The Pingdemic

[warksfarmer]

Got a friend who employs 60 people in a none farming business. He’s had so many off due to the app it’s ruining him slowly. However he’s discovered that its the employees themselves because apparently if you go onto the app to the symptom checker bit, if you tick the boxes then you effectively get yourself pinged even though all your doing is just seeing what the apps all about. So he’s had loads of screenshots from the staff showing that they need to isolate when in reality none of them do. They’ll maybe realise when the company folds and suddenly they have no income or job.

 

[HolzKopf]

Got a friend who employs 60 people in a none farming business. He’s had so many off due to the app it’s ruining him slowly. However he’s discovered that its the employees themselves because apparently if you go onto the app to the symptom checker bit, if you tick the boxes then you effectively get yourself pinged even though all your doing is just seeing what the apps all about. So he’s had loads of screenshots from the staff showing that they need to isolate when in reality none of them do. They’ll maybe realise when the company folds and suddenly they have no income or job.

There's an old adage, Change the people - or change the people. He needs to sort that business out. We employ just over a third of that number and tbh, there is not a lead-swinger among them....

HK

 

[warksfarmer]

There's an old adage, Change the people - or change the people. He needs to sort that business out. We employ just over a third of that number and tbh, there is not a lead-swinger among them....

HK

He can’t get staff as people don’t want to work now a days. It was bad enough before coronavirus but now it’s impossible as everybody has become accustomed to being paid to sit at home.

He’s in storage and distribution in a fairly big way and has had truck drivers wanting £30/hour. I think what he’ll do is let the truck side of things run itself into the ground which will loose 50 staff and then they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves. Thankfully the storage business is a separate company to the transport business.

 

[Barleymow]

I know of several cases of long covid amongst private sector workers - including those with very little employer support. One of them is still suffering the effects over a year after her infection, she's carried on working because SSP isn't enough to cover her mortgage (would have run out by now anyway) and put food on her table. As it is, she works, eats & sleeps - rarely doing anything else just to get by.

Bit like farmers at the moment