DEEP SCRATCH

Tag: Business

  • My Covid-19 Guidelines For Small Businesses

    Lead By Example

    Hi, rather than perpetually moan and groan everytime I read an article about the impact of Covid-19 on businesses, in particular small hospitality services, I wanted to share my thoughts in the format of some clear bullet points, a mixture of gentle advice and strong recommendations. However much I wish the chaos would all go away, the new reality for us requires forward thinking optimism and criticism, in equal measure. The largest restaurant chains in the world such as McDonald’s, who don’t seem content with their existing Covid-19 safe…drive through are planning to re-open. I can understand it’s extra work and consideration on top stresses for small businesses, but please, don’t let McDonald’s be the only food outlet open for business due to the fact they published some flimsy Covid-19 measures. You can do better!             

    Certification.

    I guess, in the near future, new Health And Safety rules will apply to your business and staff. Better go look them up now, create a Google Alert (Covid-19 Health And Safety) and add your specific location, e.g. in the UK see: https://www.hse.gov.uk/news/coronavirus.html 

    Reconsider existing Health And Safety certifications and the process of gaining them. Did you or your colleagues take a test? What was it like, how might Covid-19 change questions and answers in 2020 and beyond. See the new Remote Auditing from Britsafe here: https://www.britsafe.org/audit-and-consultancy/new-remote-audits-and-consultancy/

    Perhaps go further and begin to formulate your own certification, alone or better yet as a team. Explore ways in which you can improve the efficiency, communication and protection of your business in the new Covid-19 world. If you can prove your methods and processes as a team, raise each others Covid awareness, and if you can record your progress to provide evidence of your actions, you can lead by example. #CoronaHero
    This could potentially make your business more attractive to customers and get you in-line for support…due to leading the field, doing what the government is not. Thinking for yourself. To be clear, these are extra measures on top of whatever current measures are in place.          

    Measures.

    I consider the practical measures as a finite list and I sincerely hope that innovative minds out there will think of alternative materials and methods to further reduce any chance of infection. Please consider.

    Protective Screens – At the point of purchase, materials, designs, microphone?

    Floor Markings – Set to the advised spacing apart, simple.

    Protective Masks – All staff and management wear masks (medical, non-medical grade?)

    Protective Gloves – All staff equipped with ample supply of gloves and instructed on procedures for use, frequency of change etc.    

    Ventilation – All ventilation systems are operating to ensure clean flow of air (Kitchens)

    Public Information – Certificates and public info on view to make customers feel secure. 

    Delivery And Service Providers – Share the same Covid measures and certifications?

    Updated Cleaning Schedule – Based on new methods, frequency, cleaning agents.  

    Team Building – A series of actions to encourage open feedback between teammates, a forum, Whats App group, Zoom etc.

    Insurance – What can small businesses learn from the super giants, what changes? 

    Test Trace Isolate / Flatten The Curve – Are your team and customers aware of larger goals? If not, why not?  

    Solidarity – It is critical that governments and businesses move in tandem to ensure staff who may feel sick say so immediately. Same for those who have contact with Covid-19 cases?

    Emergency Procedure – What happens if X Y Z? Protocol and plans for the future.

    This Q & A on Food Safety and Covid 19, by the European Commission is informative. https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/safety/docs/biosafety_crisis_covid19_qandas_en.pdf

    Good luck out there. I hope to produce other such guidelines on other areas of impact this month. Much love,

    Steve fly

  • Some Limericks and War Business

    There was a dumb dotard called Trump
    who looked like a BBC flump
    his future seems stormy
    and wig rather tawny
    and mouth like an old camels rump.
    The was an old lady Theresa
    who lied and stole and she fleeced ya’
    she lived on young blood
    and come to no good
    I hope that the jail don’t release her.

     

    War Business?
    get a good education from your nation want to win all, and leave competition to annihilation? Business as war and war as business, into battle, into rivalry with your laws of mischief. For the win, the last man or women standing to have beat all the others, even sisters and brothers, to watch them squirm in a looser booze life, to show them who’s the boss. To have no thought for the loss. The majority are beat down. Beat down, and yet still breathing some how. So singing and dancing, working and working and dying of dichotomy. Dying a looser in a war competition. But with everything at stake, life itself business war-machine stealing food off the shelf,
    how lucky and fortunate the 1st world countries are, with lawyers and bankers and sales and PR Sell a bomb, sell a man, sell a story, fuck it, limerick bro. Fair?

     

  • Kulture Krimeminister

    A Poem For Birmingham Library by The Kulture Krimeminister

    Let’s lay the bricks out 
and cement the truth to the tarmac
    with architectural plans for the
    Minister of corporate responsibility
    response…ability
    Philip Neville Green
    With a name to come, start the tour
    Bit of a ghost train to be honest
    Nothing nice to see here
    A controlled demolition
    or how do you say, mismanagement

    The question of intention 
accident or controlled demolition
    Accidental demolition, is that a thing?
    Half full or half empty?
    Incompetence or psychopathy

    The question remains
    Do you think Carillion is a controlled demolition
    Or a terrible tragedy beyond any dudes control
    What do you do, what is to be done?

    Write for a start, get tip tapping away
    use your search engine, read and write and
    Read and write look at Carillon
    Look at the past news items and warnings
    Let’s talk about unrestricted finance capitalism
    and jazz and jungle, okay organic food and sky net
    culture with a capital K
    and town at the centre of the cyclone
    security, museums, galleries? What galleries?

