emily deacon
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
So I work for a multi-national company with customers all over the world, offices in several countries and manufacturing activities in 3 continents.
Last week, executive management tell everyone in the UK that due to the Coronavirus, international business travel is banned unless it is 'business critical' and then only with the approval of executive management. Nothing wrong with that you might think and I'd agree.
Today we learned that we are expecting a 'team' of people to visit the UK offices, and they are travelling from - wait for it - wait for it - YES, Korea! And they're only coming to look around our UK manufacturing facility, they aren't actually doing anything that can be even remotely thought of as business critical.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Hmm, simalar stuff was happening at a company I'm working for? (On & off a few months back.)
Are there any moves to replace staff retiring/recently retired or just moved on elsewhere. With phrasing used when enquiring about the new vacant position like "we've no plans to expand at present." Perchance?
Well it's possible as we've had a recruitment freeze for months despite losing several (very angry) staff members but as far as I know they (the Koreans) aren't staying long - but we'll see.
Coronavirus has pretty much shut down our factory in Beijing and the office in Shanghai so at the moment the UK factory is working hard to fill the gaps and we've re-hired most of the contractors that we sacked just before Christmas. It's a crazy world!
what sick day rules do you follow? i usually just adjust as i go and see how my sugars are
Thank you for this Juicyj!I honestly think that this is panic at it's best - the flu does far worse damage yet as we've never had the chance to track a flu epidemic so we have no comparison tool it's only because this is a new strain that the focus is on this variant, the media have really played up on this, just keep calm, wash your hands and carry on as life intended.
And that terrifies meIt's not helping that there are deaths of people who were diabetic.
No I wasn't jokingI gave you a funny icon...you were joking weren't you? x