Discounts

[soliloquy]

Morrisons is offering 10% discount to NHS workers, teachers and blue light workers. But what about others who have worked to keep services running throughout the pandemic? Bus and train drivers have ensured that there has always been public transport and Postal workers have kept the mail moving. I'm sure there are others who deserve our gratitude too.

[Spicerack]

Know what you mean but I suppose they can do whatever they like.

[Zacs-Master]

They’re not on the front line tho are they.

[bobbinwales]

Shopworkers have worked and usually get staff discounts at all times

[douglas9401]

They're hardly going to be covered in glory by supporting the RMT rather than the angels who tend our fevered brows now, are they.

[Mamyalynne]

Different scheme last month and that brought views too.

Maybe they are doing a rolling programme for different sectors of the workforce.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1726452.html

[237SJ]

I was recently looking to open an easy access savings account. One of the building societies I was looking at had a 'thank you' account for NHS workers. It was offering 1.65% interest to NHS workers. The rest of us minions would have got .25%. Why? If anything, I would have thought the minimum wage earners would deserve a better interest rate. Mind you, they probably don`t earn enough money to be able to save anything.

[douglas9401]

One should always bear in mind that behind the jolly dancing carrots, flying snowmen and checkout operators with perfect teeth who appear on billboards and our screens there's a group of stony-faced accountants with their collective eye on the prize.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Morrisons have offered the 10% discount to NHS workers from day one back in March as far as I can remember. Don't agree with teachers though.

[New Judge]

//They’re not on the front line tho are they.//

Nor is my neighbour. She's a receptionist at a mental health clinic. But she's got an NHS ID card round her neck, went to the front of the queue when there were queues outside the supermarkets, and would no doubt be given 10% discount in Morrisons.

Without bus drivers many nurses would not be able to get to their front line. We're all interdependent. Without the post nobody would receive their call up to receive the vaccine, and without the bus neither the nurse administering it nor the patients receiving it would be able to get to the hospital. The patients would simply be recorded as "no shows" of course. :-)

[tomus42]

I guess if people are that angry about the unfairness of it all they can always shop elsewhere.

[New Judge]

I'm not angry about it, tomus. It doesn't bother me that much. But it would bother me if I learned she was being given priority for the vaccination as a "health worker". Because she's not.

[New Judge]

And I've just noticed...TEACHERS????

Perlease !!!!

[Mamyalynne]

Oh, did you miss that one the first time around?

[New Judge]

Yes I certainly did. You read what you want to see I suppose but I cannot imagine why teachers have been lumped together with health and emergency workers.

[237SJ]

All workers keep the economy and country running. There are risks with all jobs (heaven knows there were with mine) and you know those risks when you go into that industry. If you are risk averse, then you sit in an office somewhere, pushing a pen around. That's life

[bednobs]

is this really news?

[Mamyalynne]

More Shopping topic really.

[Atheist]

The government has threatened to force local authorities to keep schools open. Schoolchildren are not social distancing (it can't realistically be expected) and teachers and kids are regularly testing posiotive for covid and being forced to self-isolate. Many teachers have their own young families. It seems to be a widespread view that schoolchildren should not be deprived of schooling. Teachers are under huge pressure and are as usual undervalued in this country.

[Atheist]

Front line workers includes all those whose jobs require daily close contact with the public. Police (dealing with anti mask and anti vax demos) delivery drivers, postmen and many others.

[Apc2604]

//And I've just noticed...TEACHERS????

Perlease !!!! //

My first thought too NJ!