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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 23, 2020 21:03:33 GMT
My work isn't essential but Impossible to work from home... It’s Tough. But speak to your employer. The message is unambiguous STAY AT HOME. May save your, your family’s, or somebody else’s life. It was entirely ambiguous in terms of work. The tone was for once right but there is total confusion. Just seen 'experts' on the beeb and sky simply say "I don't know" when quizzed about the workers issue. |
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Mar 23, 2020 21:03:43 GMT
What does travel to and from essential work mean? Essential = key workers only? I've had a load of people asking the same question. For example, do we assume that bet365 is now closed? You can bet your bottom dollar them lot will still be open! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 21:04:00 GMT
It's a joke. My missus has got to go to work as a teacher tomorrow for 8 kids. He still wasn't forthright enough for my liking. He is seriously underestimating the dick headedness of the great British public. He has just given a load of dickheads the green light to go to their local parks again tomorrow, and guess what? That's exactly what the daft cunts will do. How can you ban social gatherings of more than 2 people yet stand and watch hundreds of people standing in each other's pockets outside Tesco's? He told us to use deliveries. Yeah, good one. I can't get one for more than three weeks! Like I said, it's a complete joke. My step daughters boyfriend is still going into work every day and he works for a small machining company. Why haven't all these non essential works been closed down? Where's the clarification on Supermarket restrictions, like you said, there will still be idiots fighting to get in them all over the country tomorrow. People have proved that they cannot be trusted to take "advice", we need a full no holds barred lockdown of the country with specific instructions on the essential parts of life you still need to carry out. Food shopping and pharmacy, that's it. Walk your dogs but do it locally and if you want to exercise do it at home. |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Mar 23, 2020 21:04:11 GMT
I’m in a real minority that thinks that Boris was pretty unequivocal in his address - he only needed to add one word - ‘stay at (fucking) home’! He's not been at all clear with this use of the word 'essential'. Have bricky's just been told not to turn up for work tomorrow or not? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 21:04:39 GMT
I’m in a real minority that thinks that Boris was pretty unequivocal in his address - he only needed to add one word - ‘stay at (fucking) home’! I agree but the key point of the address, the one that affects every single person watching, was left hanging to the point where very intelligent people on here (yours truly excluded) are left wondering if their jobs are deemed essential or not? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 21:04:47 GMT
I’m in a real minority that thinks that Boris was pretty unequivocal in his address - he only needed to add one word - ‘stay at (fucking) home’! He doesn't have the balls to close the places, and means of transport though. So he will just keep saying the same thing over and over.
Keep the places open, and people will keep going. He isn't very bright is he?
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Post by thebet365 on Mar 23, 2020 21:04:56 GMT
He'll let us know in a few days time when Dominic has thought about it. Surely most of them can just work from home? Don't most of them just sit at a computer and/or phone? Thanks to last years GDPR rules and data protection act they'll have a huge problem with staff being allowed to work with various data from their own homes. |
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Post by ParaPsych on Mar 23, 2020 21:05:15 GMT
Surely most of them can just work from home? Don't most of them just sit at a computer and/or phone? No they can't mate. Why? |
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Post by henry on Mar 23, 2020 21:05:24 GMT
So do we take it as if you can work from home - stay at home, if you can't work from home - go into work as normal ?
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Post by chigstoke on Mar 23, 2020 21:05:35 GMT
I’m in a real minority that thinks that Boris was pretty unequivocal in his address - he only needed to add one word - ‘stay at (fucking) home’! He's not been at all clear with this use of the word 'essential'. Have bricky's just been told not to turn up for work tomorrow or not? My dad just asked this. He works for Unitas, he wonders will any of the Unitas lot show up to work? |
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Post by Cast no shadow on Mar 23, 2020 21:06:16 GMT
I'm in tomorrow For my non essential work
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Post by Paul Spencer on Mar 23, 2020 21:06:30 GMT
Surely most of them can just work from home? Don't most of them just sit at a computer and/or phone? Thanks to last years GDPR rules and data protection act they'll have a huge problem with staff being allowed to work with various data from their own homes. Yep. |
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Post by smallthorner on Mar 23, 2020 21:06:41 GMT
I’m in a real minority that thinks that Boris was pretty unequivocal in his address - he only needed to add one word - ‘stay at (fucking) home’! No he wasn't. The work stuff is completely up in the air and companies will want their employees working. Especially small to medium sized manufacturing. Unless your boss tells you not to go in then it is an impossible situation. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 21:06:46 GMT
Ok in summary. After that broadcast - what is different now, to what it was two hours ago?
I will listen to it again, but it is a genuine question.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Mar 23, 2020 21:07:17 GMT
BBC saying Police will initially avoid enforcing the fines and will try to police by consent according to senior sources.
If that is true, tonight’s statement if effectively we’re shutting some more shops and not much else really. The commute statement really need clarifying as to whether it’s essential work (nurse, doctor etc) or not, thought the fact parks are staying open despite the show over the past few days and the public at large ignoring the past week would suggest it’s not limited to that.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Mar 23, 2020 21:08:03 GMT
So do we take it as if you can work from home - stay at home, if you can't work from home - go into work as normal ? It's just ridiculously vague (again). |
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Post by ParaPsych on Mar 23, 2020 21:08:34 GMT
Surely most of them can just work from home? Don't most of them just sit at a computer and/or phone? Thanks to last years GDPR rules and data protection act they'll have a huge problem with staff being allowed to work with various data from their own homes. I not sure that's true. We're all working from home and we have a specialist in GDPR and it's not been a problem. |
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Post by ParaPsych on Mar 23, 2020 21:08:51 GMT
Thanks to last years GDPR rules and data protection act they'll have a huge problem with staff being allowed to work with various data from their own homes. Yep. Nope. |
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Post by ColonelMustard on Mar 23, 2020 21:08:57 GMT
Utterly meaningless press conference.
Closed shops and libraries.
Dont hang out together, really this time I mean it.
Waffle waffle bollocks
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 23, 2020 21:09:00 GMT
Ok in summary. After that broadcast - what is different now, to what it was two hours ago? Millions more retail staff wont be going to work tomorrow. |
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Post by thebet365 on Mar 23, 2020 21:10:39 GMT
Ok in summary. After that broadcast - what is different now, to what it was two hours ago? Non essential retail shut down, no group gatherings above 2 unless you all live together, no getting spotted out the house twice in the same day by the same copper  |
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Post by ColonelMustard on Mar 23, 2020 21:10:53 GMT
Chairman of metropolitan police says johnson giving mixed messages and risking trust in police.
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Post by nutterpotter on Mar 23, 2020 21:12:19 GMT
Surely most of them can just work from home? Don't most of them just sit at a computer and/or phone? Thanks to last years GDPR rules and data protection act they'll have a huge problem with staff being allowed to work with various data from their own homes. That shouldn't be an issue. Loads of companies will have customer data that its employees will be working with from home. Company that I work for is the same. The only people who stay at the office are the IT guys responsible for keeping the whole infrastructure working. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 23, 2020 21:12:46 GMT
I can't access any data unless I'm logged on to the secure work vpn so I guess I'm covered. If I'm not, I break GDPR rules every weekend! |
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Post by PotteringThrough on Mar 23, 2020 21:13:07 GMT
The tube in London will still probably full at rush hour.
Correct decision, and not before time. Boris looks knackered. This is just the start - I think he'll have to go further.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 21:13:08 GMT
Ok in summary. After that broadcast - what is different now, to what it was two hours ago? Non essential retail shut down, no group gatherings above 2 unless you all live together, no getting spotted out the house twice in the same day by the same copper I know that the population numbers are falling, but come on. We could get spotted by a copper? |
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Post by thebet365 on Mar 23, 2020 21:13:16 GMT
Thanks to last years GDPR rules and data protection act they'll have a huge problem with staff being allowed to work with various data from their own homes. I not sure that's true. We're all working from home and we have a specialist in GDPR and it's not been a problem. I hope that's true because so far my boss has refused to let me work from home because of the data on my computer. (I work at an accountants doing payroll/Vat & financial accounts) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 21:13:33 GMT
Chairman of metropolitan police says johnson giving mixed messages and risking trust in police. Well forget the Met for a minute, just watching the BBC programme on our own local force will tell anyone they won't even have enough officers to Police the rough part of the Westlands. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Mar 23, 2020 21:14:29 GMT
I’m in a real minority that thinks that Boris was pretty unequivocal in his address - he only needed to add one word - ‘stay at (fucking) home’! I agree but the key point of the address, the one that affects every single person watching, was left hanging to the point where very intelligent people on here (yours truly excluded) are left wondering if their jobs are deemed essential or not? He didn’t say essential jobs though. He said travel where it’s only essential. Earning money to keep your family going is imo essential. |
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Post by ParaPsych on Mar 23, 2020 21:15:01 GMT
I can't access any data unless I'm logged on to the secure work vpn so I guess I'm covered. If I'm not, I break GDPR rules every weekend! Yep there are technologies and processes that easily allow for working from home and still being GDPR compliant. Many modern companies work from home as a matter of course already. Anyone saying otherwise probably doesn't really understand GDPR, which is entirely fair enough. |
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