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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 14, 2020 19:12:03 GMT -5
I figured we’d have some posters who are defined as essential staff like me. So share your stories, experiences, and FRUSTRATIONS here.
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Scoops
ALF
Potato Clown
Posts: 1,124
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Post by Scoops on Mar 14, 2020 19:29:53 GMT -5
I haven't had any stories yet but as someone who unloads trucks part time for a shipping company I imagine my life is about to get a lot worse. Normally I work around 3 hours a day but I honestly expect to work 4+ hours most days now. That doesn't sound bad but when you show up at 3 am, are constantly moving with large boxes, headphones aren't allowed, and also have a full time job, it's gonna get pretty bad.
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
Perpetually Constipated
Posts: 39,293
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 14, 2020 19:33:40 GMT -5
They are going to close my office to the public because we can't shut down. Part of my job is crisis management for EMA. We will have our backup Emergency Operations Center set up for those of us that get infected, so we can still do our job.
Now that said, while we have verified cases in my state (Iowa), we don't have anything local yet. So it's all still just plans. But that's why we make plans.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Mar 14, 2020 20:00:00 GMT -5
Frankly I’m hoping they’ll let me just come in instead of laying me off or having me screw around with a rented laptop and VPN.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 14, 2020 20:27:59 GMT -5
Frankly I’m hoping they’ll let me just come in instead of laying me off or having me screw around with a rented laptop and VPN. I can relate to this. I’d make three times less if I just sat at home. Considering I’m trying to pay off my student loans, save up for a house, and you know actual regular living expenses I don’t have much of a choice even if I wasn’t essential staff.
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4TheGlory
Vegeta
The Fun One At Parties
Posts: 9,749
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Post by 4TheGlory on Mar 14, 2020 20:35:32 GMT -5
Working in IT i can still do my job remotely from home for the most part. So no days off for me
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Jake, The Jake, Jake
Dennis Stamp
Will never EVER get a personal title. Ever. Nope. Never. Not a chance. No way, no how.
Posts: 3,726
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Mar 14, 2020 21:16:45 GMT -5
Postal Service here. We ain’t stopping anytime soon.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Mar 14, 2020 21:19:23 GMT -5
Grocery store clerk here. Our sales are skyrocketing because of the panic. No way we're shutting down any time soon.
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Post by Instant Classic on Mar 14, 2020 21:21:38 GMT -5
I work at a pharmacy warehouse we ain’t going nowhere lol.
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Scooterdust
ALF
I'm in the center of the epicenter of the pandemic!
Posts: 1,097
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Post by Scooterdust on Mar 14, 2020 21:51:37 GMT -5
Captioning videos, I'm gonna get more work with online courses so...
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 14, 2020 22:02:56 GMT -5
I'm working away, and as the only person without kids, I'm sitting pretty, while everyone else is trying to figure out what to do.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Mar 14, 2020 22:46:08 GMT -5
I own a brewery and taproom, so Im in high demand in times like these.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 14, 2020 23:00:15 GMT -5
I own a brewery and taproom, so Im in high demand in times like these. Because of your forum name?
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Mar 14, 2020 23:07:44 GMT -5
I own a brewery and taproom, so Im in high demand in times like these. Because of your forum name? My forum name which I created in 2014 just happens to be the talk of the world now.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
Posts: 27,985
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Post by chazraps on Mar 14, 2020 23:42:23 GMT -5
Radio DJ here. Tonight, live on air, as I was talking I coined the phrase "whether you work from home or twerk from home, we got you" which I'm now going to use every day for the rest of the pandemic.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
Posts: 41,938
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 15, 2020 0:54:41 GMT -5
Depends on your definition of essential. Even if my building shuts down, I gotta go in. Unless I get sick, then I'm off for two weeks without using sick time, which I have hours and hours and hours and hours to burn. I'm not worried. In general I don't get sick, I was exposed to my mother who was a geriatric nurse for 30 years before she passed and at my job it's all kids and old f***s, I have a good strong immune system. I might get sick, but I doubt it.
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Mar 15, 2020 3:30:23 GMT -5
I work in a bar. They won’t close and I need the money so I have to go in and it’s kind of freaking me out.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Mar 15, 2020 3:49:17 GMT -5
Accounting in a bank head office.
We aren't going dark until everyone else does.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Mar 15, 2020 3:58:10 GMT -5
Soda vendor. Yeah I'm in hell.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Mar 15, 2020 4:08:40 GMT -5
My cousin and my brother are plant workers and their respective bosses are like "wash y all's hands".
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