Covent Garden sacks all casual staff
mainThe Royal Opera House has made its complete roll of casual staff redundant, it was confirmed today.
Redundancy talks have begun with selected permanent staff.
More here.
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How sad.
It’s a terrible blow, but casual stage hands and wardrobe assistants can hardly have anything to do, and may not have for a very long time. It is very sad, but I do not see it as the fault of the ROH, or the National Theatre, or any of the others that will soon be following suit.
I just hope that some of the army of administrators who populate these halls will also be let go, as the savings from their salaries will be even more significant and the House may have something in the kitty to start up with when the time comes.
If NZ can lick CV-19, the UK should be able to. Wear masks, social distance, wash hands — and quarantine those bloody Americans, if you must let them in at all. Self-isolation won’t do it — have you seen the reaction to masks in Florida, or Jack Nicklaus saying he will shake hands with players at his Memorial Tournament? These people do not believe or adhere to the law — they believe Trump. 135,000 deaths later, they still ain’t buyin’ it.
New Zealanders are going back to full concert halls. Time to start aiming for that, and busy pubs and crowded streets and shops running out of things.
“If NZ can lick CV-19, the UK should be able to.”
The size of the population might play a rôle in how it can be ‘licked’. NZ has a population of under 5m in 2m households. London alone has a population of over 9m in 4m households with I suspect far more population churn than very many places. I am not defending the way this country and its Government have handled this crisis, which has been wanting, but I suggest that it is easier to contol smaller numbers of people spread over wider areas than it is in cities with twice population of a whole country or the UK as a whole which has 12 times the population in an area 46,000 sq kms smaller than NZ. The same can be said for many other places across the world who have not controlled CV-19 like NZ.
NZ does not have a diverse population of 68 million to deal with, of which 57 million is in England alone, and 11 million in London alone.
Please stay in your sh*thole country, sir.
“Wear masks, social distance, wash hands — and quarantine those bloody Americans, if you must let them in at all. Self-isolation won’t do it — have you seen the reaction to masks in Florida, or Jack Nicklaus saying he will shake hands with players at his Memorial Tournament? These people do not believe or adhere to the law — they believe Trump. 135,000 deaths later, they still ain’t buyin’ it”.
You may well believe this sincerely but the way you have said it is downright offensive. The demonisation of Americans is wholly unacceptable.
Lol
Some Americans are good, some are bad, that’s what makes America interesting. However it seems all New Zealanders are good if not saintly which probably makes them and their country maybe not even worthy of being considered interesting. As offensive and as pointless a generalisation about them as Lind’s gratuitous comment about Americans but 17 others think the same, which is the size of a major conurbation in their CV-19 free redoubt.
I do not characterise all Americans in this way. Have you HEARD how YOUR president refers to countries he doesn’t like, or people in hos own that he doesn’t like?
My initial adjective is more comprehensive than my two specific references (which don’t quite cover all who have behaved appallingly) but as the US quarantines anyone entering it, and has all too many citizens who feel the mask is too much for them, I am only suggesting the UK which I think is opening up too quickly, do the same to those travelling from there.
I can think of no visitor more likely to put the UK at risk right now than a visiting American. And many Americans, mainly conservative, have made it all too clear that they consider any restrictions on their “freedom” a non-starter, so I can hardly expect they would obey them in another country when they ignore them in their own.
You realise Great Britain is the same size as the North Island of New Zealand but with 20 times the population. Let’s avoid comparing apples with oranges.
In this case, one apple has 45000 confirmed dead while the orange (New Zealand) has 22.
Germany (population density 232/km2) has 9000 dead while the UK (population density 270/km2) has 45 000.
London (density 5666/km2) has 6000 dead, while Berlin (density 4234/km2) has 217.
The ‘oh we’re a small country with a lot of people and we can’t be expected to keep the pandemic under control’ falls apart when you start, in fact, comparing apples to apples (even New York did better than the UK yesterday). And once you realise that geography does not explain a 2000-fold increase in deaths.
Doesn’t take a political genius to realise inept and wilfully ignorant leadership has something to do with it. This crisis is the responsibility of government. Both in general, and specifically concerning the ROH.
The UK is more like France than Germany. Possibly Belgium ? Sweden ? Italy ? Spain ? Take your pick.
The virus originated in WUHAN, CHINA!!!!!
Go be angry at THEM!
Maybe they should have worn tuxedos?
In Greek Johnson and his cabinet can be described as “malada”
“Sacked”?…made “redundant” it says. I know it effectively means the same thing but does everything have to be so brutal and sensationalist all the time?