Poll: Are you laid off

[Sailingeric]

I feel pretty good that once thing blow over, even if it is another month, things will get back to normal fairly quickly. Most of us are tired of being home so I suspect restaurants will be packed, people will want to travel again so airlines will recover mostly, and people have short memories so the cruise ships will be packed. Hang in there!

 

[Chefwheredyougo]

SUCKS! our industry took a major blow. all my staff is furloughed as well.
I fortunately am still on payroll...for now, also an exec of a few venues in NYC.. lost 300 events and still dropping.

Hang in there, we come back strong.

We lost all of our events including the biggest of the year, 500+ 4 day wine tasting event. A few of us are still getting some kind of compensation from the owners, but doesn't make a dent in bills.
I think it'll come back pretty good, but will probably be some notable differences in the practices of alot of restaurants.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I appreciate the assurance vetteguy. I'm expecting overtime for a couple of weeks when I come back but once the backlog is taken care of I don't think many new orders will be coming in. People won't exactly be throwing $ around

This event I believe has disciplined many on :
Spending
Saving
Rainy day fund (gained a lot of meaning)
Personal Hygiene
Appreciation for having a full time job/career
Resources for help
Humanity

 

[DancingShark]

Furloughed. So vote laid off.
I will lose my health insurance starting next month. How is that people love their work provided health insurance agreement going to hold up. At that time I will be on unemployment.

We can still operate the daycare but what sense is that if they have closed the schools to limit exposure. Most parents work in a meat packaging factory close by. They have been getting diagnosed as positive and being sent home.

6 people I know are positive. 3 of those are employed by that meat factory. So they are laid off.

2 in ICU. They are the oldest ones. One of them is on life support with a damaged liver.

The other shows no symptoms but he tested positive because he lives with the older folks and is walking around like nothing is wrong in public. No mask. No gloves.

 

[tehmadreefer]

This event I believe has disciplined many on :
Spending
Saving
Rainy day fund (gained a lot of meaning)
Personal Hygiene
Appreciation for having a full time job/career
Resources for help
Humanity

you would think, but we haven’t learned from the last recession in 2008 lol

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Furloughed. So vote laid off.
I will lose my health insurance starting next month. How is that people love their work provided health insurance agreement going to hold up. At that time I will be on unemployment.

We can still operate the daycare but what sense is that if they have closed the schools to limit exposure. Most parents work in a meat packaging factory close by. They have been getting diagnosed as positive and being sent home.

6 people I know are positive. 3 of those are employed by that meat factory. So they are laid off.

2 in ICU. They are the oldest ones. One of them is on life support with a damaged liver.

The other shows no symptoms but he tested positive because he lives with the older folks and is walking around like nothing is wrong in public. No mask. No gloves.

Ive had the same experience. 2 older family members got really sick, 2 coworkers got moderatly sick and one of them was going to jobsites and working around older customers like nothing was wrong. So messed up

 

[NS Mike D]

I feel pretty good that once thing blow over, even if it is another month, things will get back to normal fairly quickly. Most of us are tired of being home so I suspect restaurants will be packed, people will want to travel again so airlines will recover mostly, and people have short memories so the cruise ships will be packed. Hang in there!

Oh. I think we are talking about a least a year or more before things get back to normal.

without readily available testing and no vaccine, the risk of going back to pandemic will be there

I think we are talking about stages. For example, once test are available I think employers will be able to let worker who test negative to return

But I am afraid large enclosed venues like concerts and trade show will have more difficult time preventing them from becoming a hub for another outbreak. How can you put 15-20K people in an arena and not have carriers in the group?

Restaurants and bars, assuming they can survive now, will have a more difficult time given they rely of crowding on Friday and Saturday nights. I think it will be a long time before health departments will permit bars from being 3 of 4 deep.

Widespread testing access will greatly help the first stage. But until a vaccine is available, I suspect it won't be business as usual

 

[a4edwin]

Local 46 nyc reinforcing Ironworker still working. Don’t know why we’re not doing any essential work in the V.S.C. Under the WTC. We were told that if we wanted to stay home we could but no pay and we would be voluntarily leaving so no unemployment. I don’t want to get sick or get my family sick but I really can’t afford to stay home and need my hours for my medical.

 

[vetteguy53081]

you would think, but we haven’t learned from the last recession in 2008 lol

2008 was economic (something we saw coming) whereas this event was/is a crisis ( we did not see this coming- who ever would have known/guessed).

 

[Ashish Patel]

Blessing and Love to all the Healthcare workers.

I work for TATA consultancy services and luckily still working. I've stayed with this company for 5 years because they have a track record of not releasing employees during hardtimes. If they keep me through this crisis I will forever be a TCSers

 

[Waynerock]

Furloughed. So vote laid off.
I will lose my health insurance starting next month. How is that people love their work provided health insurance agreement going to hold up. At that time I will be on unemployment.

We can still operate the daycare but what sense is that if they have closed the schools to limit exposure. Most parents work in a meat packaging factory close by. They have been getting diagnosed as positive and being sent home.

6 people I know are positive. 3 of those are employed by that meat factory. So they are laid off.

2 in ICU. They are the oldest ones. One of them is on life support with a damaged liver.

The other shows no symptoms but he tested positive because he lives with the older folks and is walking around like nothing is wrong in public. No mask. No gloves.

cant you get medicade if you are on unemployment? I did last year

 

[DancingShark]

We had a inverted yield curve a couple times before this hit. This just exacerbate what was already forecast.

 

[BZOFIQ]

IT in Logistics... so far its all moving forward.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

Public accountant - working more than ever.

Yeppppppppp...can't wait for all of extra the going concern work

 

[Special K]

Respiratory Therapist here at a big hospital in Maryland so not slowing down for me anytime soon.

 

[tankstudy]

Still working here. Healthcare-Science.

I don't even want think about how much work I'm going to have after this...-_-;

 

[Brian_68]

In new product development and design in an "essential" field and fortunately working although mostly at home.

 

[jguerin88]

i’ve been working remote for like 3 yrs so business as usual

 

[Darrell Brady]

I would just like to give a Shout Out to the ones o the frontline. God Bless them all.

 

[HuneyBear]

I am a Essential government employee. The closest to lay-off I will get at least for now is they have separated the building into 2 crews one week on one week off. If someone from 1 crew gets sick the other crew can take their place.
wife is a nurse so she doesn’t get to be laid off either.