I started off worried about redundancy, but on reflection there are two useless corpses beside me who could go first, and I churn through work and speak languages.
Not going to make any progress against the mortgage for a long time now, though.
I started off worried about redundancy, but on reflection there are two useless corpses beside me who could go first, and I churn through work and speak languages.
Not going to make any progress against the mortgage for a long time now, though.
I’m working from home from tomorrow, missus is from Thursday.
The biggest annoyance for me is her brother. Her parents are 67 and look after the kids two days a week and also do the school run on those days. Her brother doesn’t seem to think it’s an issue for them to pick his kids up from school and look after them as normal. They might not be 70 but is it really worth the risk?
https://thehill.com/policy/technolog...-to-warehouses
Amazon suspending shipment of 'non-essentials' to its warehouses in the US and UK. And hiring more staff.
The amount of people I’ve had asking about payments etcetera is mind boggling. People aren’t even not working yet. In addition the three months the interest will still roll up. It’s going to be one of them situations I see where people just take the payment holiday even if they don’t need it.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I guess not.
For all our government response has been a bit confused (I don't fucking blame them in many respects), I am glad I am not subject to Donaldinho or the American state.
Kevin Durant has it. Which is basically the NBA equivalent to like Paul Pogba.
Lazy and useless?
The English language if you replaced every full stop with "Now"
Yev's been very quiet today.
Was there a drop in deaths?
As others have said, schools seem to be gearing up for an announcement soon, most likely Friday. This allows two weeks until the fortnight Easter break for most. What nobody seems to have a clue about is whether we're looking at four weeks or closer to 12.
Our head has outlined the different stages (five in total) our school will go through, mainly through lack of staffing. My year group will be the last to go, and I'm officially 7th in line to be running the school if necessaryI've drawn up a timetable and plans that can keep the children busy for weeks if necessary.
The GF is potentially moving in, given her sole trader business is about to fold, and her other employment at the local college probably won't be paying her wage shortly.
Happy enough?
Working from home as much as possible from Monday. Will have to go in to prep for court hearings and evictions but otherwise I'll be at home.
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My jury service hasn't been cancelled yet, speaking of courts. Love to see how they're going to contrive to make that happen.
Scomo has banned us from travelling overseas.
They'll be closing soon. With the schools probably.
Yeah, for sure. I offered, I was worried this was for the wrong reasons (save money etc) but on reflection it's absolutely for the right reasons (looking out for one another, mutual support, hard times, catastrophic circumstances).
Hoping tomorrow is my last day in work for a long time.
I'm a twit
My wife has had a massive barney with her manager tonight. Some bloke she works with said in their WhatsApp group chat that he had 'the Flu' last week but then came back into work on monday. He skated through his back to work without issue.
She's pulled her manager up on it and he's basically said that it's no issue because 'he said he had the Flu, not CoronaVirus.' He also said the rules about self isolation weren't until Monday evening.
She spoke to another manager afterwards who has obviously seen what a potentially major fuck up this is, and the bloke in question is being told first thing to get himself tested. Its possible a major Supermarket in Southend could be shut down as it's put both staff and customers at risk.
Someone's getting sacked in the morning.
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Scomo has told the massive amount scum in this country to stop hoarding and stop abusing service staff especially at testing facilities. We need a fucking purge!
Only 16 deaths today, maybe we are a bit behind.
Aaaand my cousin has it.
She's a teacher. Has all the symptoms. Locked down for 14 days. I had 5 people on the phone to me today also claiming to be locked down (the job I do, at least 3 of them are liars). This shit is amping up .
Had to do a load of work and then had a nap this evening. Only a day in and my sleeping patters are already fucked.
WFH naps
Truly one of the revelations of this crisis.
Woolworths are now limiting 2 of each item per person.
Any signs of this evolving?
Just a few....
Secruity now at the entrance and patrolling the local Coles and Woolworths...
Aussie aussie aussie...
In the Deaths per Population league table (nations over 550 cases only), Italy continue to lead the way, over 3.5x more than second placed Iran.
Iran aside (2nd), European nations dominate the Top 6.
We are going jump ten spots within a week/fortnight. A person in WA went straight back to work at an age care after returning from overseas only to be tested positive.
Last edited by Queenslander; 18-03-2020 at 07:40 AM.
That immunosuppressed friend of mine tested positive. Really worried about her but she seems to be doing okay so far.
Anecdotal admittedly, but in my circle of friends I'm hearing some shocking stories of people they know (seemingly both young or very old) who're behaving like this isn't happening.
"I don't need to isolate as I'm in a low risk group and am only socialising with people who've made the same choice" is one common one I keep hearing.
I suspect we'll be moving up the league table very quickly with that approach.
"We're all going to get it anyway, may as well get it over with" is another one I keep hearing.
We area country full of selfish fucks.
My sister's work there are a bunch of people who could be working from home (including my sister, who is also asthmatic and therefore I assume more at risk of serious illness if she does get this) but they won't let them because it wouldn't be "fair" on the people (i.e. people who take inbound calls) for whom nothing's been set up to WFH yet. So rather than do what they can to reduce the odds for everybody they're just making everybody go in.
I'd just fake a cough and a temperature and self isolate for 2 weeks if I were her.
We've had so many cancellations for people staying in the hotel that I didn't even need to go in and do breakfast this morning. If I look at on the balcony though the only people I see walking around are oldies.
I would much rather we just got closed but then I'd be losing hundreds a week as SSP is less than a £100 a week isn't it?
£95 a week SSP.
Luckily I get £220 if I'm off ill, it's a CIJC working rule which seems more sensible and fair. £95 a week is a joke.
My friend is a chef and his whole team have been made temporarily redundant.
If your work closes would you qualify for SSP as you aren't sick?
No. Only if you're self isolating
Depends if the government tells them to close I think.
I BELIEVE It's UC if your work closes. It's only SSP/ESA if you can't go into work due to self isolating.
See all these cunts that are going to 'fold' to keep money then re-open, they can fuck off if they think they'll be getting any business when this blows over.
What's UC? Universal credit?
Unified Communications. Teams, Zoom, Slack etc.
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