LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2020

I try not to think about this because it makes my blood boil. Being furloughed means you cannot do any paid work for your company, so with this mind the very day the company put us on furlough they asked us if we would "volunteer" to empty two containers full of shower trays (around 1500 in total) in early May, so they want us to empty two of these


coming from China, they are 6 weeks on the water so they would have been manufactured in mid to late February, we lost a lot of jobs initially with these imports but this seems like a sick joke but sadly it isn't.

 

Could have been worse Volunteers wanted to test coronavirus vaccine in Oxford

 

Well at least you'd be doing it for a real good cause.

 

My moan is this, what do members think?

Scottish tycoon Duncan Bannatyne has blasted an airline boss calling for a £7.5 billion taxpayer bailout to save the aviation industry from collapse.

The gym chain owner and former Dragons’ Den panelist says the taxpayer needs to bail out “the poor, the starving, the ill and the disabled”, not billionaire owners of airlines.

His comments came after Peter Norris, chairman of Virgin Atlantic’s majority shareholder, said he will write to the Prime Minister on Monday to warn that the sector needs immediate financial aid to survive.

My personal take on this is, here is a man worth Billions of Pounds with a Private Island and he wants help, I won't write what I think of this person for the fear of getting banned on this site.

 

I'm sorry @john558 , I just don't get what your moan is. I totally agree with him. These airline bosses are paying themselves millions in wages and bonuses etc and then asking for help. Why should the taxpayer bail them out ?

Where is Duncan Bannatyne asking for money ?

 

They should get a George Medal.

 

It's not always easy to get the sense of what someone is saying but I think @john558 is actually slagging off Peter Norris if I'm reading it right.

 

Hi KFF, that's my gripe, why should Branson get any Government hand out, Duncan Bannatyne is not asking for money, he's saying Branson shouldn't get any money

 

There's no such thing as 'government money', they're not paying out their own pockets, it's taxpayer's money.

If businesses, self-employed, banks, pension funds, laid off employees, etc. all have their losses made good, who's left to foot the bill - the unemployed, sick and pensioners?

 

The whole point of my post was should any money where ever it came from be paid to the Billionaire Richard Branson.

 

Sorry John, I think I just misread it .

 

If it's only two containers, how long would this take ?

Wouldn't you be helping the company survive and doing your bit for the community spirit as you're getting paid 80% of your wages for sitting at home anyway.

 

@KFF OUCH, believe you me I'd prefer to be earning my full wages not sitting at home anyway, I've been working there 16 years and never had a sickie in 16 years, not so naive to not know that looking after the company I'm looking after my own job(but that's what the lads who got finished because of the imports also said) it'll take roughly 90 mins per container and yes I'll be one of the "volunteers" and we'll shove them with the other 5000 or so we have in stock even though there's no orders going out but still seems like a sick joke to me regardless.

 

No problem KFF, confusing times at the moment.