Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
also, if you don't know exactly what is in it, why are you sticking it in your body you sheep?
So are sausages really arseholes and eyeballs? Have you eaten them?
Your second post is very pertinent as well.
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
i feel stupider just for having typed that out, how in the actual fuck can people say shit like that with a straight face?
I simply don't know. Beyond me.
Spend an hour or so at a pub with @Tim and you realise what you don't know (I have a habit of asking questions that I won't understand the answer to). Then just go and get jabbed.
Then maybe go to the butchers to pick up some sausages too (if the poor bastards were allowed to open like 2 other corrupt food suppliers).
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@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
the employer benefits greatly in reduced sick leave usage
Hmmm. Really. If you give an employee 10 days sick leave they take it. If you give them 5 that is what they use.
I agree about sick people at work, don't want that.
Won't even comment on vaccines. We agree, it should be obvious.
I like the goon squad idea, better than bribing morons.
Rubbish!
We have untold amounts of sick leave in the business not taken each year
what 'level' of employee is that though?
Have a mate who owns a manufacturing firm.. his take is that when you're essentially at the 'peak' of where you can get to in your work, which isn't really anywhere when you're kinda locked in that low level no prospects don't care how taking sick leave reflects on you, then they view sick leave as an entitlement that they will 100% use every year. Usually use it all up in the first 6 months then don't have more sick days...
So straight up $300k hit to the bottom line of his company by adding the additional week.
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@tim said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Really hope we can get to > 80% fully vaccinated, give over 60's a booster shot, and open borders up.
It's a bit concerning the 10-15% drop off for the second dose in the 65+. How long have they been available to them? Hopefully that's just them being late to get the first dose.
Also, hopefully the drop off by age group is mainly due to staggering of group 4 by age. There's still quite a large portion in there for first doses. Annoying that you can't see the booked on here to get more of an idea of where it's heading.
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todays #FamilyNutter update. Vaccine is definitely killing people but it's being covered up.
He's on a 'group' that contains Doctors that are adamant that patients have died from it, have put it on the death cert or whatever, come back and checked later and it's been changed.
Have encouraged him to get those doctors to go public then.. should be fairly easy to prove
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@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
todays #FamilyNutter update. Vaccine is definitely killing people but it's being covered up.
He's on a 'group' that contains Doctors that are adamant that patients have died from it, have put it on the death cert or whatever, come back and checked later and it's been changed.
Have encouraged him to get those doctors to go public then.. should be fairly easy to prove
Who cares about cover ups, because my wifi has been working a great since my 2nd dose
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@anonymous said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It's a bit concerning the 10-15% drop off for the second dose in the 65+. How long have they been available to them? Hopefully that's just them being late to get the first dose.
Might also be due to extending the interval between the shots.
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@tim said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@anonymous said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It's a bit concerning the 10-15% drop off for the second dose in the 65+. How long have they been available to them? Hopefully that's just them being late to get the first dose.
Might also be due to extending the interval between the shots.
Does the interval matter much do you think? Wife and I got ours 3 weeks apart, for the second appointment they made the point of telling us it was 3 weeks and not 6. I figured we may as well get it out of the way (we are still pretty young/low risk so thought it wouldn't make too much difference).
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@no-quarter It may make some difference. I haven't looked into much.
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@bovidae said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I was pleasantly surprised how many people were getting vaccinated at my local pharmacy last Saturday
Yep, queue outside the warkworth pharmacy today. First that I had seen them doing it and big sign up. Vax getting more accessible is great. Think that i have talked one staff member into it. One to go!
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@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
the employer benefits greatly in reduced sick leave usage
Hmmm. Really. If you give an employee 10 days sick leave they take it. If you give them 5 that is what they use.
I agree about sick people at work, don't want that.
Won't even comment on vaccines. We agree, it should be obvious.
I like the goon squad idea, better than bribing morons.
Rubbish!
We have untold amounts of sick leave in the business not taken each year
what 'level' of employee is that though?
