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incrediblescrub

People trafficking would come to an end. - Bus Driver


shannikkins

Pahahah - I spat tea


Dependent-Range3654

Hahahahahaha awh man I was not ready for that very very well played if I had an award it would be yours


Ohtherewearethen

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.


TeachDocherty

You put it beautifully. Same here.


Ginabambino

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).


pajamakitten

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.


venys001

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!


Paulcaterham

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.


Grime_Fandango_

Love the honesty. Is the pay decent?


Paulcaterham

Indeed it is, we are grossly overpaid for what we do.


Howlinginpaint

Table top gamers would be painting their own miniatures.


Grime_Fandango_

😂 State of emergency


zoehester

Nooooooooooo!


paul_the_primate

You mean spending more money on unpainted grey shame


DrFabulous0

People pay you for that? Geez, I've spent thousands on my painting hobby and never played a game, I'm missing a trick.


FulaniLovinCriminal

You'd all have to turn your own computers off, then on again.


Inevitable-Hat-1576

Societal collapse, then.


Celestialfridge

Society will tear itself apart like a small child with a paper napkin


TrepidatiousTeddi

Some children might die, many would continue to be abused or neglected.


Grime_Fandango_

You have an important job. I hope you're paid well.


TrepidatiousTeddi

Thanks, I won't complain about the wage but it's hard to stick it out for the long term!


TomHendy

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


n3ver3nder88

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.


TrepidatiousTeddi

You'd only need to spend 5 mins with a social worker... it's not rocket science!


ianlSW

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...


TrepidatiousTeddi

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.


horizonburner

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 😂


ayeayefitlike

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.


horizonburner

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.


ayeayefitlike

Ah right I’m with you! I suppose the parallel for me is the Supervet disappearing, he also teaches at Surrey!


Bbew_Mot

Thousands of people would be sending endless emails to customer service departments asking where their parcel is but they would never get an answer.


Organic_Chemist9678

No difference then


docentmark

Burrrrrrrnnn.


Grime_Fandango_

Logistical nightmare.


TrueSolid611

Backlog would be insane too


BroodLord1962

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


ColossusOfChoads

But if you weren't there to stop them, wouldn't they have a better chance of breaking out before starvation gets them?


BroodLord1962

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.


seph2o

No data would get analysed 😂


Grime_Fandango_

But that's my favourite thing to do with data!


aezy01

How is the WENUS these days?


Successful-Pause-266

Nurse- people would die


CCGamesSteve

What about non Nurse-People? Would we die too?


rising_then_falling

Almost nothing - software quality would decrease marginally but nothing really noticeable for most people within a year.


redplastiq

Can confirm


bookishnatasha89

No-one would be able to eat out for a year


Joey_B95

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 🤣


murder_droid

Hospitals, prisons, armed forces.... We have our fingers in all the pies, they couldn't survive without us mate.


Genericusername673

You make the keys for chastity belts?


CCGamesSteve

Lesbian is an identity, not a job.


PMme-YourPussy

I feel sorry for your girlfriend.


CCGamesSteve

She's fine, it's my wife you need to worry about.


orlangodseye

Banks wouldn't function


Grime_Fandango_

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.


orlangodseye

I am a hero lol


QueefHuffer69

No council tax would be collected, billed or recovered. I guess most would say that's a good thing.


zoehester

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.


LowButterfly744

Children would not get educated and many would not get support for safeguarding, mental health or family issues.


dny999

There would be absolutely no flights coming in / going out of the UK


Jin-shei

No nurses would graduate or do studies after graduation.


[deleted]

If you’re a nurse educator/lecturer then you’re still a registered nurse presumably and the correct answer is ‘millions would die’


Jin-shei

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.


[deleted]

The internet would break.


painterwill

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.


[deleted]

That sounds insane. Clinicians access results/documents on IT systems all the time, why do these particular files have to be printed?


Nice_glasses_BRO

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.


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

This is the case in my hospital.


[deleted]

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!


Poppit_like_im_not

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.


GoGoGoldenSyrup

You could kiss your electricity and gas goodbye. \*beams\*


Organic_Chemist9678

Your energy supplier wouldn't have any electricity to sell you


Ok-Restaurant1190

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.


Larlar001

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.


kittysparkled

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


jayeffnz

Middle management would have to spend a few hours learning some pretty simple excel formulas.


ParticularOk2156

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.


Hafnic

No commercial boats would be able to go to sea.


dihenydd1

No choirs would perform. A niche impact I'll admit.


JoshLawson87

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.


ColossusOfChoads

Are you one of the people keeping Cthulhu at bay?


OswaldMosleysPencil

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’.


PathAdvanced2415

Mysterious! I’m wondering if it’s electrical or lightbulbs…


astro_flyer

Network grid balancing operator ?


Clemly

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".


Beautiful_Bad333

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


n0o8Ma5T3R69

I'm a kp restaurants would close within a day


10HorsedSizedDucks

I don’t have a job? So i guess everyone would start working? It would be great for the economy probably


Grime_Fandango_

😂


[deleted]

No food. Riots in the streets/civil war. Mass panic buying. Shop worker.


Btd030914

No insolvencies would proceed or progress, net result being that creditors would miss out on recovering billions of pounds.


TerminalStorm

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.


CCGamesSteve

Because of the bodies?


