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A mate of mine who works in a different department was sent a state of play type email from the assistant sec. Gave a breakdown of whoâs doing what. It included 30 who were âat home available for work but unable to do so remotelyâ
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Honestly mate, youâd nearly have been better off if she tested positive, ye all got it, isolated and moved on, because the way things are looking, itâll happen sooner or later.
My lass is out of quarantine on Friday, back to school Monday, and highly likely just to have the same happen again.
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Your mate sounds like a fair low level grunt, which is saying something in the CS
He referred to the 30 sitting on their holes since March as âabsolute heroesâ
Thatâs the mindset of the civil servant
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Not sure what department that was but itâs possible they could be service officers or cleaning staff, mail delivery people etc.
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a significant number of worker drones from my dept have already been assigned to this and to assisting DEASP with the PUP.
no internet capable of sustaining WFH.
weâve 7 like that in our dept
It could be. I know of a few who have no laptop or bad internet and gotten out of it that way.
Itâs actually very annoying because we now have to do a heap of work in the airport to help clear backlogs from other sections because their staff canât all attend work
This is some farce 
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Absolutel joke. No powers of enforcement so hoping to enforce by delay
We were quite lucky, our department introduced portable pc type devices last year so Iâm pretty much fully operational at home.
If we hadnât gotten them Iâd have been at home squinting at an iPhone 6 trying to read and write emails and getting logged out due to security every five minutes.
Not everyone in every department has a mobile device and thereâs a hell of a lot of jobs especially at lower levels that are are paper based or canât be done from home. Thatâs before you get to the service officers, mail, security, cleaning or whatever else.
Of course itâs easier to just bash civil servants.
Can someone answer me this. How can the virus spread so quickly through nursing homes but not through schools? Students in schools are in closer proximity to each other that patients in nursing homes are to each other. Are the nursing home clusters mainly spread by staff members?
Most of the teachers Iâve spoken to including Mrs Mac (who is a teacher cc @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy) say that most kids are not really abiding by Social Distancing outside of the classroom. And thereâs plenty of confirmed cases in schools. Any obvious reason that it doesnât spread around schools as quickly?
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Our annoyance in particular is that we are all in work, full time (as we have been since March) doing the work of another section because itâs not safe for them to return to work. The airport must be some sort of magic anti-viral building.
I know with some of our systems thereâs also a security issue and they canât be accessed remotely.
I wouldnât bash civil servants en masse, theyâre no lazier than anyone else. But lazy civil servants know theyâll get away with doing nothing in situations like this (in my experience)
I would have no problem paying an extra 10% back in March/April but we are nearly 7 months on now. If we were to pay an extra 10% that would mean we would have the toughest restrictions in Europe and also the highest tax rate in Europe. A large % of people you would be taking money from are already hard pressed between mortgage and childcare costs which is like having a 2nd mortgage. A huge number of people would likely be dragged into that net of needing supports themselves. It would be like writing a blank cheque. It is not quantifiable the amount you would have to pay as we donât know the duration or how often they are going to shut down the country. So to answer your question - no of course its not fair but we shouldnât be here. I cant argue the position or put myself in the shoes of a government that have backed themselves into a corner and compounded their own errors. Pubs, restaurants etc should be given a proper chance.
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Theyâre called Laptops, you stupid bastard.
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Shots fired!
I was just going to post that 
Its the Internet Jen, it doesnât weigh anything 
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âThere is a constitutional protection of the home,â he said.
âHaving gardaĂ positioned outside your home during a house party will really dampen the mood.â
Another fella who has lost the run of themselves. Generally happens when bad behavior and decision making go unchecked.
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