Have a mate who owns a manufacturing firm.. his take is that when you're essentially at the 'peak' of where you can get to in your work, which isn't really anywhere when you're kinda locked in that low level no prospects don't care how taking sick leave reflects on you, then they view sick leave as an entitlement that they will 100% use every year. Usually use it all up in the first 6 months then don't have more sick days...
So straight up $300k hit to the bottom line of his company by adding the additional week.
Probably does make a difference.
We had unlimited sick leave in my previous life but most liked the job so went to work. Some however, just took the piss, and days off, because they wanted to go for a walk or whatever. Eventually employer spat the dummy and sent out intimidation letters if you had more than a few sick days a year . The letter was along the lines of how they were "monitoring" your health. Kind of them. I never got one so can't be exact. Was in a country with with few labour laws so they could say what they liked. Union was all over it though and CAA were concerned but useless.
So how many of you want to be on a plane with a sick pilot that has been forced to go to work?
There are at least two pilots for a reason and yes it happens. I have done a solo last bit of flight when F/O was crook and was incapacitated.
Forcing people to work when ill is never good, but if you give some free reign they will also abuse it. Employers pay the cost.
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@snowy yeah laws there were insane.
I remember I called in sick one day then logged on from home. First message from my boss - “if you can login from home, you can come in, in my view”.
Completely absurd take especially given the way HK folk are about germ spread.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@snowy yeah laws there were insane.
I remember I called in sick one day then logged on from home. First message from my boss - “if you can login from home, you can come in, in my view”.
Completely absurd take especially given the way HK folk are about germ spread.
But they are workaholics as well. Probably just expect you to work with a mask on
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@williethewaiter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
the employer benefits greatly in reduced sick leave usage
Hmmm. Really. If you give an employee 10 days sick leave they take it. If you give them 5 that is what they use.
I agree about sick people at work, don't want that.
Won't even comment on vaccines. We agree, it should be obvious.
I like the goon squad idea, better than bribing morons.
Rubbish!
We have untold amounts of sick leave in the business not taken each year
what 'level' of employee is that though?
Have a mate who owns a manufacturing firm.. his take is that when you're essentially at the 'peak' of where you can get to in your work, which isn't really anywhere when you're kinda locked in that low level no prospects don't care how taking sick leave reflects on you, then they view sick leave as an entitlement that they will 100% use every year. Usually use it all up in the first 6 months then don't have more sick days...
So straight up $300k hit to the bottom line of his company by adding the additional week.
I don't quite get your question? Our workforce doesn't use the entitlement and we are a manufacturing company (As you would know)
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@majorrage our work has encouraged people to work from home post lockdown 1...we have 1 staff member that is always sick (was one that had to self isolate during L4 after being at a place of interest) but now they can work more often than not when at home.
There are a few that still do 2 days from home a week, I could but my home set up ain't ideal and I prefer an office environment.
@WillieTheWaiter assume you are still in same place? When I was there they were very hit on sick leave, I had 2 in my team of 9 that used thier allowance every year, the other part in our office had a similar % but twice as many staff.
HR made me have a sit down with my staff, to make sure thier work/life balance was right, if there was any factors at work that might be contributing to thier ill health (10 days in a year...)
In my experience some do take the piss, but like life, is usually a minority that make things tougher for everyone else, especially as staff notice the ones who pull sickies too
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@majorrage our work has encouraged people to work from home post lockdown 1...we have 1 staff member that is always sick (was one that had to self isolate during L4 after being at a place of interest) but now they can work more often than not when at home.
There are a few that still do 2 days from home a week, I could but my home set up ain't ideal and I prefer an office environment.
@WillieTheWaiter assume you are still in same place? When I was there they were very hit on sick leave, I had 2 in my team of 9 that used thier allowance every year, the other part in our office had a similar % but twice as many staff.
HR made me have a sit down with my staff, to make sure thier work/life balance was right, if there was any factors at work that might be contributing to thier ill health (10 days in a year...)
In my experience some do take the piss, but like life, is usually a minority that make things tougher for everyone else, especially as staff notice the ones who pull sickies too
yep still living the dream. you should come back!
still big issues with sick leave usage in contact centres.. defo have to factor that in to any resource planning. 'head office' types not an issue.