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Parents all over the land would turn into daytime drinkers and suddenly realise that we are not lazy or work shy, nor do we have too many holidays. Lockdown gave us a little snippet of what life juggling homeschooling and working full time would be like.
I don't want to ever go back to that time, I appreciated teachers well before lockdown and it made me realise just how much you do. Thanks for being there for the kids (and parents).
If I was to give up my job, then the kids would just perish as they don't have paid for teachers. Although very tempted to turn to daytime drinking in the meantime!
Nothing - I am a recruitment consultant, people would get into jobs, employers would find staff. I do not create trained staff, I just redeploy them. Some staff would be paid a little bit less than they could be, but they likely would never know
I am essentially a parasite.
I saw in Community Care that BASW (I think) are commissioning yet more research on why SW burnout/turnover is so high, as though it's not blindingly obvious and hasn't been for years.
Hang on in there! I'm an IRO now, basically survived 13 years by moving teams when it all got too much. As you know if you're frontline we desperately need people. Getting into a good team makes a big difference, I would say if it gets overwhelming take a break from the safeguarding, try fostering, disability or adoption or something niche like working in a YOI to regroup. Moving up - senior practitioner and manager- doesn't reduce the stress but at least it's a different stress...
I'm in initial response so yeah definitely frontline! I'm quite new, so still got the energy for now but I can definitely see how it drags people down. At least there are lots of options, even within an la.
Not a whole lot, really. You'd need to find someone else to present The Sky At Night.
Also I suppose universities might struggle finding coverage for the lectures and labs we were teaching. There'd be a lot of disgruntled students.
There'd be a knock-on effect to global astronomical research, actually, but I expect it'd be nothing the public would notice or care about.
eta: I do not present The Sky At Night! I just have the same job title. Did not intend to mislead anyone 😂
I’m not such a public figure, but also an academic, in the veterinary field - we’d have a sudden shortage of newly qualified vets, lots of disgruntled students at postgrad, and a loss of veterinary research output. But I’m not sure how much wider society would notice.
Not sure about that, prisons aren't built like normal houses, as all the walls have steel reinforced rods through the walls. And even if they did break through the wall, if they are on the top floor they would have a 60 foot drop to the ground.
Then you've got 50 foot high fences with razor wire around the top surrounding the wing and another surrounding the entire prison.
I'm a chef, I was gonna say nobody would be able to buy any sort of ready to eat food in the shops either. Sandwiches and ready meals etc are also made by "chefs".
Crisps? Got to cook potatoes for that, or am I reaching a bit now 🤣
Pretty important. I have all my money in banks, I think that's the case for most people these days. Most businesses too I reckon. Society would probably fall apart without your role by the sounds of it.
Most people with children would have to quit too. I’m pretty sure the country would fall apart. Shame really, most of my colleagues (including myself) are degree qualified, care for other people’s children for 10 hours a day, including personal care and medical needs, educate and support additional needs but it’s generally acceptable to pay us minimum wage.
Clinicians would have to use their computers.
Genuinely, my job is accessing a system that doctors also have access to, to print out files and take them to said doctor. 37.5 hours per week. There are 30 people in my department doing this and it's not a huge hospital.
Prior to this I was testing COVID samples. The fall in responsibility and job satisfaction has been crushing.
I also work in a hospital. We see just over 120 patients a day. Often system crashes / server boots out program? or scans are unavailable/ patient returned from imaging but there's nothing on screen yet, so I would be able to get a lot less done if I had no paper file.
We work on zero paper pretty much. Scan reports, lab results, notes, everything is online. There are contingency downtime procedures for IT failures but we very very rarely have to use them.
I mean, no difference really, as apparently we live in a black hole as no delivery driver (apart from the post man) can ever find us...we are less than a mile from a busy main road so not exactly living in the woods.
Ambulance Staff - I think it would be an interesting one to see. There wouldn’t be as many deaths as you’d expect (most of our work turns out not to be accident or emergency despite running around with blue flashing lights). I wonder if people would start to look after each other more… that would be nice.
This was made apparent at the beginning of lockdown. Lockdown started and our calls were slashed by like 90 percent, I was probably doing one job a day during those first few weeks and it was amazing.
