Cherish this time together, it’s truly special (allegedly).
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It’s the father’s day present you never really wanted
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Happened in our afterschool crèche last few weeks. 10 days out for all affected close contacts. Crèche was fully closed for 4 days
Close contact kids needed 2 x negative tests before returning. Didn’t impact my kids thankfully
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Just got a text saying the crèche is considered one pod due to small numbers and the HSE has therefore declared everyone a close contact. So we need to wait for confirmation of a test for him and then the 10 days from last contact with confirmed case will apply. I don’t know when the little stealth bomber was last in crèche but hopefully it was as far back as last midweek so they might all be back next Monday. We’ll have to wait and see, but I hereby withdraw my criticism of Brian Lohan and the Clare County Board. We’ll have a team bonding week at home now.
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You can forget about boozy lunches in the 51 til all the stealth bombers are given the all clear.
With all the elderly and vulnerable now vaccinated, it’s a shocking decision and dereliction of parental duties to actively seek out and willingly bring a crèche attending child for a COVID test in this phase of the pandemic. It’s an attack on the crèche, the staff, the attendees and the family members. They’ve essentially gotten the entire business shut down and fucked over around twenty families due to their own folly and selfishness.
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A shame the 2PM games are gone, that coulda been special time to bond and watch football with the youngsters.
I’m 7 minutes into a 150 minute zoom meeting here and I’m considering setting fire to myself. How do ye lads who (pretend to) work at home do this?!
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Thanks for all the supportive PMs and phone calls, guys. I know many of you have been patiently waiting for an update.
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So the little stealth bomber was in crèche on Friday, 18 June.
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This means close contacts need two tests, one ASAP (in HSE terms) and another after 10 days.
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So second tests will be on or around Monday, 28 June.
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Creche will reopen next midweek if those second tests come back negative in the day or so afterwards.
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If not, it’ll be closed for the full 2 weeks and reopen on Monday, 5 July.
Now getting back to our situation. Our childminder for the youngest chap (who’s coincidentally due to start crèche next week) said she’d happily mind both of them until the crèche reopens provided the oldest chap’s first test was negative.
So what did we do? We blatantly acted against HSE instructions, which was to strictly wait for them to contact us with a first test appointment and not to use a walk in centre. That appointment only came through yesterday lunchtime for a test this morning at Croke Park. But instead I had already taken him to Croke Park for a walk in test myself and we have a negative test result in our arse pockets* two days earlier than we otherwise would have.
Why the fuck would you wait in our situation? What if we were in jobs where we were meeting people? You obviously want to know if your child has it ASAP so you know if you’re a close contact yourself. No difference between walk in or HSE organised test - same venue, same distancing, same process, same mix of walk ins, close contacts and those with symptoms coming and going.
Overall, it’s a case of huzzah!
*on our phones
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You not allowed turn off your camera? They wanted to rotate the hosting duties of our meetings but because of the kids my participation is unfortunately very limited so hosting was out of the question. The potential for visual and audio interruptions from the kids mean I have can only listen in, I turn off camera and mute my side.
quit and rejoin the meeting 4 or 5 times and then apologise and say youre having serious broadband issues and have to leave the meeting
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I’ve the camera off but I’ve to answer and do the odd task.
I’m on the cusp of phoning in a bomb scare to the airport
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I’d a call with Microsoft a few months ago. On Teams. Obviously. None of them had cameras on. They’d be using it a few years now. It was used to share screen alright.
The camera on is the same mentality that saw lads jump on planes for a one hour meeting “because they had to be seen to make the effort”.
Cameras are needed for some meetings - a new contact or client or a business development meeting over Zooms can benefit from a video interaction.
Operational calls don’t need cameras but do benefit from screen sharing.
We have swapped one behaviour we laugh at now (traveling to silly meetings) for another form of it
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This would be a 25 minute call if STUPID questions were banned
theres no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people
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I moved into the fast paced world of consultancy a few months back. For the first couple of workshops I would have had the camera on as I was leading the discussions and felt it was important for the client to get a sense of my “engagement” while doing so.
Come day three the camera stopped and hadn’t been used since. Teams is great except for the fact that I have three laptops and three separate teams/office accounts these days which makes it awkward at times. Would be great if you could sync the various accounts together
My organisation is getting cold feet about allowing more WFH despite over 80% of staff wanting to. A whiff of the Lisbon Treaty as we need to run the survey again in Q4 to be sure.
My sources tell me his is happening across the board. Forget about your WFH lads
I want my island.