Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
Sounds like the whole company is unravelling back at HQ. The warehouse manager finally went to the MD to ask that formal 2m distancing practices be put into place for his staff, which would involve rearranging the furniture, which might take a couple of hours or so (apparently warehouse manager doesn't have the authority to do this himself). The answer was that management would discuss and advise NEXT WEEK. W/H manager went back to tell his troops this, and 5 of them walked out on the spot. MD then lost the plot and said they had all forgone a possible furlough by doing this (not sure on the legality of this statement), now the remaining ones are carrying on to continue getting paid but STILL not 2 metres apart.
I have never seen an organisation go to the dogs in such a short space of time as this. I'd be amazed if we're still open by this time next week. The worst thing is it was all completely avoidable. All the MD had to do was put in place a clear plan about two weeks ago about how to keep people safe/how to adapt working practices to deal with this, and then we could all have worked our arses off to keep the business going as best as possible from there, motivated by the fact that the company had shown it had our best interests at heart. Instead, morale has rapidly dwindled to zero and it's all down to the cowardice and lack of ability of what passes for the directorial leadership.
The real problem is that the directors are all shit-scared of El Presidente, probably because they owe their careers/positions to him and he is a controlling, devious bastard himself. As such, no one EVER makes a decision.