Coronavirus

[drcarlos]

Hot desking is a pox that the current situation really should have killed permanently. The return to normality after leaving the hot desk hell in Gaydon was immense.

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Some employers views ———->

Hot desking dying a death due to it being a genuine health hazard will get brushed off by some employers as ‘nonsense’.

Sadly I fear you're right. Silly thing was I was part of the early crew at Gaydon so even though I was new I got the exact same nice window seat every day. That still sucked balls so for the late starters on school run it must of been abominable.

Yep, I used to suffer at the expense of the older ones or singlies. It also rather than promoting collaboration and team bonding discouraged it, because unless you get in early to sit near your colleagues or friends you end up sitting with people you hardly know or don't even work with so never talk to. I'm not exactly introverted but just talking to randoms is not my style and if you aren't sitting with your team you can't just turn to a colleague and ask them something or provide assistance.

[Orange Cola]

<————- Reality
Some employers views ———->

Hot desking dying a death due to it being a genuine health hazard will get brushed off by some employers as ‘nonsense’.

Sadly I fear you're right. Silly thing was I was part of the early crew at Gaydon so even though I was new I got the exact same nice window seat every day. That still sucked balls so for the late starters on school run it must of been abominable.

Yep, I used to suffer at the expense of the older ones or singlies. It also rather than promoting collaboration and team bonding discouraged it, because unless you get in early to sit near your colleagues or friends you end up sitting with people you hardly know or don't even work with so never talk to. I'm not exactly introverted but just talking to randoms is not my style and if you aren't sitting with your team you can't just turn to a colleague and ask them something or provide assistance.

IME the people who regularly start later end up alienated and working very differently, this causes issues in every way because unless you can get them co-located within the team they end up not performing at their full potential, getting fed up and leaving. I also find I’m sat in team that spends on average 2.5 hours a week fixing their IT because someone not from the area has plonked themselves into a desk for an hour or so and dismantled most things in a half arsed effort to get their laptop to connect to the power supply/monitors/mouse/keyboard. Usually they eat something and walk off leaving their rubbish behind too.

[Ascender]

This will be the final nail in the office coffin at my current client, I suspect we'll meet up in Starbucks once a week and a monthly night out, that will be it.

[Broccers]

Horrible situation in the usa however as they are behind us with c19 it would be interesting to see how these gatherings / riots make any differnce on the numbers.

I've a suspicion they wont.

[integrale_evo]

The number of people gathering in protests is still minute compared to how many cram into busses / trains every day in most major cities. Wouldn't surprise me if the cases don't drop, but doubt it'll directly lead to another full scale outbreak.

[Rich B]

The number of people gathering in protests is still minute compared to how many cram into busses / trains every day in most major cities. Wouldn't surprise me if the cases don't drop, but doubt it'll directly lead to another full scale outbreak.

are people still cramming into buses/trains though?

[Jobbo]

Since I've been waiting for Ikea to reopen to get a couple of Lack tables to use as shelves for cat beds, I popped in on my way home from work yesterday. Just before 6pm, it was open until 8pm, and the lack of cars going into the car park gave me hope. Until I saw the queue of people round the car park; I think it was a bit shorter than at 10am when they opened (someone started queuing at 5.30am FFS!) but I imagine plenty of them wouldn't actually have got in before the doors shut.

Needless to say I didn't stop and carried on home. It'll no doubt be much better in a week or two and it's only a 10 minute diversion to find out.

[Nefarious]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... -contract
My problems with this are multifarious, but here's 3 for starters.
1) Why are the government awarding multi-million contracts without tender to companies their own members are shareholders in?
2) what earthly reason could Faculty have for needing social media and utility bill data for tackling cornoavirus?
3) why are non-commercial details of public contracts being withheld/redacted?

[Rich B]

It says it’s a £400k contract. I can definitely understand not going out to tender though if you have a company you know delivers results. It would end up taking weeks/months to go through a tender process.

As for the other points - yep.

[NotoriousREV]

Social Media data: using Facebook/Google etc login API to streamline registration and authentication

CRA/Utility Bill data: Identification confirmation

Probably.

[Beany]

It says it’s a £400k contract. I can definitely understand not going out to tender though if you have a company you know delivers results. It would end up taking weeks/months to go through a tender process.

As for the other points - yep.

This (having been on the inside of this) and what Rev said.

