Sunday, 5 April 2020

Kitchen table reflections


I’m cooking a roast today. Seems a bit daft, when it feels like a Summer’s day, but I’m trying to keep track of what day it is and hoping having our regular Sunday meal will help me connect with where we are in the week.
Working from home is a bit of a shitter now. Psychologically, it’s important for me to leave the house and to go a place of work. I take off my ‘dad and husband’ hat and put on my ‘Area Sub-Division Manager’ hat. In these circumstances these days, it’s hard to have that separation. Instead of working nine hours and then returning to the family, I’m flitting between the two as the day wanders on.
A couple of members of staff are complaining about ‘being on the front line’ by still working, as if we’ve suddenly forced them to work in an Ebola hot zone, rather than asking them to serve a few people in a filling station. All our garages have been fitted with screens now, so everyone is effectively working in a protected booth. There’s hand sanitizer everywhere and the public are being asked to come to the counter one at a time. I’m not sure what else we can do.

Anyway – I hope you are all keeping well, and I’m off now to make up some batter mix.

RC 5-4-20

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