Coronavirus

I've just had a text from someone at my wedding on Saturday to say they're positive. Great.

Was COVID on the gift list?

Spreading Day

I'm frankly amazed I havent even caught it yet considering I've had to work in the office even since the first lockdown. The office itself isn't great at ventilation and the people are quite..laissez-faire about following the safety protocols I.e. not using the hand sanitiser laid out at the office door, not following the one way system laid out along the office floor etc. Seems to be a nasty bug doing rounds around my family lately, mum, dad, brothers sisters, niece and nephew all knocked out by a bug that gives them all the symptoms but they've tested negative for covid. It will give me some comfort if I get something similar but as is the case with covid, its something I'd rather avoid experiencing.

Had a friend who caught covid last year and to this day she still can't taste anything. Anecdotal evidence I know, but it's why I wanna smack these idiots who are like "I'm gonna survive if I get covid so it's no big deal". Yeh you might live, but what's the rest of your life gonna be like if you can't taste anymore or your stamina is worn down?

I can’t be bothered to check whether I’ve said it before or not but we’ve got a couple of team members in their 20s who are still on reduced hours because they’ve got long covid. Fit outdoorsy ones too.

Work really want to get back to international travel but all sorts of different management politics getting involved. Some say sure go everywhere and making it clear you should, others no don't leave the country, then a different group say yes but not other company sites. All sorts of pissing about and then their is the personal feelings of what and where is ok.

Oh and local H&S have degreed we will have local site restrictions till March 2022, working from home, social distancing, masks when on site etc. If this confusing mess is the future then fuck knows what will happen.

Snort some ivermectin, that's all the rage now.

Just found out a colleague is off with covid. Not bad bad, but bad enough to be bed ridden. Poor woman, double jabbed and had proper bad covid in November.

I was looking at flights abroad, not so confident to do so now.

Mine want similar soon, the higher ups miss their overseas trips too much.

Virtually no one wants to be in the office apart from 4 of the 6 people that decide it for the thousands of employees. Their main reasons are hearing gossip, having a drive to and from work to switch off and going for a coffee. None of it is actual work and everyone has delivered for the last two years so why not go with what’s working.

One tried to blame something on working from home recently when it was actually because the senior people didn’t understand an email, which I pointed out to them.

Why would people want to chose to lose the flexibility? If you want to go in then go in, if the rest are delivering then who cares. Anyone with kids or any other non work commitments should want the choice at least.

My wife's work is now saying that everyone must come in 50% of the time which is entirely unnecessary and in my mind reckless considering it was their HR cock up that means we are still waiting on our second jab and still have another youngling who doesn't qualify for it yet. Had to go in yesterday, fuck can't believe we all got up and did that everyday. What a waste of life.
We have been lucky though, I wfh anyway and can probably count the times the missus has had to go in the past two years on two hands.
Plus we managed to move the kids permanently to online school so that has been something we don't have to worry about, definitely grown used to having everybody at home, even if we are all busy it just shows you how meaningless much of everything else is.

It was covered on the first page of the thread but we are in Spain(not British) and have private insurance and in Spain private insurance have washed their hands of the whole ordeal so you have to temporarily register for the public system to get on the jab list. Something HR said they would do for all employees and family members.
So we just been waiting and waiting until finally asked and they said you should of got called in back in May. Ended up checking at the local clinic and they gave them wrong phone numbers and address for us, so it was their cock up in my estimation.

So who's getting a third jab then?

My Dad’s (90) had his last week and I will when the time comes. I checked the website and there needs to be minimum 6 months after second jab, which would make it early December unless they change it all again. 

I had the flu jab earlier this week, just walked into local Pharmacy and answered 40 questions that I wasn’t allergic to eggs nor had a fever etc.

All free as I’m over 50. No reaction to it either, unlike the first AstraZ jab that laid me out for a day or two. 

Soon as I'm eligible here.