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Lord of the Llamas posted:The pubs here were all taking covid safe measures much more seriously than any coffee shop or restaurant I saw. Re-open the pubs!! I'd be happy with a restriction to 25-45yo with no children to minimise the risk. What about doggos? Is it fair to allow a dickhead human to go to the pub but not a certified good boy or girl?
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Lord of the Llamas posted:The pubs here were all taking covid safe measures much more seriously than any coffee shop or restaurant I saw. Re-open the pubs!! I'd be happy with a restriction to 25-45yo with no children to minimise the risk. Catte
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stev posted:What about doggos? Is it fair to allow a dickhead human to go to the pub but not a certified good boy or girl? Doggos that don't lick faces in public are allowed.
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crispix posted:Personally I preferred working longer hours for 4 days because when you factor in the time you lose in unpaid breaks and travel and having to stay a bit longer here and there to finish things up when working shorter shifts over 5 days you're home too late and too knackered to do anything worthwhile of an evening anyway 4x 12 hour days were fantastic, until I had kids and then i wouldn't get to see them at all for those 4 days. Also why would you keep working past your end time? I was like fred flintstone, as soon as that bird blasted air it was down tools and out the door
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kecske posted:, as soon as that bird blasted air it was down tools and out the door This sounds like some relationship advice from Nuts magazine
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namesake posted:There might be a very shaded reference on your work intranet if you have one, otherwise it's very difficult unless they're recognised by the workplace. Odds are if you're not aware of it after checking the intranet and any main noticeboards then it doesn't exist. I can't remember seeing anything like a poster, which I presume would be an obvious low-effort thing for a union rep to put up; a brief search of our Intranet didn't show anything either.
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crispix posted:https://twitter.com/annelongfield/status/1349062358312869890 That's not even half a carrot. A quarter, maybe?
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Can't remember which lockdown it was but the one that was scheduled to come into effect at 6pm on a Friday in Wales, we went to the pub just to see what happened. There were only a few people in there & you could tell everyone was doing the exact same thing as us, it was just older couples looking around and checking their watches. They just quietly asked everyone to leave at 6, no SWAT teams or anything, v disappointing. Of course, on the way home we passed another place that still had people jammed into every available space & was serving drinks after 6. This is a place that put up a "official self-isolation zone" sign before lockdown 1, was jam packed every night when the pubs opened up, and had the gall to put a "thank u NHS" mural up at the same time. Which they then painted over when they got temporarily ordered to close, and changed the sign to say "flu world order". Cunts. e: conversation moved on, replying to LotL
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Angrymog posted:That's not even half a carrot. A quarter, maybe? I honestly can't believe that any organization would actually do that. A quarter of an onion? It's a joke photo, surely. Kaal fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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kecske posted:4x 12 hour days were fantastic, until I had kids and then i wouldn't get to see them at all for those 4 days. Also why would you keep working past your end time? I was like fred flintstone, as soon as that bird blasted air it was down tools and out the door If there's one thing that getting a job in construction taught me its that some people really don't know what to do with their free time and as a result dont like having any
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Private Speech posted:IIRC that clause has to be voluntary, they can't make it a condition of employment. I work for one of the big food retailers on nights. This entire list is broken as standard. They claim the break regulation is 15 mins break for every 4 hours worked and it's an 8 hour rest period between shifts. Which they don't always meet either.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:If there's one thing that getting a job in construction taught me its that some people really don't know what to do with their free time and as a result dont like having any In two of my (male majority) workplaces, there were quite a bunch of chaps (mostly married) who would get in unnecessarily (so I'm not talking about people on shift or on call) at 730-8am and spend an hour or so having their breakfast, reading the paper, taking a long sit on 'the throne' and hanging around with cups of coffee in corridors and between desks going on about how worthy they were for getting in early, how woefully inadequate people getting at - gasp - 930am (despite said later getter-iners staying til 630pm or later), then they would be out the door on the dot of 4pm. I used to annoy them by saying the only reason they did that was so they could get out of the whole getting the kids up, breakfasted and to school situation.
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Kaal posted:I honestly can't believe that any organization would actually do that. A quarter of an onion? It's a joke photo, surely. I must admit I'm a bit suspicious that that photo is a stooge got up to discredit all the genuine photos showing woefully inadequate supplies. I really find it hard to believe that coin bags were used.
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kecske posted:4x 12 hour days were fantastic, until I had kids and then i wouldn't get to see them at all for those 4 days. Also why would you keep working past your end time? I was like fred flintstone, as soon as that bird blasted air it was down tools and out the door yeah you can't do that in every job
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:In two of my (male majority) workplaces, there were quite a bunch of chaps (mostly married) who would get in unnecessarily (so I'm not talking about people on shift or on call) at 730-8am and spend an hour or so having their breakfast, reading the paper, taking a long sit on 'the throne' and hanging around with cups of coffee in corridors and between desks going on about how worthy they were for getting in early, how woefully inadequate people getting at - gasp - 930am (despite said later getter-iners staying til 630pm or later), then they would be out the door on the dot of 4pm. Sounds familiar except at my work the folk who were in at 8am were the same ones in at half 6! Used to hate walking past their desks as i bolted out at 5pm!
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I used to try quite hard to encourage the newer members of my team to only do their salaried hours, since there's always more work to do if you stay at your desk. It's harder to know who needs that sort of encouragement when most people are working from home, though.
