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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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6 | 1.60% |
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80 | 21.33% |
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| I. Murray |
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| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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Lots of people being absolute shits at work today and wildly busy. Is now really the best time to get in the wrong side of pharmacy staff? Jesus Christ.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:if no-one's printing they can't gently caress the things up. Jaeluni Asjil posted:fortunately the Church in Wales & Church in England finally decided from today to cancel almost all services (except weddings and funerals and those have limitations). Jaeluni Asjil posted:Disappointing to see people in my local town facebook group unsarcastically praising Boris & co for 'looking after us, the little people' following whatever Sunnak said today. 
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Mar 17, 2020 20:49
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HopperUK posted:Lots of people being absolute shits at work today and wildly busy. Is now really the best time to get in the wrong side of pharmacy staff? Jesus Christ. How long is it until you are in charge of a gang of people from the pharmacy as a kind of Lord Humungous figure? Because then they will see, they will all see.
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Mar 17, 2020 20:49
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Guavanaut posted:
This has had the unfortunate effect of crippling a good chunk of the foodbank network. Hundreds of foodbanks work out of Church buildings, and they've effectively been evicted with zero notice. My mother volunteers at the local foodbank, and as of today they are effectively shut.
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Mar 17, 2020 20:54
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Guavanaut posted:
Limitations on people attending, not on the quantity!
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Mar 17, 2020 20:56
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Ikwaylx posted:I try and cope with my difficulties in life with humour but I think today was the first day I've truly felt anxious about what's going on out there. Pure fear. Everyone I talk to is just carrying on as normal, planning film nights and stag do weekends, and all I can think is just "why are you blind to what's going to happen over these next weeks?" I am incredibly worried about my dad who has a serious heart condition. He is at least isolating but you just never know. Tough times.
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Mar 17, 2020 20:56
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Soylent Yellow posted:This has had the unfortunate effect of crippling a good chunk of the foodbank network. Hundreds of foodbanks work out of Church buildings, and they've effectively been evicted with zero notice. My mother volunteers at the local foodbank, and as of today they are effectively shut. I didn't think of that. Our local foodbank is in one of the non-conformist churches.
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Mar 17, 2020 20:57
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Josef bugman posted:How long is it until you are in charge of a gang of people from the pharmacy as a kind of Lord Humungous figure? Because then they will see, they will all see. loving *soon* at this rate. Thanks for understanding me JB <3
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Mar 17, 2020 21:04
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WhatsApped my team that I'd been coughing in the morning and ended up not going to work even though it calmed down. Went home in time to see the company is finally directing us all to WFH. I only have tomorrow then I use up my annual leave where I was supposed to be going to Singapore. Pretty sure I'm fine now, which is good because it's going to be tough to be distant enough from dad.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:05
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Josef bugman posted:How long is it until you are in charge of a gang of people from the pharmacy as a kind of Lord Humungous figure? Because then they will see, they will all see. https://twitter.com/rapplesnake/status/1238085874212093952?s=19 This seems appropriate. (For you English, Dunnes means Dunnes Stores. It's a lower price M&S.)
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Mar 17, 2020 21:07
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:£94 is the weekly amount for statutory sick pay, which has just been amended to start from day 1 of reporting sick instead of by day 4. Has your friend possibly confused that for UBI? ah so rather than UBI they're continuing to not give a single gently caress about the unemployed, imagine my surprise
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Mar 17, 2020 21:13
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Julio Cruz posted:ah so rather than UBI they're continuing to not give a single gently caress about the unemployed, imagine my surprise I'm looking forward to being made to apply for all the jobs that don't loving exist.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:15
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Eararaldor posted:Can I ask what your school is using for Remote learning? (I’m assuming secondary?) We literally discovered Microsoft Teams last week and out upper management jumped on it. It then crashed on Monday from over use as organisations all over Europe started using it. I'm a Computing teacher so I use MS Teams with my yr10 + 12. There is no school-wide VLE/remote learning thing. We will be sending work home via email (first ones printed out and given out by hand too to ease them in to it) and they will do it in books or on paper or on their computer if they like/have one? MS Teams can be great. Downsides include it sometimes (even not when under massive stress like this week) likes to not sync work. If you've not got lots of experience with OneNote then putting together the class notebook in a rush is going to be a true pain. It's one of those things that benefits so much by having a coherent design followed. Otherwise you'll end up with a hodgepodge that won't work so well. Did you see the NEU letter? https://neu.org.uk/press-releases/coronavirus-school-closure-update be good if all of those teachers don't go in on Monday. Would surely force the matter with that number of people not going in.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:18
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Ikwaylx posted:I try and cope with my difficulties in life with humour but I think today was the first day I've truly felt anxious about what's going on out there. Pure fear. Everyone I talk to is just carrying on as normal, planning film nights and stag do weekends, and all I can think is just "why are you blind to what's going to happen over these next weeks?" I was assuming it was all the: "I never watch the news" people who were doing the panic buying when they suddenly realised that a crisis was on. There must be an additional group of people who really, really don't watch the news and are going to get a big surprise when they try to do their usual weekend shop.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:25
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HopperUK posted:Lots of people being absolute shits at work today and wildly busy. Is now really the best time to get in the wrong side of pharmacy staff? Jesus Christ. Have you got any thermometers in stock??
