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It’s closing time. Where next? Can I have Pfizer please?

  Well my jinxed journey as a modern day Jonah through the vaccination centres of Edinburgh continues. QMU drive-through in Musselburgh was my first location which closed down last summer in early June. I was redeployed to the EICC in central Edinburgh which closed its doors in September, only to reopen them in haste in December to cope with booster demand! And now Leith CTC vaccine centre is also closing and I will be redeployed to Ocean Terminal (OT) next month . While I would like to think this may be my last move I note that online OT only appears to be open until the 6 th March and, as my contract comes to a close at the end of March, I may yet have one more centre to close and one more move to make. I have regularly joked with new colleagues that once I begin to work in a new location that they should prepare themselves for imminent closure and redeployment. This no longer has the power to amuse. My attempts to work additional hours via either my contract or via the ...