Coronavirus

I doubt you would end up inside. All your other neighbours would develop a spot of the Arsene Wengers and claim they hadn't seen it.

 

I feel a bit sorry for you, Hernia ..
understanding it is no excuse for accepting it ... grow a pair and join the good fight, rather than blaming the vulnerable for trusting ... there's a good lad now

 

Banged it?

 

Oh Matron !

 

We've got 8 or 9 so far, plus 2 managers.

Had a briefing today, feeling any off the symptoms, or anyone in your house...Isolate...Live alone 7 days, with others 14 days.

If you have no symptoms, please come to work, and any extra hours you can do..

We just can't keep up.

 

It's amazing how much money is in that tree if you give it a good shake.

 

Are there restrictions on what you can do Comm ?

 

As in which way mate?

It's gonna go tits up...from suppliers, through distribution, then the stores...The whole chain can't keep up.

 

I mean how many hours you can do per day and time in between shifts ??
Also a day off a week ?

 

Yes mate, no more than 11 in a row, or have 2 off in 14.....

I just did 10 in a row, had Sunday off, and now doing another 7. As they agreed to me working Thursday (my day off)

No restrictions on number of hours worked each shift, up to 12 i think.

So i'm doing 10's.

It's 11 hours of between shifts ..The rest is up to you.

They seem to be bending the rules a bit, for those who want to work

 

Tbh even then, the government aren't doing much to bail anyone out. This bit sticks with me...

The extraordinary figure here was £330bn in state-backed loans for all businesses through the banking system with the help of the Bank of England.

Which means ultimately, when businesses are unable to pay the loans back, the government will have to, ie. taxpayers will make the bankers very rich. And the reason this fcks me off is I think, well if we're going to end up writing off billions, why should it be to the banks, why not just give it to those who need it now, including businesses.

 

Yeah we had this restriction imposed on us .
Me and my mate used to swap every week but that meant going home at 10.20pm and back at 5.40 am
No prob to us but Asda basically told us it wasnt allowed.
I looked at the hse website and it's not actually a day off a week it's a one 24 hour period .
Also I think some of these rulles can be got around in extenuating circumstances which this is !
We've had our first person isolate .
We wouldn't be far away from closing if any others get it .
Fook knows what would happen then as we supply all the labels for Pasta,Curry etc sauces .
It could well just break down as they are calling for millions of labels and they're allowing people to take holiday days .

 

Seems like they are gonna close down the massive George depot, down the road, to help distribute the man power.

Don't know how this this work,,,,Pointless sending them to the Ambient depot, as everything is done using trucks, My old depot.

Probably not many are of use to our depot, as it's a fridge...And basically have light and heavy work....The light work is done by the women and the knackers on restrictions. The heavy stuff is left to a small group..Not being funny, but a big difference to shifting knickers, to start hoying 18kg boxes of bananas, carrots and turnips, etc.

I expect most will be deployed to stores, to help out;

 

I have a nice woman from the Indonesian Red Cross who rings me up every few months to remind me and then asks whether I wouldnt mind popping down and donating some to one of the few Indonesians who has my blood type and needs an operation. Apparently Rhesus negative blood is rare here and AB is also uncommon in Asians so they have a list of emergency caucasian donors they call up. They even use a new needle for each donor.

 

I bet your son told him to say that.

 

The loans are interest free, the banks will not profit from it

 

I use ropey veg, including inedible bits like the leaves off a cauliflower, the stems from spinach etc, to make stock. And the stock to make risotto (risotto is all about the stock).

 

Only been there 5 weeks and she's been in isolation for 2 ... give it time ffs