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Mar. 21st, 2020 03:01 pmI've just watched my first daily Coronavirus briefing. It started off with a subtitle so long it looked like the Environment, Food and Rurual Affairs Secretary was 'giving up' - they later shortened it to clarify he was giving an update. They didn't really say anything except 'there is food', 'calm down', 'be responsible' and 'think about the NHS'. Boris wasn't even there. And beautifully, at the end, a man who was clearly either a journalist who had to try to write up those messages, or someone in charge of an organisation who had to try to write up policy based on it, just threw his hands up in the air, like 'what the fuck was that?'. It didn't provide us with direction.
I've made it to my paid leave, but I'm no longer confident I'll get my full paid leave, as I was talking to one of the other receptionists about everything and she pointed out she has kids, and the schools are closing, so she's not sure what she'll be doing about work next week. I feel strongly they might try to call me back off my leave to cover for her, if so, but at least I might make some extra money out of it. And I won't have to worry about being sent home at a moment's notice, as they wouldn't bother to call me in unless they wanted me there. That's if the big company still want receptionists by that point. It's nice that the government have offered to pay a lot of people's wages, but I don't know if that will apply to me. I suspect it might apply to my company's CEOs and my manager, but not to me. But we'll see.
My mum fell yesterday and hurt her hand, and for a while we thought it might be broken and she'd have to deal with a pot as well as a lockdown. She went into the hospital and there was no break though, so she's fine. And I went to go get my Animal Crossing Switch, which I successfully did. But before that my dad asked me to take some things into the charity shop, and when I went in with bags, the man tending the shop leaned over right into my face to look at them, and literally put his hands over my hands to take them off me. It was not very socially distant. So that was unfortunate. I did manage to get my Switch though. And the guy in the games shop managed to clone my data from the old one onto it, and the internet and Nintendo eShop were even working long enough for me to download Animal Crossing from the code in the box. It's a fun game.
I don't know how to afford everything I want when what I want is 'everything'. I know this is a minor problem at a time like this, but still. It was an issue even when I had a regular source of income.
I've made it to my paid leave, but I'm no longer confident I'll get my full paid leave, as I was talking to one of the other receptionists about everything and she pointed out she has kids, and the schools are closing, so she's not sure what she'll be doing about work next week. I feel strongly they might try to call me back off my leave to cover for her, if so, but at least I might make some extra money out of it. And I won't have to worry about being sent home at a moment's notice, as they wouldn't bother to call me in unless they wanted me there. That's if the big company still want receptionists by that point. It's nice that the government have offered to pay a lot of people's wages, but I don't know if that will apply to me. I suspect it might apply to my company's CEOs and my manager, but not to me. But we'll see.
My mum fell yesterday and hurt her hand, and for a while we thought it might be broken and she'd have to deal with a pot as well as a lockdown. She went into the hospital and there was no break though, so she's fine. And I went to go get my Animal Crossing Switch, which I successfully did. But before that my dad asked me to take some things into the charity shop, and when I went in with bags, the man tending the shop leaned over right into my face to look at them, and literally put his hands over my hands to take them off me. It was not very socially distant. So that was unfortunate. I did manage to get my Switch though. And the guy in the games shop managed to clone my data from the old one onto it, and the internet and Nintendo eShop were even working long enough for me to download Animal Crossing from the code in the box. It's a fun game.
I don't know how to afford everything I want when what I want is 'everything'. I know this is a minor problem at a time like this, but still. It was an issue even when I had a regular source of income.