    I must pull down my vanity a bit
    If you’re reading this M…
    I come in peace, in poetry
    but with concern, about Carillion
    what up with that?
    Up in wolf town the HQ close by
    Oh me oh my, and the usual suspect
    Phil Green, you must have shared a cup of tea with him
    He’s at the centre of a hot scam right now
    Something which pulls into question the
    Outsourcing of social services, and jobs, to the
    Private sector

    Let’s talk about the private sector
    I have a few alternatives, not just here to mock
    And claim conspiracy 
Let’s talk about Carillion

    Worth a few billion and rhymes with carrion
    It’s a new carry on called Carillion
    The boss made a million and left
    Just in time to escape the demolition
    Man, blew up from inside with
    Contracts and rats and lies and schemes
    Up to the rafters, I pity the grafters.

    Insult to the injury incurred to man who lift beams
    To the man or women that carry a hod
    Lay concrete build our street
    Your street, the roads and homes
    The hospitals and libraries, theatres
    You know any good actors?

    The schism in time ain’t mine
    Look, I’d be willing to work with you
    For a day or two and then you’d meet me and
    Look me in the eye and see the red and
    Probably smell the head of cheese
    In my jacket pocket
    Naaaaa man, can’t do it. 

It’s you and I apart nothing else to it
    Even so far away I can feel you’re pull
    The culture minister the digital tsar the
    Many meaningful and powerful things that you are
    And so I ask you, what culture?
    What Jobs? I digress…

    So what about Carillion? Eh.
    Yeah, thanks a million
    To scaffold the issue and 
cut the wood of doubt
    and shave logs 
of skepticism for dust particles of truth
    Wire up the light tonight and lay the path ahead
    build a place for the 
hospital bed that Philip deserves

    The Carillion banquet
    Philip Neville Greens served in a “Cameron” pork sauce,
    Hinckley Krispy Nuclear Fish cakes, together with “Jobs Out’ sauce
    Margott’s “trade union” Bhaji’s
    Baker’s fat cat meat rolls and carrion pepper

    Big into construction?

 I know you know about the yard,
    Roots and culture, the man and women on
    The floor, building, lifting, painting, carrying, sweating
    The workers, well not these people, forget them love,
    Let’s talk about the CEO’s
    The owners and ministers of corporate 
responsibility,
    the marrow, the meat, the stars the
    Candidates.

    Do you see the paradox?
    Controlled demolition remains a conspiracy theory
    Based on the idea that those people in charge,
    Those with agency for change
    DO NOT have our best interests at heart
    Only those interests of the few,
    Those like Sir Philip Green,
    rhymes with mean, not with cunt.

    How mean can you get Mr Green
    To jump ship and seemingly stand by
    While the ship is demolished along with
    Tens of thousands of jobs?
    So, in response to the question what
Is, to, be done?
    Speak freely with poetry,
    Paint, chant, dance, sculpt
    And to my friends 
Rise.

    Your commander in chief is 
the culture minister now
    Just let that sink in and then get to it
    Make that beat, spit that bar
write that blog, read that book.
    Build a new decentralised co-operative
    Brook

 replace Carillion.
    never ever put blind faith in the
    Tory spearheaded privatisation of the means
    To production again.
    This is what unrestricted international
    Finance capitalism looks like
    A hall of mirrors, shrugs and what the F**ks
    A infant could have seen this coming.
    Carillion was in trouble and yet
    Contract after contract was given out on the double
    Like hot cakes, like free money, like
    The beginning of a controlled demolition
    Put on your hats and get stuck into the rubble
    Let’s build an alternative 
quick smart on the double

    Listen, breathe, take a look.
    Let’s not jump to any conclusions now
    Yes, culture is what culture does
    Money, chaos, central power, confidence
    Unrestricted finance capitalism film and lies

    Stourbridge, New Jerusalem, Dudley
    Give me a big make a fries to go
    Centre of all things
    like Robert Plant & Frank Foley
    Rock and Roll Security
    Only the best and later for the rest

    Ms. Minister of culture?
    Please forward your map for cultural learning
    The books and films, the principles and fundamentals
    The foundations and hero’s and legends
    The myths and preferred diet
    Mental conceptions, means to attain knowledge
    Health, comprehensive understanding
    A job
    Where to go and what to know
    What soundtrack, which painters and prime movers
    Important movements in the arts
    And in 2018? Not just medieval arts
    What contemporary artist? Local, think!
    teach us and show us culture.
    I don’t hunt or fence
    What beats, what beat maker or better yet
    rhyme scientist or beat mechanic,
    Who rock the dance floor across racial borders?
    Who make an impact in independent music?
    This is not a battle, man, no, this is a conversation
    With myself, comment if you like, you follow me right?

    My title, vulture crimeminister
    ma from the river
    A friend, writing, with some editions to the
    Cultural rag bag
    First, the bridge is in a state,
    The river still needs help too
    and the new KFC, MaCdonlds, Costa Triplicity
    Put’s town on the map
    Did you cut the ribbon?
    Kiddin, hear me now,
    Culture is your operating system
    And so, as Vulture Crime-minister I ask

    Am I guilty,
    Now never mind Carillion, reduce the story to
    an individual scape goat, don’t question
    unristricted
    international
    finance
    capitalism