COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[oakiecokie]

So someone has just come into the office off the shop floor and gleefully asked me "So when are we going into lockdown?". I told him it could well happen by the weekend and he's under the impression that if it does then our works will have to close. Told him that it wouldn't - unless one of us contracts it of course - and people would still be able to go to work. He was smug as fuck and told me that wouldn't be the case, and only the emergency services would be allowed to work. Tried explaining that even though France is in lockdown, people are still allowed to go to work so why would it be any different here? (I'll add that we deal with some French companies and it seems there are restrictions on the numbers that are allowed in offices but they are still working). I just finished off by saying that I didn't realise he was that desperate for 2 weeks off work!

Send the fucker home without pay and see if he screams then. ;)

 

[Fernster]

As said previously on here, schools will still be open to look after the vulnerable and emergency related children.

What they are not saying is that there is talk of schools being open during the easter holiday period. Many staff are pro-rata and therefore don't get paid for holiday periods. Do they get paid extra?

Also, schools may share responsibility of care with the children and my school may take in children from other schools. This creates issues in respect that the teachers/helpers do not know these kids and therefore may not understand their "special" needs. As the estates manager, I worry that these kids will not care about my environment and therefore don't care if they wreck the place.

 

[oakiecokie]

make sure the slapper is wearing gloves though

I`ve been with plenty of slappers over the years but can`t remember them ever wearing gloves.Is that a fetish for `em ?

 

[Uffa]

So someone has just come into the office off the shop floor and gleefully asked me "So when are we going into lockdown?". I told him it could well happen by the weekend and he's under the impression that if it does then our works will have to close. Told him that it wouldn't - unless one of us contracts it of course - and people would still be able to go to work. He was smug as fuck and told me that wouldn't be the case, and only the emergency services would be allowed to work. Tried explaining that even though France is in lockdown, people are still allowed to go to work so why would it be any different here? (I'll add that we deal with some French companies and it seems there are restrictions on the numbers that are allowed in offices but they are still working). I just finished off by saying that I didn't realise he was that desperate for 2 weeks off work!

Depends on the work you do, you might end up working from home.

 

[George Hannah]

Waitrose and East Cheam!
Not exactly typical of London.

Sorry it was East Sheen in Richmond - East Cheam (along 23 Railway Cuttings) is a product of my disordered brain ;)

 

[George Hannah]

I`ve been with plenty of slappers over the years but can`t remember them ever wearing gloves.Is that a fetish for `em ?

I'm not familiar with that sort of thing m'lud

 

[give it to gordon]

Fucking hell.

I’m presuming everyone is going mental at her.

She has wonder off just phoned to tell us to pick up a needle that she has found I guess when litter picking. I have phone the office who told me to keep the work force on the yard until she has phoned the office so the office manager can make a decision....guess she hadnt phoned in yet we started at 8 am !!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Sorry it was East Sheen in Richmond - and East Cheam, along 23 Railway Cuttings, is a product of my disordered brain ;)

I did think that it was Hancockland, but Cheam exists.

Waitrose and Richmond isn't much better!

 

[M18CTID]

Send the fucker home without pay and see if he screams then. ;)

I would mind oakie - I'm not even management, so unfortunately don't have the authority to do that!

 

[Marvin]

BBC reporting it's easing in Japan and China. Japan lifting some measures. China has no cases of domestic transmission but has ongoing problem of travelers with the infection.

It will surge and then fall. But it will only fall if we interrupt its transmission. Testing is needed. Wherever there's one case there's likely more and likely asymptomatic cases too.

 

[George Hannah]

BBC reporting it's easing in Japan and China. Japan lifting some measures. China has no cases of domestic transmission but has ongoing problem of travelers with the infection.

It will surge and then fall. But it will only fall if we interrupt its transmission. Testing is needed. Wherever there's one case there's likely more and likely asymptomatic cases too.

On the basis of the latest figures it seems clear we should be learning from the Germans about reducing deaths and from China, Japan, Singapore etc about reducing spread.

 

[oakiecokie]

I would mind oakie - I'm not even management, so unfortunately don't have the authority to do that!

Pity that M18.

 

[M18CTID]

Depends on the work you do, you might end up working from home.

We're an engineering firm so that's not an option unfortunately. Incidentally, one of our main suppliers is in Primaluna. As far as I know, they're still open. Well, they certainly were last week as we collected a full trailer load of steel from them and they sent an e-mail out to all their customers saying it's pretty much business as usual for the time being.

 

[George Hannah]

Good news from the BBC's Dr Chris Smith, a consultant virologist, is that the risk from contracting Covid19 from posted items is vanishingly small unless you relick the stamp from an infected prior licker.
I like him - he tells me what I want to hear.

 

[mancityvstoke]

You need to hammer home that she’s putting lives at risk.

What a stupid ****.

Could she get arrested for actual bodily harm or worse if anyone got seriously ill or worse?

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Good news from the BBC's Dr Chris Smith, a consultant virologist is that the risk from contracting the virus posted items is vanishingly small unless you relick the stamp from an infected prior licker.
I like him - he tells me what I want to hear.

I’ll have to give up that hobby then

 

[Claytop]

Good news from the BBC's Dr Chris Smith, a consultant virologist, is that the risk from contracting Covid19 from posted items is vanishingly small unless you relick the stamp from an infected prior licker.
I like him - he tells me what I want to hear.

Is that, a thing?

Extraordinary.

 

[M18CTID]

Pity that M18.

Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh on him as people do seem to be getting mixed messages on what some of the measures entail, and perhaps the phrase "total lockdown" has people thinking it means literally lock yourself away and don't go out at all, even to work. Even last night, I had a different interpretation to my sister of what the whole self-isolation thing for over 70's means. She's frontline NHS and thought my dad would literally have to lock himself away for 12 solid weeks, whereas my impression is that he could still go out where necessary but just apply some commonsense with regards to social distancing. Her interpretation is perhaps based on her telling me that all over 70's who work for the NHS are being sent home for 3 months on full pay. That came as a surprise to me when she told me because although the elderly are more at risk, I'd have thought the NHS would need all the staff they can get (and more) at the moment.

It was just the smugness in his voice when he asked the question that wound me up!

 

[Ban-jani]

She has wonder off just phoned to tell us to pick up a needle that she has found I guess when litter picking. I have phone the office who told me to keep the work force on the yard until she has phoned the office so the office manager can make a decision....guess she hadnt phoned in yet we started at 8 am !!

Jesus what a muppet.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Good news from the BBC's Dr Chris Smith, a consultant virologist, is that the risk from contracting Covid19 from posted items is vanishingly small unless you relick the stamp from an infected prior licker.
I like him - he tells me what I want to hear.

Good news for all those ladies who are 'stamp lickers'...