It’s like showing a kid a floppy disk and them saying “wow, someone made a model of the save icon!”
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It’s one of those big thick DVDs!
though saying that, even DVDs are fast becoming a rarity
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Tell me about it! And I also had to buy a bluetooth compatible (!!!) Tape player for my Bose Sound System… it’s an odd combination
A few years ago I bought my mum a modern, wooden, “traditional style” (not the 80’s/90’s/00’s plastic hi-fi stack type) record player with inbuilt cassette and cd players (because she still has all of those things, naturally).
Better way be coming back to me in the will.
Not so fussed about the vhs/dvd combi she has…
An article on the BBC with the WHO saying the coronavirus may never go away. My basic understanding is that coronavirus is a generic name for viruses that give us anything from the common cold to more debilitating flu strains and once in a while they give one a name a bit like storms that develop into hurricanes. Thus we have been living with ‘coronaviruses’ for millennia, so for an organisation like the WHO to come up with this is laughable.
As SARS-CoV-2 is the particular coronavirus which is the virus associated with the current pandemic, it is reasonable that the general public will know which virus they are talking about. It is shorthand for the masses.
There is also a high chance that the BBC, reporting on what the WHO said, dumbed the information down. I’m trying to find the source to check.
The statements were also made in a press briefing specifically about COVID-19, so there is that context to bear in mind.
The statement was made at 1:02:06 (segment starts at 1:01:10) in the Wed 13 May 2020 conference at https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
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Incy, Teflon won’t let the facts get in the way of a good moan about the BBC.
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Not the BBC, although they’ve been chucking wood on the fire for weeks, just the way the WHO have used the generic term when we’ve survived with members of the coronavirus family in different mutations doing the rounds for millennia, ergo it’s not even been away. Just every so often one pops up that’s a bit more virulent. People have been acting ever more strangely as it is for weeks, you don’t need someone the WHO making statements like this stoking the behaviours.
Just chatting to people this last week, it’s clear that they weren’t listening to the PM on Sunday. I’ve had people say schools ARE going back on 01 JUN, people HAVE to go to work etc. I watched it and thought in essence plus ca change. But people have been made to be fearful of their own shadows. The result of which whatever we thought normal was, it won’t be like that for some considerable time. If influenza was referred to as this is another coronavirus, then this would have happened and people could apply some logic. But we’ve had a scientific term used plus another name and hoi polloi get over excited. I think they should run “the Scousers” several times during news bulletins.
I’m out shopping today, a chance to see madness in action.
Shopping for mirrors again?
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It’s all about the context though, although I accept that not everyone has the basic mental capacity to understand this, whilst others are just looking to find something to be outraged about. This was in the context of a discussion on the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Perhaps you’ll understand it better from this example. On this forum we often talk about “cadets”, using your logic this MUST be referring to all RAF Air Cadets, Sea Cadets, Army Cadets, students at military academies around the world, Canadian Air Cadets, New Zealand Army Cadets etc… However we can generally tell from the context whether people are talking about all cadets, all British cadets, all RAFAC cadets, all ATC cadets, or just cadets from 666 (Teflon) squadron.
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Also remember that mass media needs to send a single message which needs to be understood by the lowest common denominator, and that is demonstrably very low indeed.
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Someone has uploaded some “home working advice” on the announcements on sharepoint. It’s funny cause it’s about 2 months too late, but also they’ve uploaded the cadet specific welfare leaflet they produced. I’m not sure that’s what they meant…
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its funny because my employer did the same last week - despite 5 weeks of WFH for the majority of the site
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I suppose the timing thing I wouldn’t mind as much, were the content aimed at adults. I understand some cadets will work from home but the majority will be adults.
Why on earth do you need advice about working from home? It’s not hard.
I do a bit have a break, just like when I’m in, the only things you don’t get at home is phone calls and people stopping for a chat. I did pick a tip up from a friend who has worked from home for some time … just give the mouse a waggle once in a while when you’re logged in and not sitting there doing something.
I’ve spoken to some parents of cadets when I’ve seen them out and about. The kids seem to be getting enough work from school/college. A couple of parents have said they’ve tried to treat it like school starting at the same time, with breaks in the same places between lessons. As they said it gives the day some structure.
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Because some people need help maintaining clear boundaries between work and home life, probably?
My missus occasionally works from home. When she’s in her office, she has defined hours usually 07:00 until 14:00, plus a 30 minute lunch break (which she has been told she must take).
When she’s working from home, she’s often contacted by her colleagues anytime her office is open - between 06:00 and 18:00. In the past, someone has tried to phone her whilst on her lunch. She ignored it, and 10 minutes later, got an email from her manager, asking her to call the office ASAP, and was then questioned on why she wasn’t answering her phone…
In the office, her colleagues wouldn’t think of pressuring her to work extra hours. For some reason, when she is working at home, all of that goes out of the window, and she is expected to be working 12 hour days instead of 7.
Working from home is generally a good thing, but, like our Bader emails, it’s very easy for the volume of work to leach into home life, and it takes a good amount of self discipline to switch off when you’re meant to. Some people struggle with the lack of structure, which is why these guides are needed.
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Demonstrates the importance of some sort of status indicator. We have a chat system and we set status to indicate we are unavailable when we are at lunch or otherwise away form the computer.
Also, the response of “I was at lunch” or “I finished at 2!” should elicit nothing more or less than an apology.
I’m based on my works laptop during my office hours. You won’t get me before I turn that on at the start of the day, or after I shut it all down at “hometime”. If you call my mobile to try to get me, it had better be an emergency as that is what I am contracted to handle out of hours.
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The French arm of our company it is routine for them to block out lunches or if you try and book a skype meeting in during lunch with them you normally get reminded quite bluntly.
It’s a culture thing for them
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End of last year I visited an Italian defence contractor - everyone went to the canteen for their three course lunch for €0.38 and then walked back the long way to the factory gate via the bar at the corner for a coffee and a smoke.
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Sounds like my kind of job!
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