Or you may be a small business who canât afford enterprise grade IT
Itâs a constitutional disaster decades in the making. I actually agree with devolution. I am a big believer in the EU article that power should be as local and accountable as possible.
The problem is that New Labour mistook their own failed initiative to create a regional assembly in the North East of England as evidence that the English did not want to be represented.
Now Butcher Boris has said that heâd informed all four nations of the new strategy, which canât be right, as the three that actually have spokespeople have spoken against his advice.
Yet Johnson claims to have gotten assent from England when there is literally no-one he could have got the yay from.
England should have gotten its own Parliament. The fact that it hasnât is not only a constitutional hole. It actually adversely affects the other nations in our union when weâve got a PM that weighs in with the top down UK bollocks.
You can argue what you fucking well like, but you know fuck all about my business and the way it operates, so best to shut the fuck up.
I donât know why youâre getting so agged about this. I asked a simple question.
What part of your office job mandates you to be physically present?
If you donât know the answer or donât want to reveal it, Iâd say thatâs a cue for you to shut the fuck up, not aggressively demand that others do the same.
As I said, one or all of the above. The rest of the office world is managing working from home.
Probably because at best your original post show a massive lack of empathy for what a small business owner like @Numptyboi is going through during this period. Then to say that the reason he has to go into office is down to shit corporate culture, poor planning etc is just crass
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I dealt with the post on its fundamental merits, which if thatâs not clear, was âgot to be there office workâ, a concept I simply donât understand in 2020.
There are reasons to be in an office. Plenty of them. If you have to be somewhere to allocate vital equipment, fair play, I donât need specifics, but something in that direction is a decent reason to be in the office.
I am coming from the position where my missus is in a risk group and her work kept her in the office, doing office work there when she can, and since has, done it all here.
I understand all too well the pressures small business owners are under. My firm has had to make difficult decisions, but we were locked down and doing office work at home a week before the government mandated it, the MD included.
Not sure if this has already been posted. Interesting view from an expertâŠ
If we follow Boris Johnsonâs advice, coronavirus will spread
So Matt Hancock was asked twice this morning whether folk have the legal right to refuse to return to work.
They do.
He dodged the question both times.
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If you can, join a union.
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I think if you are vulnerable or live with some one vunerable you can
Otherwise if you are fit and your employer has adapted the work place and you are unable to work from home - you would struggle
Fairly cut and dried to me. You do not have to work in an unsafe workplace. A workplace potentially infested with a deadly virus is not a safe workplace, and very few of our workplaces have been set up with 2m social distancing factored in.
The Health Secretary, if we was concerned about health, should have pointed people toward this legislation.
Itâs a good job the cunt didnât take the Hippocratic Oath. Heâs completely breaking the âfirst do no harmâ rule.
No, you preceded a question with a judgement in order to be deliberately inflammatory and embark on a wind up. Typical MO iirc. I shouldnât have responded but i did.
I have far more important things to crack on with than list exactly what i do that i canât do from home, in my not exclusively office based job and as the sole occupant of my eight person office for two days of the week, whilst servicing my contractual obligations on my âessential worksâ defined projects. However, suffice to say, even lower on my list of priorities is a need to seek your judgement, validation and sanctimony.
Yeah alright mate.
The basis of your argument is an inner understanding of thoughts I didnât even know I had.
Gotcha. You carry on with your âessential worksâ, whatever the fuck they are. Leave the psychology to the professionals.
Such lazy posting @pap
You should know by now that the Hovernment is an old boys school reunion.
Why on earth would you expect ANY of them to even begin to know about Legislation?
None of it applies to them after all.
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Ah. Now everything is clear.
The delays were in order for Borisâs mates to buy shares in/import stocks of Thermal Cameras.
What I read of it in the document was you will need to provide measures âsuch asâ those - not all companies must go out and buy a thermal camera
It depends on your workplace and how easy it is to adapt the space
On your point that the rest of the office world is managing to work from home. No, its not. I know of several small businesses where they just donât have that IT capability. No one had a disaster recovery plan for a pandemic. They had backup locations, with backup servers, in the event of a major fire, or even a terrorist attack, which I think is pretty impressive, but these did not envisage a total lockdown.
They can send and receive emails OK, but not access servers or design software systems remotely. Itâs taken for granted in medium and large businesses, but not those with 10 staff.
For now, the people are mostly at home, but the odd person or two has to go in once or twice a week.
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Which is precisely why I listed shit IT strategy was one of the potential reasons for people doing unnecessary work at an office.
What do you think happens when IT problems arise in the middle of the night or when offices are usually closed? A slumbering cohort of drones rolling into a physical office to be able to touch the computers there?
Presumably none of the small business owners you know have ever heard of VPN, which again, boils down to a shit IT strategy.
So furlough extended to October. No changes until July.
Then, employers will have to contribute something toward it. I suspect this announcement will create redundancies today.
How many 10 man business have the resources to have enterprise grade backup system - these businessâ operate hand to mouth. Do you have any concept of how much this stuff costs to run? We looked at a colo arrangement for our servers and ran a mile at the cost - and we are 100 strong
It is not shit strategy it is economic reality
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