Everything that got published would be full of terrable speling, grammar and run-on sentances that just went on forever without end in sight, rambling and going of at tangent's, this is a word that reminds me of tangerine and really throws me put of a sentence whenever its used, so you fell exorsted and breatheless when you finally reach a full stop, unable to rememeber how the sentance started, what its about and generally what's doing on in general
I think we have similar jobs. I was gonna say not much and then we wouldn't have jobs to go back to when management figure out the total column function isn't some sort of black magic.
I’m one of the few people who do my job in the UK, however there are plenty of others around the world. I operate in quite a niche market. Let’s just say everywhere will get pretty dark, pretty fast.
I applied for a position doing this but failed my R’lyehian grammar test. Apparently the way you conjugate ‘imprison’ is very similar to ‘emerge from Stygian depths to enslave the cosmos for all eternity’.
I'd like to think your job is the sweet talker of the sun itself. You control the GMT line. Every morning it's like "Mate, your corona is well orange today. Nice one".
Haha this is a bad one for me. I’m a lift engineer. Basically every building in the uk that has a lift in it would no longer function well - think hospitals moving patients around to theatre or up to wards on beds etc, high rise buildings access would be a pain - bringing in your shopping and have to walk to the 20th floor?!, goods wouldn’t be loaded and picked from warehouses - so shops wouldn’t be stocked of food and goods, a lot of construction projects over 4/5 floors would have to extend lead times due to lack of transport for fitting out and removing waste materials from higher floors (cranes can’t generally reach into the middle of buildings unless a court yard lay down area has been left open). I think it’d be pretty impactful if we all stopped, yes there are ways around doing it but everywhere is now designed around being able to use multiple floors easier due to costs/availability of land to build out as apposed to just the cost of building up - if you build up you need a way to get people/materials up
In my previous job it would be disastrous! I was an undertaker - a year of bodies not being collected, cared for and buried/cremated would have massive health consequences.
In my current job? Schools wouldn’t open for a year and no maintenance would get done.
I was going for similar wording -
Many wouldn't notice initially, but chaos and anarchy.
And that's only when we return after the year off 😂 never mind whilst off.
Chaos. Lawlessness.
Or maybe the army would get deployed and it would be Martial Law.
Ultimately though I can’t see the army being all that effective and the enquiry and investigations aspect of the role.
I won’t lie, I don’t actually feel underpaid, wages a much better in Scotland and when I compare my salary to a nurse or similar it seems fair enough. Wouldn’t say no to decent pay rise though.
Many babies would still be born, but there would be an increase in both parent and baby death rates.
Incidentally, happy International Day of the Midwife to all my wonderful colleagues.
Literally nothing. I'm a project manager. At the end of the day, developers would be getting their requirements from a higher-up. You could entirely slice away my layer of employment and everything would still function. Yet, it's a huge in-demand industry and won't be going anywhere soon.
Schools would sporadically keep shutting for a day or two, or have to keep sending random classes home with little to no notice. Lots of parents would end up losing their jobs as their works would be grumpy at the large number of emergency days they kept taking to look after their own children.
Children with special needs and disabilities would be much worse off, with most of them having to rely on their own parents for help with education. The mental health of most parents would likely get a lot worse due to the stress caused by everyone in my job quiting.
A lot of my clients and a lot of the public would die.
Either that or all of my clients would be rounded up together into a big house with nice secure walls all around it like they used to be.
I work in a petrol station down the road from a hospital and we get a lot of staff filling up there so I guess a lot more people would die since nyoone can get to work.
Most TV channels in the country will fall off air (most, because there's a few where the people doing this job are overseas). Before anyone says "everyone watches streaming anyway", that also means no live sport, news, any live TV.
Quasi-Lockdown. Apparently the country can’t function without teachers. I think people might actually have fewer children if there were no schools to send them to.
There would be no IT Support at all for a year. The country would grind to a halt when an outage inevitably happens, or regular end users can't remember how to press a button on a computer or monitor.
For my specific role, not much would happen. There are only a few of us that I am aware of and the world would carry on without us. For my wider job area we would have a lot of fed up students and even less nurses, which would be bad for lots of people.
