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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I’m on unemployment now. Got my first UC money yesterday. Waiting for the $1200 Trump bux and the $600 per week Care Act money. Once everything starts rolling money ain’t gonna be that bad.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts
[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

In other words, fuck that noise, I'm still working while I still have the opportunity.

[–] • 1 pt

Sad to say I'm facing making this decision right now...
I work in grocery and managed to survive this long by being an 'essential worker', but now am being told to wear a face mask while I work. This is the point where I can't give anymore.
Grocery is a labor job, you lift and move cases of all weights all day, stooping, bending, reaching while holding weight, sweeping, cleaning. It's work, and the kind of work you need to breathe clearly for. Case of water? 40lbs. Pork loin? 70-90lbs
Boss is asking no questions and offering no assistance, just go along with it or fuck off.
Now the burden is on me to present my case for furlough, leave of absence, paid vacation or something. My less independent minded colleagues are already suffering under these things, constantly taking them off to breath, rub their ears or defog their glasses, completely undermining their purported effectiveness.
Noone is talking about how masks increase the liklihood of getting ill from wearing these things all goddamn day while trying bust ass for the average frightened, ignorant customers.
In fact I've been told that it's our customers who have demanded this new policy with no regard for the consequences.
Faced with these pressures I have no choice but to try and survive a few weeks without work until the general populace gets fed up enough with this destructive hysteria to demand real change. At this point, refusing to be subjected to this harmful humiliation is the only productive thing I have to offer now.

[–] • 1 pt

Wearing a mask when you aren't around other people is stupid and detrimental to health, not helpful. If you are stocking where there are no customers and you know there won't be, then you shouldn't have to wear a mask.

You also could get a mask with a exhalation . It will ease half your breathing, and actually the part where your lungs aren't as strong. Those don't protect others as well though but your boss won't realize that.

Thin paper masks are less effort to breath through than the thicker polypropylene ones. They are a little less durable though.

Also you can work slower. Your boss required you to wear a mask so he should deal with the consequences. He should and probably has calculated to some extent that less work will get done because of it. If not it should be demonstrated. Work no faster than you are able to work while wearing it. That's just basic safety advise.

[–] • 0 pt

Appreciate the tip about exhalation vented masks. To clarify, this store does stocking and receiving during business hours, on the sales floor so avoidance is slim to impossible. As in they dump anywhere from 3 to 6 pallets in the produce section and attempt to break them down and stock while people shop.
Despite my tenure they reject most of my ideas on how to run things. For example dumping pallets on the sales floor instead of the receiving dock.
These fools used to pile cardboard onto flat top carts and attempt to make it across the store to the bailer. I taught them to use shopping carts instead, as it contained the mess and the carts were needed for other things besides garbage. That process took years, and now they are hardcore stuck on it.
I've known shopping carts are more dirty on average than toilet seats for some time however, so I devised a better method: Use the largest boxes of the day to hold all the broken cardboard. These self righteous nonces still painstakingly pick each broken down box out of the shopping carts to throw them away, even as I walk up next to them, dump my box in 2 seconds and away. Meanwhile they are grabbing filthy warehouse boxes by hand from a bloody filthy shopping cart!
The indignity of being ruled by idiots, normally a forgettable burden, has become dangerous to my well being.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

As in all colds and flu....some get it, some dont...We all soldier on, comrade.

[–] • 1 pt

No governor who instituted one of the more extreme lockdowns is going to be reelected, except maybe New York that actually had a significant number of cases in a city that needed to be quartered off.

Other than that people are utterly pissed. I would have been one of them but I found another job after about a month of looking.

I would suggest getting a second job if you are able. One we need the extra work done while nobody is doing any if we actually want to have shit in this country, two we never know how stable any job will be once there is a slow down that isn't just lock down, you might as well land that other job while there isn't 45 million looking for one and zero businesses thinking its a smart time to hire. Third, with resource shortages coming (because if people don't work we will have less things), it might be handy to have extra income so you aren't as impacted. Fourth, if things get really bad it might not hurt to have more savings. Yep, get another job if you can.

With so many Americans thinking they shouldn't be working, even with things slowing down there is work to get.. for now.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

157 million counted as 'workforce' in the US; 33 million or so out of work is 21 percent unemployment...round up to 25 percent for the 3 or 4 percent who are permanently unemployed but not retired?