Oh 'eck. They might want to rethink that.
Oh 'eck. They might want to rethink that.
"Jews also weren't allowed down the pub!"
"I know what it's like to be persecuted, mate."
They could have atleast tried the "No Black's, No Dogs, No Unvaccinated" line. Give us something to work with lads.
Apparently they were also calling mask wearers nazis...
Saw a video of a woman interviewed who actually called it ‘a genocide’.
Real late drama to turn it around here, Jeff.Originally Posted by Don
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Just heard in a meeting “some staff are still furloughed until September.” Are they still on 80%? Have some people been receiving 80% pay for doing nothing, since April 2020?
I'm a twit
Yep. Extract below...
The extension until September 2021 means employees will continue to receive 80% of their salary for hours not worked until the scheme ends. The current 80% government contribution will continue until the June 2021 then this contribution will be tapered with employers contributing 10% in July, increasing to 20% in August and September.
Edit : I bet there are many who are loving furlough life. Dossers.
Those lucky few will look back on the pandemic with tears in their eyes, for many different reasons to the rest of the world. What a life.
I'm a twit
They won't be able to readjust to the working world.
They'll get a fat redundancy pay out in September as well.
I can't imagine anything worse than a year of furlough tbh. It must be mind numbing.
edit: a year without being paid is probably worse.
The furlough scheme is like sticking a plaster on a festering gash that's gone septic on your arm
Soon as that band aid is ripped off you just know the arms going to fall off..
The economic doom and gloom seems to have been all but forgotten about now that the Aperols are back. Either the economy and society as a whole has managed a real impressive pivot in a short time-span or everyone in charge of the narrative has come out of the pandemic with a bank balance looking like Elon Musk's and has little interest in shedding light on the reality. Looking round the shopping centres, I'm leaning towards the latter and hoping the comedown will be hard and fast.
My impression, looking around me, is that there are a lot of mentally damaged people. I would expect a higher than usual murder rate this year.
Apart from the industries that have been locked down, and maybe ones directly associated with that, there should be nobody on fucking furlough or (more likely) flexi-furlough by now. If they can do their jobs 2 days a week then reduce their hours or your business is a bloated carcass that needs to die.
The Mental Health effects of this will outweigh the physical ones in the long run. There are a large number of people that seem to be broken beyond repair and they come from both the Team Fear and Novid camps.
It's not been helped by the mismanagement, the culture, the lies in the media (both for and against, and the fearmongering) and many more things.
The end result is if we have another scenario where we have to 'lock down' or need some sort of public buy in over the next 50 or so years it'll not go well at all.
Just a note on the "fearmongering", my colleagues in India and Germany are currently fucked due to the high cases and subsequent deaths. I fully endorse fearmongering to get out of this shit. It's a serious condition.
Do you support fearmongering after a vaccine has been deployed to nearly all of the vulnerable people in the country?
I think the Indian situation is unique. How are your German colleagues fucked?
India were always going to be fucked. They have all the population density of China with none of the leadership / obedience. I'm just surprised it took this long. It does look properly grim. It reminds me of those Care Homes the Spanish abandoned in the first wave.
I recommend some caution until we hit a certain threshold (or just continue following the planned relaxation). I don't like the poor reporting where journalists are unable to fully understand what they're reporting on.
@Magic It sounds like the Indian variant has made its way over through open borders.
But you are ok with scientists giving interviews where they're outright lieing?
Yes I'm okay with that.
SCIENCE really can do no wrong.
Tell me that's sarcasm keeks. I beg of you.
Yev on the bath salts again.
I mean it's pretty obvious I don't think "outright lies" are okay ffs
I thought ConspiracyKiko going full Government shill was in the cards for a minute there. It would have been the best heel turn since Stone Cold Steve Austin started working for the McMahons.
What's happening in India now is what I assumed would be happening there within about two weeks of it all kicking off last year.
The Indian variant isn't a problem, it's the fact you've got individual state borders actively cock blocking oxygen and supplies to others.
The death toll here will be horrendous, but it's not due to anything other than lolIndiaism.
Surely the religious festivals are also a major contributor to the current situation.
Kiko's arse must be in bits from all that fence sitting his safe posting is founded upon. Man came with 'Chris Wood is a good striker' after he'd banged in a first half hattrick and then has the temerity to fling shit at me
If you had said it, he'd have had a Foe moment.
I think COVID might be capable of making people ill.
I also think India is affected by COVID.
I know someone who's been on furlough since April 2020 and is anticipating redundancy payoff in September. He's also been working another job since May 2020 and has basically saved a fortune in the last year.
A friend of my wife's came back from a year of maternity leave in March 2020 and then got furloughed 3 weeks later, and hasn't worked since. She's planning on handing in her notice the day she's brought back.
I think I would do the same, re quitting. You'd have to, wouldn't you, if you had any self-respect? Your boss has basically decided you are surplus to requirements for a year. I'd want out.
One of the local Vietnam vaccines has just finished phase 2 trials and has 100% immunogenicity. Apparently this doesn't necessarily mean it will mean 100% efficacy, but it's a good result. Here's hoping phase 3 trials are fucking successful. Currently, only 200,000 of 97,000,000 have been vaccinated.
No different to our BLM and Easter stuff. The difference is we're not a third world country.
Debatable
How is a company run so badly that they've had someone on Furlough for over a year? It breaks my mind.
Nightclubs and the like are the main ones in that situation presumably.
Nightclubs don't pay anyone, do they?
Only appearance fees @Don.
He has to buy all his own aftershaves and towels out of that.
Question.
The daily covid cases have hovered mostly between 2k and 3k cases since 4th April. On the basis that many people have not been sticking to the rules for quite some time and are in fact going round to see family and friends, etc. Would it be reasonable to have expected the daily cases to have risen by now on that basis? And the fact it has not jumped up, is that tangible evidence to suggest the vaccine is significantly helping to keep the cases under control (as well as deaths and hospitalisations)?
Or am I talking nonsense and the daily cases will shoot up after 17th May and/or 21st June?
Lad, don't start this sort of talk again, you'll awaken Shinners. We're 3 weeks away from sauna heaven.
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