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55 minutes ago, Steven W said:

Cause for concern? Big jump there

Last Friday saw 12 new cases so it probably is the case that Friday is the high point for new cases in the week.

I don't think there's much cause for concern unless the trend is going up for longer than one day.

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2 hours ago, Distant Doonhamer said:

Went to Tesco this morning. Everybody wearing a face covering including the staff on the shop floor. Staff on the checkout no masks but they are all behind a Perspex screen. I asked one of the staff if they’d had any issues with folk objecting but none thus far other than a couple of people being turned away who went without causing any hassle.

 

Similar in morrisons in Wishaw this morning. Just one guy who claimed he was exempt on medical reasons and by complete coincidence, his wife also seemed to be exempt. 

Any money at all he was a rangers fan. 

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Similar in morrisons in Wishaw this morning. Just one guy who claimed he was exempt on medical reasons and by complete coincidence, his wife also seemed to be exempt. 
Any money at all he was a rangers fan. 



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50 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:

Last Friday saw 12 new cases so it probably is the case that Friday is the high point for new cases in the week.

I don't think there's much cause for concern unless the trend is going up for longer than one day.

The 18 figure is from 17,500 tests, which means 0.1% were positive

Last friday we had 12 from 5,000 (0.2%), and 17 from 5,000 (0.3%) the week before.

I don't know why the number of daily tests has rocketed in the last 3 days. Maybe down to test & protect identifying cases that were otherwise missed / only estimated?

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3 hours ago, Hillonearth said:

I singled out that kind of butcher as it's an odd survival of the old-style specialist shops where most of the others have fallen by the wayside. Certainly the ones local to me seem to largely be patronised by the 60+ age bracket, so I wonder how much longer they'll last.

It's an interesting one. The butcher on Byres Road was telling me they have had a massive increase in custom. They reckon the intial run on stuff in supermarkets at the start of this forced people to go to the butcher, and huge numbers stayed when they realised the quality was better, and the price wasn't actually that much higher.

I appreciate this may not be the case all over though.

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2 hours ago, effeffsee_the2nd said:

I think the novelty will wear off for many people, there will be some recluse wierdo types who will be happy to never be in an office again and i'm sure it has some advantages some of the time but I think the majority don't mind a bit of social contact with co-workers. there are also those who don't really have the space for it and are just muddling through just now. Then there are those like me who simply don't want their home to also be their workplace

Absolutely all of the bold bits. I’m missing the social aspect and office banter, but also from a business perspective, I’d much prefer to just verbally ask the person opposite me a question, have a conversation, weigh-up the options or discuss solutions face-to-face. It didn’t take long to find out how much more productive a 5 minute conversation is compared to the amount of time wasted sending and translating emails since my office days became working from home days. Conference calls and screen-sharing on Teams can quickly turn into folk talking over or cutting off one another or everybody straining their eyes trying to see the tiny font info being shared on laptop screens instead of a wall projector in a meeting room. 

With regards to the actual environment of enforced working from home; I sort-of have the space, but it’s far from ideal plus it’s an inconvenience for myself and my family that some of our stuff has had to be moved to make room for work stuff. Prior to COVID, despite having the freedom to whenever, I normally always reserved working from home for days when I had to be home, such as waiting on a parcel or the boiler was getting serviced etc, or I’d save it for those very rare quiet days where there’s nothing urgent to be done and could just log on but spend most of the day catching up on tv shows.

Thankfully in my line of work I’m kind-of split 50/50 between office days and being out and about. We’ve actually got busier than ever directly due to COVID and Lockdown, plus having to cover other roles/duties because folk are off shielding, have symptoms or as is most likely - playing the sicky system and totally fucking at-it.

However, being busier than ever on ‘office days’ which are now at home, in the early days of lockdown I’ll gladly admit I was finding it increasingly difficult and found myself often feeling a bit pissed-off and resentful that my work enforcing working from home was resulting in numerous days of getting grumpy or annoyed at the wife or daughter for having the temerity to do things in their own home. Thankfully a chat with my boss, a relaxation in expectations, projects being put on hold and an increase in operational days out and about have drastically improved things. 

The main things I’m still finding difficult on office days are the lack of a decent workspace, and just getting over not having the routine of getting up and out the door every morning. There’s a lot to be said for that first breath of fresh air and having the solitude and duration of the morning commute to get switched on, motivated and engaged in what needs to be done in the day ahead.

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11 minutes ago, 8MileBU said:

Absolutely all of the bold bits. I’m missing the social aspect and office banter, but also from a business perspective, I’d much prefer to just verbally ask the person opposite me a question, have a conversation, weigh-up the options or discuss solutions face-to-face. It didn’t take long to find out how much more productive a 5 minute conversation is compared to the amount of time wasted sending and translating emails since my office days became working from home days. Conference calls and screen-sharing on Teams can quickly turn into folk talking over or cutting off one another or everybody straining their eyes trying to see the tiny font info being shared on laptop screens instead of a wall projector in a meeting room. 

With regards to the actual environment of enforced working from home; I sort-of have the space, but it’s far from ideal plus it’s an inconvenience for myself and my family that some of our stuff has had to be moved to make room for work stuff. Prior to COVID, despite having the freedom to whenever, I normally always reserved working from home for days when I had to be home, such as waiting on a parcel or the boiler was getting serviced etc, or I’d save it for those very rare quiet days where there’s nothing urgent to be done and could just log on but spend most of the day catching up on tv shows.

Thankfully in my line of work I’m kind-of split 50/50 between office days and being out and about. We’ve actually got busier than ever directly due to COVID and Lockdown, plus having to cover other roles/duties because folk are off shielding, have symptoms or as is most likely - playing the sicky system and totally fucking at-it.

