Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Lol, what does this even mean?
The overall death rate from covid varied from country to another by three orders of magnitude. I think it's reasonable to ask why that is, and what role is played by government policy.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Well the actual, real unemployment rate, including underemployment, was around 15% even *before* the virus arrived. So fuck knows what it's like now.
yeah in personal news I'm getting made redundant in a few weeks because my company wants to axe my job role and replace my full-time position with a contract for 24 hrs a week with overtime "potential." The redundancy package is worthwhile for me because of my length of service but I can imagine there's a lot of people taking the worse job because they need something and their payoff isn't substantial at all.
kin ell - good luck with that! mate of mine who is a meter reader went for it, but got refused cos of the demand in the area, and contract given to the company that used to be g4s, where there's lads doing his job on 3 quid an hour less (they've honoured his current pay).
i think we're gonna see this more and more in dribs and drabs. twin prongs of brexit and covid i guess, but also bigger picture of 30 years of neo-liberal etc etc
i think we're gonna see this more and more in dribs and drabs. twin prongs of brexit and covid i guess, but also bigger picture of 30 years of neo-liberal etc etc
my branch is at risk of closure, so if I took the reduced contract and then we closed after 12 weeks, I'd be losing half my redundancy pay. Not worth the gamble. I've been wanting to move on for ages anyway, it's just a total stress because of the state of the world. Hopefully I can get into a call centre for a few months while I figure out what to do next - I always thought if I got made redundant I would take the risk and try to break into freelance music journalism etc but it just doesn't feel like a risk worth taking at this time.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Oof, that's tough. Best of luck with whatever comes next.
My bosses are giving me hell for failing to achieve an obviously unachievable target at the moment, which actually I'm fine with, because if they sack me for it that's unfair dismissal and I'll take the company to a tribunal, and if I leave because it's too unpleasant, that's constructive dismissal, and I'll take the company to a tribunal.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Shit, good luck mate... one door closes and another one opens and all that but sure it's scary and I wish you well.
sufi
lala
I got redundanted a few years back after many years of resisting - best thing ever happened to me.
whereas the hell of being hostage to TUPE transfer is generally to be avoided - working alongside people getting paid less or more for the same job, not good at all
john eden
male pale and stale
Good luck @boxedjoy sounds like you are doing the right thing.
Bear in mind you can always do casual work and try your hand at freelance stuff too. I've gotta say music journalism is uniquely shit for pay at the moment as far as I can tell but do pitch stuff to The Wire (and maybe try and think about other things you can write about too?)
Bear in mind you can always do casual work and try your hand at freelance stuff too. I've gotta say music journalism is uniquely shit for pay at the moment as far as I can tell but do pitch stuff to The Wire (and maybe try and think about other things you can write about too?)
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Stay fabulous and with a vaccine looking more and more likely you could come up smiling in the new year.
A chunk of our team got the same today. Everyone is stressed as fuck.
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
Möglicher Suizid: Zahl der Rettungseinsätze steigt massiv an
Die Retter rückten 2020 bisher 294 Mal unter dem Stichwort „Beinahe Strangulierung/ Erhängen“ aus. Im Vorjahr gab es drei vergleichbare Einsätze, 2018 sieben.
www.berliner-zeitung.de
i am just reading this and i'm absolutely shocked. the article describes the amount of times ambulances in berlin were called for an attempted suicide this year, which has been 294 times so far. in 2018 this number was 7 and in 2019 this number was 3. it further describes the extreme increase of domestic violence and substance abuse. i was expecting a rise for sure, but not in this magnitude. and winter has only started...
it is one of the reasons i'm staying straight these months. i need to stay sharp.
chava
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Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe dies aged 74 after battle with Covid-19
Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, died while being treated for coronavirus at University Hospital of North Durham, three miles from HMP Frankland, where he was serving time for murdering 13 women
www.mirror.co.uk
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Benny Bunter
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Just found out about the mink cull in Denmark (17 million! Had no idea). Quite alarming. Anyone have any thoughts?
www.nature.com
COVID mink analysis shows mutations are not dangerous — yet
The analysis found the mutations probably won’t jeopardize vaccines, but scientists say the rampant spread means the animals still need to be killed.
www.nature.com
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