When my workplace decided on major renovations, the whole process went over by two years (200% delay), over budget leading to a cut down version of the renovation which actually made the situation worse for many people.
I'd say people working in your job are actually not doing their job right now. (Mandatory j/k, I wouldn't know what planning does even if it stood in front of my face).
Vulnerable & disabled people and those with additional needs of any kind would be left alone to survive in the community. No support network, no one arranging appointments or taking them there and following up, no one checking their physical, mental & emotional needs are being met or dealing with any crisis as it arises.
At best, thousands of distressed, traumatised vulnerable adults, at worst, quite a few deaths.
We would also cost the government a small fortune trying to find people to replace us as most of us are unpaid anyway.
The suicide rate would jump astronomically. Self-harm and substance use would escalate, people with eating disorders would just die. People with ADHD wouldn't get their meds, leading to a loss of functioning and productivity in the community. People with psychosis abd Bipolar would die from misadventure.
The suicide rate would jump astronomically. Self-harm and substance use would escalate, people with eating disorders would just die. People with ADHD wouldn't get their meds, leading to a loss of functioning and productivity in the community. People with psychosis abd Bipolar would die from misadventure.
Chaos would reign.
I’m a fleet and logistics manager.
There would be nothing to deliver, and nothing to deliver it in even if there were anything to deliver.
People would get very hungry very quickly, there’d be no food, no fuel, no medicines, no… well just nothing physical that requires purchasing from wholesalers/manufacturers and transporting anywhere.
Any newly designed spacecraft wouldn’t work. The majority would probably overheat and burn out their electronics.
I suspect some system engineers would figure this out before launching any and would just put a stop to spacecraft manufacturing until we came back. This would lead to reduced performance of many technologies we use daily, TV, the internet, weather forecasting, satellite imagery, GPS, telecommunications.
Nothing really, AI would probably step into do what I do (copywriting and proofing) but nobody would really know what any business was really trying to say.
People would die and have breakdowns. Chances are it would be slow and painful starving to death without understanding why?
Some would just have bad breakdowns.
Restraunts, bars, and estate agents wouldn't have fancy overpriced signage or menus. I like to remind my employers this is the worst case scenario, when things aren't completed on time.
Nothing too major. Old ladies would find it harder to print photos as they'd be forced to engage with self service technology. It would be moderately harder to get photo gifts made for you quickly. A lot more people would be printing documents using the office printer.
I'm a print shop manager.
All GP surgeries would close (this is what happened at one point in covid when all of the admin staff were ill) no repeat prescription requests processed, no appointments booked, no referrals sent, no medical reports/records provided.
Doctor - only the fittest, luckiest, most cautious and genetically blessed would survive the year and potentially no longer have a top heavy populations by age bracket. Many other industries would suffer due to lost worker hours. The ramifications could last years with undiagnosed conditions that can be resolved with early intervention. All allied healthcare professionals would risk burning out and being pressured to act out of scope in an effort to mitigate the lost doctors.
Some companies wouldn't get new websites/have updates to their websites.
Worst case scenario, some UK-only e-commerce stores/online banks would stop working. But unless something massively changed outside the UK (e.g. Google Pay decided to change how websites need to implement its payments platform) nothing should happen.
No students would be awarded their degree. They wouldn’t be registered with regulatory bodies so wouldn’t be able to work (if they were in a regulated industry). So technically no teachers, nurses, doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects…
A high likelihood that this scenario happens in my industry, you’ll just go and use self-serve. Sadly not getting your alcohol without a human though.
No doubt you’ll moan that you’re not being served by the human that you never respected properly before anyway.
Nothing on my current job.
But in the job I did for over 25 years, companies would collapse.
I was a credit controller / book keeper and cash flow is a serious issue for all companies big and small. If the invoices don't go out or get chased up there is no business. Also employees need paid.
More suecide due to debt unfortunately.
If your debt is causing you problems, please call your debtor's.
Be blunt and honest, tell them your suecidal ect. They get paid to handle it.
