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16 minutes ago, Moomintroll said:
1 hour ago, WATTOO said:
I can only assume that you've never had any dealings with USDAW.

Indeed, incidentally we have c50% of our staff either self isolated for 12 weeks as vulnerable people or self isolating due to displaying symptoms, Retailers are getting decimated at the moment.

Yes, it's not a great situation and it's only going to get worse.

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20 minutes ago, KillieCon said:

Mrs KillieCon works in a specialised department in the NHS. As of next week she is being moved departments to help out and will be taking on the role of a general nurse.

She has already been told that there is not enough PPE for the staff crossing over and there are doctors and anaesthetists who are still waiting to be fitted for the proper equipment. I'm now shitting myself about the potential consequences of this.

If you have a spare room get the bed ready for her for when she gets home from her first day. it will show you care.

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I don’t know what you do for a living, but there are very few jobs I’d feel safe about going out to do right now.
Work in a timber merchants. I was ok with working putting out deliveries only, but the majority of the drivers across the the company weren't comfortable with this, so head office got managers from all the depots to ring round the branch staff and find out who'd be willing to work and take it from there.
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14 minutes ago, pandarilla said:

Each to their own but have you ever needed the nhs - like really needed them?

I've (unfortunately) got frequent flyer miles at ninewells and every now and then i realise how ridiculously lucky i am. My care has been in their hands so many times, on a few occasions the type of care that keeps me alive.

But i remember having the same feeling when my daughter was born in an emergency section through the night. At one point i just looked around at all the staff and all the equipment and it just made me feel small.

Yes they're doing their jobs. But they're part of something (a state run healthcare system) that i think is truly extraordinary.

If i lived in the United States i could not continue to have the career and life i have. Simple as that.

The national health service is something that most people in this country deeply appreciate, and rightly so. But it's made up of hundreds of thousands of individuals going about their job day in day out. Fucking right i took a wee minute to applaud.

100% this.

We've recently had a lot of dealings with the occupational health team down at Irvine Central and every single one of them has been superb. They probably saved my Dad's life a few weeks back and they've been totally professional, approachable and downright friendly in every dealing we've had with them.

They definitely treat it as a "calling" as opposed to just a job which is a very rare thing nowadays.

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14 minutes ago, pandarilla said:

Each to their own but have you ever needed the nhs - like really needed them?

I've (unfortunately) got frequent flyer miles at ninewells and every now and then i realise how ridiculously lucky i am. My care has been in their hands so many times, on a few occasions the type of care that keeps me alive.

But i remember having the same feeling when my daughter was born in an emergency section through the night. At one point i just looked around at all the staff and all the equipment and it just made me feel small.

Yes they're doing their jobs. But they're part of something (a state run healthcare system) that i think is truly extraordinary.

If i lived in the United States i could not continue to have the career and life i have. Simple as that.

The national health service is something that most people in this country deeply appreciate, and rightly so. But it's made up of hundreds of thousands of individuals going about their job day in day out. Fucking right i took a wee minute to applaud.

Yes, I was at deaths door a couple of years ago, the NHS got me through.  

But it is just folk doing thier day jobs.

Best of luck with your health.

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50 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

See some of you bickering fandans? f**k knows what it must be like working with some of ye’s!! 

Cmon Pete, you don’t actually think they go on like this IRL do you ?  

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25 minutes ago, KillieCon said:

Mrs KillieCon works in a specialised department in the NHS. As of next week she is being moved departments to help out and will be taking on the role of a general nurse.

She has already been told that there is not enough PPE for the staff crossing over and there are doctors and anaesthetists who are still waiting to be fitted for the proper equipment. I'm now shitting myself about the potential consequences of this.

Just put it in the microwave, set for 60 seconds, press the button, and wait for the ding, let it rest for a minute then you're good to go. 

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6 minutes ago, placidcasual said:

I've just realised I've dodged an absolute shitefest of a wedding in May because of this. Mixed feelings now about coronavirus tbh.

Does your fiancé feel the same?

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12 minutes ago, keithgy said:

We were very quiet today,usually have about 8000k parcels through the depot and today 3400k

You'll be getting paid to pull your puddin' shortly

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2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

When I was out for a walk earlier those few people we passed were all avoiding each other, but saw two guys in their 20s leaning over the hood of a car to have a chat.

It’s knobheads like these who are potentially fucking it up for everyone else.

Must have been some walk if you ended up in America...

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Just read one of the customers we're being kept open to supply being chased in the national papers for not adhering to government guidance over safe distancing. 

That's the material being shipped in from Italy, my work failing to work to standard and finally the end product makers not adhering to it. 

I wouldn't be buying any confectionary anytime soon if I were you. 

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