Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (9 Viewers)
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Fine I’ll shut up and not bother
hill83
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Exactly
hill83
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Pathetic
Grendel
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Im sorry but that shows your total lack of understanding how the global world works
It’s very naive and I’m not even being funny but it’s a public sector view of a private sector demand led issue
Brighton Sky Blue
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Well no I have worked in pharmaceuticals, friends working as doctors and some in logistics now also. Look at the case numbers and deaths and the fact we have a much more infectious variant going around, what do you think is the answer? I don’t claim to have the solution but at least ideas are needed.
Grendel
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I agree it’s just me me me and impossible to discuss
Brighton Sky Blue
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I could say the same for your view of my work.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Oh just piss off
Grendel
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But everyone has issues you are not unique and in some respects are far more privileged than others but there is never any recognition of that
Tommo1993
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Openreach who are being torn a new one already! Missus works closely with them, not a happy time.
hill83
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It should be nationalised again imo. That's a whole other thread though.
cowboy1850
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I think Brighton is trying to put across that with schools going back it's inevitable that cases (in schools at least) will go back up again. That will probably have a knock on effect to the national figures and NHS.
In the final 4 weeks before Xmas my school was on its knees. Five classes off, countless staff, unable to do even the basics at times for lack of staff. Is impossible to keep kids separate in the current form. School rotas/days need a massive re-jig and strict rules implemented.
I really can't see any good from schools being forced back at this time.
In the final 4 weeks before Xmas my school was on its knees. Five classes off, countless staff, unable to do even the basics at times for lack of staff. Is impossible to keep kids separate in the current form. School rotas/days need a massive re-jig and strict rules implemented.
I really can't see any good from schools being forced back at this time.
Nick
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Said this when some of the public sector were moaning about a pay freeze. It's like it's a different world for some people. They will moan to their union, have a little strike and get some money.
I refuse to go to work and I'm at the job centre. I'm not getting a pay rise every year but it pays my bills.
Like you, I'd love to be able to sit in with my daughter and "stay safe" but I really don't have a choice but to work. The same as you and your son's mum.
Guess we can be thankful we still have jobs when we moan as small businesses are being killed off left, right and centre.
hill83
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I hesitate to get into that because I could quite easily* get a new job and try to get into the public sector, but I don't disagree with what you are saying with the pay freeze bit. Definitely annoyed me at the time. Under normal circumstances, the front line teachers/nurses etc, pay them more or course. Office bods not so much.
*probably not easy
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Deleted member 5849
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Not necessarily. There are many jobs that could be done from home that aren't. You're seriously telling me a *digital marketing company* needs to insist all its staff go into the office? Now tbf that company, only one person of the staff hasn't had Covid - best hope for their sake immunity is a thing with the others.
As for bankrupting companies, better for a short term subsidy to get to a stage of increased consumer confidence to actually buy things, then slowly drag out a business's death by expecting it to function as normal.
Nobody, but nobody, is saying all jobs should go to WFH, but you can make more of an effort to make more of them WFH.
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Deleted member 5849
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None of us have a choice but to go in if we're told to.
hill83
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Head Office wise we are I'd guess 99% WFH. Warehouse and pharmacy wise can't be done.
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Deleted member 5849
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Personally I think now is the time to be radical - increase salaries for those who have to go in, decrease those who don't. Try to address some imbalance.
Ian1779
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BSB is not saying close everything down - he knows that can’t happen. What he is saying that every industry that can get people to WFH should do it, it’s not heroic to keep an office open when you don’t need to - it’s reckless. There are people that work in education that are not front facing that can WFH - so get them out of schools. There are people on this very forum (and their partners) that are being forced to be in a building when there is no justifiable need.... why would anyone think this is a sensible thing to do?
Get as many people working at home that can. Less people on the roads, on public transport, coming into contact with others.
Schools full of kids that can’t physically socially distance is a huge risk to everybody, especially with the new variant. It’s not whinging and complaining, it’s about protecting themselves, the kids and their families.
Get as many people working at home that can. Less people on the roads, on public transport, coming into contact with others.
Schools full of kids that can’t physically socially distance is a huge risk to everybody, especially with the new variant. It’s not whinging and complaining, it’s about protecting themselves, the kids and their families.
Nick
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Well yeah there's always the "if you don't like it get a new job" thing but then even so that's being in a privelaged position in getting work easier than others.
See you down the council house queue next week.
Grendel
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The company I refer to is actually a network solution provider for its clients and if it fails to meet its commitments - including visits - will be in breach of contract
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Deleted member 5849
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But that's it. I'm not saying it can. It's without doubt that there's a fair number of businesses where it's a cultural desire to get people in to work rather than a need. And government needs to lead on shifting that. Doing that doesn't stop there being recognition that *everything* can't stop.
Nick
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Who pays the increase in my salary?
hill83
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Grendel
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Even if teachers work from home. That would be a laugh
Ian1779
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When you go to work, do you have to supervise 30+ people in a space that is poorly ventilated, where social distancing is impossible and where you have to place yourself at constant risk of contracting a virus? Do you have to repeat this cycle 5/6 times a day with 30+ new people every time?
Maybe you are lucky enough to be able to space out - maybe you are not. You might say private/public sector work is worlds apart but then you probably have lots of H&S benefits afforded to you that we don’t.
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The people who get the decrease.
Grendel
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nw is Norman Tebitt
