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Teachers /Nurses partying in staff room

274 replies

Bonabee · 12/04/2022 15:32

Michael Fabricant has just said on BBC that teachers and nurses were drinking and partying after their stressful shifts during lockdown.
This was in defence of Johnson, Sunak etc.
I know he is a clown but this is so insulting.
AIBU?

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Ovasaurus · 12/04/2022 15:34

Partying ha ha ha. I was so exhausted at the end of a 13 hour shift it was all I could do to drag myself home.

Pimpernella · 12/04/2022 15:36

Our school staff room was off limits - only allowed in our classroom bubble. Only 3 people allowed in the office at any time. Hardly saw anyone but our bubble kids.

Abraxan · 12/04/2022 15:37

They were trying to claim this constantly throughout the lockdown and using it to blame the spread in schools (and hospitals.)

Was pretty much nonsense then and is still.

Our staffroom was locked shut.
The urn for hot water for drinks and the microwave (along with a mini fridge) was in the main hall which we could only have a set number of adults (from the same year group) at a time, for a short time to get some food. They could then eat in their classroom or, on a dry day, in the playground in the space marked it for their class.

Lemondrop2 · 12/04/2022 15:37

All the chairs were removed from our staff room (… and that wasn’t to make room for a disco).

Prinnny · 12/04/2022 15:37

Oh yeah we often had wine and cheese fuelled parties in the staff room during the pandemic in our A&E. All the PPE, fear of this unknown killer virus and dying patients around us around us really got us in the party spirit.

What a moron.

roseopose · 12/04/2022 15:37

Just when you think they can stoop no lower huh

cobayo · 12/04/2022 15:39

Erm... if teachers were partying, I wasn't invited!! How insulting! In fact, I felt like a grounded teenager throughout the lockdowns as I was allowed to school then straight home and nowhere else! Not a chance of a party! Worked hard all Autumn term 2020, teaching the kids and dodging the virus to have Christmas cancelled last minute because none of my family live near enough to come for the day when the government u-turned. We followed the rules! Then worked hard all last academic year to catch Covid in the last week of term and have my summer ruined! Not a lot of joy in life like many others during the pandemic, just a lot of work and a lot of worrying while that bunch in Downing Street we're suiting themselves and enjoying themselves! I don't know how they dared!

cobayo · 12/04/2022 15:42

That sounds like I was working hard to catch Covid... Confused What I meant was I worked hard all year, did my best to avoid the virus the ended up catching it at work during the last week of term. Not at a party! Angry

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Bonabee · 12/04/2022 15:43

I am neither a teacher or nurse but this really made me angry.
Can't imagine anyone working in ICU even wanting to do this after a shift. Just one example, also lots of teachers working online or from home.

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Whyarewehardofthinking · 12/04/2022 15:44

I ate my lunch in the car after lockdown 1 and before 2... my office was taken over to spread out other staff and we didn't have a staffroom. Plus you cant eat in a lab. That was if I wasn't on duty, and then we weren't allowed to eat as it meant no mask on.

What a fucking cunt.

cockeyedoptimist · 12/04/2022 15:45

What an insult!
Like a lot of others, our school staff room was off limits. and I ate my lunch in the classroom with my bubble kids.
Felt like my TA and I didn’t speak to anyone over the age of 6 for weeks on end

TabithaTittlemouse · 12/04/2022 15:46

No we bloody were not! Absolute tosser!
This has made me really fucking angry.

I worked my shift and then came home to cry my eyes out because I missed my family. We thought we were protecting them by me staying away. Then I went to bed and did the same thing the next day and the next day……

NeverDropYourMooncup · 12/04/2022 15:46

No, we didn't. He might like to think we did, but we were too busy catching covid at the time.

TabithaTittlemouse · 12/04/2022 15:47

Someone will come on and say ‘what about the nurses who did TikTok dances though’ wait for it….

MrsTerryPratchett · 12/04/2022 15:48

Even if they were, which they weren't, they weren't the ones making and breaking the law on the same day. It's worse BECAUSE it's our elected representatives.

Regulus · 12/04/2022 15:51

Of course we did, I mean our staffroom is just as opulent as number 10's rooms and gardens, we have fridges filled with Moët and canapés. We also have long leisurely lunchbreaks and thankfully did not need to prepare double the amount of work for the children at home and the key workers children in school.
Doubly lucky we also didn't need to rush home to help our own children with their school work.

DanglingMod · 12/04/2022 15:55

Yanbu.

School staffroom was out of bounds except to use photocopier. One at a time. We all bought and used flasks for drinks and brought packed lunch. Not allowed to use the student canteen either unless on duty.

TheKeatingFive · 12/04/2022 15:55

I expect it may have done in a few isolated cases. Hard to say it definitively didn't.

But even if it did, it's not comparable to the number 10 parties

LampLighter414 · 12/04/2022 15:55

Of course they were and Michael, being the suave and attractive man he is, was right in the mix delighting the nurses with chat and gyrating hips...

Fabric*nt more like...

Take off the wig!

painauraisin · 12/04/2022 15:59

We weren't even allowed in the staff room during COVID!

Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals · 12/04/2022 16:07

@Bonabee

Michael Fabricant has just said on BBC that teachers and nurses were drinking and partying after their stressful shifts during lockdown. This was in defence of Johnson, Sunak etc. I know he is a clown but this is so insulting. AIBU?
What an absolute cock he is. For the record, we don’t have a staff room and I was doing far too many hours to hold a conversation, much less socialise. He can get to fuck.
Scarby9 · 12/04/2022 16:12

All usual furniture taped off in our staff room. Initially out of bounds (had to bring a flask) but later 6 plastic chairs put in at 2m intervals, like a macabre Musical chairs, although no more than 3 people allowed in at any one time. I don't know that anyone did go in as all breaks and lunchtimes had to be taken in the class bubbles, so no non-contact time through the day.

StillUp · 12/04/2022 16:16

We had most of the chairs from our staff room removed so that there was space for no more than 4. Had to throw our lunches down our throats and then go and sit by ourselves in our own clinical rooms that we’d been working in all day to let the next lot sit and eat theirs. At the end of our shifts we couldn’t wait to get out of the hospital, masks off and home. We weren’t even having our usual face to face weekly meetings to catch up with colleagues, let alone a piss up after our shifts. Not even allowing for the fact that alcohol in the work place would be a sackable offence for us plebs, after the shift or not.

MrsHamlet · 12/04/2022 16:16

We haven't had a staffroom for YEARS in my school so we'd be hard pressed to party in it.

HereTodayHereTomorrow · 12/04/2022 16:18

I’m a teacher. Our staff room was taped off. We were only allowed into the toilets one at a time!
I did ask our headteacher during the December lockdown if we would be having distanced speeches in the school hall to celebrate those leaving - the response I got turned the air blue!