Thought I’d share this blog post from Martin Shaw of the Huddersfield Examiner, on lockdown and being furloughed.
I call it the F-word. Until Coronavirus no one had ever heard of furloughing.
It’s where employees are temporarily laid off while the Government pays 80% of their wages. Yesterday it happened to me.
I got the call mid-morning and by the end of the day I was done. It could be a minimum of three weeks but it could be three months.
In my job I’d been used to working up to 12 hours a day. From full-on to zero literally overnight. What will I do with myself?
This is Day 15 of U.K. Lockdown, of course. No one to see and nowhere to go.
In fact going out is banned other than nipping out for food or one short daily exercise. There never were such times. No, really. There never were such times.
I’ve been paid to write for over three decades now. God, that makes me sound…
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