Coronavirus Megathread Part I

the government is paying it.

Just do a big shop once a week (or less if necessary) and try to go when things are likely to be less busy!

Dats what I do do mate, but obviously as you can imagine seeing a queve is frustrating and gets me fed up and mad ! It's not normal...

As suspected, not everyone views the scheme positively

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/ethics-of-furloughing-staff-josh-sunsoa/

Where is your evidence that the government is paying the amazon workers and supermarket staff bonuses which is what we were talking about?

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Dats what I do do mate, but obviously as you can imagine seeing a queve is frustrating and gets me fed up and mad ! It's not normal...

that's just one person.

and you had to hunt that down in google using key words in order to find

truth is, you're never going to get 100% of the population to agree to anything. In general though, it is clear that society has much less of a problem with people working during this crisis getting extra money ..than people being given preferential treatment at the shops [at their expense]

government i don't think is paying those two, but none the less they are getting more money and people just don't care enough to complain it. like they don't care enough to complain about furloughed staff

one news article doesn't really count.
it is not a very popular opinion.

I googled to find some evidence of what I said yes (which you clearly didn't read because it is not just one person), I've yet to see you back up what you say with any evidence or factual information. It would be ridiculous for people to prefer to pay NHS employees extra money at this time (an extra £2 an hour you suggested) with over 1.2 million employees when actually, most are quite happy just to feel appreciated. The queues aren't even long anymore.

If the government announced the NHS were being £2 an hour extra I doubt you would see much complaints. This is based off the fact there have been few complaints against furloughed staff.

It does not matter how long it will take. If there is a staff list drawn for members across the essential sectors who worked from March 1 until when the lockdown was released, then the invitations are sent out.

Whether people agree with it or not, the point is that Waitrose will allow key workers priority at any time, upon showing their badge. Therefore from the workers point of view it is not "queue barging" because it is store policy to let them walk straight in. If the people in the queue are not aware of this policy they may understandably be annoyed, but it is Waitrose HQ who made that decision

Well the store manager (probably) should be doing a better job of explaining company policy to the non NHS people queueing up.
People are pretty tolerant of policies, even if they don't agree with them providing they are explained in plenty of time and don't result in a 'surprise' when they think they're going to be next.
By explain I mean a laminated A4 next to the queue line, not the store manager walking up and down like basil fawltey..
If the customers join the line knowing that NHS workers can cut in they're a lot less likely to complain about it when it happens. If they really can't stand it, they can go and queue up somewhere else.

Ain't saying it's the NHS people's fault... More that Companies are bringing in polices that are arbitrary and non obvious.

Why don't you start a thread about it, Should the NHS be paid £2 an hour extra and see if people are happy with the idea? Some people on here object to other people giving them a clap let alone an extra £2 an hour

The key point though is that, as of yet, this is not an everlasting thing and they are continuing to respond to a difficult situation. Yet a few obnoxious little people, like Hotchocolate and anm775 are whining about their losing their place in the queue to someone objectively more deserving.. I mean of all the things to whine about

Not happy about something and actually complaining about something are too different things.

If people saw NHS staff were getting a £2 an hour extra on the news. Some indeed might think to themselves "not fair" ....but they're not going to complain about it much, because it's not affecting their day to day life the same way que jumping is.

as for the clapping thing, i expect again it goes back to favouritism. why are delivery drivers or warehouse pickers not being clapped? without them we'd all starve. There are plenty of working people doing jobs which are essential but only NHS workers are being acknowledged. Did you get mail today? why is your local postie not being cheered?

AstraZeneca have told Sky News that the they should know if the vaccine they are working on (with the university of Oxford) works by June or July. This is hopefully. I hope if it seems likely to work in the next few week to a month the government start ramping up production. We need as many of the population vaccinated asap.

Not happy about something and actually complaining about something are too different things.

If people saw NHS staff were getting a £2 an hour extra on the news. Some indeed might think to themselves "not fair" ....but they're not going to complain about it much, because it's not affecting their day to day life the same way que jumping is.

as for the clapping thing, i expect again it goes back to favouritism. why are delivery drivers or warehouse pickers not being clapped? without them we'd all starve. There are plenty of working people doing jobs which are essential but only NHS workers are being acknowledged. Did you get mail today? why is your local postie not being cheered?