Off Topic Coronavirus

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
My conundrum is that I'm currently working up in Aberdeen and renting an AirBnB up here. Booked until my contract finishes at the end of April

Does essential travel mean I can drive home to Hertfordshire (and remain there) this week?

The announcement this evening (inevitably) didn't give me the answer
 
sb_73 said:
Just about any desk job can be done from home. I’ve been a ‘remote worker’ for over 10 years, albeit in normal times travelling a lot. I reckon that as vast numbers of people now join this club firstly stress levels will soar, as people don’t realise how little time they spend actually working as opposed to socialising and gossiping and ‘in meetings’ in offices, and isolation will set in with no one to chat to by the coffee machine; then secondly the company leaders will notice that people are actually more productive working from home, and they need less of them as a result. Ultimately the jobs which really can’t be done from home will be the most secure.
Click to expand...

debateable about being more productive from home. I think a lot of people will be taking the piss from home, myself included. Not just that, but most desk jobs people have 2 or 3 screens. Just the 1 screen at home and that certainly hinders productivity, alongside poor internet. Just my imo
 
  • Like
Reactions: SARQPR
BobbyD said:
debateable about being more productive from home. I think a lot of people will be taking the piss from home, myself included. Not just that, but most desk jobs people have 2 or 3 screens. Just the 1 screen at home and that certainly hinders productivity, alongside poor internet. Just my imo
Click to expand...
And many people will have school age kids wanting entertaining!
 
StortfordQPR said:
My conundrum is that I'm currently working up in Aberdeen and renting an AirBnB up here. Booked until my contract finishes at the end of April

Does essential travel mean I can drive home to Hertfordshire (and remain there) this week?

The announcement this evening (inevitably) didn't give me the answer
Click to expand...

It did mate and yes you can.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SARQPR
rangercol said:
My bricklayer Son has just got home saying he doesn't think there's going to be much more work for him after tomorrow.
Another self employed worker with no work.
Click to expand...
I’m going to try to learn today how to link from Facebook onto here, but information I have received from a self employed group is that there is a number to phone regarding payment for self employed and it appears we will get 80% of our income based on last 3 or 2 years income, as soon as I can confirm or not I will try to post links on here for all us self employed, although have heard the queuing on phone is horrendously long, so might be worth a wait before dialling.
Number is as follows 0800 159 559.
This was passed to me by a self employed taxi driving mate in Portsmouth last night.
 
  • Like
Reactions: mapleranger, rangercol, Woodyhoopleson and 1 other person
kiwiqpr said:
Coronavirus: Teens held for 'coughing in face' of elderly couple
  • 6 hours ago
You must log in or register to see images
Image copyright Google
Image caption The pair were approached by three people in Paynes Park, Hitchin
Three teenagers were arrested after an elderly couple were allegedly coughed at in the street.

The couple were approached by three people in Hitchin, one of whom is said to have coughed in their faces.

A passer-by intervened and there was "an altercation" which left a woman in her 70s with a black eye, police said.

Three males aged 16, 18 and 19 were questioned on suspicion of actual bodily harm, affray and criminal damage after the incident on Friday afternoon.

Hertfordshire Police said the elderly woman was taken to hospital for a check-up and later discharged.

Her vehicle was also damaged in the incident in Paynes Park.

The man who intervened also suffered bruising, police said.

The suspects were questioned and released under investigation.

The force called for anyone with information to contact them and asked people not to post details of those they believe are involved or share footage on social media as it could hamper the investigation.
Click to expand...
The man who intervened was none other than the notorious TOMMY ROBINSON apparently, no mention however of his “good deed” in the mainstream media or the police communique, but I imagine in the unfair world of mainstream news his court appearance next month for assaulting a man who sexually abused his 8 yr old daughter will be front page news again ‘cause he’s a racist.
 
StortfordQPR said:
My conundrum is that I'm currently working up in Aberdeen and renting an AirBnB up here. Booked until my contract finishes at the end of April

Does essential travel mean I can drive home to Hertfordshire (and remain there) this week?

The announcement this evening (inevitably) didn't give me the answer
Click to expand...

What Col says, but I'd try to keep your service station stops to a minimum where possible.
 
  • Like
Reactions: rangercol and SARQPR
bobmid said:
My mrs is also on the vulnerable list, similar to Turkish so that sort of plays on my mind also. I'm sure Turkish will agree with me when I say that I'm not too bothered about myself but more concerned about bringing something home that could potentially cause great harm to a loved one.
Click to expand...
I’m still currently at work, and the one thing I fear is bringing something home and infecting the wife, in my job however I sit in a van escorting abnormal loads around the country I don’t interact with people except in petrol stations all communication with drivers is done via CB radio and emails showing us our routes etc so hopefully am staying clear of contamination, however as most of our work is in aerospace and manufacturing and transportation of large items ie cranes etc to building sites I fear I might be home sooner than expected as this will all cease under non essential.
 
  • Like
Reactions: bobmid
rangercol said:
I listened very carefully to Boris.
He said essential workers and people who had to go to work and couldn't work from home.
News outlets already getting it wrong.
I recorded his statement and listened twice to ensure that I could still go to work.
Click to expand...

Still too many grey areas. I'm not an essential worker (far from it), but yesterday's statement left it open to me to go to work 'if it is absolutely necessary and can't be done from home'. My work is not 'absolutely necessary' in a wider sense, but my employers would likely consider it to be so. Based on this, I will continue to go in once a fortnight to do the 10% of my job that can't be done from home. This will involve me using the tube though, and Sadiq Khan is saying this morning that this should be reserved for essential workers.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back