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?

This is so insulting! Trying to distract us from their shitty behaviour by saying it was teachers and nurses!

We're a wild and creative lot where I work. We had a "party" in the school hall at the end of the summer term -we had a table each, separated by at least two meters from the other tables. I brought my own can of Coke and yelled to my colleague on the next table. It lasted about 20 minutes before we'd felt we'd partied enough and went home.

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Slightly different but I work in a nursery and absolutely nothing of the sort happened

I work in education and have 65 schools in my "patch". I can assure you that there was no partying in any staffroom here - far from it, staff rooms were empty, people felt isolated from colleagues, scared to go near staff in a different bubble. The Tories can fuck right off.

Not teacher or nurse, but ward based, not sure there was enough time to party during my 15 minute dinner break sat outside in all weather's. There's not even enough time to get a sandwich and cuppa never mind have anything else.

I seriously doubt there were parties with alcohol going in inside hospitals or schools. Sackable offence, for a start.

And also, nurses and teachers didn't set the law, so its a different situation entirely and anyone who can not see the difference is being obtuse.

Partying????

We can't wait to get out and go home.

Our staffroom has no windows and houses 8 of us. It's a squash. No one would want to be partying in there.

Plus the fact that during lockdown, no one was even in it!

We've only been allowed in our school staff room since Feb half term.
Before that, no one was allowed in.
We had no access to a kettle or a microwave from March 2020 to Feb 2022.
I could go days without seeing someone from a different keystage.

That's strangely similar to what one or two Tory defenders used to pop up regularly and say on threads about the parties on here. Maybe one of them actually is Fabricant??

Well! At the time when these parties were going on, it was a disciplinary offence on my ward to be less than two metres away from a colleague for more than 10 minutes, even while wearing tissue paper thin PPE.

While the Downing Street Christmas Quiz was going on, our colleague was being wheeled across the car park after showing symptoms whilst on shift. She died 23 days later.

Whilst the Downing Street head of ethics was having her leaving do, I was sat on shift with my head in my hands, crying as my dad had been diagnosed with cancer and I didn’t know how I could isolate for 10 days so I could move in with him to look after him. I was working 60 hours a week at that point. I was exhausted, menopausal and in utter hell. It was 166 days before i was able to see my Dad without a physical barrier between us.

I have young colleagues who feel they ‘killed’ a parent because they believe they took the virus home with them. So many staff members left, and aren’t being replaced.

How very bloody dare you say that Mr Fabricant. You have no idea, the sacrifices we made, and continue to make . Very few of us were left unscathed

Haha at the idea of nurses doing that. Our staff room was limited to 3 people and we all had to be over 2 metres apart and only take our mask off for 15 minutes during our break. Definitely just trying to make himself feel better.

Mask only off for 15 minutes to eat and drink I should add not just for a break!

Disrespectful comment. He should go too.

Teachers hardly get a break or lunchtime in usual times never mind Covid times.

Staff were ( and still are) too busy manning staggered lunches for the kids or having to cover lunches because of lack of well staff to be in the staffroom - and partying.....😡

There could've been drug fuelled covid swapping orgies in every staff room in the country, and it still wouldn't alter the fact that what Johnson and Sunak have done is something completely different: they made laws that they didn't keep themselves. This isn't true for anyone who isn't part of government. Not for the first time, the point eludes Fabricant.

There is a real sense of trauma coming from my friends who work in the NHS at the moment. They are exhuasted.
The government are deluded.

err its a NO! from me and all my staff. Not one of us partied in the staff room, we had people retiring and we couldnt even give them a proper send off, some graduation and same there.

Our staff room was taped to 2m and limited to certain numbers. The main dining room was the same. We ended up eating food at desks or going out to our car for a break.

What utter tossers, I can assure you nobody in the hospital I work in was partying!

Seeing as NHS and teachers etc was acting exactly the same way as MPs when can they expect their 20k bonuses?

I mean only seems fair right?

I’m a nurse and I didn’t ever get invited to one of these staff room parties! We all just dragged ourselves home to wash off the covid after spending all day battling to keep people alive another day!

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Seeing as NHS and teachers etc was acting exactly the same way as MPs when can they expect their 20k bonuses?

I mean only seems fair right?

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In fact, different to MP's and civil servants filmed, teachers would be dismissed for drinking at work.

At our local Primary the teachers ate in their classrooms with their class bubble whilst the HT cleaned the toilets! No partying going on there.

We’ve not been allowed in the staff room since March 2020. The senior common room has been closed since then too and their Leavers’ Ball has been cancelled 3 years in a row.

We had year group bubbles for staff room, but had to sit 2m apart, not facing each other, has roughly 20 mins as the next year group would then need to come in. Couldn't even bring in cakes/biscuits for birthdays. Horrible time.