God, today has been a fucking nightmare.
After all of that earlier conversation about telling my staff they're not getting pay rises after all, one has phoned me in tears because she's used the pay rise letter I sent last week as basis for her mortgage offer, two staff have been telling me how they're going crazy cooped up, one saying he was thinking of just sodding it and handing his notice in (not entirely sure how this would help in the current climate, but ok), another person from the office who has asthma and lives alone has been telling me she's really miserable and she's petrified of the disease and has been, I quote, "looking around the house to think what I could take if I get it as there is no way I'm going to die with breathing problems, because that would be awful, someone I have on notice to finish on March 31st (because they weren't very good) has begged for me to keep them on and put them in the furlough scheme as they have 4 kids, their wife has just lost her job and he ain't going to find anything in this environment (which I'd LOVE to do to be nice, but surely is FRAUD and so I've had to turn down) and then, to top it all, someone I've worked with for 20 years who runs one of the other companies in our group and has had a cancer operation has just been told he isn't going to recover, they've taken him into hospital and they won't give him even a week to live, it'll be "when he gives up".
This CORONADEPRESSION ain't getting any better, let me tell you.
