My work have gone for a 30% cut across the board, with the sole driver being to keep our doors open for as long as possible. Work on the sites we still have open has nearly finished (so therefore invoicing will too) but our pipeline and won jobs is the best it’s ever been and we’re all working flat out in the preconstruction/design phases.
Money-wise for me, it’s pretty much evened out against the reduction in nursery outgoings and I got a usefully timed 12% payrise last month, but it’s still not great.
One guy I work with is midway through a mortgage application for a new build that he’s placed a deposit on, so it could be a big issue. We’ve let go of one guy who wasn’t really working out anyway and furloughed another who’s role can’t really work at the moment.
Foz wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:49 pm
Force Majeur and pull the plug on any property purchase would be my advice. And I was on the other end of it!
A Force Majeure clause is not generally included in property sale and purchase contracts; it’s not something which otherwise exists as an overriding rule. That’s England and Wales but I suspect Scotland is the same.
If you’re in a contract, chances are COVID19 will not invalidate it.
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Scotland's CMO has to go doesn't she? What an entitled bitch she is, preaching about what's important whilst flagrantly breaching the rules on 2 separate weekends.
Foz wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:49 pm
Force Majeur and pull the plug on any property purchase would be my advice. And I was on the other end of it!
A Force Majeure Claude is not generally included in property sale and purchase contracts; it’s not something which otherwise exists as an overriding rule. That’s England and Wales but I suspect Scotland is the same.
If you’re in a contract, chances are COVID19 will not invalidate it.
I believe I said all property transactions would be fucked a few pages ago. Fire sales tho you will have a killing there.
Whilst people are debating whether footballers, millionaires etc should take pay cuts to support either the NHS or their less well paid associated staff, the fucking queen has the temerity to turn up on the fucking telly, billing her 10 minutes work as some great honour for all us minions, and tell us all to be good boys and girls.
Where's your contribution, you fucking leach? Sitting in one of your various fucking palaces, originally paid for by the rape and pillage of half the world, and maintained and staffed by a taxation millstone on the same pot of money that didn't have enough to buy a properly funded health service, you should hang your fucking head in shame.
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough"
She’s so predictable that I don’t really pay much attention to her speeches but I find it staggering how much the news go on about it. The past 3 days I’ll I’ve heard and read has been about id the queen making a speech. Roll on to this evening and it’s just Liz as usual pointing out the bleeding obvious, then the typical references going back to the war.
It’s a good thing she said we’ll defeat it though, it’s a crumb of comfort because I thought it was the end for humans as a species.
Also now we will have 24 hours of every cunt in journalism analysing it.
So would you and Neil prefer she said nothing at all? I think Neil’s point at least is that perhaps she should give up some of her money in order to help people who need it, and there may be some truth in that (although it’s very easy to point that particular finger IMHO) but in terms of coming on the telly, what the hell do you expect her to say? We’re all fucked?
Eh, I don’t mind, to me she’s just an increasingly irrelevant background noise but there’s plenty of people who find genuine comfort in having a stranger tell them they’ll pull through and there will be better times so good on her for giving them hope.
Mito Man wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:52 pm
Eh, I don’t mind, to me she’s just an increasingly irrelevant background noise but there’s plenty of people who find genuine comfort in having a stranger tell them they’ll pull through and there will be better times so good on her for giving them hope.
What would you know? Have you ever stood on your own two feet?
As for Neil, his life is about to implode, give him some slack.
ShockDiamonds wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:38 pm
So would you and Neil prefer she said nothing at all? I think Neil’s point at least is that perhaps she should give up some of her money in order to help people who need it, and there may be some truth in that (although it’s very easy to point that particular finger IMHO) but in terms of coming on the telly, what the hell do you expect her to say? We’re all fucked?
I think if I was sitting pretty, shielded.from the catastrophic situation hundreds of thousands of people are facing by milking the very resources whose short supply has contributed to it, I think I'd be keeping my head well and truly down.
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough"