Perfect, that is exactly how it works. 'John' used to be our attack dog. John has now moved into the warehouse and is the fall guy for any incorrect shipments sent out.
You are right. We've said exactly all of that to him last night. And he gets it. But he is just so very wary and worried about causing them any hassle...
Definitely something to consider doing for the future - if there is a future for venue-based performing arts ...
It is ... he sounds quite enthusiastic about an alternative that could see him teaching Media Studies, Journalism, Communications - even English
It is ... he sounds quite enthusiastic about an alternative that could see him teaching 1] Media Studies, 2] Journalism, 3] Communications - even 4] English
His problem is always going to be that he is currently doing his 'dream job' - you know - that one we are told to imagine doing but that few of us ever get to do - even if we have a clue what it might be. He is doing it. And because of that every other job will start as, at best, a second best...but hey. He knows his whole career in the performing arts sector is currently exploded and up in the air, and when the bits come down comes it most probably will look very different - at least for the coming year or so.
Anyway...
One thing he may want to try. In communication with them, I would imagine when invoicing, chasing money etc it is email, create a ficticious accounts person. Male or female, take your pick. That 'person' deals with chasing payments, they are separate from your son. That keeps his working relationship separate and untouched. If someone ever rings for them, they are busy, on holiday, only work a couple of days a week etc. That person can be a little more aggressive and impersonal when chasing accounts. It gets back to Don Corelone. It is a good trick and surprisingly effective for 1 man bands, small companies etc who do not employ an accounts person. (I may or may not be talking from personal experience)
Imurg has made a great point in his post, if they are not paying him is the relationship really that good or is it just one way? He needs to be more business like or it will just end up being a glorified hobby.
You are right. We've said exactly all of that to him last night. And he gets it. But he is just so very wary and worried about causing them any hassle...
An interesting thing one of my best mates told me this weekend was that, even though Sweden hasn't had a lockdown, his brother works for one of Sweden's biggest beer breweries, and YoY they're down 70% during this period. So, I guess the takeaway from this is that we need to start drinking again to get up and running towards normailty.
You are right. We've said exactly all of that to him last night. And he gets it. But he is just so very wary and worried about causing them any hassle...
Indeed we tried hard to explain that to him last night.
A chasing Email can be understanding of the situation the company is in - and can simply be asking them to acknowledge that they still have to pay him for the work he did on their behalf back in February.
But he is clearly very nervous that he might damage the good relationship he has established with them - they are a small company and the work he gets is all about the relationship he has established with the business manager and those who allocate the jobs among the reps (of which he is but one). There is also the issue that we think he feels accepting not getting paid might help keep the business afloat, and as he depends on them for more than half of his work...well...we have tried to explain that the business afloat or not is not his problem even though it folding would cause him a massive problem.
Anyway - he has started to consider that there might have to be an alternative working life outside of the performing arts sector - and so is looking into teaching (most likely as half the furloughed workforce may be doing
Summary requires more abbreviations to help it flow better ?
So is this paper saying that there is already a level of adaptive immunity in the community based on other exposures to members of the coronavirus family? Is that your interpretation?
Welcome to the world of science papers, you need an enigma codebreaker alongside a science degree??
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@Backache seems to have good knowledge around this area, way better than mine. The way I interpret the viral loading is that the initial innate immune response which gives you all your fever etc goes into overdrive the more virus is initially taken on board. It's then up to your adaptive immune system to come up with the antibody. If you have other antibodies full previous corona virus infections maybe they can help dampen down the innate response?It is like WTH
And the detailed paper isn't much better when I scan read it
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30610-3.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420306103%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
I think so, certainly how I read it, plus viral loading, would imagine you may know more? I know sweet toddles about it to be honest, just enjoy the reading up about it all. Going to look for some write ups of the paper tonight, if there are any, perhaps in plain English to understand more of it
There goes an evening of banter with the wife
My son is having to come to us for financial support as £1000 he is owned for work done in February has not appeared.
He tells us that all employees of the event management company he does the work for have been furloughed, and, given the nature of the business and the 'ad-hoc' nature of the work he gets from them, he is reluctant to contact them further to push for payment. I have a horrid feeling he may never see that money. What a mess.
Anyway - spoke to a neighbour yesterday who is a South West trains driver. He was on his way home from work and told us that the trains from our part of the world are basically empty - with Waterloo still very quiet. I think he said there were 30 passengers all day on the trains from our branch line.
You are right. We've said exactly all of that to him last night. And he gets it. But he is just so very wary and worried about causing them any hassle...