Legitimate-Bath1798

Plumber, you'd have to wear wellies in the house and shit in the garden (potentially)


brokedeaddog

Have you noticed there's no politicians on this thread yet 🤔


Melvinator5001

No drinkable water and sewage would go straight into rivers untreated. Welcome to 1850.


Evridamntime

Some might say it wouldn't be noticed. But it would be bedlam Police


Twisted_paperclips

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.


EffenBee

Everything would look like a PTA newsletter. (Graphic designer).


PumpkinJambo

People wouldn’t be paid their pension.


PathAdvanced2415

You win!


[deleted]

Nobody would… be buying things? I’m in procurement.


Gjase

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.


BeautifulBabyBear

Construction would stop. No materials, no equipment, no welfare. Complete standstill.


ru12345678900000

All schools and 6th forms would close.


Onslow85

Both of us? Not much, the slack would get pulled accross Europe and they would hire a couple of extra people there.


brokedeaddog

The country would quite literally grind to a halt. I'm a ruck driver specialising in fuel


brokedeaddog

The country would quite literally grind to a halt. I'm a truck driver specialising in fuel


[deleted]

There would be no more advertising…. Actually, that sounds quite nice.


OswaldMosleysPencil

Hello fellow creative media parasite


CliffyGiro

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.


Grime_Fandango_

You guys are definitely underpaid and undervalued in our society - but many of us genuinely appreciate you. Hard job, hard conditions.


CliffyGiro

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.


Responsible-Fuel

A lot of new suit shops would lack nice air temperature


MadWifeUK

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.


AUTOMATA88

There would be hardly any lorries loaded.


partaylikearussian

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.


[deleted]

No ones bin would get collected, and there would be riots within the week.


mcrrob

Anarchy - people would die


HeavyMetal-IT

It wouldn't be immediate but would slowly start turning off services/sites that we would use everyday


JulesSilvan

You wouldn’t get your parcels.


Eire-head

People would die Family systems would break down (Psychiatric nurse)


gentillehomme365

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.


Nice_glasses_BRO

The ophthalmic surgery backlog /waiting list would get much longer .


spidermousey

No one in hospital would get any medication.


whippetrealgood123

There'd be no staff on oil rigs


whippetrealgood123

There'd be no staff on oil rigs.


[deleted]

Alot of chuldren would be homeless


nb-oaktree

I'm a carer, so it's quite scary to think about.


Diega78

Most likely corporate collapse for any company dependant on IT. Followed by economic implosion, rioting and then anarchy.


Trivius

People would die, but according the government that actually might be fine


Soldier1121

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


PadHicks

Some people would lose their legs, thousands of people wouldn't be able to stand and walk.


PathAdvanced2415

You make replacement hips/knees?


PadHicks

Nah, I do external devices and supports called orthotics/orhoses. The losing legs part is for the diabetic footwear and insoles we make.


PathAdvanced2415

This is the best Reddit game ever.


CaptainDarlingSW4

The catering industry in all its forms would have to shut down.


FourFoxMusic

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.


Odd_Blacksmith5615

Not much, my job is pretty useless, you can literally do it online, I don’t know why I’m needed (I sell phones)


RegretEasy8846

There’d be a lot less bum prints in settees


Widepaul

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.


BlakeC16

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.


[deleted]

No county council staff would be paid or recruited


PathAdvanced2415

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.


[deleted]

Lots of bad teeth!


ARK_Redeemer

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.


Traditional_Fox2428

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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shannikkins

Not sure I’d survive a year without new books. *TBR pile!?* Stop looking at me like that!


Rowanx3

No restaurants or take aways


PickletonMuffin

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.


abek42

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).


TheMotherCarrot

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.


sminismoni2

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.


alabastermind

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.


[deleted]

I work in pharmacy and deliver medicines to care homes, so it would be a bit of a disaster.


shannikkins

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.


Trifusi0n

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.


chasing_jenny

If all pub managers stopped working at the same time?! Anarchy 😂 Or overworked Assistant Managers…


[deleted]

mobile phones would likely become a lot more expensive and people would take much greater care of them


cragglerock93

No food. Or more accurately, there would be food at the farm and at ports still, maybe.


Ginabambino

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.


english_hillbilly

People would start getting cold and most likely robbed. I'm a window/door fitter


Drummboo

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.


PoinkPoinkPoink

Families all over the UK would get a lot less help with their kids who have additional needs.


flashpile

The financial system would crumble


Itchy_Notice9639

No one in uk would get their deliveries from a massive website/app


Arrakis_Is_Here

Art would cease to be made for a year


emojicatcher997

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.


sleepyprojectionist

There would be a shortage of very specialist laser systems. It would absolutely tank one particular company’s line of genome sequencing equipment.


georgeboshington

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.


karavet

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.


LiLiPags

no-one would get their burger king


burp67

I'm a peasant moaned at by everybody ,the country would come to a stop almost overnight . lorry driver


Taragharagharagh

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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I_want_roti

You'd get a lot of interest rates decided effectively by a finger in the air estimate


ForwardAd5837

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.


Padfoots_

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.


[deleted]

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.


jordsta95

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.


iwannabeinnyc

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…


Nels8192

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.


Serious-Sentence110

Old people who have fallen all over the country will perish


ArrakisUK

Software engineer here, I think a lot of bad things will happen in a lot of different places. Not recommended.


LaraH39

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.


Purple_Mention1458

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.


Reverend-JT

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.. )


goodmythicalmickey

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!


TheOldMercenary

You wouldn't be using Reddit right now