Speaker 1: The christ Joanna O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast.
Speaker 2: All right, so thank you very much. By the way,
Speaker 2: to Catherine just sent us a lovely text just to
Speaker 2: say she's glad to show's back, glad we're all safe,
Speaker 2: and to thanks for doing what we're doing. I really
Speaker 2: appreciate that today because last night I couldn't sleep him.
Speaker 2: I was really worried because we're all in different locations
Speaker 2: with the I don't want to call it magic. Whatever
Speaker 2: it is that we have together, it ain't magic. Whatever
Speaker 2: it is that we have together, would it still be there?
Speaker 2: But I'm very, very lucky that whatever he has still
Speaker 2: hopefully working with Jack and Coburg and Pats. I didn't
Speaker 2: even know where Pats is, I mean trying to speak
Speaker 2: to her down the line, but they're from here. Now
Speaker 2: where have you been the beach? I just had to
Speaker 2: do something for the news. Sorry. I was worried that
Speaker 2: the line of fallen over all some workman out of
Speaker 2: where to put a shovel through the compound subli and
Speaker 2: and the backup generator, or there'd been a security breach
Speaker 2: out of the David Koresh compound that you live in.
Speaker 1: Ah No, I'm here all.
Speaker 2: Right, guys, you're doing a great job. Well done, all right,
Speaker 2: So what we're going to do now? They last off
Speaker 2: and I've been telling you what's been going on with
Speaker 2: us for the last forty eight hours and why there
Speaker 2: was no show yesterday and that won the gold team
Speaker 2: had tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend. He is
Speaker 2: doing very well. It's actually a lot better than today.
Speaker 2: I've just heard from it sysn't a show and he's
Speaker 2: doing very well, for a lot better than he did
Speaker 2: that the weekend when he did the right thing and
Speaker 2: rung the hotline to say that he was having symptoms
Speaker 2: and the rest they got him tested and did the
Speaker 2: right thing, and the emergency services here and the healthcare
Speaker 2: people and the care workers are doing an amazing job
Speaker 2: right now. So if you work in those industries, thank
Speaker 2: you very much for all the work that you're doing
Speaker 2: as well. But because we've been talking about us and
Speaker 2: what's been going on with us overloa half an hour,
Speaker 2: I really want to know how you guys are doing.
Speaker 2: So it's just a question right now. I've just checking
Speaker 2: in to see how are you actually doing. It's Wednesday.
Speaker 2: We've had this for a couple of days now, Who
Speaker 2: is doing okay? And what are you doing to keep
Speaker 2: okay and to look after yourself? Who is struggling at
Speaker 2: the moment, maybe trying to have zoom meetings conference calls
Speaker 2: from home. I had a first experience of what some
Speaker 2: of you be going through yesterday. We are to have
Speaker 2: a way too long, way too long conference call, obviously
Speaker 2: just checking for safety. That was okay for us to
Speaker 2: come back into the station. Who would be coming in,
Speaker 2: Jack would be at home, Patsy be at home, I'd
Speaker 2: be here. Who'll be here with me? I mustn't have
Speaker 2: any contact with them? And I haven't. And so but
Speaker 2: that conference call with Gav and Huggy bosses, ohs, how
Speaker 2: did it go on for?
Speaker 1: Well, it took fifteen minutes just to get started.
Speaker 2: Everybody going out? How do I turn the camera on?
Speaker 2: You guys?
Speaker 1: Hearing me? Am I hearing you?
Speaker 2: And also right, I know that two senior management members
Speaker 2: muted their microphones so they could go and get the
Speaker 2: oven man turned up for our boss Sue during that call,
Speaker 2: and she had to mute it again because her cat
Speaker 2: was about to jump over the wall. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if you heard at one point you could hear
Speaker 2: some yelling, and I wondered who she was yelling at,
Speaker 2: and I rang her afterwards that what was the yelling
Speaker 2: at your rangement? Now the cat was trying to escape?
Speaker 2: This is what people be doing. Where they trying and
Speaker 2: conduct business from home with zoom where they got all
Speaker 2: the home distractions were not set up at the moment.
Speaker 2: Are we to have these home offices? How are you
Speaker 2: guys doing? Who is doing okay? Who's finding it hard?
Speaker 2: How are you guys doing so far with what's going on?
Speaker 2: Let me know the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast, We're
Speaker 2: asking you, how are you doing this morning? How's your
Speaker 2: week been so far? What are you struggling with with
Speaker 2: all this? What's going well? What are you found that's
Speaker 2: working for you? Nine four one four one o four
Speaker 2: three anything you want to share? Christian, My name is James,
Speaker 2: and listen to show right now live in Seattle, obviously
Speaker 2: scary time for us in America. Listen to the show
Speaker 2: every day on podcast. Today is the first time I've
Speaker 2: ever been able to listen live as I'm temporarily working
Speaker 2: second shift because Seattle, like Melbourne, is now on a lockdown.
Speaker 2: I work for an aerospace company. We fall into essential
Speaker 2: business category and like bare in Melbourne, so it's business
Speaker 2: as usual for me. For me, the toughest part of
Speaker 2: what's going on right now has not been able to
Speaker 2: fly back to the UK if anything happens to mom
Speaker 2: and dad. But I guess you'll fit in the same
Speaker 2: thing as well. Yeah, James, member wi fi. But thank
Speaker 2: you to you and the team for doing everything you're doing.
Speaker 2: I will be leaving you a thirty second diary for
Speaker 2: the show for tomorrow. James and Seattle, thank you very
Speaker 2: much for that. Let's go to Luke. Good morning, Luke.
Speaker 1: Hi, guys, how are we Yeah, we're pretty good, Luke.
Speaker 2: Actually we're okay. Luke. How are you getting on so far?
Speaker 1: Well? I work at Bunnings and the amount of disrespectful
Speaker 1: in patient people coming through is disgusting. We are run
Speaker 1: off our feet. We are trying our best understand that everyone,
Speaker 1: and for those that are giving us respect and that
Speaker 1: are being patient, we can't thank you enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't stand. I was in the supermarket the
Speaker 2: other day and I just I know. We're all scared,
Speaker 2: right we are, We're scared, but there's still we're still
Speaker 2: gonna remember to be kind because you guys, everyone, whether
Speaker 2: you're in you know, Woolworths, Coals, Bunnings, you're all just
Speaker 2: trying to do the best you can in the same
Speaker 2: situation we're all in. There is no excuse to be
Speaker 2: rude to anyone or short with them, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: it must be a really stressful environment to be working
Speaker 2: in at times, Luke, it really is. And I'm sorry
Speaker 2: you're really strug at the moment. Thanks for sharing with us, mate.
Speaker 1: There's a struggle to part with people being rude. We
Speaker 1: are trying. We are definitely trying one hundred percent and
Speaker 1: trying not to have a breakdown is impossible. We're worth
Speaker 1: could any retail worker. We are trying our best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really are, mate, And what are you doing
Speaker 2: to get some support because you guys are out in
Speaker 2: the front line.
Speaker 1: You know, we just lean on each other at work.
Speaker 1: We get together and support each other.
Speaker 2: You know, because I think as much as we've got
Speaker 2: to be very very cautious and smartly cautious about the
Speaker 2: danger from coronavirus, the danger that our mental health with
Speaker 2: all the fear and paranoria and anxiety and you know
Speaker 2: what you're going through Luke as well. We need to.
Speaker 2: There's a kind of two pandemics, isn't there. There's the
Speaker 2: one from coronavirus, But there's the one from the anxiety
Speaker 2: and the stress that this is causing.
Speaker 1: All of us. There certainly is. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how people can go home and feel good about themselves
Speaker 1: making others feel like rubbish and sending them home in
Speaker 1: tears or making me feel as little as anything. Like
Speaker 1: I understand people are losing their jobs and all that,
Speaker 1: but that's no excuse to come in and be rude
Speaker 1: or think that you're you're you're the one that should
Speaker 1: be served first. There is lines, there is self distancing
Speaker 1: but in place, and you've got people that won't respect that. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're not going to respect that, we won't serve
Speaker 1: you then.
Speaker 2: And I'm guessing, Luke, that you aren't the only one
Speaker 2: that be feeling this.
Speaker 1: No, the whole team is like the whole team. I
Speaker 1: just don't get what people don't understand about respecting the team,
Speaker 1: Like we're there to help you. If you're not going
Speaker 1: to support us and respect us, don't expect service.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the only way, the only way we're going to
Speaker 2: get through this Luke is by being kind to ourselves
Speaker 2: and each other. That is the only way we're going
Speaker 2: to be able to get through.
Speaker 1: This one hundred percent. Stick together like we've never been
Speaker 1: through this, No one's been through this. We're all. This
Speaker 1: is a learning kit for us all.
Speaker 2: And so are you back at work today or have
Speaker 2: you just finished what's that?
Speaker 1: I'm just a bit the start work, but we're all
Speaker 1: working over time and putting ourselves at risk to help
Speaker 1: the communities.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, Louke, I really appreciate the courage and bravior
Speaker 2: that you've show and given us a call this morning.
Speaker 2: And you know there are a lot of people listening
Speaker 2: to this show. Maybe we've all feeling guilty over the
Speaker 2: last couple of days of being short with someone and
Speaker 2: just in that moment, trying to get what we think
Speaker 2: we need urgently to get through this, and maybe your words.
Speaker 2: You never know who might be listening right now, but
Speaker 2: I bet everyone who is listening has thought about this
Speaker 2: in a very very different way. And you know, just
Speaker 2: your struggles and speaking for people in different industries who
Speaker 2: were meeting members of the public who are stressed and
Speaker 2: getting a bit angry and short with you just how
Speaker 2: imporn is to just take a breath and just remind
Speaker 2: us that everyone is just trying to do the best
Speaker 2: at the moment to getting through these extraordinary.
Speaker 1: Days, a hundred of us. And then you get your
Speaker 1: good customers who are giving you great words wisdom. Man,
Speaker 1: that's what we want. It makes you feel that a
Speaker 1: little bit better.
Speaker 2: Well, if you listen to this show, you've got a
Speaker 2: decent heart. And if you've got a decent heart today,
Speaker 2: if you're in Bunnings or you come across anyone in
Speaker 2: any who's serving you or trying to do their best,
Speaker 2: say thank you for doing what you're doing. That's what
Speaker 2: we should be doing today. Do you want that little
Speaker 2: one out? But Louke, I hope you're okay today, mate,
Speaker 2: I really really, I really appreciate you trusting us with
Speaker 2: what's going on. Is it will really help, mate, because
Speaker 2: you never know who's going to listen. And I know
Speaker 2: that everyone who is listening right now will think about
Speaker 2: how they behave today.
Speaker 1: Yes, well hopfully they do think about their actions before
Speaker 1: they lash out of someone.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, Luke, I hope you're getting the support
Speaker 2: you need as well. Thank you very much for giving
Speaker 2: me a call and I hope today is a bit
Speaker 2: kind to your mate.
Speaker 1: Hopefully. Thank you guys, all right, take
Speaker 2: Care, Luke Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast