Me, I'm maintenance manager for an apartment complex and professional cat herder at the animal shelter 2 days a week. Apparently, both positions are essential. Today, putting in a door, frame and all, replacing the one that got kicked in and damaged. I'm not allowed to do any non emergency calls right now, though. The shelter isn't open to the public at this time, but dogs and cats still need to be cleaned after, fed and watered.
Are there any TiB'ers whose work has shut down? Not moved to working from home, but no income type of shut down. Most of us are now older and probably more financially set but your kids? Younger siblings/nephews/nieces? What's their plan? My step daughter's work has shut down (she works for a large gym in SoCal) and she's freaking out. They gave her a two week severance and we gave her a small lump of cash as an early birthday gift but if this continues for several more weeks, she's going to be hurting.
Day 3 of quarantine. My wife has run out of things she knows how to cook. My culinary expertise is key to her survival now. For the moment, she will allow me to remain alive. I’m making some “quarantine hash” which is basically just cut up some potatoes and put them in a pan with olive oil and whatever other produce is about to expire in the fridge.
I'm at work. We all are here yet. We operate about 20 acres of greenhouses for ornamental crops. Ornamental crops that have about a six-week sell window for 80% of the yearly revenue which is quickly approaching. We're deeply concerned that we'll be forced to not open for the spring season and it will be the end of us. We're also concerned that we'll be ordered to shelter in place and not come in to take care of the crop prior to the season beginning which would result in letting everything die. Even if none of those things happen there is a strong chance that the public will be unwilling to come in to shop for their items when the season hits because of the crowds. We push between 5,000 and 7,000 transactions through the registers a day during the primary 5 weeks and that requires crowds. It's terrifying from a financial standpoint.
Not us personally but my neighbors are hurting right now. The husband was the breadwinner for years and the wife was a stay at home mom for their kids, even did homeschooling for several years with them. He was laid off last summer from the railroad after decades of work. He tried to ramp up his personal business but it wasn't enough, and he eventually started collecting unemployment while his wife found a job at the school system cafeteria. And now she's basically been laid off, except they made her take all her sick leave first. They are the kindest, most generous, hardworking, best people I know and don't deserve any of this shit. We are doing good on food. However the snacks could have been rationed out more evenly. The good shit was GONE in less than a week. I think by the time the weekend was over, all the ice cream was gone. Wahh.
My work is mostly functioning normally. Working from home isn't really an option in my field as all our files are pretty large and interact with each other. We'll see how long this keeps up, but I assume unless there's a shelter in place order here we'll keep operating normally.
Depending on what state you're in a shelter in place order is likely coming within the next 2-3 weeks.
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We’re working/learning from home. I’m planning the meals as usual. Last night was catfish I had in the freezer, tonight is leftover stew, tomorrow will be takeout from a local small business, Saturday I’ll make a pasta dish with that cabbage I have, and Sunday we’ll roast a whole chicken I’ve got stashed in the beer fridge downstairs. That will last us 3-4 days, including the soup I can make from the carcass. No one is going hungry here.
I'm working from home at my day job and am still working at Publix on nights and most Saturdays. Publix has cut back its hours but there is no way they will close unless the government makes them. I thought about quitting Publix but I just can't bring myself to throw away my security blanket. This is my first week as an actual employee at my day job, as my 6-month contract ended last week and they converted me over. The workload has stayed pretty constant; I pray that that does not change.
The problem is that something like 15% (official estimates vary) of people are asymptomatic carriers, and the rest of us have an incubation period of 1-2 weeks. So someone who tested positive might have been contagious for several days first, and may not have even been the vector into the office if a carrier is walking around without knowing it. I'm mostly just worried about the various old people in my life. My dad is 70+ with a heart condition and asthma, basically the prime candidate for a horrible respiratory infection.
My work has been steady. Only troubling thing is our wholesale deliveries have been gumming up with carriers being shut down our shipments are getting stuck in their hubs. Since China is back open the last I heard after their two additional weeks off the orders are pushed back that much but are being shipped with the usual amount of time. Our sales season doesn’t start really until the summer with trade shows and fall/Christmas orders. Hopefully since up to a half of our products deal with food preservation we catch a wave of it. Working in tech service it’s hard to gauge at the moment wonder if more people being at home they’ll bust out their equipment to use and thus we’ll see much more activity than we normally do this time of year. I have a bunch of restaurant worker friends and they all got the boot over the weekend. Saw a mad scramble of getting unemployment benefits. One guy was asking about benefits on Facebook and I responded that local grocery stores are begging for help restocking and he might think about that, hours seem like a natural fit. Not one response to that. In another thread a guy said if Kroger’s wasn’t paying more than unemployment he’s staying home to hang out with his kid.
I am, i work at a container port, not essential like the doctors/nurses, but people still need there shit.
that was my first thought as well but I’ve been isolated for at least a week now and have no reason to leave the property for another few months at the minimum. As much as accidents find me, I think I’m pretty good. who here lives in a really populated area?