My motivation in posting this topic was that I anticipate a situation where the “management” presses the “restore factory settings” button and finds that the already scarce and ageing HGV1s have abandoned their licences and DCPCs or followed different career options. I am unsure whether the military has maintained its tradition of putting leavers through their HGV and cpc licences and how much of a buffer this provides for us. Will the economy slowly develope into recovery mode or will there be a mamoth backlog to make up. Will there be an overseas pool of labour on which we can draw.
When the pubs open. That to me, is the end.
I’m hoping for a biblical return to grace, with street parties, town centres heaving, and the lot. Much like during the 2012 Olympics, and the last World Cup.
I can sort of anticipate what you’re saying, Optimum. I think a lot of this furlough stuff could possibly persuade some of those close to retirement to take it early.
It was mentioned in another thread that all this is the perfect excuse for companies to reduce terms and conditions. Our lot have already started. We were told we’d need to take a temporary 20% pay cut, and allow temporary suspension of our union agreement. Refusal would result in redundancy, obviously. I resigned a while ago, so just working notice. The next day the management gleefully announced that 100% of the workforce agreed. Personally, I think these cuts will stay for good. The “You should be happy to have a job” mantra will come into play…
Which brings me to the point that the further race to bottom persuades drivers to jack in, and dissuades more young people for joining.
Also, as it stands, people are subconsciously getting used to e-commerce, and building a reliance on buying things on line. As opposed to walking into a shop. Things like next day delivery will really take off. I reckon this will lead to a boom in parcel transport, and firms like DHL, DPD, FedEx, Royal Mail, etc will have new opportunities for big expansion. Perhaps many lorry drivers will move to driving vans for these firms, on better Ts&Cs?..
I can see a few things happening
1st McDonalds will be busy be a shortage of burgers as everyone rushes out to get there 1st McDonalds
2nd be death of the high street.
As People buy more n more online be it shopping eBay etc.or even takeaways getting delivered.
The nation will become.more lazy have everything delivered to there door
3rd be a step towards a cashless society as we’re being encoiged to use contacless more .
4th people will become more anti social warey of others just in case.
5th more people working from home
6th when does end be a nightmare on the roads for a few days as everyoneheads back to work.
sweden is mostly cashless with in normal times a lot of places refusing to accept cash.
if you have cash,you cant pay it into your bank account as your local branch will refuse it and you have to make an appointment at the head office branch,then explain with proof as to how you came by it.
i cant remember the figure but even with that hassle you can only pay in something like £1000 a month without it turning into a murder inquiry .
all the banks are linked to a thing called “swish” which works similar to paypal and instantly bulletproof as when you see the transfer,then its swish that has paid you and therefore your money .
the only downside is that for similar scallywags to myself,then theres no option for back pocket cash as you cant spend it or buy anything.
ive had to buy a couple of boats in sweden and the private individuals would only accept swish and refused cash.
if you get robbed,then if your at the cashline and put your pin in backwards,the cops will be there pronto to try and catch the scally.
all in all a good system apart from the budding arfur daleys amongs us.