Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
My brother is texting me from his seat on todays light from Singapore. There are 3 in Business and 60 down the back and that is considered a lot of passengers.
How's this for a great job? There are two sets of flight crew aboard so each are off duty for one leg, but the poor bloody cabin crew stay on board during the six hour layover in Auckland and get the best rest they can before they start a second shift for the return flight.
Take it up with the Singapore government, they set the flight time limitations. The flight crew won't do one leg each that would exceed the legal limit in most countries. They will split it. It's almost a 10 hour flight.
Do you want the pilots asleep on the job, or the cabin crew? With that number of pax the cabin crew will split shifts and rest anyway. They have bunks. You haven't got the whole picture there.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Snowy Yeah I do actually get all that. I still think it's a stink job (for cabin crew) but then I always have. The glamour of being cabin crew died when long range came in IMO. Well trained hospo workers.
I agree that it is stink job for cabin crew but that is because it is poorly paid and they have to deal with you lot, sorry, passengers. They were only allowed to do 1 hour more than the pilots when I was flying and were sitting down for parts of the flight. So the fatigue regulations (as well as their contract) does offer protection. Their primary function is safety and why we have the regs, even if they do look like hospo workers.
As for the glamour - it went out the industry (for most concerned) several decades ago as you say with long haul. I left at the age of 48 because it was just a shit job. The days of a week away when you could take the wife were gone, and it was 16 hours at work, with little sleep, 24 hours in a hotel room before going and doing it again.
Covid has made it even worse for my mates.
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If an 89 year old who hates his iPhone can use the app...
One person.
Out of 35 people who wandered through the doors, just one person did what they were meant to.
It took only seconds, a few presses of their phone, and that one person did their part to keep the rest of the country safe.
His name was Bill, and he’s nearly 90 years old.
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@Donsteppa you could argue that he might have been the most worried of that group of 35 given his age.
I've found the app to be 2-3 sec slower than when it first came out. I'm making an effort but that is a minor frustration. Have also seen that if people see you scanning then often a couple will follow suit. But not in the example above!
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@Paekakboyz said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I've found the app to be 2-3 sec slower than when it first came out
Funny my experience is direct opposite. Since the last upgrade I can scan immediately from up to 3 metres away.
But yeah - fuck all people using it
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@dogmeat ha ha oh man we are fucked
All they need to do is take a leaf out of New World or Countdown's knife or container or little garden promo. Add some points system to scanning (with some basic level of rort protection) then watch the numbers grow. Even if there is some bullshit scanning going on that could nudge the herd towards better behaviour.
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@Nepia said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Strange that there is an aversion to scanning in NZ - it’s actually one of the things nearly everyone is compliant with in Sydney.
I don't think that it is an aversion as such, we just haven't been as threatened by the disease so it isn't in our psyche all of the time. I'm hopeless, unless I trip over the QR code sign I'm likely to walk past. I try to remember but it doesn't always happen.
True comment above - if one person does it you do it because it is right in front of you and obvious.
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@Snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
True comment above - if one person does it you do it because it is right in front of you and obvious.
This isn't my observation. If there is a person behind me when I stop to scan the QR code most see it as an inconvenience to have to wait or walk straight past me.
I've just come back from a supermarket (New World) and they also had large QR codes in store. I wonder how many used them.
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@Snowy Must be further evidence of the elderly becoming invisible (NB I'm not that fucking old)
I haven't missed a single scan since August^ and I never see anyone behind me scan.
^ I review where I've been every day and if I've missed anywhere I manually enter it because I am
- a responsible and civic minded saint
- an incredibly anal retard
- both of above
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@Nepia are people in NZ actually asked to scan by shop assistants etc in addition to the posters? In UK (outside of lockdown) when I've been to a restaurant, take out, the farm shop, vets etc you get asked to do it like it's just part and parcel of being there and I think that helps and kind of makes people do it? Maybe I'm just going to places that are making the effort though.
I don't have a problem with doing it, and haven't witnessed people complaining about it either. I have concerns over the app though, i can't seem to find its "history" section, and one day it flashed some sort of alert that dissappeared so quickly I have no idea what it said. Surely there should be a log if any UK users know please share. -
checking in has just become something you do here now, just another step in the trip to the pub/cafe. order your beer, scan the code. A huge number of places are using the same solution, so my details are saved, i barely need to click anything.
sort your fucking shit so i can come home and see my family you fluffybunnies
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Nepia are people in NZ actually asked to scan by shop assistants etc in addition to the posters? In UK (outside of lockdown) when I've been to a restaurant, take out, the farm shop, vets etc you get asked to do it like it's just part and parcel of being there and I think that helps and kind of makes people do it? Maybe I'm just going to places that are making the effort though.
I don't have a problem with doing it, and haven't witnessed people complaining about it either. I have concerns over the app though, i can't seem to find its "history" section, and one day it flashed some sort of alert that dissappeared so quickly I have no idea what it said. Surely there should be a log if any UK users know please share.They were during the early days, particularly when there was the "2nd ripple" in Auckland.
Prominent signs near doors, restaurant/bar-staff obviously waiting for you to do it before they'd serve/seat you.
And yeah - it was generally accepted "this is just part of the process of entering a premises".
Now... the whole "she'll be right" thing really sums it up... the codes to scan have been moved "out of the way", or rather - onto the glass front door, and the choice is often "block the doorway while scanning, when obviously nobody else gives a shit", or just go on in, and hope there'll be a nice handy one to scan somewhere one's out-of-the-way.
A couple of bars I've been to have had the codes on each table... and I've always thought this is a bloody good idea. Go in, sit down, then scan. -
@Kruse said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
the codes to scan have been moved "out of the way", or rather - onto the glass front door
Yep. Where they aren't as noticeable.
I still have them (in the way) in my stores to encourage / remind people.
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@Snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Kruse said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
the codes to scan have been moved "out of the way", or rather - onto the glass front door
Yep. Where they aren't as noticeable.
I still have them (in the way) in my stores to encourage / remind people.
Except for the basement...
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@R-L yeah that's kinda a one way trip isn't it.
You can scan in but never out!