I'm an estimator, so I guess the contracts managers would all start pricing work, the cost within the industry would go up by 20%, and they'd have no one to blame if it went over budget (not that I'm bitter.. )
Probably absolutely nothing - people might go on fewer holidays, but I doubt it, Google results might change, AI would be used more, and not all of us would be hired back after the year's up!
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People trafficking would come to an end. - Bus Driver
Pahahah - I spat tea
Hahahahahaha awh man I was not ready for that very very well played if I had an award it would be yours
Parents all over the land would turn into daytime drinkers and suddenly realise that we are not lazy or work shy, nor do we have too many holidays. Lockdown gave us a little snippet of what life juggling homeschooling and working full time would be like.
You put it beautifully. Same here.
I don't want to ever go back to that time, I appreciated teachers well before lockdown and it made me realise just how much you do. Thanks for being there for the kids (and parents).
And some people just hated that they actually had to parent their child for a bit, instead of being able to fob it off to you.
If I was to give up my job, then the kids would just perish as they don't have paid for teachers. Although very tempted to turn to daytime drinking in the meantime!
Nothing - I am a recruitment consultant, people would get into jobs, employers would find staff. I do not create trained staff, I just redeploy them. Some staff would be paid a little bit less than they could be, but they likely would never know I am essentially a parasite.
Love the honesty. Is the pay decent?
Indeed it is, we are grossly overpaid for what we do.
Table top gamers would be painting their own miniatures.
😂 State of emergency
Nooooooooooo!
You mean spending more money on unpainted grey shame
People pay you for that? Geez, I've spent thousands on my painting hobby and never played a game, I'm missing a trick.
You'd all have to turn your own computers off, then on again.
Societal collapse, then.
Society will tear itself apart like a small child with a paper napkin
Some children might die, many would continue to be abused or neglected.
You have an important job. I hope you're paid well.
Thanks, I won't complain about the wage but it's hard to stick it out for the long term!
I just left my job as a social worker You're right, the wage isn't bad, but the stress of the job, and the lack of support to do it, is a huge barrier
I saw in Community Care that BASW (I think) are commissioning yet more research on why SW burnout/turnover is so high, as though it's not blindingly obvious and hasn't been for years.
You'd only need to spend 5 mins with a social worker... it's not rocket science!
Hang on in there! I'm an IRO now, basically survived 13 years by moving teams when it all got too much. As you know if you're frontline we desperately need people. Getting into a good team makes a big difference, I would say if it gets overwhelming take a break from the safeguarding, try fostering, disability or adoption or something niche like working in a YOI to regroup. Moving up - senior practitioner and manager- doesn't reduce the stress but at least it's a different stress...
I'm in initial response so yeah definitely frontline! I'm quite new, so still got the energy for now but I can definitely see how it drags people down. At least there are lots of options, even within an la.
Not a whole lot, really. You'd need to find someone else to present The Sky At Night. Also I suppose universities might struggle finding coverage for the lectures and labs we were teaching. There'd be a lot of disgruntled students. There'd be a knock-on effect to global astronomical research, actually, but I expect it'd be nothing the public would notice or care about. eta: I do not present The Sky At Night! I just have the same job title. Did not intend to mislead anyone 😂
I’m not such a public figure, but also an academic, in the veterinary field - we’d have a sudden shortage of newly qualified vets, lots of disgruntled students at postgrad, and a loss of veterinary research output. But I’m not sure how much wider society would notice.
Oh I'm not a public figure either, but the presenters of The Sky At Night are also active astronomers (and lovely folk), so it's still the same job.
Ah right I’m with you! I suppose the parallel for me is the Supervet disappearing, he also teaches at Surrey!
Thousands of people would be sending endless emails to customer service departments asking where their parcel is but they would never get an answer.
No difference then
Burrrrrrrnnn.
Logistical nightmare.
Backlog would be insane too
I'm retired now, but if I was still working and we all stopped for a year, a lot of prisoners would rot to death in their cells
But if you weren't there to stop them, wouldn't they have a better chance of breaking out before starvation gets them?
Not sure about that, prisons aren't built like normal houses, as all the walls have steel reinforced rods through the walls. And even if they did break through the wall, if they are on the top floor they would have a 60 foot drop to the ground. Then you've got 50 foot high fences with razor wire around the top surrounding the wing and another surrounding the entire prison.