[Carlos]

Home schooling is killing me, how i haven't had a stroke I don't know.

I argue with my kids every single day resulting in every task taking twice as long. This morning started with me spending 40 minutes trying to get my daughter out of bed for a 11 am meeting with a tutor whilst my son watches his once a week assembly on teams at 10.30, i come down stairs at 10.50 as my daughter is up and clearing the floor in her bedroom, which was clear before i went to bed last night and my son is in the living room watching Youtube and forgotten to log in to the assembly FML

I need this to be over

[NotoriousREV]

My 15 year old is pretty much just cracking on with his school work with the occasional rant (not helped by 1 of his teachers setting “homework” for the half-term break).

My 8 year old, on the other hand is a fucking nightmare. It’s not helped by the fact that the school is just setting “busy work” and he knows it so doesn’t want to bother.

[Simon]

My 15 year old is pretty much just cracking on with his school work with the occasional rant (not helped by 1 of his teachers setting “homework” for the half-term break).

My 8 year old, on the other hand is a fucking nightmare. It’s not helped by the fact that the school is just setting “busy work” and he knows it so doesn’t want to bother.

Sorry, I _always_ had homework over the holidays. Am I the only one?

[ZedLeg]

I don’t think I did, there’s a chance I did and just never did it though

[NotoriousREV]

My 15 year old is pretty much just cracking on with his school work with the occasional rant (not helped by 1 of his teachers setting “homework” for the half-term break).

My 8 year old, on the other hand is a fucking nightmare. It’s not helped by the fact that the school is just setting “busy work” and he knows it so doesn’t want to bother.

Sorry, I _always_ had homework over the holidays. Am I the only one?

I never did any homework so no idea. I also didn’t say his teacher was wrong, just that it was the cause of a rant from him

[drcarlos]

Home schooling is killing me, how i haven't had a stroke I don't know.

I argue with my kids every single day resulting in every task taking twice as long. This morning started with me spending 40 minutes trying to get my daughter out of bed for a 11 am meeting with a tutor whilst my son watches his once a week assembly on teams at 10.30, i come down stairs at 10.50 as my daughter is up and clearing the floor in her bedroom, which was clear before i went to bed last night and my son is in the living room watching Youtube and forgotten to log in to the assembly FML

I need this to be over

My wife is currently on the phone to our friend who's kids have been given nothing but some web links to videos to watch online, she is sharing the work, structure and timetable that our school have given to my daughter as their son is a similar age so she can set him some structure, he is a bright and diligent lad who thrives at school. How common is this around the country is it quite common or are they an oddity with a bunch of lazy bastards running that school?
It makes you wonder if at least part of the reason that some don't want to go back is because they are having a jolly with a guaranteed job to return to even if everything else goes to hell in a handcart around them.

[Orange Cola]

My 15 year old is pretty much just cracking on with his school work with the occasional rant (not helped by 1 of his teachers setting “homework” for the half-term break).

My 8 year old, on the other hand is a fucking nightmare. It’s not helped by the fact that the school is just setting “busy work” and he knows it so doesn’t want to bother.

Sorry, I _always_ had homework over the holidays. Am I the only one?

Nope. I always got enough home work to cover half the allotted time off, so half term would be a few days worth of work, 2 week end of term would be a weeks worth of work etc. I actually remember one year the rotten bastards going ‘you’ve got X weeks off, here’s X weeks worth of work’ and my dad actually complained to the school about it because there was no way he was going to pay full whack for a family holiday during school holidays and then sit there supervising f*cking home work

[Carlos]

My 13 yr old son has 3 tasks per day, typically a reading/video/PowerPoint or a mixture then some tasks or questions to complete. He's expected to upload the work but I've not seen anything actually marked or feedback given but the school has said it's being monitored. It's never more than 3 hours a day so quite manageable but he makes a fuss for an hour before getting on with it with a bit of assistance.

My 15 yr old who is in Yr10 was basically given the same work to teach herself as she would have had been taught in School which was frankly ridiculous. Within a month more 90% of the kids were miles behind including my daughter so the time table was halved to focus on key subjects. She's hanging in there volume wise now but it's a daily battle to get her to do anything.

I'm ruining her life she told me today even though she finished at 2.30 and has gone down the beach !

[NotoriousREV]

[mention]Carlos[/mention] My Yr10 15 year old gets 3 hours of work per day on average