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littleme

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FooFighter said:
If you can get to the Kingston centre you can pick them up from there.
Test first, explanation of the process and you can pick up a kit of 7.
This is open to all parents/guardians and people working with children.
Today we're open from 12:40 - 7:15.
Booking preferred but not essential.
Attendance has dropped of a cliff recently.
I think that people who have had the jab think they are now bulletproof to covid.
You can still get it.
You can still pass it on to someone else.
You can still infect a loved one and potentially kill them.
It hasn't gone away, we're just getting more resilient to it
If you are in work or out and about, you should get tested twice a week.
My personal belief is that this should be mandatory for shop workers due to public 'contact' and should be essential for any shop to be allowed to open
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Thank you fir the extra info, I tried telling the website that I would pick up my 7 tests, but it wouldn't let me go any further than picking where I wanted to pick them up for. It also wouldn't let me register, maybe there are bugs somewhere in the system.

However..... I requested my tests yesterday, and they arrived today, fantastic service!
 
littleme

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Carole said:
Husband has been working from home for the past year and has been busier than when he was in the office.
He leaves his social phone downstairs so he doesn't get distracted by social media or personal phone calls. He goes into the upstairs bedroom office at 8.30am, emerges for mid morning coffee and lunch and then finishes at about 5.30 or 6.00pm.
I can hear him on his conference calls or just on the phone and I don't disturb him at all.

Friends and neighbours just don't understand.
They think that because he's in the house that he's free to just pop downstairs for a doorstep chat. They also don't really understand that he is actually working and doing a proper job.

If I go out I stick a notice on the door saying "please don't ring the doorbell, husband on business call and can't answer the door".

I think if his company put a webcam in his home office they might increase his pay.
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Middle child started his new job at a Birmingham Bank in September.... Only from home, he's exactly like your hubby, very disciplined, doesn't take non work related messages or calls during his 'office hours' we all accept that, but there, are odd people who think they can just turn up as he's at home. He simply doesn't answer the door.
 
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cj1 said:
There is also the issue of people refusing the test as sick leave is only paid to 95.85 per week and they are unable to take the financial hit. Possibly one reason poorer communities having higher infection rates. people on furlough get higher income than someone isolating with covid.
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I was talking to someone the other day about regular testing. I have weekly tests as I travel to customers homes/ premises in my business. He is employed & deals face to face with the public. His employers don’t encourage testing & he wouldn’t do it unless forced to because he couldn’t afford to lose his wages for 2 weeks & only get SSP
 
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I've always been of the opinion that it's someone productivity and output that should be measured and not for how long they have sat in a chair. If someone can do their job it shouldn't matter to me as their employer/manager where they are when they do it. That also applies to being flexible to people working at different times of the day as well. Obviously not everyone's jobs can be performed that way but for a lot of what was previously 9-5 office work, there are getting less and less reasons why a more flexible approach to time management and work location can't be considered the "norm"
 
SketchyMagpie

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I really would love to see our working lives going forward altered by the realisation that so much of it can be done from home but I just think it’s Boris’s MO to want to go back to the status quo (as seen by his ludicrous “we’ve had enough days off” comment the other day).
 
tek-monkey

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SketchyMagpie said:
I really would love to see our working lives going forward altered by the realisation that so much of it can be done from home but I just think it’s Boris’s MO to want to go back to the status quo (as seen by his ludicrous “we’ve had enough days off” comment the other day).
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Sunak's declaration that people would quit jobs if forced to work from home had me in stitches, does he think we like to commute? But of course rich buggers generally own property, and prices of that depend on need. WFH means less demand, so lower prices, in the peak areas that most people would rather not live in to start with.

I won't take another 5 day office job unless desperate, I think 3 is the maximum needed and even that is pushing it.
 