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Mar 17, 2020 21:25
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MS Teams threw a bit of a wibbly yesterday after a sudden influx of users.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:28
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My brother works at an outsourced NHS admin company. A colleague of his is off with flu symptoms. Today they were interviewing for a position and he’d applied for it. Some idiot manager sent him a text saying if he missed the interview, that’s it for his chance of promotion, so he came in. Brothers team mate has messed up lungs so he refused to do the interview. Boss told my brother to do it, he refused and basically said let’s see you make trouble for me here. He went back to his desk and emailed his bosses boss saying “here’s what we’re doing, here’s OUR OWN GUIDANCE, spot the difference”. Whole thing cancelled, but not before all twelve applicants sat in a room with the ill guy for forty minutes. Brilliant. Just realised that I might not be able to get locusts for my lizards, and I’ll have to feed them either my beetle grubs or my beautiful beautiful exotic woodlice. Truly the darkest timeline.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:33
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I'm working in Liverpool city centre today and the number of nobheads out celebrating st paddy's day despite, y'know, the global pandemic we're in the middle of, is astounding. Smdh
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Mar 17, 2020 21:39
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UnquietDream posted:Well the problems we'd run into and we have done it in a very limited way for a single person calling in via Skype but the scale with everyone attending is far more significant. So what we'd have problems with is right to work documents for the external examiner, integrity of the process (what happens if something goes wrong), what is the pathway for an allegation of unfair practice. Is this something your institution has done previously and has already procedures in place to deal with them? I'm the candidate so I wasn't really privy to any of these discussions, sorry
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Mar 17, 2020 21:39
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ThomasPaine posted:Dunno if this has been posted but lol That seems like completely gently caress all Not even enough for my city
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Mar 17, 2020 21:40
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Sanford posted:Just realised that I might not be able to get locusts for my lizards, and I’ll have to feed them either my beetle grubs or my beautiful beautiful exotic woodlice. Truly the darkest timeline.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:42
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Recommendation to avoid pubs has not gone down well.. 
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Mar 17, 2020 21:42
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Hahaha, they just cancelled the IR35 changes two weeks before they were due to implement them. After the vast majority of the damage has already been done, and most people have either accepted an inside arrangement or left the contact. Not that it really matters I guess, as most contractors are going to have their one week notice invoked soon. This loving government, jesus. E: Pushed them back to April 2021, with two weeks notice. So another joyous year of uncertainty and loving about. RockyB fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 17, 2020 |
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Mar 17, 2020 21:43
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Sanford posted:My brother works at an outsourced NHS admin company. A colleague of his is off with flu symptoms. Today they were interviewing for a position and he’d applied for it. Some idiot manager sent him a text saying if he missed the interview, that’s it for his chance of promotion, so he came in. Brothers team mate has messed up lungs so he refused to do the interview. Boss told my brother to do it, he refused and basically said let’s see you make trouble for me here. He went back to his desk and emailed his bosses boss saying “here’s what we’re doing, here’s OUR OWN GUIDANCE, spot the difference”. Whole thing cancelled, but not before all twelve applicants sat in a room with the ill guy for forty minutes. Brilliant. The final sentence of this swung my assumptions about you from standard office worker kind of guy to some sort of creature who lives in a murky cavern, surrounded by the wriggling monstrosities that you tend to.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:44
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I know it's incredibly first order thinking schadenfreude and insensitive to all the low-paid staff that will lose their jobs, but gently caress Tim Martin
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Mar 17, 2020 21:45
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Communist Thoughts posted:That seems like completely gently caress all It's completely gently caress all. Unsurprisingly. The churches closing food banks things also applies to our local winter night shelter scheme. Rough sleepers are really getting hosed over by this mess, even more than normal 
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Mar 17, 2020 21:45
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i was almost prepared for Heartbreaking: due to boris actually loving over pubs everywhere by just asking people not to go, but of course mister Wetherspoon's take is that herd immunity is a cracking idea
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Mar 17, 2020 21:46
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I work for Sainsbury’s. Today, internal comms said this:quote:This Thursday 19th March between 8 and 10am all our supermarkets will be open to elderly and vulnerable customers only to ensure we can support them to shop at a quieter time and when we have maximum availability for the day before a period of potential isolation. Please pass this on to whomever you feel would benefit. I don’t believe it’ll apply to Sainsbury’s Local stores, just supermarkets.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:00
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Communist Thoughts posted:That seems like completely gently caress all The part I was lolling about was '(Does make you wonder why we can't afford to house people in regular times).'
