Poll of the Day > Has your employer shut down

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How many of you guys have been idled from work due to COVID-19? Is your employer paying you for the time that'll be missed?

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No. We operate as a skeleton crew already, and our work doesn't place us anywhere in close proximity of others, so it's business as usual.

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Not happened for me yet and I really hope it doesn't happen. I like doing my job.
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Nope. Not yet. Ill probably be going normally for a while...
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Our company is quite stubborn. They've reduced overtime and regular hours but they won't shut down until they're forced to. They should since more than 50 people work each shift and we're in New York where the confirmed cases are climbing rapidly.

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business as usual for my team, despite our pleas "the company cannot stop otherwise how will people be paid" and similar bullshit

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The boss basically closed the office starting today. No more than one person there at a time. We're a small company, and we can all do our jobs from home, so we're still open.

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The company laid off 250ish "non essential" employees earlier this week, that's probably the max they can before it starts impacting the bottom line and that's the last thing they want.

Luckily I'm cross trained in everything from store manager to mobile tech so I'll probably be one of the last to go, if at all. Unless someone at our location catches Corona...

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im working from home but don't have access to the network from home so im basically doing nothing while getting paid

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Yep! We got the order on Monday while we were in the office.

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Not fully, hours cut down to 10 pw. While it's shit, I still get a little money so i can pay the bills, beats getting nothing.

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Yep, we shut down temporarily starting yesterday.

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I'm still cooking.

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Nope. Still delivering pizzas

I don't mind it really. It's a small restaurant owned by one guy. I obviously don't know how much money he has saved up, but it's probably not enough to give us all decent money while making no money at all. I'd rather have a job and get sick than not get sick and lose my job.

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Officially closed as of last Tue and it's set to be closed until a week from Saturday

I wont' be surprised if that winds up getting extended though seeing as how I work at a movie theater and 3/4 of the customers are morons who sacrifice their well-being to see a movie

May as well stay closed anyway since all the huge spring/summer movies got delayed like Mulan, Black Widow and Fast 9

Without those we'll have to get really lucky and hope we get a limited release that's a hit or wind up replaying older movies

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Half of the office staff is working from home at any given time, but all the production staff is here as normal. I've heard that we are considered an essential service and cannot be shut down, but I'm not 100% on that.

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Pretty much. All non-essential personnel are working remotely now. I work for a small business, so we only had about 15 people at most in the office at any time, but even we went ahead with it. I lucked out since I was already putting in about half of my hours in from home, so it won't be a massive change. I feel bad for my mom though. She works in a retirement home, so she's been running herself ragged with having to take every possible precaution at work and home, since the residents there are obviously at the highest risk. And not to mention, she's had to work late every day for the past 2 weeks, and who knows how much longer that'll continue.

Yes, yesterday we left at 3pm, they informed us at like 2:45, so it was fun emaiing my supervisor what work I didn't get done.
Some telecommute, we are being paid.
I don't telecommute tho they they it is possible they may expand it in a few weeks.

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KJ StErOiDs posted...

No. We operate as a skeleton crew already, and our work doesn't place us anywhere in close proximity of others, so it's business as usual.

The problem with skeleton crews is that there aren't that many skeletons. Lack of diversity I say.

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I think were pretty close now. We just got sent home early today and we were already working at half staff. I work at at printing company and right now a lot of realtors seem to think now is a peak season for house shopping, because their orders CANNOT wait.

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Pus_N_Pecans posted...

I think were pretty close now. We just got sent home early today and we were already working at half staff. I work at at printing company and right now a lot of realtors seem to think now is a peak season for house shopping, because their orders CANNOT wait.

Or they are worried about the stores being shut down for weeks... Possibly...
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It's a big casino/hotel. They're closed to the public, but security and utility still has to go in. Also the clean up crew has volunteers going in to get stuff they can't get while there's lots of people there.

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Yes, a big restaurant/buffet.

My sister has been clamoring to me about getting an Amazon job, but I heard that shit is really shady and drains the soul from your very being.

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LinkPizza posted...

Or they are worried about the stores being shut down for weeks... Possibly...

Yeah, but if stores are shut down, people are gonna be shut down too. And ain't nobody's in the market to be buying houses when most of us are worried we can even afford to continue existence.

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I have 2 jobs. One is shut down for now and the other I am still doing.

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Marcster1994 posted...

Yes, a big restaurant/buffet.

My sister has been clamoring to me about getting an Amazon job, but I heard that shit is really shady and drains the soul from your very being.

An ex works there. And a couple friends. I almost worked there, as well. And watched a video about it. Its bad...

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

Yeah, but if stores are shut down, people are gonna be shut down too. And ain't nobody's in the market to be buying houses when most of us are worried we can even afford to continue existence.

Thats true, as well... Though, some people may be able to move, depending on stuff. Like the people still working. Plus, I assume after its over, they may not want to wait to get them. Or have to stand in insanely long lines to get stocked up again... maybe...
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We're closing early, which makes sense because if we end up with 3 people sick at the same time we're going to struggle to manage running 2 full shifts.

