COVID-19 Who has to work and who doesn't during enforced quarantine?

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My OH works in the Construction Industry and was told last night to shut down all of his sites. He spent hours on the phone arranging plant to be left safe, any footings/trenches to be backfilled so that everything was safe. This morning it has been announced that the Construction Industry is an "Essential Service" so he has spent hours on the phone arranging for everyone to go back to work! He has had a morning at home but not away from work. He goes back to work this afternoon.

My eldest son is working from home as is my middle son. My youngest is attending "virtual College" for the next 2 weeks when all his lessons would have stopped for his A Levels anyway but all exams have been cancelled. I will teach him how to cook before he goes off to Uni. He won't be sitting playing computer games all summer!

Anyone else have to work/work from home?
 
My other half is working from home, he is a valves specialist so his work have sent him home with a full computing set up. The size of the screen they’ve got him I said his eyes are going to go square. 😂

I now work in a store in the Trafford Centre, so not working but still being paid thankfully. Ours has been closed since last Wednesday now, for 2 weeks we were told but in light of the new lock down I’m guessing it’s now until further notice.
 
My husband’s workplace closed, he is a preschool but they have decided to tell the couple of genuine, no other childcare option keyworker families to make other arrangements. He is feeling terrible about it, like he has let them down.

I will still be working, I’ve got leave booked but since my holiday is cancelled I’ll probably pick up some shifts instead.
 
I'm still working, lucky enough I work in empty properties all on my lonesome, the eldest works at Gregg's so she's finished but she also does data input for NHS so she's been WFH for a couple of weeks and been told to stay that way for 3 months! The youngest has college work do be done at home so us 3 are safe enough. Unfortunately my other half manages a petrol station so she has to go to work and because they sell a minute amount of food (which they're currently struggling to get), they have to leave the shop open and only give an option for people to pay at the hatch, which in my mind is utterly ridiculous. There's a lot of greedy, money grabbing companies going to be named and shamed in the next week or so.
 
I’m still working both my jobs, and so is my OH.
 
I'm working from home, trying to organise alternatives to exams for uni students online and dealing with their hundreds of worried emails ranging from dramatic existential angst to more mundane queries! Academic goalposts are being shifted hourly making all us lecturers look like incompetent fools with no clue what's going on.
Piggy daddy is cruising around in the outside world providing essential home care for the elderly and disabled.
My daughter is also living life as usual providing day care and activities for disabled adults (she gets to do wheelchair dance classes and arts and crafts all day!) :)
 
I work as a supply teaching assistant specialising in special needs work it's quiet but not non-existent as I previously thought it would be.

my fiance works for McDonalds so his work has stopped completely and so far has just been sleeping and playing video games.
 
My firm has closed the physical office and “furloughed” the admin staff but most of the fee earning staff will continue (me included) working remotely.

Both lads are at home since their Universities closed. They are apparently working online.

Online working is challenging for all 3 of us as we are semi rural and the Internet is not great at the best of times. Now with the whole world online it reminds me of the old dial up days!
 
VickiA said:
My firm has closed the physical office and “furloughed” the admin staff but most of the fee earning staff will continue (me included) working remotely.

Both lads are at home since their Universities closed. They are apparently working online.

Online working is challenging for all 3 of us as we are semi rural and the Internet is not great at the best of times. Now with the whole world online it reminds me of the old dial up days!
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Ah dial up... When it used to take half an hour to download a 4 minute song.
 
So I was in school for a couple of hours this morning but the children we were having have been able to make alternative arrangements so no more official school work for me unless I'm called in. I am studying so it gives me a chance to catch up with that. I am also currently trying to convince my 13 year old that he does actually need to do the work school is setting but I'm being met with resistance at every step. My daughter however has done some work and is keen to do it! We may run out of we're not careful! My husband is working from home but is busy on the phone etc so no help in convincing the boy to work. 🙈🤷‍♀️ Am sure plenty of people are in a worse situation.
 
Gem789 said:
Ah dial up... When it used to take half an hour to download a 4 minute song.
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WiFi printing is hilarious at the moment. Press print, wait 2 mins for printer lights to flash; go make a cup of tea; come back and wait while the printer prints line by line... my lads have never experienced this level of Internet lag before. Apparently games playing online is impossible - first world problem!
 
