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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Only read headline but was mentioning that though thousands have looked at or expressed interest in fruit/veg picking (tens of thousands of positions) only hundred or so have actually turned up.
Is this fear of mixing, unable to travel, or other reasonable reason or just that people don't want to do the job? Do the government need to be maybe firmer with those whose salaries they are picking up? My wife said she did the job one season while a student, lots of those not at college at the moment.
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The government is paying 80% of my salary, I don't want to work ing a field picking fruit & veg, it has nothing to do with me being an office bod. It's the fact I live at home and I'm currently looking after may dad who is 76, so have no intentions of risking him.
My HR manager calls every Wednesday to see how my mum is doing (in the Nursing home),
I did have a shock when I got my pay slip it was over half of what I should have been getting, but he said sorry he made a mistake (I had taked 2 day unpaid when I took my mum to A&E and 2 SSP while in self-isolation before being furloughed).
When corrected I was within £5 of what I guessed I should have got.
I've only left my home to go to Sainsbury's to shop when bread or milk run short, luckily my Sainsbury's has a Lloyds pharmacy who look after our meds and I now phone when the next prescription is due.
I stand outside my mums nurising home window and talk to her, yes we speak daily on the phone, but she NEEDS to physically see us at least once a week. (Back in 2015 she was in a hospital which was a 4 to 5 hour round trip, and I struggked to see her twice a week, her mental suffered as a result, that will NEVER happen again)