Coronavirus: Are you looking forward to a lockdown?

[TurboHatchback]

So who here is looking forward to a coronavirus lockdown? For me it would be great, I can't work from home and my job would not be considered essential, I have a big garden, workshop and garage to play with, I live in a very nice Dorset seaside holiday destination, it's just me and the girlfriend and I avoid socialising and contact with the public as much as possibly all the time anyway. Bring it on I say.

How would it be for you?

[HarryFlatters]

I'm easily able to work from home. If my managers weren't such fuddy-duddies I'd only ever go into the office for meetings.

Edit - I've become fairly introverted since my daughter's traumatic birth last year, and my work messing me around. I'd happily work from home until I retire. Hanging out with my wife and bairn seems a much better way of spending my days than associating with this shower of bds.

Edited by HarryFlatters on Tuesday 10th March 14:19

[Bullett]

I work from homr pretty much full time anyway. The head honcho just issued a ban on all travel internal and external unless critical and needed direct approval from him.

Lockdown would be a pain in the arse as I'd have to share the house with the kids.

[21TonyK]

For me, bloody annoying. I work in a school so will have two weeks off over Easter anyway add in another week or two and I'll start going a bit mad if its crap weather.

I can;t work from home as such but have 3-4 days worth of paperwork I could catch up on but thats about it.

[anonymous-user]

I work from home 2-3 days a week so really wouldn't be that different

[anonymous-user]

Would love it, I can and much prefer working from home as I despise most people I encounter.

[Sarmo]

I'm a contractor (and so are the other 200 people who work with me) and our client has a very limited capacity to let us work from home, although our work can be done from home.

So, no, I'm not looking forward to it at all.

[Pebbles167]

I work on the railway, so wouldnt surprise me if we had to still go in. Our work gets planned a year in advance, and our team costs a lot to have on site.

Would be nice to be able to drive to London with less traffic though!

Will be interesting if it happens.

[Johnnytheboy]

One the one side, living in the same part of the world as the OP I can definitely see the plus side. I live in the middle of nowhere, have a cupboard full of food and a huge list of gardening to do.

On the other, if some or all my team at work is sent home for a couple of weeks, I'll be the one that has to deal with the fallout before, during and after, even though what we do is really not important.

[bobtail4x4]

I work from home, not at home,

I still have to go out to meet the great unwashed.

[Otispunkmeyer]

Can't really work from home owing to the large amount of expensive equipment I use at work.

Having said that, if they send everyone else home and regular test work stops, it'll mean I get more time to work on my things and it will probably all get done a hell of a lot faster!

[FourWheelDrift]

anonymous said:

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It's another outbreak.

[Gary29]

I could (and should already!) work from home, but my company are stuck in the dark ages and no one works from home.

So I'm hoping that this will cause managers to rethink the way we work and encourage more working from home, in an ideal world, I'd do three days at home and two in the office (production facility) so I can deal with manufacturing queries.

But obviously our lads on the shop floor can't work from home, so they'd be a bit stuck.

Being isolated at home for a few weeks wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

[Prohibiting]

I already work from home
I already don't socialise
I already avoid people as much as possible
No changes here for me!

[KrazyIvan]

anonymous said:

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And yet you opened it, read it (assuming you did) and posted, there by furthing it.

Me if happily be locked down for two weeks, I have backlog of unplayed games, unwatched movies and uneaten pizzas

[FerrousOxide]

Amused by all the posters saying "I can't work from home so it'd be terrible". I can't work from home, so being told to stay at home for 2 weeks would be bloody brilliant!

As others have said, loads of gardening/DIY/projects to attend to, and I can walk up to the moors from here without going past a single house so if I do start going stir crazy I could slip out without any danger of meeting anyone. (Obviously wouldn't do that if I was showing symptoms).

Being cooped up with my 4 year-old and (particularly) the Mrs would be the downside.

[Stussy]

I collect milk from farms, part of a 24/7 365 operation, so definitely couldn’t work from home!
It would be interesting if a lot of drivers were off, most farms are daily or every other day collections.
It wouldn’t take too many being off for there to be big issues at the dairy, the one we go to processes 3 million litres every 24hrs to be made into cheese. That would then mean the farmers dumping the milk if it’s not collected

[FourWheelDrift]

[Ding dong]
"Who on earth could that be?"
"It's ok dear it's just the postman"

[bigandclever]

Ive been self-isolating since before you hipsters got on the bandwagon.

[Stussy]

On a related note, one of YouGov’s questions today is could you work form home?

The current results are:
Yes 28%
No 30%
Not currently working 38%
Not sure 4%