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Started by Barrister, March 24, 2020, 04:57:44 PM

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How is your employment been affected by Covid-19

I'm "essential" - I still have to go to work
18 (22%)
I'm working remotely from home
49 (59.8%)
I've been laid off
9 (11%)
I wasn't employed to begin with
6 (7.3%)

Total Members Voted: 82

viper37

One week before liberation.  Well, partial liberation anyway :P

As long as I have to wear the stupid mask at work, I won't be free.  But I have survived, thanks to cheap chinese masks that probably don't do anything for those around me, but hey, I can breathe.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Josquius

Apparently vaccines have been open to me for a week or more already and I recieved no notification? :unsure:

Just hope I can get Pfizer and not the low quality made in England trash.
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Sheilbh

Quote from: mongers on May 21, 2021, 04:17:10 PM
Vaccination programme here still seems to be going at a fair pace, the centre I went to was doing well and plenty of people were turning up after work on a Friday.

Same is true of the family, I had my 2nd jab today, just got a text from my younger brother to say he also had his today and apparently my sister is booked for her 2nd jab tomorrow. We're each in a different covid age group from 50 to 60+   :bowler:

I think vaccine hesitancy in the UK has been firmly kicked into touch, other than the medically disadvantaged, I think the few 'holdouts' are probably ring-fenced within quite formidable social media bubbles.
Yeah - all my friends in their early thirties are getting appointments now.

I don't think vaccine hesitancy was ever a significant issue here - it still is in the US mind.
Let's bomb Russia!

Tamas

Yeah the wife is getting her jab next week as well. According to her GP's office nobody under 40 is getting AZ.

mongers

Quote from: Tyr on May 22, 2021, 04:50:51 AM
Apparently vaccines have been open to me for a week or more already and I recieved no notification? :unsure:

Just hope I can get Pfizer and not the low quality made in England trash.

:blink:

This maybe the most Tyr-like thing you've ever posted here?
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Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Tamas on May 22, 2021, 08:14:39 AM
Yeah the wife is getting her jab next week as well. According to her GP's office nobody under 40 is getting AZ.

Over here, it's nobody under 55, unless they volunteer for it.

garbon

Quote from: Tamas on May 22, 2021, 08:14:39 AM
Yeah the wife is getting her jab next week as well. According to her GP's office nobody under 40 is getting AZ.

Pretty much everyone I know this week under 40 has been getting Pfizer.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Tamas on May 22, 2021, 08:14:39 AM
Yeah the wife is getting her jab next week as well. According to her GP's office nobody under 40 is getting AZ.
Yeah everyone I know is getting Pfizer. The only people who got AZ were the people at risk because of pre-existing conditions/working in the NHS :lol:
Let's bomb Russia!

Jacob

Neither AZ nor Pfizer for me. I got Moderna a little while back.

Syt

Austrian restaurant and hotel owners are complaining that they find no personnel post-lockdown.

The owners were during lockdown compensated by the state, giving them 80% of last year's revenue. Additionally, many fired their staff (though the state created incentives for people to stay employed, with the state taking over a large part of the salary).

Now the owners demand that unemployment benefits need to be lowered so people apply to their jobs again.

Sympathy for their demands is ... limited.

(n.b. that Austria has among the lowest unemployment benefits in the EU, in % of last salary and that serving and hotel staff are among the worst paid in the country)
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Sheilbh

Booked a week to go and see family during my gap between jobs - first time I'll have seen them in person since before Christmas and the first time I'll have actually gone to stay with them/see them for more than a couple of hours in 18 months :mellow:

Also booked a little trip to somewhere sunny between jobs so I have a holiday outside of London/my flat :w00t:
Let's bomb Russia!

Admiral Yi

I got my post covid haircut!  :w00t:

There were some four pound bricks of knotted hair in the back.  Poor girl had to work over them for 20 minutes.  I tipped her 20 bucks.

Syt

Do you not wash or brush your hair? :unsure:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Admiral Yi


Valmy

It is a beautiful thing when men of our age bracket can even grow that much hair on our heads.
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