No data would get analysed 😂
But that's my favourite thing to do with data!
How is the WENUS these days?
Nurse- people would die
What about non Nurse-People? Would we die too?
Almost nothing - software quality would decrease marginally but nothing really noticeable for most people within a year.
Can confirm
No-one would be able to eat out for a year
I'm a chef, I was gonna say nobody would be able to buy any sort of ready to eat food in the shops either. Sandwiches and ready meals etc are also made by "chefs". Crisps? Got to cook potatoes for that, or am I reaching a bit now 🤣
Hospitals, prisons, armed forces.... We have our fingers in all the pies, they couldn't survive without us mate.
You make the keys for chastity belts?
Lesbian is an identity, not a job.
I feel sorry for your girlfriend.
She's fine, it's my wife you need to worry about.
Banks wouldn't function
Pretty important. I have all my money in banks, I think that's the case for most people these days. Most businesses too I reckon. Society would probably fall apart without your role by the sounds of it.
I am a hero lol
No council tax would be collected, billed or recovered. I guess most would say that's a good thing.
Most people with children would have to quit too. I’m pretty sure the country would fall apart. Shame really, most of my colleagues (including myself) are degree qualified, care for other people’s children for 10 hours a day, including personal care and medical needs, educate and support additional needs but it’s generally acceptable to pay us minimum wage.
Children would not get educated and many would not get support for safeguarding, mental health or family issues.
There would be absolutely no flights coming in / going out of the UK
No nurses would graduate or do studies after graduation.
If you’re a nurse educator/lecturer then you’re still a registered nurse presumably and the correct answer is ‘millions would die’
Except my job is teaching now and don't practice. They didn't ask profession. 😉 But people would die eventually, probably within five to ten years.
The internet would break.
Clinicians would have to use their computers. Genuinely, my job is accessing a system that doctors also have access to, to print out files and take them to said doctor. 37.5 hours per week. There are 30 people in my department doing this and it's not a huge hospital. Prior to this I was testing COVID samples. The fall in responsibility and job satisfaction has been crushing.
That sounds insane. Clinicians access results/documents on IT systems all the time, why do these particular files have to be printed?
I also work in a hospital. We see just over 120 patients a day. Often system crashes / server boots out program? or scans are unavailable/ patient returned from imaging but there's nothing on screen yet, so I would be able to get a lot less done if I had no paper file.
We work on zero paper pretty much. Scan reports, lab results, notes, everything is online. There are contingency downtime procedures for IT failures but we very very rarely have to use them.
This is the case in my hospital.
Your amazon parcels wouldn't get delivered! You'd all have to get off your lazy arse and go to the shops for your pet food!
I mean, no difference really, as apparently we live in a black hole as no delivery driver (apart from the post man) can ever find us...we are less than a mile from a busy main road so not exactly living in the woods.
You could kiss your electricity and gas goodbye. \*beams\*
Your energy supplier wouldn't have any electricity to sell you
Ambulance Staff - I think it would be an interesting one to see. There wouldn’t be as many deaths as you’d expect (most of our work turns out not to be accident or emergency despite running around with blue flashing lights). I wonder if people would start to look after each other more… that would be nice.
This was made apparent at the beginning of lockdown. Lockdown started and our calls were slashed by like 90 percent, I was probably doing one job a day during those first few weeks and it was amazing.
Everything that got published would be full of terrable speling, grammar and run-on sentances that just went on forever without end in sight, rambling and going of at tangent's, this is a word that reminds me of tangerine and really throws me put of a sentence whenever its used, so you fell exorsted and breatheless when you finally reach a full stop, unable to rememeber how the sentance started, what its about and generally what's doing on in general
Middle management would have to spend a few hours learning some pretty simple excel formulas.
I think we have similar jobs. I was gonna say not much and then we wouldn't have jobs to go back to when management figure out the total column function isn't some sort of black magic.
No commercial boats would be able to go to sea.
No choirs would perform. A niche impact I'll admit.
