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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jan 11, 2021 14:58:09 GMT
I work in a non-customer-facing role, where we work isn’t especially time sensitive. No way am I a key worker. And my partner works for a university, and deals with post-grad students. Again, how is that key? Crazy... [shakes head] I am absolutely a key worker. Yes, I could work flexible hours, and yes, it's all spreadsheets and stuff which does not really make any difference to Covid, but the company I work for supply important machinery to government, so I am deemed a key worker. At the very least I should be able to jump to the front of the bakery queue. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2021 15:10:33 GMT
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 11, 2021 15:21:19 GMT
I have a 3 year old and a 10 month old and if the nurseries shut and Mrs Fark is (in her own words) "made" to teach all day (she is a secondary school teacher) apparently I will "have to sort it out". Thus the first shot in the home schooling war has been taken. Am I'm a bloody important key worker! You do know the secondary schools are shut right? Sitting outside a locked school all day sobbing about your terrible life choices is not the same as teaching. |
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Post by Shenguin on Jan 11, 2021 16:01:40 GMT
Home schooling is the same as house training, right? I'm not sure we're going to manage that, and the kids are no better then me.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jan 11, 2021 16:14:47 GMT
I have a 3 year old and a 10 month old and if the nurseries shut and Mrs Fark is (in her own words) "made" to teach all day (she is a secondary school teacher) apparently I will "have to sort it out". Thus the first shot in the home schooling war has been taken. Am I'm a bloody important key worker! You do know the secondary schools are shut right? Sitting outside a locked school all day sobbing about your terrible life choices is not the same as teaching. The schools premises are shut to kids, the teachers are at home doing lessons online. PM finishes her maternity leave in a few weeks and it may be she teachers online all day and the nurseries are shut at this time also. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 11, 2021 16:41:12 GMT
Job Wankers.
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Post by amipal on Jan 11, 2021 16:59:05 GMT
Car still works. That’s a plus.
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 11, 2021 17:10:23 GMT
Prospective clients finding it difficult to secretly commission a wet job on Joe the Throat wearing a facemask whispering from across the road? You need to set up a dead letter box, not to be confused with drop dead Fred* Although this would be a great disguise after the flamethrower incident... |
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 11, 2021 18:48:41 GMT
During previous lockdowns Amazon drivers were putting stuff on the doorstep and ringing the bell. Now, with a more transmittable variant they're ringing the bell and handing it over. Fucking idiots. Are they on a bung from Boris to ramp up the infections?
*Sigh*
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 11, 2021 18:49:41 GMT
Yes I'm grateful for them etc etc and know they are under a great deal of stress to get deliveries done.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 11, 2021 18:53:56 GMT
I thought home schooling, which people are widely claiming to be doing, was when you formally remove your kids from school and take full responsibility for educating them. Does plonking them in front of Teams and occasionally checking that they are not starving meet the definition?
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 11, 2021 19:40:23 GMT
I thought home schooling, which people are widely claiming to be doing, was when you formally remove your kids from school and take full responsibility for educating them. Does plonking them in front of Teams and occasionally checking that they are not starving meet the definition? Show off! |
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 11, 2021 19:52:38 GMT
Fortnite is a suitable career path, right?
Two duos wins today for Tuffers the Youngest (primary school) and her class mate.
The "work" the school had set was done by 11am. The eldest (secondary school) was still working at 4.30pm! Ha, take that!
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Post by BigG74 on Jan 11, 2021 20:06:18 GMT
I have a 3 year old and a 10 month old and if the nurseries shut and Mrs Fark is (in her own words) "made" to teach all day (she is a secondary school teacher) apparently I will "have to sort it out". Thus the first shot in the home schooling war has been taken. Am I'm a bloody important key worker! Being forced to take care of your own children, the inhumanity. |
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Post by Melvazord on Jan 11, 2021 20:31:54 GMT
I work in a non-customer-facing role, where we work isn’t especially time sensitive. No way am I a key worker. And my partner works for a university, and deals with post-grad students. Again, how is that key? Crazy... [shakes head] ...but the company I work for supply important machinery to government, so I am deemed a key worker. Called it, Baby works in an arms factory building missiles to sell to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. What else could it be? The government doesn't give a fuck about building anything else. |
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Post by Shenguin on Jan 11, 2021 20:38:13 GMT
...but the company I work for supply important machinery to government, so I am deemed a key worker. Called it, Baby works in an arms factory building missiles to sell to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. What else could it be? The government doesn't give a fuck about building anything else. No, he works for a company that outsources the building of missiles to a child slave factory in East Asia* and then sells them to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. *My phone's autofill suggestion following "child slave factory in" was "China". I guess my phone should know, some of its components were built in factories in China using slave labour. |
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Post by amipal on Jan 11, 2021 20:51:26 GMT
Called it, Baby works in an arms factory building missiles to sell to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. What else could it be? The government doesn't give a fuck about building anything else. No, he works for a company that outsources the building of missiles to a child slave factory in East Asia* and then sells them to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. *My phone's autofill suggestion following "child slave factory in" was "China". I guess my phone should know, some of its components were built in factories in China using slave labour. Clearly a cry for help. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 11, 2021 21:18:52 GMT
No, he works for a company that outsources the building of missiles to a child slave factory in East Asia* and then sells them to Middle Eastern despots who use them to blow up starving Yemeni children. *My phone's autofill suggestion following "child slave factory in" was "China". I guess my phone should know, some of its components were built in factories in China using slave labour. Clearly a cry for help. Your face is clearly a cry for help.*
*Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Post by amipal on Jan 11, 2021 21:41:00 GMT
Your face is clearly a cry for help.*
*Sorry, couldn't resist.
You cut to the core of me, sir. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 11, 2021 21:51:52 GMT
Your face is clearly a cry for help.*
*Sorry, couldn't resist.
You cut to the core of me, sir. Is that a job offer? I'll make it quick and clean. |
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Post by amipal on Jan 11, 2021 22:13:03 GMT
You cut to the core of me, sir. Is that a job offer? I'll make it quick and clean. And onto blessed oblivion! |
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 11, 2021 22:59:31 GMT
This is amazing - it's just a fight scene, but it works on so many levels and this is a making of which shows some of what went into it... watch for the cyclists ... |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 11, 2021 23:01:42 GMT
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Post by tenthenemy on Jan 11, 2021 23:10:38 GMT
and the kids are no better then me. They'll be fine as long as you don't teach them spelling. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 11, 2021 23:17:23 GMT
Not having kids I can't join this conversation, I can't even think of a humorous aside about not having kids.
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