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Posted 24 March 2020
Free Pair of Allbirds Trainers for NHS Medical Workers (First 2000)
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Allbirds is offering a free pair of trainers to medical workers in the NHS
We admire everything NHS healthcare workers are doing for our communities. To show our appreciation for those on the front lines fighting COVID-19, we’re offering a pair of shoes on us. It’s a small way of saying thank you and providing comfort for the long hours you're putting in to keep us safe and healthy. Simply fill out the form below and our team will get back to you after verification (note, quantities are limited).
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(UK only. Offer valid while stock lasts, quantities are limited. No return or exchanges. Not for resale. Please allow a few days for processing due to high demand)
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We admire everything NHS healthcare workers are doing for our communities. To show our appreciation for those on the front lines fighting COVID-19, we’re offering a pair of shoes on us. It’s a small way of saying thank you and providing comfort for the long hours you're putting in to keep us safe and healthy. Simply fill out the form below and our team will get back to you after verification (note, quantities are limited).
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(UK only. Offer valid while stock lasts, quantities are limited. No return or exchanges. Not for resale. Please allow a few days for processing due to high demand)
docs.google.com/for…orm
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Edited by a community support team member, 24 March 2020
170 Comments
sorted byMy wife had 3 people die on her Saturday. Had to deal with the mess/ relatives/ paperwork. All in an 8 hour shift where she has been drafted in to a ward as her speciality (fertility) has been closed. Today she has had to deal with 40 formal complaints from the public as the fertility clinic has closed as she and the team have been drafted to a ward (therefore removing her from the ward for a full day). How was your day?
Spillage in aisle 6
Shock horror announcement:
life’s sometimes unfair.
and it’s unlikely that anyone will be as at much risk as someone on the NHS front line.
There are also idiots who are verbally abusing nhs workers.
A friend of my wife, was queuing at the supermarket for the NHS only opening times, to have some clown shout “Virus Spreaders” at full volume.
The ignorance of these people is unreal!
The NHS from the top to the bottom is working themselves to the grave to try and save the sick right now, putting not only their lives on the line but also their own families.
Yet day after day, they go into work to save the lives of the very same idiots who wouldn’t follow the isolation advice in the first place.
It’s a thankless job, but they are willing to do it, if only the idiots would stop and think for one moment before acting.
What happened to literally a couple of months ago, “in a world that you can be anything, be kind”?
Hope you're joking!
It's not even like this offer is unfair. Companies are free to help out whomever they want- it's not unfair, its just who they've chosen.
I'm thankful for all trades that are keeping the country going, but for you to complain your trade doesn't get free shoes while NHS front line workers do? You should really consider climbing down from that pedestal and think about what really matters in life. (edited)
I definetely believe your wife deserves the shoes. As social workers, we only had 2 death people today and about 3 complaints. May be more, but we don't know yet, as we were busy visiting and helping vulnerable people at home, as lots of carers quit their job and there is nobody else to do it. And we don't even have hand gel, never mind masks or gloves.
I believe NHS workers are doing a great job and they definetely deserve all our respect and recognition. I also believe it is up the the businesses to whom they give freebies.
What I find sad is everyone praises NHS, I can see all offers for them, but completely forgets about the social care workers. We don't want any freebies, we just want others to recognise the importance of our role. (edited)
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I think this is the link you need:
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But I could not find a bigger tool. (edited)
Im also a key worker on the frontline doing long hours and 8 day weeks, however I take my hat off to the extremely valuable nhs who deserve everything they get and much more, its just a shame certain folk seem to think they should be rewarded from saving a loaf of bread falling from a shelf!
Trust me, there is an element who are not joking on this matter. The same ones that pelt emergency workers, block in ambulances etc
Not disagreeing with your comment but I am concerned for supermarket workers at the moment. The amount of people they come into contact with and they have no protective equipment. Lots of the workers on the tills seemed to be older women too, probably close to the higher risk age.
That said, and I don’t mean this to distract from incredibly deserving nhs staff, I really feel for everyone who is dealing with the public at this time. Many people are out there working for minimum wage and, make no mistake, they’re at risk. Not as much by any measure as those in the nhs dealing with infected people and awful situations.
I got one am glad that there are people who re still servicing our needs for food, mail, transport and other vital services. So let’s be respectful please.
I hope hell exists
Yes mate, second is double price.
The worst part is, this is just the beginning. They need our empathy, support and faith.
Anyone working with the public right now has my respect. Appreciate this as the compassionate gesture it is (I don't care if you think the business is seeking publicity, either), and stop taking it so personally. When did we become such a selfish, uncaring society?
Well said. The internet and relative anonymity can bring out the worst in folk and right now we need to see everyone’s best. Let not degrade each other for easy kicks.
In all honesty, I really don't understand why everyone is hating this comment... Yes I totally understand and havean incredible amount of respect for NHS workers - as a couple of my closest friends work for the NHS with ridiculous workloads at the best of times.. overworked and underpaid. And I'm happy like the rest of you that they are all finally getting the recognition and the extra support they deserve. On the other hand, I do know many other people that fulfill other "key worker" jobs. Such as people on the front lines having to deal with the victims of the virus and the people having to manage and combat the spread and work on a cure (I don't know all these people, but you get my point). And while it's not about the stuff, or the extra "rights" or the direct appreciation given by every business and commenter, I do believe that these people are also invaluable as the "glue" that is holding us all together through these times, and that they should not be out down as "ah well they're not as important as the NHS staff" , "they don't have it as bad as xyz" maybe they work 7 hours, maybe they work 13 hours.. it really doesn't matter. It's every single person putting their own heath and risk, to help others- selflessly, that fall under this category. There is so much more to fighting this virus and keeping us all safe than just NHS workers. All my respect to every single one of you making a difference out there.
Stay safe everyone
Edit: it really shouldn't be a competition over who "has it worse". Everyone that is doing their bit deserves our respect and support. (edited)
How do 8 day weeks work?
People are so self absorbed, this virus certainly brings out the selfish
1). In the last 2 weeks, we have identified the people who really keep the country running. Not the investment banker or hedge fund manager, who get paid millions and do naff all. Where are they now? Safe in their penthouses whilst key workers are out putting their lives at risk.
2. Who gets what freebie shouldn’t divide us. There are some groups that are seriously under recognised by companies. Key worker should mean key worker and offers should be available to anyone who carries out essential work. Equally don’t hate on people just because a company is unjust.
3. Watching people die is horrendous. Especially when those deaths can be prevented by staying inside and good hand hygiene. Sadly, all key workers are faced with putting their own lives, their families lives and their patients/customers lives at risk because the country will crumble if they don’t show up to work.
4. The UK was poorly prepared for this and herd immunity was a stupid stupid policy. (edited)
I’m also a critical key worker but i think your wife is more critical than me.
Please pass on my thanks and support for everything she is doing as we would be really stumped without her.
In a week's work we will drive many hundreds of miles and visit numerous wards and hospitals and hospices.
We have now been asked if we can also transport Covid-19 patients.
Myself and crew colleagues are all on £8.21 - £9.00 an hour and during our 10-12 hour shifts we are lucky if we even get to have our one 30 minute unpaid break.
Our supplies are very low and some have already ran out. We have no hand sanitizer left and most our gloves are out of date.
I'm not expecting any freebies or even any sympathy but please remember there are people out there risking their health right on the frontline with little to no protection on a very low basic minimum wage too.
Wow what kind of self absorbed people are complaining about losing access to a (presumably, unless I'm missing something) non-essential clinic at a time like this. Not to mention who would want to even get pregnant at a time like this! Every hospital check up would be like dodging bullets not to mention the risk to the child if you catch it.
Try studying for 13 years, having to get the best grades each time and the toughest interviews. Try having to study each night at the age of 31about the anatomy and preparing yourself for a different body. Try going to work for 8am and coming home at 7pm, even though your 8 hour shift meant you finished at 5pm. Try having a day with staff-tired staff, shattered staff, underpaid staff- also, bullying is rife in the NHS. Try saving someones life but it doesnt work and they die. Try telling their family. Try having to deal with mental torture when covid 19 strikes....and we may have 1000 deaths per day which means absolute madness and chaos and try having to determine who gets a ventilator from a 21 year old prisoner or a 62 year o.a.p. Try sleeping on that.
I agree. NHS deserves more. But not to forget about the others. Even if they don't get any freebies, they try to do a good job while others are at home. We, as key workers were told the school is open for our kids, and if we don't want to take them to school (for obvious reasons) we can stay at home, but we will not get paid.
On TV now advice if you're not seriously ill, to stay away from hospitals. Great, but all responsibility falls on social care now. Nobody asks how social care copes...
At the end of the pandemic everybody will cheer for NHS, NHS workers will still be under paid and social care will have another budget cut. (edited)
I think that's a very fair point. You'd hope that their employers would be making concessions for them in a similar way.
Be quiet you tit
At this rate we'll be getting demands for queen's medals from dave who works on fruit and veg.
But I’m not nursing people through illness, pain, death, grief and I’m not putting my life at risk every minute of every shift. I’m haven’t needed to move out of my family home to protect my loved ones. I’m not dealing with a fountain of abuse while doing so
Our NHS workers deserve all the freebies and support they can get!
Don't worry. With that kind of attitude there'll soon be enough free trainers for everyone. You'll have to make sure to disinfect them when you remove them from the corpse though.
Yep and now beat up emergency workers to steal their badges...yep it's a new thing!