Effects of the Coronavirus on your job?
 

So how has the virus affected everyone else’s jobs?

I work in a cafe in Debenhams and we’re being closed over the weekend (I’m currently on a week off) and being moved onto the shop floor but the whole store is literally dead for the majority of the day.

I work in a supermarket distribution centre no chance of us closing :/
The working time directive for the drivers has just been relaxed so stock is able to get to stores. Not sure I agree with that myself as they do need their rest days. I hope it doesn't lead to more accidents on the roads :/

Hasn't had any affect yet but I worry how things are going to work out in the coming weeks. This weekend, we are looking at limiting the direct support we are giving people. God forbid if we get put on a total lockdown.

I work from home, but I have had to pick up some work from some admins who are self isolating, all admin work has been moved to remote only working now

After tomorrow morning, I have no job until this is all over

I'm really sorry Scarlet, will you get SSP?

Not sure yet, hopefully finding out tonight, company never bothered to inform anyone that we were closing for the foreseeable and posted it on social media on Tuesday.

my company is the only one left in our offices, the other 2 had their last days on tuesday.. theres talk of us working from home but tbh I think I would rather just go in, dont fancy sitting in my bedroom chatting to customers

I work in a school but I was off sick all week before the announcement about Friday anyway...

Wasn't effecting my job until today. Working from home now (voluntary decision from my boss) and I'm not even sure for how long yet. :shrug:

At the moment we are still functioning in the office....desk have been rearranged for social distancing and we are doing face time interviews. We have the option of working at home and are preparing to run skeleton staff but I would prefer to be in the office as long as its safe to be

No effect. Highly unlikely to change

my business is fine for the moment and "should" be ok, but things are so unpredictable I don't think anyone can be sure

I work in TV and pretty much all productions have shut down, so I've been laid off. Not sure how long it'll be, all I know is it'll be unpaid.

nothing yet but i can feel it gathering with every announcement. i am very worried about it for sure.

I can’t sit my exams to advance in my job. Will cost me a 10k salary jump that I would have got in September. Will have to wait a year longer

I have 2 cleaning jobs but this virus has made me realise who actually cares for me and my familys wellbeing

My wife is due to have a baby in 2 weeks so she is classed as vunerable

My University cleaning job have sent me home for as long as I need until baby is born and then I get paternity leave but have said I should isolate not even go to a shop and have no one visit

My school cleaning job have told us all that we are all in next week all teachers all support staff etc for those like 7 or 8 kids that may need to come in due to being children of keyworkers. Everyone has to go in like normal unless they have coronavirus or are vunerable themselves so I have been told under no circumstances can I isolate

So Im in limbo I am being told to isolate but then being told thats not an option.

I have said there is no point my wife having to go in isolation for weeks if i could give it to her anyway they dont seem to care

So once I have got a few finances sorted I know just who I will be telling to stick their job up their arse. Why they need absolutely every member of staff in for a possible 7 or 8 kids maximum is barmy!!

Do you still have to go in next week?

Jake the BBC doctor said today

make sure any new mum breast feeds and she was very firm in this

Oh and on top of that if the school ends up having noone coming in in the next few weeks we might be redeployed to other social sectors such as care homes, mowing roundabouts you name it, even teachers the same, why that is the case when we might not have training in those sectors I have no idea

But in the meeting I was in today they said there is talk schools could potentially be closed until september!

Why?

best protection for the baby, mum gives all the protection to viruses to the baby

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...n-women-deaths

Jake fgs say you have symptoms and self isolate until the baby is born

I thought about that but knowing the school I work for they will require some sort of proof before they pay me. We dont have any cases in our area so its less believable too

do some coughing on the phone. That may not be the corona but you still got to self isolate if you have a cough.

Jake, you don't need to provide any proof. You just need to call your work and say you have corona symptoms and are now self isolating ... this is not something to hmm and aww over.

Sack it then Im isolating. After 2 weeks its easter then I will take 2 weeks paternity. So thats 6 weeks off

Where I work, it was dead for the past week but today it was mad busy. I had to finish the bakery early and help out on the shop floor.

I'm really lucky that I work from home anyway, and my work offers 20 fully paid sick days a year before you go into statutory sick pay. I actually nearly resigned at the beginning of the year to look for a new job but really glad I didn't now.

My partner is a self employed barber though and was ill at the weekend so he's had to self-isolate with no pay so now everything relies on my income.

It's a behaviour school so there's only like 100 pupils, parents who are key workers have until noon tomorrow to get in touch. As far as I know none of "my" pupils' families are key workers, and I'm likely to still be off around then anyway...

We are transferring medical supplies and ppe gear to help with the pandemic so will be open as normal, it may reduce to skeleton staff at some point although in saying that staff are dwindling by the day due to isolation

I don't think we have any soldiers on here...but here is a soldiers perceptive on the change it will make to his job.


Had about 20 ***** message me asking if the country is going on lockdown, presumably because I’m a squaddie and they expect me to know something they don’t.

Let me make it clear; if they’re planning some kind of massive deployment of troops in the near future and they’re keeping it on the lowdown, the last **** they’re gonna tell is LCpl Ryan the ******** REMF from Leeds who’s on leave scratching his bollocks and eating crisps.

At the very most, some blokes might get called in to help deliver food to supermarkets and make sure old people in rural areas aren’t dying. MAYBE. But if you think theres gonna be blokes patrolling the streets in full CBRN rig, booting ***** in for being out past curfew, you’re absolutely ****ed in the head.

I'm not one to tempt fate like that my saying you are ill but if you are at risk of picking something up then don't go in, speak to your HR department.

At the moment, very little has changed but I'm unsure whether or not we'll close. We're a big shop but I don't think we sell many necessities so I'm hoping we close but I don't think we will as we've done better business these past few days then we have for years and the higher ups will likely want to keep us open.

My job is unaffected as it's a web-based company and I mostly work from home anyway so the way I work isn't even different. Most others are office-based usually and now WFH so it's all a bit new to them.

My wife's job is also secure in mental health; if anything they're very worried about under-staffing.

We have taken a financial hit as my wife's freelancing work is off the table for a while, as it's reliant on conferencing which obviously is not happening. It's a financial hit and not at the same time, which is an odd situation. Our finances are down a good chunk but it's income we've always considered "extra" and have spent on things like dinners out, family activities, event tickets, weekends away ... all things which we wouldn't be able to do now anyway. So we won't notice a day-to-day difference.

Lucky I have to much money so don't need to work

I am in the safety of my big house

So, I'll get this weeks wages next week, and lay off pay the week after, not sure about after that. Hopefully Boris announces something for workers today

Finally my school job has realised how silly it is for me to work when my wife is so close to giving birth. So as she is vunerable I have been given 12 weeks off! I will get that at my uni job too. I have to say when I was walking out of the school today it definitely felt like I wasnt ever going back. There was an odd atmosphere to it too, it was all still there was noone around and it felt really strange. I finally accepted things arent going to be the same for a long long time if ever again

Great news Jake

im just hoping for lots of repeats of bargain hunt and antiques roadshow/roadtrip

trigger my buyers at home pretending to be working

:fc: