Members SuperBacon Posted March 13, 2020 Members Posted March 13, 2020 7 minutes ago, Loki said: Just got back from a shop. Waitrose have plenty of bog roll, but are alarmingly completely out of wholemeal spelt pasta. For fuck sake. What did the police say? Quote
Keith Houchen Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 8 minutes ago, Loki said: Just got back from a shop. Waitrose have plenty of bog roll, but are alarmingly completely out of wholemeal spelt pasta. On 3/8/2020 at 4:05 PM, Keith Houchen said: Just when I thought not calling this the Coronavirus thread was as middle class this could get. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 8 minutes ago, Loki said: Waitrose Well I for one am shocked Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 Lidl better have some kimchi mayo left or I'll be livid. Quote
MPDTT Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 Mandatory home working kicked in for my employer today & offices shut. How's everyone else fairing? Quote
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 Getting through Mick Foley's books during this convid crisis. Quote
Paid Members ElCece Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 Work in Healthcare so I'm still going into work and I have to travel between sites as well and it is very noticeable the reduction in people out and about. Quote
Retro Red Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 I'm our department's Business Continuity co-ordinator (in addition to the day job) so I've been in charge with drafting up contingency plans over the last fortnight. Today my department head has put me forward as our dept's commander on the company-wide incident team which means I'm now responsible for all comms and implementation of contingencies for 150 people. In addition to the day job. I expect the next couple of months to very much suck, I already work 50+ hour weeks as it is so this will probably push me up to 60+. On the plus side, overtime at time and a half does wonder for the savings (even though it looks like our vacation planned for the start of June is in jeopardy), and it'll be great on my CV for future development. If I survive. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 13, 2020 Members Posted March 13, 2020 19 minutes ago, MPDTT said: Mandatory home working kicked in for my employer today & offices shut. How's everyone else fairing? Just had a couscous sandwich so not great tbh Quote
SaitoRyo Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 I live in a small village in the Czech Republic and work remotely. Business as usual for me at the moment, although a planned trip to the UK in a few weeks is obviously not happening anymore. State of Emergency here with no travel in or out of the country for at least thirty days. I went to the nearest Lidl yesterday and everything was normal. Seemed a little busier than normal but the shelves were full and nobody sparked anyone else out over toilet roll. Quote
Paid Members DCW Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 Decided I'm not going to go anywhere this weekend and will make use of the PS4 that I use for netflix by getting a game, which I assume you can buy via download these days. Would quite like a football game to make up for lack of real matches this weekend. Any recs for current Fifa vs Pro Evo? I used to be a strictly Pro Evo man but the last one I played was the Euro 2016 one and I found it shite. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 If you get FIFA then you can play the Volta mode, which is loads of fun. 3, 4 and 5 a side matches on various different courts around the world. Quote
wordsfromlee Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 I'm so glad I went to Lidl the other week and stocked up on garden lights, off brand crocs, 6-way plug adapters and bench saws before the panic buying really kicked off. Quote
Paid Members ElCece Posted March 13, 2020 Paid Members Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Bicurious Dad said: I'm our department's Business Continuity co-ordinator (in addition to the day job) so I've been in charge with drafting up contingency plans over the last fortnight. Today my department head has put me forward as our dept's commander on the company-wide incident team which means I'm now responsible for all comms and implementation of contingencies for 150 people. In addition to the day job. I expect the next couple of months to very much suck, I already work 50+ hour weeks as it is so this will probably push me up to 60+. On the plus side, overtime at time and a half does wonder for the savings (even though it looks like our vacation planned for the start of June is in jeopardy), and it'll be great on my CV for future development. If I survive. I sit on the Buisness Contigency team within my work. You obviously have way more responsibility than I do but I have been given areas to lead on. One of my recommendations was to secure hot spot assets for a 3rd of the team for a reason I won't bore you with. My usually(rightfully) stringent boss 20 minutes after my recommendation signed it off for everyone to be sure. £29k just like that without a 2nd thought. That might not seem like a lot but it is the NHS. Really highlighted to me just how seriously this is being viewed. Edited March 13, 2020 by ElCece Quote
Retro Red Posted March 13, 2020 Posted March 13, 2020 We're an essential service but pale in comparison to the NHS - my department is non-essential in times like this but highly reputational so a lot of the issues will be complaint drive around timescales. I'd like to say our customer base will be understanding if service levels dip while the business supports core functions but sadly I almost guarantee that won't be the case. Quote
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