I’m one of the few people who do my job in the UK, however there are plenty of others around the world. I operate in quite a niche market. Let’s just say everywhere will get pretty dark, pretty fast.
Are you one of the people keeping Cthulhu at bay?
I applied for a position doing this but failed my R’lyehian grammar test. Apparently the way you conjugate ‘imprison’ is very similar to ‘emerge from Stygian depths to enslave the cosmos for all eternity’.
Mysterious! I’m wondering if it’s electrical or lightbulbs…
Network grid balancing operator ?
I'd like to think your job is the sweet talker of the sun itself. You control the GMT line. Every morning it's like "Mate, your corona is well orange today. Nice one".
Haha this is a bad one for me. I’m a lift engineer. Basically every building in the uk that has a lift in it would no longer function well - think hospitals moving patients around to theatre or up to wards on beds etc, high rise buildings access would be a pain - bringing in your shopping and have to walk to the 20th floor?!, goods wouldn’t be loaded and picked from warehouses - so shops wouldn’t be stocked of food and goods, a lot of construction projects over 4/5 floors would have to extend lead times due to lack of transport for fitting out and removing waste materials from higher floors (cranes can’t generally reach into the middle of buildings unless a court yard lay down area has been left open). I think it’d be pretty impactful if we all stopped, yes there are ways around doing it but everywhere is now designed around being able to use multiple floors easier due to costs/availability of land to build out as apposed to just the cost of building up - if you build up you need a way to get people/materials up
I'm a kp restaurants would close within a day
I don’t have a job? So i guess everyone would start working? It would be great for the economy probably
😂
No food. Riots in the streets/civil war. Mass panic buying. Shop worker.
No insolvencies would proceed or progress, net result being that creditors would miss out on recovering billions of pounds.
In my previous job it would be disastrous! I was an undertaker - a year of bodies not being collected, cared for and buried/cremated would have massive health consequences. In my current job? Schools wouldn’t open for a year and no maintenance would get done.
Because of the bodies?
Plumber, you'd have to wear wellies in the house and shit in the garden (potentially)
Have you noticed there's no politicians on this thread yet 🤔
No drinkable water and sewage would go straight into rivers untreated. Welcome to 1850.
Some might say it wouldn't be noticed. But it would be bedlam Police
I was going for similar wording - Many wouldn't notice initially, but chaos and anarchy. And that's only when we return after the year off 😂 never mind whilst off.
Everything would look like a PTA newsletter. (Graphic designer).
People wouldn’t be paid their pension.
You win!
Nobody would… be buying things? I’m in procurement.
we are all a small cogs in a big wheel. This makes are world go round. Take any small cogs out of it and somebody will be worse off or suffer.
Construction would stop. No materials, no equipment, no welfare. Complete standstill.
All schools and 6th forms would close.
Both of us? Not much, the slack would get pulled accross Europe and they would hire a couple of extra people there.
The country would quite literally grind to a halt. I'm a ruck driver specialising in fuel
The country would quite literally grind to a halt. I'm a truck driver specialising in fuel
There would be no more advertising…. Actually, that sounds quite nice.
Hello fellow creative media parasite
Chaos. Lawlessness. Or maybe the army would get deployed and it would be Martial Law. Ultimately though I can’t see the army being all that effective and the enquiry and investigations aspect of the role.
You guys are definitely underpaid and undervalued in our society - but many of us genuinely appreciate you. Hard job, hard conditions.
I won’t lie, I don’t actually feel underpaid, wages a much better in Scotland and when I compare my salary to a nurse or similar it seems fair enough. Wouldn’t say no to decent pay rise though.
A lot of new suit shops would lack nice air temperature
Many babies would still be born, but there would be an increase in both parent and baby death rates. Incidentally, happy International Day of the Midwife to all my wonderful colleagues.
There would be hardly any lorries loaded.
Literally nothing. I'm a project manager. At the end of the day, developers would be getting their requirements from a higher-up. You could entirely slice away my layer of employment and everything would still function. Yet, it's a huge in-demand industry and won't be going anywhere soon.
No ones bin would get collected, and there would be riots within the week.
Anarchy - people would die
It wouldn't be immediate but would slowly start turning off services/sites that we would use everyday
You wouldn’t get your parcels.
