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All the contractors and those considered non essential at our place got sent home today for a minimum of 3 weeks...
Think I will be considered essential for another 2 weeks then I’ll be the same I guess....
Unless this shutdown gets canned, then so will I....
 
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How are you getting on with masks and other PPE Iain and Safrane?

Apparently we delivered 22 pallets of masks from our stores to the Army to distribute over the weekend.
 
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D Walker said:
All the contractors and those considered non essential at our place got sent home today for a minimum of 3 weeks...
Think I will be considered essential for another 2 weeks then I’ll be the same I guess....
Unless this shutdown gets canned, then so will I....
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We are down manned from 145ish to around 85 at the moment. We also have a shutdown planned in June, but like everything it is an unknown, just going by guidelines. I can see it being canned too. It will depend on other parties too, as it coincides with pipeline shutdown.
 
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I went to the chemist today to pick up my wife's prescription , loads of cars on the road, my neighbours car was on and off their drive at least twice that I noticed, she's had a cough the NHS can't fix for at least a year so I'm surprised they're going out , they were planning to attend an auction last week! until I suggested standing in a room with 100 people coughing might get you lynched in the current climate.

Picking my daughter up from uni last night a guy walked towards us coughing his guts up, the way people avoided him made me think of the waking dead though battering him with a shovel might be a bit extreme at this point.
 
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Been totally locked down for over a week and looking at another 5 if the science is going to get us out of the shít here in France.
 
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Oneball said:
How are you getting on with masks and other PPE Iain and Safrane?

Apparently we delivered 22 pallets of masks from our stores to the Army to distribute over the weekend.
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Hope they end up in a hospital near you soon. I had a few N 95 masks, only half a dozen to be exact, and some hospital grade hand gel, gave them to one daughter yesterday as she had none for work. She works front line NHS. The visitors have been stealing the hand gel from the wards. That is disgusting but equally disgusting is that the hospital do not have any replacements ?. My other daughter who also works NHS has been supplying her own hand gel for the past three weeks, also none left. Feel really proud those of you who have a big stock at home! Probably also got huge freezers full of food you don’t really need. They are both out collecting food and delivering essentials to those that can’t go out them selves, then off to work in the hospital. And it’s not just my kids that are doing this. Feel free to feel guilty!
 
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allandwf said:
We are down manned from 145ish to around 85 at the moment. We also have a shutdown planned in June, but like everything it is an unknown, just going by guidelines. I can see it being canned too. It will depend on other parties too, as it coincides with pipeline shutdown.
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Ah memories!!
 
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I work(ed) in the City on a internal Fit Out site, not the huge developments shown on the TV - those orange Hi-vis jackets are the Logistics Company NOT workers!. We are on the 18th floor, 1 tiny lift, no air conditioning or fresh air supply to the floor of 12000 sq feet. We are installing all new and regulations say we can’t even have the supply air on - so all 50 or so of us are breathing the same putrid air every day. No one gives a **** when I mention that to H&S but I need to wear my 5 point PPE!
We all need to travel on the tube or public transport - there is no parking available, I don’t own a push bike and 16 miles each way is probably a bit much for my untrained body straight away.
The government advice to construction workers is misleading “work from home if you can” I will put this wall up in the lounge then!
My company position

Work as usual

Then they sent a four page guideline I must comply with - like changing the access points - FFS there is ONE entrance controlled by Building Security.
It’s just utter bollox
 
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RSM Masser said:
I work(ed) in the City on a internal Fit Out site, not the huge developments shown on the TV - those orange Hi-vis jackets are the Logistics Company NOT workers!. We are on the 18th floor, 1 tiny lift, no air conditioning or fresh air supply to the floor of 12000 sq feet. We are installing all new and regulations say we can’t even have the supply air on - so all 50 or so of us are breathing the same putrid air every day. No one gives a **** when I mention that to H&S but I need to wear my 5 point PPE!
We all need to travel on the tube or public transport - there is no parking available, I don’t own a push bike and 16 miles each way is probably a bit much for my untrained body straight away.
The government advice to construction workers is misleading “work from home if you can” I will put this wall up in the lounge then!
My company position

Work as usual

Then they sent a four page guideline I must comply with - like changing the access points - FFS there is ONE entrance controlled by Building Security.
It’s just utter bollox
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Even if you aren’t a member send an email to your union. They’re going to put pressure on to stop this and the more ammo they have the better.

Yesterday’s definition of whether you should go to work was, I think, the first serious mistake they’ve made.
 
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The good news is that the new much-demanded extra lock-down is already working.

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Still faintly encouraging, with the UK deaths tracking a bit lower than Italy 14 days ago and a good slowing of the rate of growth of deaths. Bear in mind that this is NOT (as I jokingly suggested) a result of yesterday's new lock-down rules, as I would guess that deaths (easy to measure) lag 'new cases' (hard to measure) by something like 5-10 days.

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