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Government are desperately hoping they haven't made the 1+ million jobs reliant on office workers permanently unemployed. Also if an employer has discovered their tasks can be completed remotely from the workers home why does that worker have to be based in the UK? workers in other parts of the world could get the task completed much cheaper. This could lead to millions more unemployed.
 
tek-monkey

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cj1 said:
Government are desperately hoping they haven't made the 1+ million jobs reliant on office workers permanently unemployed. Also if an employer has discovered their tasks can be completed remotely from the workers home why does that worker have to be based in the UK? workers in other parts of the world could get the task completed much cheaper. This could lead to millions more unemployed.
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I'm hoping to flip this on it's head and bugger off somewhere else to work!

EDIT: Although the dogs put a bit of a spanner in the works now, the vet has warned me the replacement to pet passports is a right PIA. Thanks brexit!
 
rudie111

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cj1 said:
Government are desperately hoping they haven't made the 1+ million jobs reliant on office workers permanently unemployed. Also if an employer has discovered their tasks can be completed remotely from the workers home why does that worker have to be based in the UK? workers in other parts of the world could get the task completed much cheaper. This could lead to millions more unemployed.
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This is exactly what my boss implied to me (they were dead set against working from home until one of the directors caught covid and was quite ill)

'If people work from home what's stopping someone else doing the job remotely.'

My response was 'well what's stopping me working remotely for someone else'
 
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rudie111 said:
This is exactly what my boss implied to me (they were dead set against working from home until one of the directors caught covid and was quite ill)

'If people work from home what's stopping someone else doing the job remotely.'

My response was 'well what's stopping me working remotely for someone else'
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What's stopping you working remotely for someone else might be the expectation of a wage significantly higher than is paid to someone residing in Asia.
 
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That's all very well in theory but in practise it really doesn't. My OH works with a lot of off shore techies. It's fine for the day to day stuff but as soon as there's issues it's really hard for them to deal with - because they are the times that you would go into the office/data centre etc. and get round a table and fix stuff.
 
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So a skeleton crew employed on a demand led basis while everyone else employed from cheaper regions of the world? Those working from home just be careful what you wish for I wouldn't rely on the "oh but sometimes..." To stop an employer reducing or eliminating significant costs.
 
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cj1 said:
So a skeleton crew employed on a demand led basis while everyone else employed from cheaper regions of the world? Those working from home just be careful what you wish for I wouldn't rely on the "oh but sometimes..." To stop an employer reducing or eliminating significant costs.
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And of course, the bigger the company you work for the more that is likely to happen.
 
Mudgie

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proactive said:
And of course, the bigger the company you work for the more that is likely to happen.
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Yes but smaller employers too.
If Stafford Borough Council can close its Civic Centre to the public for several months then it's probably working out how few employees it actually needs to employ in or from there.
 
kyoto49

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Mudgie said:
Yes but smaller employers too.
If Stafford Borough Council can close its Civic Centre to the public for several months then it's probably working out how few employees it actually needs to employ in or from there.
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I've never understood the need for council offices in the 21st century to be in Town centres. Rent a low cost unit on an industrial estate, save council tax payers millions
 
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Mudgie said:
Yes but smaller employers too.
If Stafford Borough Council can close its Civic Centre to the public for several months then it's probably working out how few employees it actually needs to employ in or from there.
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Now you’re being silly. If the council thought that then it would mean they’re trying to be efficient. This is SBC remember.
 
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Mudgie said:
Yes but smaller employers too.
If Stafford Borough Council can close its Civic Centre to the public for several months then it's probably working out how few employees it actually needs to employ in or from there.
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Did anybody notice they were closed?
 
proactive

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kyoto49 said:
I've never understood the need for council offices in the 21st century to be in Town centres. Rent a low cost unit on an industrial estate, save council tax payers millions
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Ah, but that wouldn't be as 'prestigious'.

Besides, as I've posted on here many times before, it's only taxpayers' money, not real money, so who cares.
 
tek-monkey

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Just had a text to say book in for my jab, but when booking it says I must be over 45. Confirmed with the doctors that I'm not really meant to book it, and to wait for another text.
 
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