How fucked up do you have to be to do this?
Poor old facebook
How do you feel about doctors working without PPE?
They get good care though. Easily could grab most of the year off full pay because of it
Why is āThereās going to be a recessionā headline news? Now?
Maybe some of the worst idiots would need this explained following Brexit, but is this really new information for anybody now?
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Shouldnāt it be more of a question of how it will be? With everyone looking to save money now you really have to wonder how many businesses will be forced to close, it seems to be hitting the tourism industry pretty hard unsurprisingly.
I went into work this morning for a couple of hours as I have done every wed morning for the past 2 months, to basically tie up jobs, print plans to post out with no contact with anyone else at all. I walk through some fields and donāt see anyone or a car until I get to work which is on the main road, this morning the road was really busy and I spent most of the morning answering the phone to people asking if we are open as normal. I felt bad saying no we are not as we feel itās not safe to yet. When I left work hoping for a quiet walk home as I have gotten so used to, I had to wait for the traffic, cars of many people, old peeps in classic soft tops and as I crossed I saw an NHS car and as they drove past I saw a lad in his 20ās head out of the window visibly trying to take advantage of the air. It didnāt take much working out that they were driving to the hospital. Basically all iām saying is, yeah you were all right, and as predicted the public have taken this green light and run away with it and had a party totally oblivious to the numbers of people dying. Itās as if these numbers are just that, not even people any more.
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Iām sure thereās some science around the numbers thing, Iāll find a link later if I remember. We can visualise ten people, or even a hundred, but beyond a point it just becomes abstract and loses all meaning.
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Yeah, iām sure there is a name for it too.
interesting to see where the numbers go in the next few weeks. life looks completely normal up here (although my favourite skate car park is still empty)
Our head office is opening back up in June. Iām basically going to refuse to go in because itās literally pointless for me to do so but others arenāt going to be so lucky as me.
My job is 100% web based so I just need to be at a computer and Iām away.
We all got set up to work from home before we shut down and it was working fine. Now suddenly thereās pressure to come back into the office breathing all the same air as everyone for hours at a time. 
I guess we briefly thought the world was going to change after all this and there were going to be seismic shifts in the way companies operate blah blah blah but itās just going go back as we were before isnāt it. Presenteeism back with a vengeance.
I think itās lame as fuck. Yeah thereās pressure to get making money again to keep going and weāre all going to have to work out a way to work with this thing out there but jesus christ we are not even through the first wave.
Until thereās a way we can work out what to do about childcare we canāt even get going as a country surely? I was the only one who raised childcare as an issue in our group meeting thing and I think itās because our head office is full of single people with no kids.
Rambling shit post sorry. Just feeling a bit lame.
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Presenteeism, itās so fucking dumb.
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What do your other colleagues say? I guess if youāre the lone voice then that youāre going to probably be a bit stuck but if there are a number of people thinking the same way then perhaps working remotely and sticking to your guns on that will work out ok?
In my office itās fairly common for people to work away from the office and nearly all meetings were switched to zoom long ago anyway so I think covid will just encourage more people to stay at home.
The thing thatās going to cause a spike is peer pressure, being seen to be not being a germaphobe weirdo when others are seemingly back to normal.
Every single person will be waiting for others to make the first move for everything and then each step will get quicker until everyone is acting normal thinking itās all over. Then weāll get hit by the second wave of big ānumbersā
Pressure that weāre all creating for each other. I agree that while I think the initial message was clear from Boris, that every effort afterwards has been made to muddle the public into making their own decisions and possible downfall.
What a mess.
Props Les!
We had a call from our nursery today canvassing interest if they were to open at the start of June, so depending what your usual arrangements are there might be options. Of course whether you want to send your littlun to nursery is an entirely different matter, and a conversation weāre having.
fuck them then. iāve told a few mates that iām not seeing them anytime soon even if lockdown is lifted completely. a pint in a pub isnāt worth it
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The thing is, people shouldnāt be forced if they donāt think itās safe, our contract with our childcare says if they are working and we deny their service then we still have to pay or we lose our place. Fuck that! Iām not being forced into sending kids into danger so theyāll stay home until itās safe and if they want to try and charge us for not using them then they can try.
Our nursery have been pretty good and not charged us since they went off. We keep getting emails from them trying to gauge interest in people coming back but hopefully I can stay furloughed as long as possible.
Nah definitely, totally agree. Weāre in two minds, itās very unlikely weāll be back in work any time soon but been able to have a couple of clear days working from home would make a huge difference to our own well being. Weāre balancing either her going back to nursery or me going down to four days. Then thereās the other benefits of nursery - she really misses other kids, and the socialisation aspect is really important. Also the nursery are awesome, asked people to pay if they could afford it but made it clear that there would be no repercussions if people couldnāt.
Itās not a black and white choice for anyone I guess is my point.
Definitely, Iād love the kids to go back and I still not go to work haha, the dream scenario in a perfect world. I donāt think weāll get that. We got a text from junior school today saying basically, we donāt think we should be opening but if we have to in June then let us know your thought so we can establish numbers.