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being a nation of bootlickers is bad but at least there is this https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1350060245561864192?s=20
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Jose posted:being a nation of bootlickers is bad but at least there is this Is Poland the anti-vax capital of the world or something?
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kingturnip posted:I used to try quite hard to encourage the newer members of my team to only do their salaried hours, since there's always more work to do if you stay at your desk. Had a frank discussion in my end of year review about how I will never work more than my 37.5 hours per week lol. To clarify it was a genuine "frank discussion" not an argument, and I was safe enough to do this because my manager has gone big on work-life balance and personal choice, and personally makes a point of taking her holiday time. I worked too many insane weeks during my PhD (plus second job) to ever give a poo poo again. gently caress an overtime stev posted:Is Poland the anti-vax capital of the world or something? based on this poll that's France
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Full political maps of Europe always draw my eye to that weird little stub of Russia between Poland and Lithuania, completely cut off from the rest of the country and just quietly minding its own business, hoping nobody will notice whatever it might be up to...
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Payndz posted:Full political maps of Europe always draw my eye to that weird little stub of Russia between Poland and Lithuania, completely cut off from the rest of the country and just quietly minding its own business, hoping nobody will notice whatever it might be up to... Kaliningrad Oblast is best Oblast
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stev posted:Is Poland the anti-vax capital of the world or something? Apparently the government party is half-full of conspiracy theorists and their UKIP-equivalent is full-on crazies. Here's some more random figures I dug out (which would generally appear higher but the gist of it is the same): quote:The survey also showed that 82% of those backing Poland’s Left party and 65% backing the liberal Civic Platform support inoculations. Among those who support the governing PiS party, 56% share this view. Only 5% of those who support Poland’s far-right Confederation Liberty and Independence party, meanwhile, approve of coronavirus vaccinations. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:based on this poll that's France Based on everything I've heard from my (French) wife's family, friends, and customers (she works in seafood exports which is going very well after Brexit as you've all heard) this is absolutely true.
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Ah, but they're not anti-vax, they're just waiting to see if it's safe https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1350062132914753539 What the difference is when there's an ongoing pandemic of a virus that we know isn't safe, I'm not quite sure.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Based on everything I've heard from my (French) wife's family, friends, and customers (she works in seafood exports which is going very well after Brexit as you've all heard) this is absolutely true. Would they be more amenable to the vaccine if it was available as a suppository?
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Based on everything I've heard from my (French) wife's family, friends, and customers (she works in seafood exports which is going very well after Brexit as you've all heard) this is absolutely true. Yeah Ive talked to a lot of french people who are pretty antivax and not exactly frothing right wing maniacs - big cultural touchstone seems to have been a big panic about the Hep B vaccine causing MS in the late 90s that reached the point that the government had to stop mandatory vaccinations , a bit like our MMR causes Autism debacles but on a larger scale.
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And actually plausible (but disproved by multiple studies) because MS is at least an autoimmune condition so they were somewhere in the ballpark of reasonable concern.
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This is more than I was expecting tbh https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1350112967552098306?s=19
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Testing seems to be much easier as well. I was cycling through the greenwich navel college grounds today when I passed a testing site with about 30 free spaces, so just went in, got a test and a (negative) result texted to my phone half an hour later.
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Jose posted:This is more than I was expecting tbh Presumably most of the civil service is still around, so boring logistical work (that doesn't involve crossing borders) can still get done. That combined with most of our vaccine stock being manufactured in the UK and so less exposed to Brexit fuckery.
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Jose posted:being a nation of bootlickers is bad but at least there is this While this is good, I feel like a large part of the reason for this is that the Tories have hosed up so hard that a vaccination is literally the only hope for any real future. It's so bad that even anti-vaxxers, are like "I'll risk it, the alternative is horrifying". Anyway - lol: https://twitter.com/MorganPaulett/status/1349758119895818243 (To be clear this is not Morgan's bedroom).
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Anyone understand the ICO's data protection payment racket? I think we have to pay them as we do technically keep names, some qualifications of contractors and the occasional contact number on file as part of contract documentation we produce (which is shared with contractors and clients), and I guess that falls outside their broad list of exceptions (staff admin, accounts, own marketing and pr etc.) but I'm not sure if it counts as data or processing or whatever. We don't use any CCTV. It's only £40/£60 but I'm sick of these schemes banging on the door demanding cash for existing.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-negative-test-requirement-for-people-arriving-in-england-delayed-until-next-week-12187294 The whole concept of travel corridors was insane to begin with, especially given how relaxed the government was about the requirement to isolate. It effectively put a hard limit on how effective lockdown measures could be, as no matter what we did in the UK there's been an endless stream of potential carriers coming in and out of the country.
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Tarnop posted:Presumably most of the civil service is still around, so boring logistical work (that doesn't involve crossing borders) can still get done. That combined with most of our vaccine stock being manufactured in the UK and so less exposed to Brexit fuckery. well 
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kustomkarkommando posted:Yeah Ive talked to a lot of french people who are pretty antivax and not exactly frothing right wing maniacs - big cultural touchstone seems to have been a big panic about the Hep B vaccine causing MS in the late 90s that reached the point that the government had to stop mandatory vaccinations , a bit like our MMR causes Autism debacles but on a larger scale. One of the strange things about the anti-vaccine movement is that people in different countries have different reasons for opposing vaccination. It's autism in the UK, supposed mercury content in the US... Almost like there's an innate level of fear that need something to coalesce around.
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