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Compulsory Wearing of Facemasks Indoors

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iHateD2Ds
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Post by iHateD2Ds »

Chelseablue wrote:Anyone managed to get a flu jab yet ? Lol. If you work for Amazon youlle be fine , they get theres done in the workplace . As well as a fornightly Covid test . Royal mail have been very poor through all this .
Absolutely appalling the way Royal Mail have managed or not managed the working environment and practice.
No staggered start times, no social distancing(two to a frame tying up mail) all they have done at my office place is provide PPE.

They’ve got away with it during the the summer with just one or two isolated COVID cases but now it’s seems to be sweeping through the office massively ,It was on the cards just waiting to happen!


I opted to start later during avoid the morning carnage and now I’ve started to wear a mask indoors.

All I can say is you’ve gotta look out for yourself because this company does not give a s**t about you.
19times
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Post by 19times »

Reading some comments on here, so anyone can say they are exempt and you don't need to show proof :so there bit strange that one!
Woody Guthrie
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Post by Woody Guthrie »

19times wrote:Reading some comments on here, so anyone can say they are exempt and you don't need to show proof :so there bit strange that one!
Strange and completely unworkable.

Since the mask protects others would I be able to walk out if someone wasn't wearing a mask citing Section 44 Employment Rights Act 1996?

(d) in circumstances of danger which the employee reasonably believed to be serious and imminent and which he could not reasonably have been expected to avert, he left (or proposed to leave) or (while the danger persisted) refused to return to his place of work or any dangerous part of his place of work, or

(e) in circumstances of danger which the employee reasonably believed to be serious and imminent, he took (or proposed to take) appropriate steps to protect himself or other persons from the danger.
Only dead fish follow the current
jon1ty
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Post by jon1ty »

Woody Guthrie wrote:
2yearpostie wrote:There you go same as the law, if you have a medical exemption you dont have to wear one.
For obvious reasons you will need to show evidence of that exemption otherwise the entire office could claim to have an exemption.
no your wrong you don,t have to show nothing
Wigglypark
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Post by Wigglypark »

Double negative = have to show something
wazer
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Post by wazer »

got no prob wearing mask, I wear one on route and when go into shops. Don't wear one in work but yes I agree we should. Our unit socail distance is crap. Signing in station managers always round it chatting. Floor and area not really set up for covid. One small sign at bottom of main entrance door saying wash hands, but no cleaning station till u get inside by signing on desk. H&s a joke there, all the reps seems concerned about us OT. If we were a shop we would b shut down.
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

par4mrl wrote:I wear glasses so I can’t see with one on and I can’t see if I wear one without glasses on
Good job you don't work for the NHS then as they have had to wear one for months now. Honestly, there's plenty of folk wearing masks and glasses just fine.
Sir Henry
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Post by Sir Henry »

biggiehud wrote:Can’t believe we have been going through this for 8 months and all you sheep still believe this bullshit I work in a big office in a big town know a lot of people and still don’t know anybody whos had it or been ill or died this country has died people are just walking zombies

Quoting to preserve this comedy genius for posterity.
"A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation, yet we still keep producing mouths to feed. And what's you answer to that? Energy saving lightbulbs?"
Deadly
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Post by Deadly »

biggiehud wrote:Can’t believe we have been going through this for 8 months and all you sheep still believe this bullshit I work in a big office in a big town know a lot of people and still don’t know anybody whos had it or been ill or died this country has died people are just walking zombies
I think your tin foil hat has slipped over your eyes :roll: :crazy:
2yearpostie
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Post by 2yearpostie »

biggiehud wrote:Can’t believe we have been going through this for 8 months and all you sheep still believe this bullshit I work in a big office in a big town know a lot of people and still don’t know anybody whos had it or been ill or died this country has died people are just walking zombies
Strange i work in a small office and in the village i work in ive seen 3 customers with it, one lady in her 50s who was an office manager and now looks about 90 with grey skin, and one colleague in a former Royal office who was off for 2 mths.
aiden01
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Post by aiden01 »

biggiehud wrote:Can’t believe we have been going through this for 8 months and all you sheep still believe this bullshit I work in a big office in a big town know a lot of people and still don’t know anybody whos had it or been ill or died this country has died people are just walking zombies
Go on also tell us you have a big mouth aswell :arrrghhh :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
blakeyboy
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Post by blakeyboy »

Masks seem to be lowering the cases right down so must be working well
Partyondude
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Post by Partyondude »

Government website states one of the mask exemption reasons is

"causing extreme stress or discomfort"

and states you are not allowed to be asked to prove your exemption.

And how would you prove that anyway
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

frankieboy wrote:Was told today if anyone found not wearing a mask without a good reason will be sent home without pay.
So its a medical condition or a refusal of the act of wearing one?
jon1ty
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Post by jon1ty »

Woody Guthrie wrote:
2yearpostie wrote:There you go same as the law, if you have a medical exemption you dont have to wear one.
For obvious reasons you will need to show evidence of that exemption otherwise the entire office could claim to have an exemption.
more lies