Listen to THIS clusterf@#*. The NHS (National Health Service) developed an app for tracking the virus. The app contacts you if you have been within 2-4 meters, for 15 minutes or more, of a person who has tested positive for COVID. Of course the infected person would ALSO have to have the app. They suggest but do not obligate the public to download the app. As G is working with the public, she got the app. She is, however, the ONLY employee at her shop who did so. Well a couple weeks ago she was contacted and told that she had been exposed to someone the previous day and needed to self-isolate. The notice came at 5:30 am as she was on her way to open the shop up for breakfast. She continued on to the shop, met up with her asst manager who then contacted the powers that be and then came home and stayed off work for the next 10 days. Tuesday morning her manager called and said that she was being "investigated" by HR in collaboration with the NHS, for having gone into work the morning she was notified. Let's consider this. The day she was "exposed" she was at work where customers are permitted to enter only to order and pay but then must exit and wait outside for their food and drink. So the 15 minute exposure to someone within 2-4 meters means either soemone she worked with or a customer who was standing OUTSIDE. As no one she works with has the NHS app and no one has tested positive, it MUST have been someone standing OUTSIDE of the shop but within 2-4 meters of the counter of the bakery. SHE was contacted because she followed the government's suggestion and downloaded the contact app, but her coworkers with whom she worked the day of exposure, were not contacted because they don't have the app, NOT because they weren't exposed. She was already near the shop when the notification came and ONLY stopped in to inform her boss(es) that she had been contacted by the app. BTW, the company has no protocol for this situation and are also "investigating" 7 other employees in similar situations. So yesterday was the inquisition and she has has her hand slapped and recieved a formal warning. Generally warning are given to employees who tell a customer to F@#* off or punch a co-worker. Really. So inept. On another note, I just got back from a walk in the park where I saw DAVID MITCHEL!! You may have no idea who he is but I am a big fan as I love British panel games shows and he's a regular on my favorite. So exciting! He's short and tubby and reminds me of a hobbit. xxoo me