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Mar 17, 2020 22:02
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Mar 17, 2020 22:10
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I had an appointment within walking distance so I went. On the way there and back I was frankly slack-jawed in amazement at the amount of people just going about as if nothing is going on. I walked past a Wetherspoons and through the windows I could see that while I wouldn't say it was busy, it was far from deserted as it should have been. That pub is basically the gammon hive for the area, so maybe that explains that. There were also people in restaurants, and just hanging about in a group with their friends in the street. Suffice to say, the current government policy of "don't go to pubs, pretty please" isn't working.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:11
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Comrade Fakename posted:I had an appointment within walking distance so I went. On the way there and back I was frankly slack-jawed in amazement at the amount of people just going about as if nothing is going on. I walked past a Wetherspoons and through the windows I could see that while I wouldn't say it was busy, it was far from deserted as it should have been. That pub is basically the gammon hive for the area, so maybe that explains that. There were also people in restaurants, and just hanging about in a group with their friends in the street. most places in my town were reasonably quiet but the shopping areas did have a large amount of olds. they weren't doing necessary shopping but just wondering about like normal.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:15
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Wachter posted:I know it's incredibly first order thinking schadenfreude and insensitive to all the low-paid staff that will lose their jobs, but gently caress Tim Martin Just lol if you think he's gonna lose anything from this. Tim Martin will get a huge government bailout along with every other company that supported the tories. The people he employed are likely gonna get made unemployed and have to wait a minimum of 6 weeks before they can get a UC payment which will not even cover rent. Final crisis of capitalism time, lets go.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:16
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Loads of pubs near me have closed, though I did go pick up a burger (worrying about the whole thing means I wanted to have one last good meal/beer and doing that now) and there were still a fair few folk. I just hope we all come out okay.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:18
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We're doing our teaching via Zoom, & honestly it's working pretty well. Low turnout probably helps tho. Anyway here's some public information: the abstract of some study I just got sent, PM me if you want the source posted:HCoV-19 (SARS-2) has caused >88,000 reported illnesses with a current case-fatality ratio of ~2%. Here, Sanford posted:Our childminder has said if she’s forced to close, we still have to pay her 50%. Not sure about that one but equally still want to have a childminder when this is all done. e:  Yes, it is a pub
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Mar 17, 2020 22:24
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Josef bugman posted:We found that viable virus could be detected in aerosols up to 3 hours post aerosolization...Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days. This is to my knowledge pretty major news. Everything I'd heard prior indicated that while the virus could survive on hard surfaces for up to 72 hours and could be transmitted through droplets, it could not be aerosolized. This means that even with rigorous cleaning transmission on public transport and in offices, for instance, is probably way more of an issue than previously thought.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:39
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I work in a dispensary at a very busy surgery, and it is just chaos this week, even more so than the last couple of weeks. Plenty of people being absolute shits towards staff, bare minimum staff numbers due to self-isolation or being in a high-risk group and having to work elsewhere in the building. My manager has to do what she can from home, leaving myself and another colleague to run the day to day. My nerves are almost shot at this point from having to work 12 hour shifts of constant go and making sure we are keeping on top of the workload and not killing anyone with mistakes.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:41
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smiling giraffe posted:Have you got any thermometers in stock?? No we haven't. Unless people ask again, and then explain how important it is that they get one! If they do that, I have a magical stock I can access from OUT OF MY ACTUAL ARSE.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:47
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HopperUK posted:I have a magical stock I can access from OUT OF MY ACTUAL ARSE.
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While I applaud your dilligence you don't need to use multiple rectal thermometers at the same time, one is quite enough to gauge whether or not you have a fever. Or if the beans are cooked.
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