Slow news day? The real deal? End of the world? 
 

They’re saying it probably came from an animal, has Somebody been shagging monkeys again? 

2 hours ago, only1swanny said:

I mean generally, I know I have had the virus, I've since spoken to 2 GP's who agreed that my symptoms were that..

What's puzzling (and the reason I'm keen) is that whilst Mrs Swanny was in hospital, she contracted a "mystery illness" which caused a cough and then led to an over saturation of white blood cells and pnumonia, alongside a partially collapsed lung.. She spent weeks on oxegen before being sent home without a diagnosis. With hindsight, sounds very similar to covid-19 and if it was that.. it would explain a lot. 

When did all that start, wasn't it before we officially had it?

 

34 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Centrica cutting 5k jobs predominantly UK. 
 

half management half below that. 
 

tick tock! 

I wonder how many will move to the competition that are driving some of their issues.

Seems the coronavirus has brought about some potential efficiencies in its administrative function; I can see this being replicated all over in time.

Lots and lots of jobs being lost this week.

not unexpected, hopefully just a changing of the guard in a few industries and it can right itself without too much heartache

Now companies have realised working at home is possible

How long before offices are shut and jobs sent to india?

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Lots and lots of jobs being lost this week.

not unexpected, hopefully just a changing of the guard in a few industries and it can right itself without too much heartache

Probably related to the cut off date for the furlough scheme which was yesterday 

3 minutes ago, Casino said:

Now companies have realised working at home is possible

How long before offices are shut and jobs sent to india?

Interesting that 

there’s a slot talking about this later on bbc 

Just now, radcliffewhite1 said:

Interesting that 

there’s a slot talking about this later on bbc 

Been happening for more than 10 years In financial services 

my mate owns an accountancy practice and most of his accountants are based in Mauritius have been for years. Cost of the Qualified accountant there 18k pa

1 minute ago, Casino said:

Now companies have realised working at home is possible

How long before offices are shut and jobs sent to india?

Surely the Indian option was more viable when offices were the norm. Who hasn't had a call from someone who you couldn't understand.

Can definitely see more home working, that may allow companies to save money, without as much need to export jobs.

A customer of mine works for a brewery, and he's been told by a very senior person, that working from home has been very revealing and it may be looked at for the future.

9 minutes ago, Casino said:

Now companies have realised working at home is possible

How long before offices are shut and jobs sent to india?

Slave labour?  😉

6 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

I could easily work from home the majority of the time, i would only need to be in work when physical exams are on and for taking reciept of exam scripts. Otherwise everything else is on systems and its all administration and processing.

Will be asking about it when we are fully return, if would save me clogging up the roads for 2 hours a day and i would be contributing to a cleaner environment, i may become a snowflake yet ❄️

How complex is the exam script for making sure all the burgers have a bit of gherkin anyway?

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

How complex is the exam script for making sure all the burgers have a bit of gherkin anyway?

Having taken a couple of McExams (albeit 20 years ago) most of the questions are multiple choice. There were some maths questions and an essay to write though

Right this 2 metre rule is based on scientific advice. 
 

At some point it will be reduced can we please note that when it happens it is not Govt backing down it is just that we are in a different phase. 

What I’m finding interesting in this whole we should have shout down earlier is that all our offices globally locked down 10 days before the country - Google and Universal opposite two weeks before. 
 

So, if nasty capitalist, corporate businesses could see this, why couldn’t our government? 

59 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I wonder how many will move to the competition that are driving some of their issues.

Seems the coronavirus has brought about some potential efficiencies in its administrative function; I can see this being replicated all over in time.

Automation, outsourcing and process efficiencies brings disintermediation but for the most part this will lead to reintermediation elsewhere

That will be longer term of course

Tech jobs are up again this week 

Since jan London had more invested in tech than Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and Tel Aviv added together.

Manc, Leeds, Bristol all still v busy hubs too

FinTech ongoing boom and EdTech investment was up 91% since covid

Sounds glib but lots of jobs are there if you have a desired skill set 

2 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

What I’m finding interesting in this whole we should have shout down earlier is that all our offices globally locked down 10 days before the country - Google and Universal opposite two weeks before. 
 

So, if nasty capitalist, corporate businesses could see this, why couldn’t our government? 

Because they listened to the scientists

Who? The government or us?

Just now, Not in Crawley said:

Who? The government or us?

Like shagger Ferguson

10 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

I think it was more to do with the Easter holidays, the govt' wanted to close schools and colleges as near to the Easter holidays as possible, as to lessen the impact on education.

Being Hypothetical is a great thing, unfortunately i bet they wish they had shut down 2 weeks earlier.

So they thought it would be over in a couple of days?

Otherwise, why worry over a week 

If their plan was to reduce the impact on education, i think we can agree they royally fcuked up

 

In the desert, they gave a days notice schools were shutting, brought easter holidays forward 2 weeks

Schools still not opening til september, fwiw

But everything else is back to normal

Edited June 11, 20206 yr by Casino

22 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Easy to say, all hypothetical now. Would it have made any difference, we will never know. 

Personally i think it would have.

Kids were dropping out left right and centre the week before they closed..

Seems 33% of people testing positive are refusing to provide contact details for Track and Trace. 
 

I would be happy to introduce a charge for testing that is waived if you agree to Track and Trace AND provide accurate data. 

Edited June 11, 20206 yr by Ani

I would be happy to shoot the fuckers that dont suuply details

Proper lefty, i am

 

And tbh, folk have absolutely nothing to lose giving the info

Do they honestly think its going to get used in any meaningful way

Its like fcuking graham collecting coach regs

The modelling saying it would have done and we’d have a clearer path out if this now. 
 

It takes a lot for corporate businesses to shut down offices, to do so before they are told to by the government even more so. 
 

So, on the face of it we have employers caring more snout the safety of their staff above the needs of business before the government. It’s not a good look whichever way you look at it, and people wonder why people have more faith in business than the government.

I mean, our offices over the world had the day off on Friday in respect of the protests, and for the leadership team to question our already pretty progressive ways of working. Again, seems where large corporates lead, the government are slow to follow. 
 

Im not defending everything - lords knows if I don’t bank I’m out, and fingers crossed I still have a job after this all, but it’s interesting to see how far behind actual leadership our current government has been in tackling the larger issues.

Sure I seen 30k have been told to isolate through t&t

56 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

What I’m finding interesting in this whole we should have shout down earlier is that all our offices globally locked down 10 days before the country - Google and Universal opposite two weeks before. 
 

So, if nasty capitalist, corporate businesses could see this, why couldn’t our government? 

Difference between a global call and a national one and different for highly IT businesses than a call that covers manufacturing businesses and others that it means closing down a business rather than closing an office. 
The pace this moved was scarey, have said the week before sat in pub not understanding the fuss.7 days down the line totally different. 
I am sure now people will say lock down should have been sooner and probably more extreme. Not sure all those people thought that at the time.