I work from home so no change for me apart from I will be ' furloughed ' from next month.. but i have to be careful as I still have a lot of admin work to tie up so I can be happy to walk away and everything be done and up to date... But i can't go over my paid hours so it's quite difficult... I will be bored with no work to do so the piggies will be having new tunnels made.. might make some for charity as they will be suffering!
 
My work place has closed today, but doesn't seem to know if they should stay closed. Because two customers we have signs ready for are Travis perkins , and scania who Havnt closed. I don't see the point risking lives to put up a few signs that can wait, but on the other hand they don't want to lose the biggest customers and then can't afford to take prole back. What a mess
 
I am still working but might go on reduced hours. My husband is self employed and is staying at home.
 
I'm off work for the forseeable. The majority of have been "furloughed" with nursery only open to keyworkers. Hoping that all my colleagues & our children/families stay safe.
 
Hub is retired and I am working from home anyway (the next issue of Guinea Pig Magazine is starting to get underway), so very little change to our daily life... except no socialising or trips/meals out this spring!
 
I’m still working ‘full time’ as we have an element of mail order & publishing, but the two of us still working are doing two-hour shifts twice a day, so really not much doing!
Two people have been furloughed, one decided to take voluntary redundancy, one’s taking 4 weeks unpaid. Accountant is still working for now, but she’s part time anyway. Manager is doing what she can with her children off school and husband working at the hospital (accountant).

If we decided to put on an offer we may have to come in for a bit more temporarily and when the magazine is nearly ready I might have to go in for a bit more to make it easier for my boss to write his editorial / make any changes etc as he is on isolation at the moment due to his age. We work in his house so we’ve had to ban him from one end of it and we’re doing paperwork hand overs via the window box by the front door!
It’s all bit day-by-day depending on offers/emails that get sent in/ stage of magazine etc which I really don’t like as I like routine and structure. I’d rather be working from home with the magazine, which is entirely possible, but we do also need people in the office for the phones and mail order dispatching and I don’t know if the other person would want 100% of that responsibility.
 
My work place is still open and to be honest I am shocked. It seems ridiculous to carry on and put both clients and workers at risk for a non essential service
 
I'm not in paid employment, so I always work from home ;) And there's more of it with all of my family at home 24/7. I recently started doing voluntary office work for a small local based charity on Wednesday mornings, but I guess that'll have to stop now.
OH had been on sick leave, then told to stay home as he is somewhat vulnerable, but doing some work. I believe his employers (courts service) have now decided they can only do emergency stuff , and paperwork at home.
No1 son is home, he is working for IBM as his placement year in his business degree, so he is working from home.
No2 son is 15, I'm trying to get him to do all the work his school is setting him online. As he is SEN with an EHCP, his school say they are working on getting him some hours in a school to help him work better - I hope they can otherwise I'm worried about him getting badly behind with his GCSE work.
At least the weather is nice at the mo, we can enjoy the garden and I can start planting all the seeds I bought yesterday 🌻🥀🥕🥬🍓
 
Wiebke said:
Hub is retired and I am working from home anyway (the next issue of Guinea Pig Magazine is starting to get underway), so very little change to our daily life... except no socialising or trips/meals out this spring!
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Hubby and I are the same. Well I'm a housewife and hubby's part time secretary. Hubby's retired but chooses to set up his business and work. His work is all online, making websites and earning thru affiliates. Not surprisingly, his earnings increased when people started staying at home worldwide. I think I can say that's a good thing for him. No major changes in our everyday lives apart from not being able to go out to shop or dine out as we please. It's a good thing too that it's not raining or else it's gonna be annoying.
 
I work for the NHS. Have been trying to do my job remotely as well as do homeschooling. If I still drank wine, I think it might be doable! But probably easier when I get called in to help in another role and can put my son in school.
 
My job is 90% home based so not a huge change for me - except I now have the kids at home full time.
The plus side is I can text them and ask them to bring me coffee when i am in dull conference calls.
The downside is that they expect to be fed occasionally.

DH has now been switched to 90% home office, but his physical office is actually quite far away so he is staying close to the office 5 days a week and coming home at weekends.
This works best for all of us, as the idea of him and I doing home office, plus the kids being around full time is pretty unimaginable :yikes:
 
I can't work from home atall, but my job involves being round public, and then I have to buy food out, because can't make a packed lunch. So I'm off work. The last job I did in London on Monday, people were spitting on the floor right next to where I was working 😕
 
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