If you were [working*] today

[moomba]

Being you makes one look a humourless grumpy ****, always.

Point stands, we expect shop workers to work but feel sorry for football players having to go back.

Shop workers don't have colleagues hanging off them when they put a box on a shelf.

 

[SWP's back]

Shop workers don't have colleagues hanging off them when they put a box on a shelf.

You’ve obviously never shopped in the VIP section at Harvey Nics.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Shut the shops every other day while they stock up and lets us loot them while they are off

that’s phase 3 of the easing of lockdown rules. I think by 1 July so long as the lockdown follows its current course.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Yeah that’s my point. Maybe fewer people read the main forum than I thought.

For avoidance of doubt, this is the thread I take issue with:

https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/if-you-were-playing-today.345909/

People stating they wouldn’t work/play if they were PL footballers earning more in a week than key workers do in a decade and yet they expect their loved ones to be cared for and food to be on the shelves when they shop despite the far greater risk and lack of testing for those in the poorly paid jobs. Rank hypocrisy if you ask me.

Good point well made Sweep.

 

[ganganvince]

You’ve obviously never shopped in the VIP section at Harvey Nics.

Or the specials aisle at Aldi

 

[blue44]

If you were a minimum wage worker in the jobs market today while this coronavirus is running rampant throughout the United Kingdom would you risk your health in working at a supermarket. This is just to finish the year and make sure people can buy food. I most certainly would not risk my health or that of my family just so other people could shop.

I'm on band 2 and my wife is too,nhs
we are not minimum wage but 48 pence an hour above it
minimum wage £8.72 per hour
band 2 £9.20 per hour

and thats after a big 3 year pay deal too

we have both been working through it all,her in ccu

edit

im sorry to keep going on about our pay,but its a disgrace what my wife has had to do the last 2 months all for £9.20 per hour,putting her life on the line ,

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

As long as the footballers are happy to forgo their wages and live off furlough wages topping out at £2,500 per month then I’d agree.

Would it not be better to continue to pay them their wages and collect the tax revenue, rather than to add more to the tax burden for people who £2,500 a month won't register?

Or am I missing something obvious?

 

[SWP's back]

I'm on band 2 and my wife is too,nhs
we are not minimum wage but 48 pence an hour above it
minimum wage £8.72 per hour
band 2 £9.20 per hour

and thats after a big 3 year pay deal too

we have both been working through it all,her in ccu

edit

im sorry to keep going on about our pay,but its a disgrace what my wife has had to do the last 2 months all for £9.20 per hour,putting her life on the line ,

Massive respect to you both.

 

[SWP's back]

Would it not be better to continue to pay them their wages and collect the tax revenue, rather than to add more to the tax burden for people who £2,500 a month won't register?

Or am I missing something obvious?

The reality is that the amount of tax they will pay in this period against the amount of borrowing undertaken for the pandemic in the U.K. is akin to removing a bucket of water from Morecambe Bay in an attempt to reduce climate change induced rising sea levels.

(It’s also missing my point somewhat)

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

The reality is that the amount of tax they will pay in this period against the amount of borrowing undertaken for the pandemic in the U.K. is akin to removing a bucket of water from Morecambe Bay in an attempt to reduce climate change induced rising sea levels.

(It’s also missing my point somewhat)

Fully understood.

 

[Scottyboi]

I've had to work from home fixing elderly customers landlines with 80% of our workforce furloughed. Been a fucking nightmare sat in a room on my Todd for weeks on end hearing my kids in the other room

Still keep getting customers coming through being selfish dickheads not understanding how high our workloads are. Talking to you like shit.

Nearly walked yesterday was that stressed out, so fuck knows how shop workers are getting on with the general population.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

If you were a minimum wage worker in the jobs market today while this coronavirus is running rampant throughout the United Kingdom would you risk your health in working at a supermarket. This is just to finish the year and make sure people can buy food. I most certainly would not risk my health or that of my family just so other people could shop.

I think I would yeh - to be fair, I would be out and about working now if I didn't have a wife and two little ones that I could infect at home.

Whilst their is literally nothing to do, you may as well be working for whatever money is on offer............

 

[blue44]

I've had to work from home fixing elderly customers landlines with 80% of our workforce furloughed. Been a fucking nightmare sat in a room on my Todd for weeks on end hearing my kids in the other room

Still keep getting customers coming through being selfish dickheads not understanding how high our workloads are. Talking to you like shit.

Nearly walked yesterday was that stressed out, so fuck knows how shop workers are getting on with the general population.

The shop workers are magnificent,I have total admiration for them just plodding on regardless,all aware of the great risk they're facing
day in day out.but still turn up for their meagre wages
along with all the other people in what would have been called menial jobs before,very brave and commited people

 

[BlueHammer85]

Yeh I would. Young (ish) and healthy and would rather go work than sit in all day.

 

[ManCitizens.]

I’ve been working throughout this pandemic but if I was a footballer with plenty of money in the bank I wouldn’t.

 

[m7mcfc]

I think you're forgetting something. Sure you might work for minimum wage, but think about all of those claps you get. I'm told most energy providers will accept claps as payment nowadays.

As a friend at work tells me as he leaves work at 5.15pm on the dot every day when there is still something to do or clear away.
"You can't spend Thank you's"

 

[iceman]

I'm on min wage delivering its wot we need to do wot if everyone thought like you where would we be ?

 

[stonerblue]

As long as the footballers are happy to forgo their wages and live off furlough wages topping out at £2,500 per month then I’d agree.

free money you mean?

 

[SWP's back]

free money you mean?

No.

 

[mexico1970]

Being you makes one look a humourless grumpy ****, always.

Point stands, we expect shop workers to work but feel sorry for football players having to go back.

We live in an age where we seem to care more about pampered millionaires than people who genuinely have difficulty getting by financially. Went to Tesco yesterday and the cleaner must have been 70 if she was a day, it's not a case of picking and choosing who to support but I choose to support those who don't have the wherewithal to make as many choices.

You're point is more than reasonable in fact you'd think that the contradiction of supporting very rich peoples feelings by putting them on the same level of need as the old lady cleaner should be abhorrent.