Corona Virus

[ajthefox]

Mixed messages again. Construction workers aren't key workers but they can't work from home.

[jammie82uk]

1 minute ago, ithuriel said:

What do you do if your company as told you to go to work?

Does your job fall under the key workers title? If not the business should be closing

[Carl the Llama]

I'll still be going in tomorrow but only to perform some key tasks like finding a home for all the food that's going to expire during the next 2 months.  After that it's all over until further notice.  Interesting times.

[jammie82uk]

Just now, ajthefox said:

Mixed messages again. Construction workers aren't key workers but they can't work from home.

Only key workers should be going work 

[VLC86]

6 minutes ago, jammie82uk said:

This is from the latest video released after his speech so unless your job falls under being a key worker you stay at home

Where is this mate?

[bovril]

Just now, Carl the Llama said:

I'll still be going in tomorrow but only to perform some key tasks like finding a home for all the food that's going to expire during the next 2 months.  After that it's all over until further notice.  Interesting times.

Thousands of potential homes for it surely. 

[ithuriel]

1 minute ago, jammie82uk said:

Does your job fall under the key workers title? If not the business should be closing

It is just an engineering firm and they are staying open it seems.

[PAULCFC]

From what Boris said i'm still in tommorow(factory worker)....then it seems it's down to each companys management.

[Carl the Llama]

Just now, bovril said:

Thousands of potential homes for it surely. 

Yep, going to look into sending it to a local medical practice, school or food bank, something like that.

[simFox]

1 minute ago, Wymsey said:

Is this real life?

No one, in their wildest imagination, would've predicted something like this would be happening..

Was clear as day to me. I got the wife stocked up last month, I find it odd anyone's surprised.

[FoxesDeb]

2 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

Mixed messages again. Construction workers aren't key workers but they can't work from home.

How is that a mixed message? 

[jammie82uk]

2 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

Where is this mate?

 

[BroughtonFox]

My company is still open tomorrow also, I work in a warehouse ffs, far from a key worker. I suppose they just don’t give a sh!t about staffs health!

[Heathrow fox]

57 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Equally would say there needs to be some control on how supermarkets are managed - something like postcode only, maximum capacities. Because tomorrow we will literally have hundreds in together walking around like zombies.

Death toll goes rapid the supermarkets will be quieten down.

[Pliskin]

It’s impossible for them to lockdown this country, as I mentioned earlier we simply do not have the resources to facilitate such a request. London perhaps, they have 32,000 cops, including detectives can can throw a uniform back on. Outside of London this lockdown will have little impact. 

[VLC86]

6 minutes ago, BroughtonFox said:

My company is still open tomorrow also, I work in a warehouse ffs, far from a key worker. I suppose they just don’t give a sh!t about staffs health!

Well you will get fined for leaving the house mate. You won’t be open, unless you are a food warehouse I guess.

[Heathrow fox]

40 minutes ago, String fellow said:

Will there be road blocks?  

Why would there be road blocks?

[String fellow]

How will folk be prevented from just jumping in the car and going for a drive? If there aren't enough police to man road blocks, doesn't that mean bringing in the army?

[ketteringscott]

17 minutes ago, jammie82uk said:

This is from the latest video released after his speech so unless your job falls under being a key worker you stay at home

Where is this video? I am far from a key worker but been told I have to work tomorrow

[worthosoriginals]

2 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

It’s impossible for them to lockdown this country, as I mentioned earlier we simply do not have the resources to facilitate such a request. London perhaps, they have 32,000 cops, including detectives can can throw a uniform back on. Outside of London this lockdown will have little impact. 

So let everybody freely roam about then? 

[ajthefox]

13 minutes ago, jammie82uk said:

Only key workers should be going work 

 

10 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

How is that a mixed message? 

 

"travelling to and from work, but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home."

 

The above is from a transcript of the speech that was given this evening. This is different to the video, which suggests only key workers can go to work. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/23/boris-johnson-announces-uk-lockdown-speech-full/)

 

There's no steer on the construction industry and several other industries which rely on people being away from home to work.

 

I'm an Architect so I'm working from home currently, but my job depends on a building half way through construction currently and there are a massive amount of people who are similarly reliant on building sites remaining open. It's only a matter of time really until they all are forced to shut but the guidance here isn't clear. The fact we're even having this conversation is proof of that.

[ScouseFox]

i’ve moved back to my mums house as there’s more room to work from home there. i only brought to pairs of boxies as i only planned on coming for the weekend last week. tough times ahead. 

[jammie82uk]

1 minute ago, ketteringscott said:

Where is this video? I am far from a key worker but been told I have to work tomorrow

I have posted it further up the page

[Izzy]

3 minutes ago, String fellow said:

How will folk be prevented from just jumping in the car and going for a drive? If there aren't enough police to man road blocks, doesn't that mean bringing in the army?

I guess they won't.

 

If anyone is stopped and asked they'll just say they're on their way to buy food/essentials I'd imagine.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Will there be post?

Yes, we're key workers.

 

However, since Royal Mail have done nothing to provide masks, gloves, sanitizer, not introduced ways to work at safe distance from each other and until today we've been working two to a van, the Union want us not to work until that changes.

 

I've heard this evening we'll be working one to a van from tomorrow and introducing a two metre distancing rule but no idea how that will work because the sorting boards are basically back to back with little room to move between. Fortunately, I work in the only small office in Leicester that's not been moved into the big Meridian centre, where there must be over 400 workers.

 

I volunteered to work my day off tomorrow, cos we've got so many off... starting to seem like a bad decision.