Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (95 Viewers)

[Grendel]

Our office has just shut at 1pm for the foreseeable future. Voluntary redundancy letters expected 23/4 so don’t think I’ll work there again

Oh no that’s terrible - this is why this strategy is so wrong

 

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[fernandopartridge]

Totally disagree, and I’m not being political, which is why yesterday he was like a rabbit caught in the headlights at his conference, suddenly throwing money galore at this virus the Government goofed big time with their stupid herd ideas, schools should have been closed two weeks ago and movement restrictions implemented, kids are the biggest carriers leaving this virus all over the place, there are people of all age groups now going down with this, my friends nephew aged 41, no underlying issues is very ill with it.
Things are coming to light all the time, there is now a thought that certain blood groups are more likely to get a more complicated version.
Back to Boris/Tories their dithering will be costly and will follow them for a long time.

My missus sent me that Daily Mail article about the blood groups, the study looked pretty inconclusive to me

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Oh no that’s terrible - this is why this strategy is so wrong

Working from home anyway. What’s wrong with the strategy?

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Apparently blood group A are more vulnerable than other blood groups.

Might be rubbish, but everyone reporting it. I have no idea what my blood group is and I'm not going to find out now

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Apparently blood group A are more vulnerable than other blood groups.

Might be rubbish, but everyone reporting it. I have no idea what my blood group is and I'm not going to find out now

Yours is I B positive

 

[Otis]

111 pages of people arguing with Grendel

Yup. Way down on normal figures.

 

[CCFCSteve]

Apart from they didn't waste days on theories that were impossible to follow through on.

Days we actually bought with our tracing and tracking policy and encouraging people to call 111 and self isolate

I’m not going into it all again but as per the ICL report, this is now an 12-18 month issue which is going to lead to major disruption/human cost (which the government and their advisors were obviously desperately trying to avoid).

I’ll make my judgements when the dust has settled....which will be quite a while yet.

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Working from home anyway. What’s wrong with the strategy?

I think he means the knock of effect of redundancies.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Mines A positive

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Days we actually bought with our tracing and tracking policy and ensuring people called 111 and self isolated.

I’m not going into it all again but as per the ICL report, this is now an 12-18 month issue which is going to lead to major disruption/human cost (which the government and their advisors were obviously desperately trying to avoid).

I’ll make my judgements when the dust has settled....which will be quite a while yet.

How did we "ensure" that?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I think he means the knock of effect of redundancies.

Ah so sorry the redundancies were happening any. Massive reorganisation of hmrc

 

[CCFCSteve]

Our office has just shut at 1pm for the foreseeable future. Voluntary redundancy letters expected 23/4 so don’t think I’ll work there again

Sorry to hear that Pete.

 

[Ring Of Steel]

I don't know what its like for others, but I'm finding it impossible to even keep up. Can't get hold of people as they're dropping out en masse to self isolate, so can't get info from them which is needed, running projections on what happens if a facility is closed for 3 months which is hugely complex, everyone in mild panic or depressed and a lot of those working from home don't have wifi fast enough to run their systems, or they didn't realise they needed VPN to run them, not just "the internet". Its chaos.

 

[CCFCSteve]

How did we "ensure" that?

Written in a rush, will edit to ‘encouraging’ (disappointed you only pulled me up on that to be honest !)

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Written in a rush, will edit to ‘encouraging’ (disappointed you only pulled me up on that to be honest !)

haha- I'm on lunch, no time to pick anyone up on anything but wouldn't be right not to pick fault with something

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Schools closing by Friday in Wales and Scotland

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Sorry to hear that Pete.

Any jobs?

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Schools closing by Friday in Wales and Scotland

I'm not going to go into the rights & wrongs of that, but speaking from experience when you throw kids off school into the equation its a bloody nightmare.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I don't know what its like for others, but I'm finding it impossible to even keep up. Can't get hold of people as they're dropping out en masse to self isolate, so can't get info from them which is needed, running projections on what happens if a facility is closed for 3 months which is hugely complex, everyone in mild panic or depressed and a lot of those working from home don't have wifi fast enough to run their systems, or they didn't realise they needed VPN to run them, not just "the internet". Its chaos.

Yep that sounds similar

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

I'm not going to go into the rights & wrongs of that, but speaking from experience when you throw kids off school into the equation its a bloody nightmare.

I personally think they should stay open, this is going to cause Havoc especially with grandparents possibly looking after their grandkids because parents are at work!!!!

 

[CCFCSteve]

Any jobs?

Self employed mate (just me). Sorry. You’re a decent, sensible bloke so sure you’ll be fine (little comfort I appreciate but you know what I mean)....maybe Nick can pay you to be a moderator ?!

 

[Ring Of Steel]

I personally think they should stay open, this is going to cause Havoc especially with grandparents possibly looking after their grand kids because parents are at work!!!!

