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elbows said:
Well if your future employer has a sensible pandemic attitude then 'I walked away from previous job because it was a covid-insecure nightmare' would probably wash as a very good excuse.
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I think if I was to walk away quick, it might be even better to pretend this job never existed - although then there would be the need to explain why i left a job without one to go to.

Just wondering if I am being unreasonable?
 
Puddy_Tat said:
I think if I was to walk away quick, it might be even better to pretend this job never existed - although then there would be the need to explain why i left a job without one to go to.

Just wondering if I am being unreasonable?
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I think this is really tricky. I suppose if it were me I'd tell myself over and over that the vaccine is highly likely to protect me from serious illness and grit my teeth and endure it, especially if the office thing is temporary while you train up or whatever. Have you told your manager the lack of covid safety is making you uncomfortable? Most employers don't want the expense and hassle of recruitment.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
I think if I was to walk away quick, it might be even better to pretend this job never existed - although then there would be the need to explain why i left a job without one to go to.

Just wondering if I am being unreasonable?
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I wouldn't pretend the job didn't exist - just say that is was a covid-insecure nightmare as per elbows (and that you felt staying might put you at risk).

I've left three jobs without jobs to go to, been for loads of interviews in the gaps in between, and only ever been asked about it once.
 
I am the king of leaving jobs with no other job to go to. I’ve probably done it 6 times - and 4 times in the last 2 years.

When I do stay at a job I tend to stay for 5 years. I would always be honest and explain the reasoning. Your health is more important than any job.
 
Elpenor said:
I am the king of leaving jobs with no other job to go to. I’ve probably done it 6 times - and 4 times in the last 2 years.

When I do stay at a job I tend to stay for 5 years. I would always be honest and explain the reasoning. Your health is more important than any job.
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hmm

snag is i'm 50+ so a lot of employers don't want to know (but of course can't admit that)

i'm in a small specialist niche of a fairly small line of business, and the jobs are pretty damn rare, and i've been out of anything else too long to have 'recent experience' (i was trying to get basic admin jobs 7 years or so ago and was hitting that all the time)

and there's been a family related spanner thrown in the works this evening.

sod it, i'm going to bed.
 
Not personal, but a youngster at work (early 20s) mentioned he hadn't bothered getting vaxxed on a team call about a month or more ago. Two hour queues at the local centre at the weekend, apparently. I told him, very clearly, that as one of his managers I was authorising him, no instructing him, to block two hours out of his work diary in working time, as a "private appointment" to go and get his effing jab.

He didn't.

He got the covid two weeks ago.

He's fine now, but was surprised that despite being a fit young person (he's a semi pro footballer) he was absolutely flattened by it. Twit. I guess even one jab would have reduced how bad he was hit by it?
 
mx wcfc said:
Not personal, but a youngster at work (early 20s) mentioned he hadn't bothered getting vaxxed on a team call about a month or more ago. Two hour queues at the local centre at the weekend, apparently. I told him, very clearly, that as one of his managers I was authorising him, no instructing him, to block two hours out of his work diary in working time, as a "private appointment" to go and get his effing jab.

He didn't.

He got the covid two weeks ago.

He's fine now, but was surprised that despite being a fit young person (he's a semi pro footballer) he was absolutely flattened by it. Twit. I guess even one jab would have reduced how bad he was hit by it?
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He still benefits from vaccination. Ask him if he fancies a repeat of his experience.
 
Ex neighbour's (late 60s) grandson has just gone to school for first time. Ex neighbour herself isn't having the vaccine because she "has a healthy diet" and has said she's intending to visit.

Am wondering how to treat this apart from assuming she's infected with delta variant, i.e. keep 2m away and outside. As unvaccinated I presume that means she's (a) more likely than someone vaccinated to be infected and (b) liable to be carrying a higher viral load.

She's also invited me across to her place but there's no chance of that happening.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
hmm

snag is i'm 50+ so a lot of employers don't want to know (but of course can't admit that)

i'm in a small specialist niche of a fairly small line of business, and the jobs are pretty damn rare, and i've been out of anything else too long to have 'recent experience' (i was trying to get basic admin jobs 7 years or so ago and was hitting that all the time)

and there's been a family related spanner thrown in the works this evening.

sod it, i'm going to bed.
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I'm in my fifties and I've experienced that, ie the lack of recent experience, also ageism. I'm feeling like I'm on life's scrapheap and despairing of ever getting another job.
 
Seems petty to talk about after the above ^ (much love to Mrs Numbers' mum)

Went to a pub today on OH's night off, sat most of the evening outside then moved indoors, OH wanted to watch the tennis, lots of space inside.

Then a large gathering arrived and started to sit at the table next to us - a woman sat right next to me on the bench type seat and I shifted up a bit (I don't want to be very close to anyone) then another woman piled in and sat in the gap I had left and we ended up shifting 2 tables down because they were getting too close and OH could no longer see the tennis.

It looked like an after work party, it wasn't regulars, anyway one of them got shirty with me because I was grumpy about having to keep moving and said it wasn't going to hurt if she sat near me and I said (and honestly I can get a bit "fuck off" with my responses when I am, well... fucked off so to speak) "we're in the middle of a pandemic love, and in any case I didn't invite you to fucking sit on my lap" - which did not go down well.

(We ended up moving to the other bar and got a free pint each cos the bar staff felt a bit sorry for us - OH didn't get to watch the tennis though)

EDIT: I have just re-read this post and realised that a part of it could be really misinterpreted in a "whoa" eyebrow raising way - I should stress that I am biologically female and very obviously so by appearance.
 
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A member of my local circle of friends has, apparently, got Covid. I last saw him on Tuesday, so am a little windy about the possibilities - I heard about it yesterday, so have been doing lateral flow tests yesterday and today...so far, both negative.

He's an anti-vaxxer, so I imagine he might be having a few panicked thoughts, though he seems to be incommunicado at the moment.

ETA: aha, he's just been in touch - apparently it's a rumour, and he's fine. I think I'll carry on testing just in case, all the same.
 
existentialist said:
A member of my local circle of friends has, apparently, got Covid. I last saw him on Tuesday, so am a little windy about the possibilities - I heard about it yesterday, so have been doing lateral flow tests yesterday and today...so far, both negative.

He's an anti-vaxxer, so I imagine he might be having a few panicked thoughts, though he seems to be incommunicado at the moment.
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Hope you'll be ok.
 
existentialist said:
A member of my local circle of friends has, apparently, got Covid. I last saw him on Tuesday, so am a little windy about the possibilities - I heard about it yesterday, so have been doing lateral flow tests yesterday and today...so far, both negative.

He's an anti-vaxxer, so I imagine he might be having a few panicked thoughts, though he seems to be incommunicado at the moment.

ETA: aha, he's just been in touch - apparently it's a rumour, and he's fine. I think I'll carry on testing just in case, all the same.
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I hope you are ok. Keep testing, the lateral flow tests are free and you can do it every day you need to go out - that is what I have been doing while I have been unwell (99% sure it is RSV and not corona but testing is vitally important - especially since if my immune system is putting some hours in tackling this toddler virus, I might be more susceptible to catching Covid)
 
I've decided that if either kid gets COVID I will ask about who they sit near and either let parents know (for son) or ask oldest to let their friends know because I don't know how much schools are likely to say and I want people to have the option to take risk mitigation, eg 'Let's maybe not see grandma this weekend then'
 
I didn't have covid in the end but still a very shitty virus. I've been working at home since last year with the expectation I start to book into the available desks in the office. I'm more or less recovered and would normally consider myself fit to work at home but I wouldn't feel comfortable going into the office even with a croaky voice and infrequent cough and sneeze that might alarm others. So I'm getting signed off for a week. Their loss.
 
Cloo said:
I've decided that if either kid gets COVID I will ask about who they sit near and either let parents know (for son) or ask oldest to let their friends know because I don't know how much schools are likely to say and I want people to have the option to take risk mitigation, eg 'Let's maybe not see grandma this weekend then'
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Whilst this is eminently sensible behaviour it's fucking shit that it falls to you to do it yourself. Not least because so many parents won't bother with any of it.
 
Mrs SI currently sat on a minibus as her train was cancelled due to a breakdown. Packed on the minibus, just her and another masked. Maybe I should just stop worrying and assume I'm going to get this fucking thing whatever steps I take. (I'm not about to stop wearing masks in shops or anything, but getting worried every time anyone I know goes anywhere is going to make ne ill.)
 
Numbers said:
Mrs Numbers Mum has tested positive, she's 80 and has an existing pulmonary condition. She went into hospital last week for an unrelated issue (with her heart) and has now tested positive. Very worrying.
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Fwiw, turns out Mrs Mrs Numbers didn't have Covid :) thank fuck.
Sadly tho', the hospital mixed up tests :( so fuck knows the ramifications of that.
Hopefully the mix up was an isolated incident, sadly I suspect not.
 
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