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Staines R's said:
Further to your question, after speaking to a couple of mates (1 furloughed, 1 not) it seems there is possibly gonna be a draw every 3 weeks to choose the 70% of staff that are gonna be off.
If it’s gonna be done, on the face of it, seems a pretty fair way to do it.
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Agreed. I have spent most of the last 3 weeks advising employers what to do and have been heartened by the efforts they have made to ensure that their employees have a job to return to and try to top up their pay wherever possible. Even those that were contemplating redundancies or had already made them took no persuasion at all to take them back on and furlough them instead. I have heard of some abuse by other employers (my firm company does not represent) where they have taken advantage of the fact that furlough can not be imposed unilaterally and have sought to bulldoze permanent changes to terms and conditions of employment.
 
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Uber_Hoop said:
Whoah there, Big Boy, hold your horses!

"There are many across Soshul Meeja having a pop at others for daring to go out in what was until recently a free society. It's amazing how many people are prepared to accept house arrest, subjugation and a police state willingly."

Across the very few soshul meeja platforms wot I look at there are loads of people very much 'on message' about staying at home to save lives. Many are supporting that twat Piers Morgan who rather dramatically described a few people keeping more than 2 metres apart in the London parks today as 'traitors'. Yes, really.

Quite a few people saying hard cheese to those stuck in high-rise flats and criticising them for wanting to lie on the grass and get a few rays.

Yes, these 'wallies' are irritating twats in my humble opinion but, don't fret, I haven't ranked them any higher in Stan's List of The Universe's Current Problems than they need be.

No, I don't think there's a conspiracy to rob me of various liberties. I am just with the (possibly) growing number that believe time will show that the measures taken to be disproportionate*

[*No, I am not trivialising the deaths etc.]
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I think Handjob’s latest unenforceable threat to remove our allotted exercise periods (must be against the Geneva Convention, what, Group Captain Uber?) is more to get exercised about than what nonentities write on social media.

Apparently his grandstanding is pissing off a lot of people in government, including poor wheezing Johnson. Various bits of the system - DoH, Public Health England and NHS England at each other’s throats over who is responsible for continued failure to meet targets. It has become apparent that this country has very little capability in modelling epidemics, largely because all of the academics involved hate each other and try to undermine their enemies. Priti Patel offering to arm community police officers and establish martial law (probably). Alok Sharma (‘a batsman with zero shots’ according to one colleague), Robert Generic and Dominic Raab (“Britain’s very own Dan Quayle”)* wheeled out when there is nothing to say.

Lots of people out and about today, most doing their best to distance. Quite amusing seeing some families who pretty obviously never normally take exercise beyond leaving their car to buy a hundred weight of cheese, bacon, lard and beans flavoured sugar frosted crisps, getting out and about. People who have their own gravitational fields. Some of them have a vitamin d deficiency so rarely do they see sunlight. Good news that we are getting healthier as a nation, our virile precious bodily fluids will help us triumph over all!

Quiet on here today. Everyone must be at the beach or in a National Park, rubbing up against each other.


*nicknames courtesy of Sunday Times. I wish I’d thought up the Raab one, perfect.
 
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sb_73 said:
I think Handjob’s latest unenforceable threat to remove our allotted exercise periods (must be against the Geneva Convention, what, Group Captain Uber?) is more to get exercised about than what nonentities write on social media.

Apparently his grandstanding is pissing off a lot of people in government, including poor wheezing Johnson. Various bits of the system - DoH, Public Health England and NHS England at each other’s throats over who is responsible for continued failure to meet targets. It has become apparent that this country has very little capability in modelling epidemics, largely because all of the academics involved hate each other and try to undermine their enemies. Priti Patel offering to arm community police officers and establish martial law (probably). Alok Sharma (‘a batsman with zero shots’ according to one colleague), Robert Generic and Dominic Raab (“Britain’s very own Dan Quayle”)* wheeled out when there is nothing to say.

Lots of people out and about today, most doing their best to distance. Quite amusing seeing some families who pretty obviously never normally take exercise beyond leaving their car to buy a hundred weight of cheese, bacon, lard and beans flavoured sugar frosted crisps, getting out and about. People who have their own gravitational fields. Some of them have a vitamin d deficiency so rarely do they see sunlight. Good news that we are getting healthier as a nation, our virile precious bodily fluids will help us triumph over all!

Quiet on here today. Everyone must be at the beach or in a National Park, rubbing up against each other.


*nicknames courtesy of Sunday Times. I wish I’d thought up the Raab one, perfect.
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I'm clearly more pissed than I realised.
I honestly didn't understand half of that post.
Who the **** is hand job?
 
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