This is disrespectful to women who have homeschooled and wfh?

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"The general view is people have had quite a few days off, and it wouldn't be a bad thing for people to see their way round to making a passing stab at getting back into the office." Boris Johnson.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-enough-days-off-work-from-home-lockdown-easing/

@MrsTulipTattsyrup

It’s hilarious. I work for a government agency, and my entire national team has been home based for over 25 years. Providing advice to government every single day. He has no idea how anything actually works.

He works from home himself doesn't he?

@Bluntness100. It is offensive, I know he doesn't do detail but you can't just ignore half the population if you are in his position. His flippant generalising is highly irritating, can he not just keep his gob shut? Or just read Cummings' scripts off the autocue...

But you're right, there's no point being offended. The time would be better spent thinking how to avoid electing a misogynistic twat like him ever again. To think that some people on here voted for this, I just cannot understand it.

@WellThisIsShit

Deeply ignorant man. And we voted him in...

I absolutely did not vote him in

I see the Tories are on a propaganda campaign to end WFH. Wonder which companies are putting the pressure on... Pret et al?

With many people now realising that they can work from home and have a better home/work balance, plus companies recognising how they can reduce outgoings with office rents not necessarily needed it makes me wonder what's the impetus?
It doesn't sound like it's on a scientific basis as it's stated that the R rate needs to be halved before it's safe to return to office based work,so that leaves building owners who stand to continue loosing income via office rents.

Tories,never trust 'em.

What he said was stupid as he makes it sound like people are being lazy but YABU to keep on saying that it’s only women who have been juggling work and homeschooling. My friend for example has done every last bit of homeschooling as his wife works for the police out of the house.

@fiorentina

Agreed, I’ve worked extremely hard the last year as well as helping the kids homeschool, as have so many people I know. Usually working during any commuting time. He’s deluded if he thinks this has been easier than usual.

IKR?

God knows we've all tried to make the best of it and I'm not the sort to complain because I'm grateful to have a job, but FGS, home schooling three kids at the same time as working can't be anything but. bloody difficult, can it?

And we all know the extra load has mostly fallen on women.

And then, our Prime Minister says this..!

I know people who would love to go back to work....except they can't because the Government has forbidden them to. "Quite a few days off" has meant many of them won't be going back at all.

Depends on the context though doesn’t it - if he means that people have been furloughed then perhaps I can see his point. Quite a few people have had quite a few ‘days off’.

If he means working from home then it’s bloody ludicrous. Like many I have done a whole year from home now and I’ve not had many ‘days off’. I moved jobs last summer; I was owed quite a bit of unclaimed leave because it hadn’t been possible to take it with the shift to home working. And I’ve had barely any leave with my new job either. So I’ve had far less ‘days off’ than might otherwise have happened.

I think it is his usual bad phraseology and he means "out of the office" as in physically out rather than off work. I don't see it as a female/male thing at all just badly worded.

Fuck you BJ.

You fucking cunt.

How dare you.

If I had the energy left in me I would cry reading that article. I don't, as it happens, months of home schooling, while WTF (increased unpaid hours), while juggling a toddler and morning sickness, has utterly wiped me out. I cant take anymore.

I was wondering when there would be a thread about this.

It is massively disrespectful to every single person who has wfh, especially those who have been also homeschooling, which has fallen disproportionately to women.

He is a massive bastard for saying this

Not only that but it appears he is repeating last year's mistake of pushing people back to the office slightly too soon.

He is a massive bastard for risking driving cases up too

@WellThisIsShit

Deeply ignorant man. And we voted him in...

I bloody didn't!

Deeply ignorant man. And we voted him in...

I fucking didn't.

'A nice little holiday'' is how men think of maternity leave, and child rearing, and wife work; and this is why they think its beneath them to pull their weight.

@Springchickpea

Depends on the context though doesn’t it - if he means that people have been furloughed then perhaps I can see his point. Quite a few people have had quite a few ‘days off’.

If he means working from home then it’s bloody ludicrous. Like many I have done a whole year from home now and I’ve not had many ‘days off’. I moved jobs last summer; I was owed quite a bit of unclaimed leave because it hadn’t been possible to take it with the shift to home working. And I’ve had barely any leave with my new job either. So I’ve had far less ‘days off’ than might otherwise have happened.

He definitely wasn't talking about people who are furloughed.

He was asked about a national bank holiday for everyone after covid and he said

"The general view is people have had quite a few days off, and it wouldn't be a bad thing for people to see their way round to making a passing stab at getting back into the office."

So to me he's talking about all of us, and considering the extra load women have had to shoulder trying to take care of everyone's mental health, do extra caring responsibilities for Shielding relatives and homeschool multiple kids on top of working from home, I think it's rude and disrespectful and horribly bloody contemptuous of ordinary British people. Particularly women.

Man's a blithering idiot. I too am mystified by the sheer numbers who look at him, hear him speak, and conclude that this is the man to lead the country. He can fuck off with his 'quite a few days off'.

It's disrespectful to any and all tbh, not just women, dad's, uncles and brothers etc have been WFH and homeschooling too

Well I suppose it depends on whose he's referring too. Some people were furloughed and did get days off, which I was very envious of. Clearly some lost their jobs so had enforced days off, other worked from home. And some from all of those groups also homeschooled.

Give over. You’re just interpreting what he said to fit in with your own circumstances. I think he pre-emptying the fact that quite a lot of people are not going to want to return to the office, whether childless and wfh, or wfh with children, or on furlough. I guess he’s trying to focus on the economy now to get people back out there.

Yanbu.
I'm a lone parent and have been WFH all the way. I've even carried over the maximum holiday as we've been so busy. We've taken on work from teams that are furloughed.

Johnson is a lazy shit.

@WellThisIsShit

Deeply ignorant man. And we voted him in...

Please vote for a different party next time!

I think it's rude and disrespectful and horribly bloody contemptuous of ordinary British people well that is who he is, he looks down on us all

He’s an offensive idiot. OK, furloughed people with no children have had a long extended “holiday” but given the risk of there being no job to go back to, or if they have not been able to make ends meet, it’s not exactly been a picnic.

For everyone else - those homeschooling while WFH, and those of us who have been working flat out long hours in our spare rooms and kitchens for a year - it’s been a slog and we’re knackered.

I’ve carried 10 AL days and 5 lieu time days over into the next leave year, but those lieu days don’t even scratch the surface of what I’ve actually worked.