Reply to: Coronavirus:covid: Do you think your job is safe?

[Pogle]

But at least you are ready for crimbo

Yeah I really do need to sort that out

Edit - Done! In my Easter bonnet

[Hobosapien]

In 10 days, IF we are lucky (which based on reports of increased car travel we ain’t) we’ll see peak infections and THEN much slower drop off of new infections, whicH will look positive but it will be slower than they’ve gone up. End of May if we lucky

Car travel is safer than public transport for virus containment.

The only risk with car travel is breakdown or accident where others are dragged onto the scene to help. Statistics say that it is safer to travel while the roads are now relatively empty than it is to mooch about at home where risk of accident lurks everywhere.

If people are using their cars to congragate at public places then yes it gives the rozzers and goverment ammo to restrict movement further, so requires people to use common sense.

People going off on one about others being outside but keeping distance are just the typical low intelligence moron that lack critical thinking. Beware the idiot, they're everywhere.

If we hadn't competed against each other all these years , I've no doubt we'd have bases on the bloody moon by now - I'm a believer in the power of human co-operation.

There will always be an element of humanity dragging us backwards. From the religious nutters to selfish self-important pricks harrassing supermarket workers.

Re jobs, the longer this goes on the less safe any job is. Though there will always be other work, such as crop picking to keep airline pilots busy. I'm sure it will cover the bills and personal debt. The longer this goes on the less sustainable all that is so a big reset of global debt will be required. Hope the outcome is something better than the tulip consumer debt based economy we had before. Maybe realising all we really need is food, shelter, and socialising means all the non-jobs won't survive this and then more effort can be placed on halo projects driving humanity forward, towards the stars.

[Halo Jones]

Aww thanks! I had been on the bench for 6 months prior to that, so it was most irksome.

But at least you are ready for crimbo

[Pogle]

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Aww thanks! I had been on the bench for 6 months prior to that, so it was most irksome.

[vetran]

No it was not safe, it got canned 2 days before the start date due to the virus

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[Highland]

Oil business, apart from the hospitality sector I doubt there's a less safe one. Lucky it pays well when it's there and I spend money like I earn £25k PAYE.

Still providing a somewhat niche service that's transferrable to other sectors but expect (have been for a few weeks...) current contract to be canned at any moment given what's happening, or about to, with lots of perms. Would normally like July off to watch the Tour de France, I think I'll be off but I don't think there'll be a Tour!

[amypang]

Do you think your job is safe?

I don't think any job would remain if the situation keeps going on like this. Most probably online jobs may have some longevity. But not sure. Even jobs remain, what would happen without production? The economy is a cycle and needs production & services to keep the economy running. When people have to stay alone without generating products and services which lead to economic decline...

[BlueSharp]

Is my job safe? - yes I will switch to plan B for the next 1-2 years and see if I can build that off the ground picking over the corpses of larger failed competitors.

Is my current client gig safe? - 80% yes, Public Sector in a key industry, can 100% WFH (office is now locked up with no open date scheduled), binning the current road map with a Covid-19 action plan. One thing is for certain we are not returning to normality any time soon IMO.

[Halo Jones]

Is any job safe?

I seem to be ok - I can do a fair portion of it WFH, the client instructed a site shut down so they are paying the bill, depends how long this goes on for...

[DodgyAccountant]

Now I've just signed to a new accountant, costing around 2k a year and brought in 10k revenue , with 2.5k expenses and the only contracts I'm being offered are INSIDE IR35 at 50% reduced rates (but NHS, so I'll probably answer the call to arms!)

2k a year for an accountant seems very expensive.

[Zigenare]

Now I've got a 10 year rainy day fund I find I'm not enjoying my job quite as much as I used to...

[Pogle]

No it was not safe, it got canned 2 days before the start date due to the virus

[dx4100]

Working for a bank one a urgent project (even more urgent now) but that ends start of June...

Everytime I get a call I think I am about to get cut.

[Scoobos]

I agree with your post. By "Under Control" I mean to start seeing a damping down of the spread of the virus, which should lead to fewer admissions to hospital, which in turn will lead to fewer deaths.

There's no way it's going to be fully controlled in 10 days.

If in 10 days we are still seeing substantial increases in the daily infection rate, then we are all in for a long, long, difficult summer and a very long and difficult recovery period.

Yeah let's hope not. In the early days I remember on liveleak reports coming in that the people in Wuhan were convinced it was airborne, because people continued to get sick , long after lockdown. But tests and science show it isn't , it's just likely infectious for a lot longer than we may think, or its the asymptomatic people . I seem to remember it taking weeks for the numbers to stop increasing by 20% ish ; but all that said , China's figures are clearly BS. I believed them at the time, but looking at what's happened in Europe - there's just no way they "Only" had 80k with 3.2 k dead. no way.

[tomtomagain]

there's no way that 10 days will get anything under control

I agree with your post. By "Under Control" I mean to start seeing a damping down of the spread of the virus, which should lead to fewer admissions to hospital, which in turn will lead to fewer deaths.

There's no way it's going to be fully controlled in 10 days.

If in 10 days we are still seeing substantial increases in the daily infection rate, then we are all in for a long, long, difficult summer and a very long and difficult recovery period.