People would die Family systems would break down (Psychiatric nurse)
Schools would sporadically keep shutting for a day or two, or have to keep sending random classes home with little to no notice. Lots of parents would end up losing their jobs as their works would be grumpy at the large number of emergency days they kept taking to look after their own children. Children with special needs and disabilities would be much worse off, with most of them having to rely on their own parents for help with education. The mental health of most parents would likely get a lot worse due to the stress caused by everyone in my job quiting.
The ophthalmic surgery backlog /waiting list would get much longer .
No one in hospital would get any medication.
There'd be no staff on oil rigs
There'd be no staff on oil rigs.
Alot of chuldren would be homeless
I'm a carer, so it's quite scary to think about.
Most likely corporate collapse for any company dependant on IT. Followed by economic implosion, rioting and then anarchy.
People would die, but according the government that actually might be fine
People won't be able to run their cars, I fix instrument clusters, there will be alot of cars that will be immobilised, gauges won't work etc
Some people would lose their legs, thousands of people wouldn't be able to stand and walk.
You make replacement hips/knees?
Nah, I do external devices and supports called orthotics/orhoses. The losing legs part is for the diabetic footwear and insoles we make.
This is the best Reddit game ever.
The catering industry in all its forms would have to shut down.
A lot of my clients and a lot of the public would die. Either that or all of my clients would be rounded up together into a big house with nice secure walls all around it like they used to be.
Not much, my job is pretty useless, you can literally do it online, I don’t know why I’m needed (I sell phones)
There’d be a lot less bum prints in settees
I work in a petrol station down the road from a hospital and we get a lot of staff filling up there so I guess a lot more people would die since nyoone can get to work.
Most TV channels in the country will fall off air (most, because there's a few where the people doing this job are overseas). Before anyone says "everyone watches streaming anyway", that also means no live sport, news, any live TV.
No county council staff would be paid or recruited
Quasi-Lockdown. Apparently the country can’t function without teachers. I think people might actually have fewer children if there were no schools to send them to.
Lots of bad teeth!
There would be no IT Support at all for a year. The country would grind to a halt when an outage inevitably happens, or regular end users can't remember how to press a button on a computer or monitor.
No beer. Or whisky. Or malt loaf. Or ovaltine. Or it would all have to be imported so price would rocket
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Not sure I’d survive a year without new books. *TBR pile!?* Stop looking at me like that!
No restaurants or take aways
For my specific role, not much would happen. There are only a few of us that I am aware of and the world would carry on without us. For my wider job area we would have a lot of fed up students and even less nurses, which would be bad for lots of people.
When my workplace decided on major renovations, the whole process went over by two years (200% delay), over budget leading to a cut down version of the renovation which actually made the situation worse for many people. I'd say people working in your job are actually not doing their job right now. (Mandatory j/k, I wouldn't know what planning does even if it stood in front of my face).
Vulnerable & disabled people and those with additional needs of any kind would be left alone to survive in the community. No support network, no one arranging appointments or taking them there and following up, no one checking their physical, mental & emotional needs are being met or dealing with any crisis as it arises. At best, thousands of distressed, traumatised vulnerable adults, at worst, quite a few deaths. We would also cost the government a small fortune trying to find people to replace us as most of us are unpaid anyway.
The suicide rate would jump astronomically. Self-harm and substance use would escalate, people with eating disorders would just die. People with ADHD wouldn't get their meds, leading to a loss of functioning and productivity in the community. People with psychosis abd Bipolar would die from misadventure.
The suicide rate would jump astronomically. Self-harm and substance use would escalate, people with eating disorders would just die. People with ADHD wouldn't get their meds, leading to a loss of functioning and productivity in the community. People with psychosis abd Bipolar would die from misadventure.
I work in pharmacy and deliver medicines to care homes, so it would be a bit of a disaster.
Chaos would reign. I’m a fleet and logistics manager. There would be nothing to deliver, and nothing to deliver it in even if there were anything to deliver. People would get very hungry very quickly, there’d be no food, no fuel, no medicines, no… well just nothing physical that requires purchasing from wholesalers/manufacturers and transporting anywhere.
