Teachers /Nurses partying in staff room

[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?

Oh fuck off were they. The teachers and nurses and medics I know were
Coming home shattered and stripping in their hallways or in doorsteps and washing their clothes and taking hot showers before they even dared go near their own families.
Nurse friends were all swapping tips on which balms and creams could help their raw,
Itching skins after wearing PPE all
Day while dealing with the influx of Covid patients.
Partying my arse.

During the lockdown I saw a photo of my niece after she finished a 12 hour shift in ICU. She looked like she'd been in a car accident. I cannot imagine she would have had the energy to socialise in any way, let alone party. Can this lot stoop any lower?

This is completely insulting. WE all followed the rules, believing it to be the correct thing to do because that's what we told by THESE PEOPLE! They've made us all look like absolute fools. I'm so cross, I'm beyond words. Also so sad for all everyone has missed out on.

Our PM is famously workshy - to
Compare him to ANYONE working in the NHS or in state schools is an absolute insult.

Michael Fabricant has just said on BBC that teachers and nurses were drinking and partying after their stressful shifts during lockdown

Just fuck off

I know teachers and nurses weren't fucking partying in staff rooms. And i know not because I'm psychic but because I'm not a fucking c**t.

I'm livid at this. Our staff room was only reopened in January this year. We'd been spending our lunch breaks alone in our cars (doors strictly shut) in all weathers. Boiling in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. I'm so insulted and feel utterly disappointed at the lack of respect shown to us.

One of our colleagues passed away very suddenly during lockdown 2. We were not able to come together as a school to mourn. No assembly of remembrance was allowed and we could not support our pupils in person with the exception of a small number of seniors who were allowed in the building as they were in exam classes. We had to stand outside the school to watch the hearse pass (we could not attend the funeral) and then pupils went home. After the hearse passed, a small number of staff met across various classrooms (for social distance reasons) for a cup of tea. My colleague had been in our school for over 20 years and was a very well known figure in the community. His death was an enormous shock. We are a year on and many staff and pupils are still greatly affected. We did not party. Michael Fabricant is a dick.

In my primary school the staff had to eat in the classroom in their bubble. We went for weeks at a time without seeing any of the staff in other bubbles unless it was on a laptop screen.

Parties in the staffroom, my arse!

For the posters who have voted that I am being unreasonable.
Could you explain please?

No we definitely weren’t. Only 2 at a time were allowed in our ‘staff room’. Strict rule to change out of uniforms and straight home for a shower without any hugs and kisses from family on the way inside the house.

All to keep people safe.

Perfectly illustrates how far removed from reality these people are.

@Pliudev

During the lockdown I saw a photo of my niece after she finished a 12 hour shift in ICU. She looked like she'd been in a car accident. I cannot imagine she would have had the energy to socialise in any way, let alone party. Can this lot stoop any lower?

Don't challenge them ffs. The answer to that question is always yes.

I am not a nurse or a teacher but I am so angry on their behalf about this fucking shit.

We are still in bubbles in our staffroom. We still don’t have in person meetings. We still haven’t had a night out since March 2020. They need to make their minds up. We were either all at home, doing sweet Fanny Adams and having affairs or we were drinking in the staffroom. Can’t have it both ways. Arsehole.

Our staffroom was turned into classrooms to accommodate the small bubbles. And that is the way it has stayed. We no longer have a staffroom. We eat in offices or classrooms.

First lockdown we were with the children all day from 8.30 till 4pm with no break and lunch was brought in for us as we worked lunch. We had to take it in turns to have a loo break and at the end of the day we just went home.

When we were back in we had restricted access so I bought a mini fridge for my room. We had to stick in our bubbles. Even now we still try to space out and open doors where possible.

It is just a joke but in the words of the children in my class 'it's a bad joke.'

Lol. Idiot.

Us nurses are still being scolded by our managers if we even socialise outside of work now. We weren’t allowed a Christmas night out either so I call bullshit on this one.

He is rude, disrespectful, ungrateful, ignorant and unprofessional. A man who holds his constituents with this much contempt and the rest needs to go.

@Bonabee

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.

Eh how do you know they were partying in lockdown? Proof evidence please????

Is this why pay for nurses and teachers is so poor. They really don’t think we’re worth anything at all do they?

@Newmama29

Us nurses are still being scolded by our managers if we even socialise outside of work now. We weren’t allowed a Christmas night out either so I call bullshit on this one.

What people do outside their working hours is their own business. Nurses or not, according to the news people did what they wanted anyway regardless. So why slate nurses and teachers what about other professions taking the piss during lockdown.

@Crystalvas
Sorry please read my posts.
Michael Fabricant said this not me

Haha, we still haven't been able to hold a social event outside of work, and now patients with Covid are increasing again which is meaning increased staff absence, again, same in the residential homes we visit (district nurse)

After my 13 hour night shifts with no break I can confirm I am in no fit state to do anything other than sleep, especially being 20 weeks pregnant.

Someone baked a cake and shared it with the staff. Not sure if they did so in a COVID safe manner. Pretty risky.