Everything is fucking havoc and I'm sick to the back teeth of it- everything is coming apart at the seems. I need a cuppa and a long blast on the vape or I'm gonna lost the plot sometime soon

Yes I know, all these measures have got to be done, I get it, but my god its stressful

Fuck you, Coronavirus :wtf:

 

[Grendel]

Working from home anyway. What’s wrong with the strategy?

I misread I thought you’d been made refundant!

 

[fernandopartridge]

Apparently blood group A are more vulnerable than other blood groups.

Might be rubbish, but everyone reporting it. I have no idea what my blood group is and I'm not going to find out now

I had a look at one of the articles and it seemed a bit contradictory

 

[tisza]

Supply chain chaos here.
We've got 20km tailbacks at the 2 main road crossings from West & Northern Europe.
Lorries with medicine and food (and toilet paper) been stuck for over 24 hours since borders were locked down.
Hungarian workers trying to return home.a lot of Romanians and Bulgarians trying to transit through even borders are closed - so they are blocking the roads out in protest.

 

[Otis]

Our office has just shut at 1pm for the foreseeable future. Voluntary redundancy letters expected 23/4 so don’t think I’ll work there again

Sorry to hear that, Pete.

Hope it is just a temporary period without work for you. I wish you the best of luck with everything.

 

[Otis]

Supply chain chaos here.
We've got 20km tailbacks at the 2 main road crossings from West & Northern Europe.
Lorries with medicine and food (and toilet paper) been stuck for over 24 hours since borders were locked down.
Hungarian workers trying to return home.a lot of Romanians and Bulgarians trying to transit through even borders are closed - so they are blocking the roads out in protest.

Yeah, I have a Romanian friend. She lives here, but went to visit home and now she says all the borders are shut and she can't get back.

 

[chiefdave]

a lot of those working from home don't have wifi fast enough to run their systems, or they didn't realise they needed VPN to run them, not just "the internet". Its chaos.

This is all I'm dealing with at the moment. Trying to talk people through remote access that struggle to login when its just a matter of putting their username and password in when they're at the office.

Frustrating as for years we've been advising clients to setup remote working, ironic really as it's not really used internally, and its been resisted with owners and managers saying its not possible for people to work remotely. Now, surprisingly enough, it is and people expect their entire company to be setup for remote working instantly as if its just flicking a switch. Of course they don't even consider anyone else might be doing the same so constantly chase as its 'urgent'.

The response from our managers, no concern about workload / pressure / if anyone might actually have the virus, instead we got told to work harder and be available, unpaid, evenings and weekends.

 

[coop]

Not been through the thread so sorry if it is mentioned, but do you think due to the break in football that we could get back to the Ricoh before the restart?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

This is all I'm dealing with at the moment. Trying to talk people through remote access that struggle to login when its just a matter of putting their username and password in when they're at the office.

Frustrating as for years we've been advising clients to setup remote working, ironic really as it's not really used internally, and its been resisted with owners and managers saying its not possible for people to work remotely. Now, surprisingly enough, it is and people expect their entire company to be setup for remote working instantly as if its just flicking a switch. Of course they don't even consider anyone else might be doing the same so constantly chase as its 'urgent'.

The response from our managers, no concern about workload / pressure / if anyone might actually have the virus, instead we got told to work harder and be available, unpaid, evenings and weekends.

What business chief?

 

[clint van damme]

Our office has just shut at 1pm for the foreseeable future. Voluntary redundancy letters expected 23/4 so don’t think I’ll work there again

here's to a bright new dawn Pete - whatever you do next.

 

[chiefdave]

What business chief?

I work in IT support covering companies who have outsourced their support.

Could even begin to count the number of conversations I've had with clients over the last few years about setting people up to work remotely but most managers think working remotely equals not doing anything. Strangely enough though its always OK for the managers to work from home so maybe their basing that on how little work they do.

Now its a mad panic and everyone thinks their need is greater than anyone else - to be fair that's pretty standard all the time.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

@Sky Blue Pete Sorry to hear about that mate! Once we all get through this im sure things will pick up!

 

[Ring Of Steel]

This is all I'm dealing with at the moment. Trying to talk people through remote access that struggle to login when its just a matter of putting their username and password in when they're at the office.

Frustrating as for years we've been advising clients to setup remote working, ironic really as it's not really used internally, and its been resisted with owners and managers saying its not possible for people to work remotely. Now, surprisingly enough, it is and people expect their entire company to be setup for remote working instantly as if its just flicking a switch. Of course they don't even consider anyone else might be doing the same so constantly chase as its 'urgent'.

The response from our managers, no concern about workload / pressure / if anyone might actually have the virus, instead we got told to work harder and be available, unpaid, evenings and weekends.

Sky have sent home 50% their call centres so that everyone has more space between them, my wifi went down and I was told that the wait time to speak to anyone would be "over 2 hours".

 

[David O'Day]

Chancellor having mare at committee, does get loans will only help people or business with deferred income not lost income