Not yet. I've been on leave after surgery, so I've been home since Dec 30th anyway. We'll see what happens though.

no, but our offices are closed. been just as busy as usual, but we're all just working from home. makes me wonder why we needed an office space to begin with, ok?

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I'm working from home for at least the next five weeks

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I'm a first grade teacher in an area where schools have been closed. It's... weird. I'm used to breaks for summer and for various week breaks. This doesn't feel like that. It was sudden and unexpected. The announcement came on one of the three teacher work days of the year, which means our students weren't even in class that day. We couldn't prepare them at all.

Email groups have indicated a whole bunch of us feel disconnected and miss each other. The nature of this means it doesn't have the comfortable routine feel a break does.

And now... we are apparently moving to distance learning. With *elementary school kids.* Its bizarre. We now have to set up online classrooms, get apps working to route our school phone number through cell or Google voice (think I'll go with google voice), make sure we get chromebooks to all the families without them, etc. I'm glad we are doing something, since it sounds like the closure may be extended, but teaching first grade remotely is going to be really weird. On the positive side, they are only doing Mon-Thurs class with Fridays for teacher development, planning, collaboration, staff meetings, etc. And the last hour of each school day is also planning time. It's too bad kids aren't getting as much learning, but they are giving us plenty of time to figure out how to do this and adapt each day so it's better than the last.

Strange times we live in.

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Not yet. People want their marijuana and theyre stockpiling it in case a quarantine goes into effect. So weve actually been busier than usual.

Office is still open but they have since told me to work from home as I have asthma. I suspect the office will officially close end of day tomorrow.

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Governor of my state just ordered closure of all "non life sustaining" businesses

https://www.wtae.com/article/gov-wolf-orders-closure-of-all-non-life-sustaining-businesses-at-8-pm-thursday/31789709

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Yep was sent home three hours home and the GM told us to stay home and she'll let us know when to return.

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Lockheed does not shut down.

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AnnoyedCops posted...

Governor of my state just ordered closure of all "non life sustaining" businesses

https://www.wtae.com/article/gov-wolf-orders-closure-of-all-non-life-sustaining-businesses-at-8-pm-thursday/31789709

I heard something similar about my state, as well...
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California seems to be closing down as well. Not sure how my boss will react to this since almost everything with us is local server side. Gonna be near impossible to setup everyone to work remotely within a day.

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LinkPizza posted...

I heard something similar about my state, as well...

Wow get this, the general manager of our division just emailed us about this order from the governor saying that we should still come in, because another part of our company...in a different state... manufactures semiconductors which is considered essential. Oh well I think I'm gonna ask my boss to just WFH anyway. I don't get why they're so insistent on staying open, we can easily WFH

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InfestedAdam posted...

California seems to be closing down as well. Not sure how my boss will react to this since almost everything with us is local server side. Gonna be near impossible to setup everyone to work remotely within a day.

Executive order has been issued directing shelter in place (aka don't leave your house) and shutting down all businesses that are not identified as "essential" (which has some rather ridiculous exemptions).

https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/

I wish my company would just shut down for a few weeks instead of trying to make us all work from home. Now I'll have to try to work from home, probably do a lousy job of it, and get fired.

I work at a grocery store and we haven't closed yet. We have restricted hours that we closed 2 hours earlier and open an hour

reruns_revenge posted...

Executive order has been issued directing shelter in place (aka don't leave your house) and shutting down all businesses that are not identified as "essential" (which has some rather ridiculous exemptions).

https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/

The Bay area has already been on shelter in place for a couple of days. Apparently the first place in the country to implement it according to articles I've read. Then again, that was where it was worst in California. As it expands, the rest of the state sheltered too.

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No official announcement yet from our boss. We deal with the material handling/storage industry (i.e. storage racks, shelving units, cantilever, gondolas, etc.) and our clients are typically warehouses and retail stores. Think some folks in management might feel that is technically enough to lump us along with the other "essential" industries. I guess so long as the doors are kept open, we'll still come to work.

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I work at a grocery store. So, I doubt I will be out of a job.

Today was supposed to have been a normal days work, turned up, told not to bother, stopped behind with the guy I work with for a drink, then learned there's now at least 14 days before I can go back to work... Thankfully though my employer wants both of us back so I think we qualify for that scheme the government's rolling out that pays for staff unable to work due to Covid-19 shutting down work places.

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Federal.

It was the best of times it was the blurst of times.

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Next week, something is going on. But I'm going to try to see if I can still work. Because money and stuff...
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Runner_style posted...

Today was supposed to have been a normal days work, turned up, told not to bother, stopped behind with the guy I work with for a drink, then learned there's now at least 14 days before I can go back to work... Thankfully though my employer wants both of us back so I think we qualify for that scheme the government's rolling out that pays for staff unable to work due to Covid-19 shutting down work places.

What scheme is this? All I've seen talked about is the 1000 dollar check that doesn't seems to only require you have done a tax return in 2018