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A guy lives opposite me works on the shop floor. He wasn’t furloughed as he’s one of our best operators but played holy hell to be furloughed and was granted his wish.
After 7 weeks in the house is tune is starting to change.
“Is it picking up?”
“Not really”
“Can see redundancies now”
“No shit”
“You’ll be alright they’ll look after you”
“Well I should hope so I am going to work every day”
Fully expecting pay cuts once the free money runs out but having worked and bit been furloughed I hope to be in a stronger position to argue against a pay cut for those of us that continues to work. Get rid of the dead wood instead. Selfish? Maybe but why should I lose thousands a pounds of year looking after my family to keep a few lazy bastards in a job and trust me we have more than a few in my office.
I’d get a nice lump if I was made redundant and any other time I might have taken the risk and took voluntary redundancy (not that that will be offered) and get out of a dying industry but it’s not the time to be looking for new work.
I was in a local printers the other day , they were operating at 80% of revenue with 30% staff. They had changed the type of work they were doing.
Their staff wont all be getting their positions back
Its seems to be the same story everywhere that is still working.
A good opportunity to lay off the lazy workers .
So why isn't our welfare system based on how much your previous job was paying or how much your outgoings are?
It's an about turn in how we view people at risk from redundancy and people don't seem to have noticed.
I'd be interested to know where the 2.5k figure comes from.
Outgoings higher? So it you were lucky enough to have the capital and credit rating to buy a house the government should pay for it for a few months. Most expenses are naturally reduced by the lockdown, arrange a mortgage hol, what happened to 'cutting your cloth accordingly' that used to be preached daily at benefit claimants and the lowest paid.
As for the C word, get a grip. It's the new Godwin's law.
I can answer the OP
Jersey has not had one death from Covid 19.
Not before or after our 7 week lockdown.
12 people died with Covid 19 which is not the same as from it.
They've guessed another 12 may have died with it from something else.
A lockdown when we dont have a problem is lunacy.
They have been clever and spent 14 million of taxpayers money buildng the equivalent per head of population with the UK a 40 thousand bed Nightingale hospital.
Oh and I played golf at lunchtime 9 holes. Lost 1 down.