One of my engineers mates works in a group of 3 hotels in the soho area of London. They have decided to shut all 3 hotels and had a deliver of hundreds of sheets of ply and the last few days have been spent nailing up windows and doors, to prevent issues of looters attacking the places while they are shut down. Sad state of affairs.
I am now trying desperately to have all my engineers working at least 30 hrs a week currently and keep some wages in their pockets , until we get completely shut down. We, as air conditioning engineers do have data centres and client comms rooms, which without air conditioning would keel over and finish the companies who are using them ( like all the home workers) so, we hope we have access for the future weeks in keeping these running and engineers with some monies. For me, now being home based , by probably Tuesday next week, now move from salary to hourly paid and suspect I will take home less than the engineers at the moment and have the stress to try and keep them working as long as possible.
We had to advise our delivery driver , who is at risk, he has to isolate for 12 weeks and be on SSP , as of today. He has been this week speaking to debtors and most seem pretty amicable with the situation and wont cut anything off, from electric to gas to telephones, except West Berkshire council, who said they would take 20 quid off his £150 council tax but he has to pay the rest, even if he knows he doesnt have this money. I hope the government default the next 2 months payments to put them into Feb and March 'free months' for next year, at a minimum.
