Teachers /Nurses partying in staff room

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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 a crock of shite. Nice try Michael.

Even if there was, I think there is a huge difference between what he's accusing them of, and setting laws and not abiding by them in the worst possible way like they did.

They are so monumentally out of touch that they think people will look the other way because of this accusation. How deluded. We need an overhaul, these people aren't on another planet, they are in another bloody galaxy.

They just need to admit their game is up, get off the gravy train and fuck off now for everyone's sake.

I’m a teacher. We’re not even allowed to bring alcohol on site, let alone drink it at work! Plus as was the case for others our staff room was closed during lockdown, each bubble had tea/ coffee making facilities set up in an unused classroom but we were only allowed in there to make a drink or to eat lunch, only a maximum of 4 staff could be in there at a time and we weren’t meant to stay in for more than 15 minutes.

The staffroom has only just reopened 😂 we never even stepped into the same room as another colleague for 2 years

I am bewildered by all these schools which removed chairs from the staff room. Where did they store them? We wouldn't have been able to do that.

Why didn't they just staff to limit themselves to 4/6/8 at any one time? That's what we did. We had a maximum of 4 in the staff common room and 2 in the staff work room. It was basically LSAs, and teachers bubbled in classrooms. I handpicked my 'friends' to be in my lab.

Why are professionals so lame?

Absolute rubbish. HCP here and we had to distance 2m in staff room, chairs were all taken away from corridors/ cafe area and at least once, a nurse got told off for sitting down in the park to eat her sandwich. After work? Lol, could barely stagger to the car.

Well no one invited me to any sodding parties! I’m a frontline nurse, we categorically did not socialise at all outside of work to reduce the risk of Covid-19 spreading amongst us.

I feel very angry at the suggestion because teachers and nurses (there are others groups I would include but haven’t been singled out) had particularly challenging times during the pandemic.

Lockdown 1 I was teaching in the village hall - pretty pathetic party with just me and my TA. Back at school, no bubbles allowed to cross so staffroom out of bounds.

After Lockdown 1, until this academic year, all staff had to leave promptly at the end of the day for cleaning purposes.

Michael Fabricant is a twat.

Our staff room was rearranged so there were no chairs you could access. Two people max allowed in. My headteacher telling us that they had to take away the microwaves and toasters but she had refused to take the kettles away. I am so angry that they are implying this.

We ate with the children in the classroom (often still do, covering covid absence) and had staggered times to access the kettle and microwave. Only 6 chairs in the staff room until Christmas this year I think.

We considered a leaving picnic for a member of staff, theorising that we could sit in small groups (maybe rule if 6 was in place for outside??). We decided it wasn’t ok, definitely not in the spirit of the rules. We didn’t have the picnic.

What a load of rubbish we could barely speak at the end of the shift

and people moaned when Angela Rayner called people like him scum.

Ot was really, really lonely working in education from March 2020 until September 2021. Not really allowed to be in the same room as any other adults unless there was a TA and a teacher in the same room. Only allowed to speak to the children. All meetings on Teams. Very demoralising. I cried at least once a week.

No teacher’s partying in the school I was working out during the lockdowns.

You don't think running the country during a pandemic is a bit stressful??

Nurse here. Utter nonsense, well in my experience anyway. Our ward had to stagger our breaks into 3 or 4 as opposed to 2 as there were strict numbers about how many people could be in the break room at once. Ditto handover.

Early in the first lockdown Dh was doing the ward round on a covid ward, someone twigged it was his birthday, and all the patients and nurses sang happy birthday. Does that count as a party? 🤔🙄

Dunno why they're bothering with PR they should just stick a sign outside number 10 saying "fuck off plebs"

So behind the times. Schools got rid of staffrooms years ago to a. Create extra classrooms and b. Prevent staff fraternising and plotting against headteachers.

The nurses I met briefly on the covid ward did not look capable of partying an hour into a shift let alone at the end - still what they all definitely did not do was go along to the despatch box and lie to Parliament about it - breaking the ministerial code.
Why don’t they say it how it is - we will do what we please, when we please, and you plebs have to suck it up - I could probably have more respect 🤷🏼‍♀️

@MissyB1

Early in the first lockdown Dh was doing the ward round on a covid ward, someone twigged it was his birthday, and all the patients and nurses sang happy birthday. Does that count as a party? 🤔🙄

Did he get ambushed by a Colin the caterpillar cake? 😉

I'd love to see Michael Fabricant's proof of these alleged parties. I'm sure he must have proof, as it's such a bold claim.

I’m a teacher, we don’t have a staff room. Haven’t had one for years, every available space is needed for teaching in as we can’t afford to build more classrooms for all the kids.

The departmental office we use to store our belongings had a strict 3 person max.

We spent lunchtimes alone eating separately in our classroom and we’re allowed 15 minutes at the end of the day to grab our belongings and leave site.

What an absolute knob, we were broken from having to tell people, that their relatives had died over the phone.
Or my worst experience was when EOL visiting wasn't clear and potentially I had to ask an 80 year old man to leave his dying wife of 60+ years. Thankfully someone saw some sense and he was able to stay with her until she died.

Um hang on.... Weren't nurses too busy making tik-tok videos while 'whole departments sat empty', and teachers hiding at home living it up and getting a tan, except for the ones that were in school babysitting a few key workers kids?

I thought that was the general opinion of those who were/are seeking to give these professions what for?

Even for this shower of shite that's a low blow to defend being a bunch of self serving, arrogant tossers who do whatever they please.

Well, frankly I'm pissed off that all the nurses (and doctors and other healthcare staff) that I've been working with throughout the pandemic appear to have been holding parties and not inviting me...

Or Michael Fabricant has actually reached the bottom of the very big barrel that the Tories have been scraping.

@MissyB1

Early in the first lockdown Dh was doing the ward round on a covid ward, someone twigged it was his birthday, and all the patients and nurses sang happy birthday. Does that count as a party? 🤔🙄

Criminy @MissyB1. They’ll be knocking on YOUR door soon following that written confession.

It’s the standard "Idiot’s Defence":

Shoplifter: Everybody shoplifts. Why are you picking on me?

Speeder: Why didn’t you stop the blue Jag? He was doing the same speed.

Yadda yadda yadda…

Pathetic distraction tactics like this are a tedious waste of everybody’s time.

Fabricant is a kiss-arse ignoramus.