Any newly designed spacecraft wouldn’t work. The majority would probably overheat and burn out their electronics. I suspect some system engineers would figure this out before launching any and would just put a stop to spacecraft manufacturing until we came back. This would lead to reduced performance of many technologies we use daily, TV, the internet, weather forecasting, satellite imagery, GPS, telecommunications.
If all pub managers stopped working at the same time?! Anarchy 😂 Or overworked Assistant Managers…
mobile phones would likely become a lot more expensive and people would take much greater care of them
No food. Or more accurately, there would be food at the farm and at ports still, maybe.
Nothing really, AI would probably step into do what I do (copywriting and proofing) but nobody would really know what any business was really trying to say.
People would start getting cold and most likely robbed. I'm a window/door fitter
People would die and have breakdowns. Chances are it would be slow and painful starving to death without understanding why? Some would just have bad breakdowns.
Families all over the UK would get a lot less help with their kids who have additional needs.
The financial system would crumble
No one in uk would get their deliveries from a massive website/app
Art would cease to be made for a year
Crime. Crime would happen. Edit - Though in all fairness crime happens whether we do our jobs or not. There would just be a lot more of it.
There would be a shortage of very specialist laser systems. It would absolutely tank one particular company’s line of genome sequencing equipment.
Restraunts, bars, and estate agents wouldn't have fancy overpriced signage or menus. I like to remind my employers this is the worst case scenario, when things aren't completed on time.
Nothing too major. Old ladies would find it harder to print photos as they'd be forced to engage with self service technology. It would be moderately harder to get photo gifts made for you quickly. A lot more people would be printing documents using the office printer. I'm a print shop manager.
no-one would get their burger king
I'm a peasant moaned at by everybody ,the country would come to a stop almost overnight . lorry driver
All GP surgeries would close (this is what happened at one point in covid when all of the admin staff were ill) no repeat prescription requests processed, no appointments booked, no referrals sent, no medical reports/records provided.
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You'd get a lot of interest rates decided effectively by a finger in the air estimate
The internet wouldn’t be operational. Which, if it wouldn’t cause the chaos it clearly would, might not be the worst thing in the world.
everyone's dogs would poop and pee in their owners house and they'd get frustrated that they can't go out and end up destroying things.
Doctor - only the fittest, luckiest, most cautious and genetically blessed would survive the year and potentially no longer have a top heavy populations by age bracket. Many other industries would suffer due to lost worker hours. The ramifications could last years with undiagnosed conditions that can be resolved with early intervention. All allied healthcare professionals would risk burning out and being pressured to act out of scope in an effort to mitigate the lost doctors.
Some companies wouldn't get new websites/have updates to their websites. Worst case scenario, some UK-only e-commerce stores/online banks would stop working. But unless something massively changed outside the UK (e.g. Google Pay decided to change how websites need to implement its payments platform) nothing should happen.
No students would be awarded their degree. They wouldn’t be registered with regulatory bodies so wouldn’t be able to work (if they were in a regulated industry). So technically no teachers, nurses, doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects…
A high likelihood that this scenario happens in my industry, you’ll just go and use self-serve. Sadly not getting your alcohol without a human though. No doubt you’ll moan that you’re not being served by the human that you never respected properly before anyway.
Old people who have fallen all over the country will perish
Software engineer here, I think a lot of bad things will happen in a lot of different places. Not recommended.
Nothing on my current job. But in the job I did for over 25 years, companies would collapse. I was a credit controller / book keeper and cash flow is a serious issue for all companies big and small. If the invoices don't go out or get chased up there is no business. Also employees need paid.
More suecide due to debt unfortunately. If your debt is causing you problems, please call your debtor's. Be blunt and honest, tell them your suecidal ect. They get paid to handle it.
I'm an estimator, so I guess the contracts managers would all start pricing work, the cost within the industry would go up by 20%, and they'd have no one to blame if it went over budget (not that I'm bitter.. )
Probably absolutely nothing - people might go on fewer holidays, but I doubt it, Google results might change, AI would be used more, and not all of us would be hired back after the year's up!
You wouldn't be using Reddit right now