However, being busier than ever on ‘office days’ which are now at home, in the early days of lockdown I’ll gladly admit I was finding it increasingly difficult and found myself often feeling a bit pissed-off and resentful that my work enforcing working from home was resulting in numerous days of getting grumpy or annoyed at the wife or daughter for having the temerity to do things in their own home. Thankfully a chat with my boss, a relaxation in expectations, projects being put on hold and an increase in operational days out and about have drastically improved things. 

The main things I’m still finding difficult on office days are the lack of a decent workspace, and just getting over not having the routine of getting up and out the door every morning. There’s a lot to be said for that first breath of fresh air and having the solitude and duration of the morning commute to get switched on, motivated and engaged in what needs to be done in the day ahead.

It doesn't sound appealing to me, my partner is self employed and runs everything from home, it's harmonious because  is I go to work ( I have to physically be there ) otherwise we would be together 24/7 . sounds romantic doesn't it? but in real life spending that much time with anyone will just lead to crabbitnes and bickering .

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8 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

True, but he was reporting what his returning customers were saying

My Dad is in meat trade buying cattle for butchers. Demand from small butchers shops has jumped during this period as folk prefer the hygiene aspect as opposed to giant supermarkets. They are also discovering the fact that the product is invariably superior than shrink wrapped mass production meat.

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19 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Would quite happily never set foot in my office again tbh.

I'm the same.

In Malaysia businesses are getting back to more or less normal now (with social distancing, temperature checks etc etc) and I took my first trip back in to the office since March 17th yesterday to see my big boss.

Successfully negotiated that I don't need to be back there until October at the earliest. Delighted. (Colleagues also probably delighted, before anyone else says it)

Pubs are open. Restaurants are open. Parks are open. I don't need to go to work to socialise. I accept it might be different for people who live in more remote places etc.

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I'm fair looking forward to going to visit friends tonight but there's bit of apprehension as well. 

Me and Mrs M have been getting out and about since day one and while she's been working from home I've been going into the office every working day but  much like everyone else we've largely lived in our own wee bubble for the last few months. We've binged on various TV series (The US version of The Office was surprisingly good, New Amsterdam was decent but you can ram This is Us), got on each others nerves and gave the cat more attention than he's had, or wanted, in years. 

It's going to be great to see other people but it is going to be different from past nights with sticking to (or at least trying) social distancing etc. There was comfort to be found in that wee self contained bubble we've existed in. Almost a form of institutionalisation. Doing something previously as ordinary as going to visit friends now seems like a big deal. The natural result of approaching four months of Lockdown I suppose.  

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4 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

It's just wee things like not having to summon the energy to be telling folk what I'm going to do/did at the weekend, not going for a coffee and finding the office bore is the only guy there and having to sit with him out of politeness. I don't know how you measure the effects this has on you but it's been a delight not to bother with any of that. 

It's been nearly four months since some buffoon asked me '"What's that you're having for lunch? What's in it?"

Little annoys me more in life than such questioning. It's my lunch. f**k off.

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My work asked for volunteers to go back into the office and I have literally no idea why I put my name forward. I didn't enjoy doing call centre work from home but in general it's so much better. So now will be doing the last 2 weeks of my notice in an office with 12 folk in it, 1 of whom I have anything in common with. I'm not gonna lie I've fucked it  

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8 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said:

My work asked for volunteers to go back into the office and I have literally no idea why I put my name forward. I didn't enjoy doing call centre work from home but in general it's so much better. So now will be doing the last 2 weeks of my notice in an office with 12 folk in it, 1 of whom I have anything in common with. I'm not gonna lie I've fucked it  

Self-sabotage thread for this pish.

I'd be tempted to chuck myself down the stairs and take the broken ankle to avoid it.

There's actually a boy I know here who works in face-to-face English teaching who has genuinely just broken his foot. He's thrilled because his school is going back to in-class teaching next week and instead he gets to carry on working from home.

It's a strange thing. This lad is another good Hearts man (bizarrely there are quite a few of us in Kuala Lumpur), he's the same age as me, he's from not very far away from me, yet we had never met before we met here and have no friends in common. I think he's on a witness protection scheme and has a made up identity.

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Just now, JTS98 said:

It's been nearly four months since some buffoon asked me '"What's that you're having for lunch? What's in it?"

Little annoys me more in life than such questioning. It's my lunch. f**k off.

Woman microwaving "mugshot" - What's that you;ve got

Me - *Something that costs about £3 a serving and took 20 minutes to prepare before leaving on the stove*

Woman eating mugshot - Ewww fancy   

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2 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said:

Woman microwaving "mugshot" - What's that you;ve got

Me - *Something that costs about £3 a serving and took 20 minutes to prepare before leaving on the stove*

Woman eating mugshot - Ewww fancy   

I know.

Having cooked your own lunch seems to mark you out as some kind of eccentric who is fair game for inane questioning.

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I want to get back in to the office as soon as I can. I don't enjoy working from home at all. It might be different if I had a separate office room at home, but as it is I've got my old dining table in a corner of my bedroom, which was already crammed due to my 9 month old daughter's cot being in the room as well. The bedroom is just a disaster zone at the moment and I hate it. 

I also miss my cycle to work, that half an hour of exercise just cleared the head in the morning (and I know there is nothing stopping me getting out on the bike before I work, but my mornings are so disorganised at the moment as well). The flip side of this is that at present (there are a few folk back in my office) the shower facilities are not allowed to be used, there's no chance I'm going back to working in the office, and cycling in every morning, until the showers are back in use.

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