'm speaking with Robert Williams. I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 Archive. The COVID-19 Archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
Robert Williams 0:45
Yes you do.
Matthew Williams 0:47
Thank you. First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live?
Robert Williams 0:55
Okay. My name is Robert Williams. And I'm 67 years old. I live in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and I identify as white.
Matthew Williams 1:09
Thank you, I'd like to ask you a quick question about the pandemic. So, we have experienced a lot of changes in 2020, and many have been negative and disruptive, but perhaps it's not all bad. What's one positive thing you've experienced during the pandemic?
Robert Williams 1:25
I think it proved without a doubt that if your job will support it, you can work from home. So that'll cut way back on any kind of commuting, both in time, fuel usage. It'll cut way back on, on people being away from their houses for long hours. So I think that that is, that's a positive thing from COVID.
Matthew Williams 1:51
Excellent. Thank you. I appreciate your time today, and I hope you have a good rest of your day.
Robert Williams 1:57
Okay. Thank you very much. You have a good day as well.
Okay. Hello, my name is Matthew Williams, and I am a graduate student intern with the COVID-19 Archive at ASU. The date is February 22 2021, and the time is 5:55pm, and I'm speaking with Robert Williams. I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 Archive. The COVID-19 Archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
Robert Williams 0:45
Yes you do.
Matthew Williams 0:47
Thank you. First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live?
Robert Williams 0:55
Okay. My name is Robert Williams. And I'm 67 years old. I live in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and I identify as white.
Matthew Williams 1:09
Thank you, I'd like to ask you a quick question about the pandemic. So, we have experienced a lot of changes in 2020, and many have been negative and disruptive, but perhaps it's not all bad. What's one positive thing you've experienced during the pandemic?
Robert Williams 1:25
I think it proved without a doubt that if your job will support it, you can work from home. So that'll cut way back on any kind of commuting, both in time, fuel usage. It'll cut way back on, on people being away from their houses for long hours. So I think that that is, that's a positive thing from COVID.
Matthew Williams 1:51
Excellent. Thank you. I appreciate your time today, and I hope you have a good rest of your day.
Robert Williams 1:57
Okay. Thank you very much. You have a good day as well.
This item was submitted on February 22, 2021 by Matthew Williams using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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