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Not to single you out as I've seen similar comments all over social media but this hasn't come out of nowhere. There's been warnings for literally years about this kind of thing happening. There's even reports viewable online into the changes made to the NHS under the 2012 Health and Social...

Should have known better than to defend the government! What an absolute shambles. So Hancock is promising 100K tests a day in England, a combination of diagnostic and antibody tests but at the same time saying the tests we have don't work. That's before you even consider Johnsons target back...

Not seen the interview you're referring to but aren't people mixing up different tests? The one people are angry about is testing to see if people currently have it. So you've got a quarter of NHS staff sat at home with symptoms who could be tested and if negative return straight to work. I...

That's basically the response I got when I raised it. As always with these things you end up in a tricky position as an employee as if you push back too hard you're viewed as a troublemaker, particularly if some of the other furloughed staff are happy to do whatever they are told no questions...

Not sure my company has really understood how furlough is supposed to work. Today is suppsoed to be my last day but apparently I should keep checking emails, attending team meetings, updating documentation, doing training etc. The only thing I can't do is contact our customers.

Hopefully when this is all over one of the things that will come out of it is a look at how employees are treated and how one sided things can be. I know you changed to a fixed term position but the number of people who aren't considered permanent employess and have been left to sort themselves...

I wouldn't mind them calling it now and making us champions. If we were playing at the Ricoh and looking forward to a huge crowd and party on the last day of the season I might feel differently.

This is going back a fair while now but I had a message on Facebook, from a fake account, basically saying they knew I was chiefdave on here. Didn't think anything of it as I don't go out of my wide to hide my identity, wouldn't take anyone who wanted to find me long, but then found out a few...

The Independent hasn't been printed for 4 years!

If I was a PL footballer I'd feel pretty guilty seeing out quarantine in my huge mansion while the club staff are worrying about how they're going to pay the bills. The amount of money we're talking about would be peanuts to first team players.

Same here. God knows what I've posted on here and twitter over the years but I'm sure it wouldn't take long to find something that didn't look great. But then most normal people don't go digging. Didn't Gilbert once go years back through someones twitter history when they had a go at him and...

The NHS is swamped but we've got staff sat at home because they haven't been tested.

First it was Andrew Neil and the Daily Mail but now even Dom is criticising them you know there is a problem!

Wouldn't it make sense for them to also issue adjusted figures as they go along. So you have something like figures for how many tests were submitted each day and what the results were rather than just the date they were completed. I know we are told its 7 days a week but there's a jump after...

Its crap isn't it. I know there's loads in the same situation as we are but that doesn't really ease any worries. I got notified about an hour after a team meeting where we were given last months stats which showed it to be by far the busiest month in the companies history so you can't help...

Bet he's put the prices up as well!

It is, if not been done already, going to be suspended along with with things like the need for planes to fly to avoid losing landing slots. Not exactly environmentally friendly to have loads of empty planes flying around just to ensure they keep the slots but that's exactly what was starting to...

Spoke too soon. Despite being busier than ever, did an extra 4 hours unpaid yesterday to try and keep up with the workload, and classed as keyworkers as we support medical facilites and food producers among others just been told that Friday will be my last day before being furloughed.

Is that for furlough or the loan scheme? The loan scheme does seem a bit of a shambles as its being left to the banks to asses if companies are eligible and it will come as no surprise they are trying to divert people on to loans they will make money from. Starting to see some of our clients...

Trump last week: "We lose thousands of people a year to the flu," he said then. "We never turn the country off." Trump this week: "A lot of people were saying think of it as the flu, but it's not the flu," he said. "It's vicious." Has the penny finally dropped?