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Work status and expectations

Job status... what is yours?

  • Small biz owner - expect to soldier through

    Votes: 15 11.5%

  • Small biz owner - not sure I can make it through

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • Work for a small biz - should be solid.

    Votes: 23 17.7%

  • Work for a small biz - worried about keeping my job.

    Votes: 6 4.6%

  • Already unemployed -

    Votes: 7 5.4%

  • Work for a large Corp - should be good

    Votes: 43 33.1%

  • Work for a large Corp - worried about being laid off.

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Retired - worried about making ends meet

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Retired - I should be good.

    Votes: 9 6.9%

  • Other - explain if you wish.

    Votes: 19 14.6%
  • Total voters
    130
  • Poll closed .
Good luck on the job.

Hope you get it assuming you want it.
 
There's been no change in our work from home directive outside of being able to go to the office if you need to, or just want to.

I pop in for a few hours every now and then just for a change of pace. I'm getting to comfortable with being like Golem in Lord of the Rings.
 
Update:
6 months in, and we've been expecting layoffs after being furloughed all this time. They warned us in early August.

Monday we all received our Vacation pay with no communication (they've been holding it all this time) it was nice to get the 69 hours of pay, but it felt like the layoff was coming. (turns out it's CA law for them to cough up the vacation pay for furloughed people within six months)

Lots of speculation the past few days with various co-workers across the country that I've worked with, some for 17 years. We're all receiving emails for different webex meetings.

Today they laid off half of the sales team that I'm on at our branch, but they extended the furloughs for most of our shop guys and a few of us in sales.

I'm still biding my time to see if we can get back to work in the events industry, but also looking around to what I might do in another type of industry.

It's bitter sweet when your co-workers get laid off, but you are still on a lifeline via furlough.

Meanwhile I've been watching some of my long time clients close their doors permanently.

Fuck Rona... Fuck the wild fires.. 2020 can stick it...

Fuck it, let's ride!
 
900ss said:
Great decisions on your part, and I am very glad you kept your benefits!

Take care of yourself and your sister.... :thumbup
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Thank you! That's the plan! We're getting so close. Can't wait til it's over so we can get back to some semblance of normalcy in our lives.

Cabrito said:
Fuck Rona... Fuck the wild fires.. 2020 can stick it...

Fuck it, let's ride!
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In!

My employer paid out all of my saved up vacation at once and I got killed on taxes :mad

Glad to hear you haven't been completely cut loose, Cabrito.
 
Just landed a 1 year contract gig with huge potential for continuing on after! The right move career wise, pay is where it should be, benefits in 60 days, stoked :cool It is WFH, which means I can juggle some 1099 work that I still have (with more coming in October!). Such a relief, can't even begin to describe...
 
Great to hear!! :thumbup

Kick some ass.
 
Awesome! :thumbup
 
Congratulations!
 
We are debating on giving up our leases and going to multiple smaller offices.

Moving "everyone" remote and having a few satellite offices which you would book for day use / in person meetings.

The costs savings is incredible. We have large offices in 7 US states and 6 other countries.
 
There's no talks yet of moving to a smaller office and there's also no talk of the entire office going back on a regular basis.

We're still in a holding pattern of, if you want to go to the office, you can, but aren't required.

I do every so often for a change of pace of the monotony of working from home. Maybe 15 people out of a usual 60+ are there on average.
 
Wife's company just extended WFH till at least June 2021

and they're pursuing smaller offices with reduced capacity
 
I'm a "required on-site worker" which has recently been clarified to mean I am highly recommended on-site at least 4 days a week.

Although I've always liked my job, it is really nice to going into work. Ironically the most risky thing I do IMO is the temp check in my ear before I'm allowed in haha.

It's interesting: My colleague/friends and I always talk, but definitely are talking more than normal. Maybe we're just comfortable with masks on, in a single-pass air filtered, very large room. But maybe we're just fulfilling our need for human interaction where we get the added safety of lab-setting protocols.

It's been real good to get back to a bit of normalcy at work, in a safe setting.
 
The company I work for has implemented daily temperature checks for all employees. I am glad for this, even though if someone comes in with an elevated temperature I feel it will be too late, and we will be at risk for infection.

At least the owner, who was in complete denial when she returned in mid-May, is now taking things seriously. She listens daily to Rush Limbaugh and gets her "facts" from his broadcast.

Mods, if that is waxing political, please delete and accept my apologies. I am attempting to explain why she was off the charts in denial back in May. I went with her to select a television for her home last week, and we actually had a non-confrontational conversation about the pandemic. I summarized my position on protective measures and a path to ending Covid's stranglehold on us by stating I believe in the science. She actually agreed!
 
Three weeks into the new gig and I'm finally coming up for air! Doing training and screen-share for 8 hrs a day is the big suck but I'm getting the hang of it. Managing lots of little projects. Like 80,000 of them (wireless telecom, all pre-construction work).

The corporate email that came out yesterday reinforced that they are not planning on having anyone come back to the offices through January. Most likely will be kicking that can down the road too. Funny thing is the guy that I interact with most has been working remote from the Big Island for the last 5 years, so nothing new there....
 
Update at seven months since furlough. Hospitality, and events industries continue to be impacted by COVID. I'm in the events industry.

Still furloughed, but called HR to confirm this.

The company has been paying for most of our health insurance with me paying my usual deduction via COBRA, but that ends tomorrow.

My COBRA payment will go from $230 to $1100 a month so I canceled it, and went to look at my options at Covered California. I assumed I would get a descent deal since I have no income, but they go by annual projected income for 2020, and I've made enough the first three months at work combined with my unemployment payments to make it fairly expensive (to me) It's still cheaper than COBRA though. We're trying to get me on my partners insurance through her work as a domestic partner so we'll see.

The bright side is that the company is still paying for my company provided cell phone!!
 
That sucks Michael.

I am sure many others are or have faced the same thing.

Good luck.
 
Cabrito said:
Update at seven months since furlough. Hospitality, and events industries continue to be impacted by COVID. I'm in the events industry.

Still furloughed, but called HR to confirm this.

The company has been paying for most of our health insurance with me paying my usual deduction via COBRA, but that ends tomorrow.

My COBRA payment will go from $230 to $1100 a month so I canceled it, and went to look at my options at Covered California. I assumed I would get a descent deal since I have no income, but they go by annual projected income for 2020, and I've made enough the first three months at work combined with my unemployment payments to make it fairly expensive (to me) It's still cheaper than COBRA though. We're trying to get me on my partners insurance through her work as a domestic partner so we'll see.

The bright side is that the company is still paying for my company provided cell phone!!
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I am on a very minimal plan. In the words of our beloved Beauregard many many years ago "Blue Cross / Blue Shiled, just like being uninsured but more exspensive."
 
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