Well, the offices empty again. looks like at every opportunity now.
Meanwhile, fishermen. farmers, NHS staff, 24/7 caring staff, food factories making tinned beans & ready meals, local bakers making morning rolls and bread, garage mechanics repairing cars and doing MOTs, firemen, ambulance drivers, paper boys, printing presses, engineering workshops, foundries making castings et al. soldier on regardless and no special thanks.
Really, really, really getting fed up with these laptop home "workers" getting easy street again. Garden, Coffee, School Run, Tesco shopping in the afternoon.
Bankers, Council Clerks, DVLA, HMRC and probably Pub & Restaurant workers demanding more furlough.
Getting to be a joke now, really.
https://www.ft.com/content/5f1f3233-bf0 ... 0a957f57b7
Posted on 1st April, just.....................the joke is on the UK dedicated workforce, the real joke is on them.
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Mike4 wrote:Your link took me straight to paywallsRus.com
Fit are ye spikin aboot min. Yer na 'at glekit surely. Na' ye canna bae, nae even for a plumber. An a've mat a loat o' glekit plumbers in ma time.
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scotview wrote:Mike4 wrote:Your link took me straight to paywallsRus.com
Fit are ye spikin aboot min. Yer na 'at glekit surely. Na' ye canna bae, nae even for a plumber. An a've mat a loat o' glekit plumbers in ma time.
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scotview wrote:Well, the offices empty again. looks like at every opportunity now.
Meanwhile, fishermen. farmers, NHS staff, 24/7 caring staff, food factories making tinned beans & ready meals, local bakers making morning rolls and bread, garage mechanics repairing cars and doing MOTs, firemen, ambulance drivers, paper boys, printing presses, engineering workshops, foundries making castings et al. soldier on regardless and no special thanks.
Really, really, really getting fed up with these laptop home "workers" getting easy street again. Garden, Coffee, School Run, Tesco shopping in the afternoon.
Have you ever worked from home? I have and it's more convenient, sure, but it's also hard to switch off from it and sometimes I've done extra in my own time. If anything, I got more work done.
Your argument seems to be that because some people can't avoid a tedious commute, everyone should have to suffer it. Seems a bit silly and pointless to be honest.
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TUK020 wrote:scotview wrote:Mike4 wrote:Your link took me straight to paywallsRus.com
Fit are ye spikin aboot min. Yer na 'at glekit surely. Na' ye canna bae, nae even for a plumber. An a've mat a loat o' glekit plumbers in ma time.
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Need to get that keyboard fixed?
Must confess, on my first reading of it I'd become so absorbed in the Kelman style prose that I took "plumber" to be a new Scots pejorative that had been invented since I left
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MrFoolish wrote:Have you ever worked from home? I have and it's more convenient, sure, but it's also hard to switch off from it and sometimes I've done extra in my own time. If anything, I got more work done.
I did that for 8 years, going into the office 120 miles away in the Midlands, in the middle of the week for up to 3 days, staying locally or visiting clients even further north. I was doing 30,000 miles a year. The advantage was that home was nearer the airports, and I did a lot of overseas travel. Also nearer the Channel Ports, for going to exhibitions with mounds of brochures or visiting clients more easily reached that way.
When you have a boss in the USA, and clients in the far East, working from home can be a very extended day. It has been lunchtime before I had time to get dressed. On the other hand I have had a phone call at 8am and been in a taxi to Heathrow by 11am for a flight to Taiwan. Nowadays things would be simpler, as one can buy tickets online, but that was in the days of faxes and the early days of email. Telecom Gold and all that. Fortunately I had a good local travel agent.
Zoom, Teams and the like would have helped.
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TUK020 wrote:scotview wrote:Mike4 wrote:Your link took me straight to paywallsRus.com
Fit are ye spikin aboot min. Yer na 'at glekit surely. Na' ye canna bae, nae even for a plumber. An a've mat a loat o' glekit plumbers in ma time.
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Need to get that keyboard fixed?
Or turn the auto-correct off, lol!!
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