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julesjones) wrote2020-03-21 03:17 pm
julesjones) wrote2020-03-21 03:17 pm
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Still here, when outside working hours
So I'm one of the key workers. (No, not NHS, and god help those people.) My job is one that can't be done from home. That means I'm definitely not going to be suddenly out of a job, but I'm also not going to be suddenly out of reasons to leave the house other than to collect food and meds. I am not sorry that my bus route has been shedding passengers at a rapid rate of knots over the last week. For now I will have a semi-normal bus timetable, because on my route they've basically shifted to what would be the normal summer timetable anyway. It should be enough to allow the remaining passengers to spread out at both the stops and on board the bus.
Over the last ten days $EMPLOYER has shifted from "actually using the generous sick leave we advertise as part of the compensation package is a disciplinary offence" through various stages to "please god work from home if you can, or just go home anyway if you're required to self-isolate because you were exposed or in a vulnerable group". I think they may be taking the "highly contagious and a mortality rate an order of magnitude greater than flu" a bit more seriously now than they did two weeks ago. There's trying to wriggle out of paying redundancy when cutting your workforce, and then there's having your workforce cut for you. With a scythe.
Over the last ten days $EMPLOYER has shifted from "actually using the generous sick leave we advertise as part of the compensation package is a disciplinary offence" through various stages to "please god work from home if you can, or just go home anyway if you're required to self-isolate because you were exposed or in a vulnerable group". I think they may be taking the "highly contagious and a mortality rate an order of magnitude greater than flu" a bit more seriously now than they did two weeks ago. There's trying to wriggle out of paying redundancy when cutting your workforce, and then there's having your workforce cut for you. With a scythe.