I am considered essential. I go to work because 80% of office working from home. I worked from home for 12 years and was a prisoner in my own home.
Working thru corona virus
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Still working, considered essential out of 4100 employees. 3600 are working from home but I can't complain receiving hazardous pay on top of my regular pay.
As long as DOD is working i will be working.
As long as DOD is working i will be working.
Myself being a fuel truck driver in a rural area, we have been stupidly busy, had a fuel refinery strike, hauled a bunch of extra fuel this Winter, now this along with rock bottom, prices, sold and filled a ton of extra tanks. My Wife is a Nurse, so we both have employment forever. Two of my three Daughters have employment, one remote starting soon, the other cleaning.
If you were a nurse in my town, you could be unemployed. Just the other day they announced they were furloughing 54 people at the local hospital, nurses included, due to elective surgeries being tanked at the moment. Granted, they'll be getting back to work at some point, but this is so odd to see nursing and staff just laid off. Not sure if they were RN or LPN or what, but that's totally odd. The rest of the staff are working with little to no overtime. Now that's weird. Normally, they can't get enough qualified nursing staff.
I'm busy as heck being retired. 🙂 So is the wife, so staying at home isn't too terrible, however the idea of not being able to just get up and go somewhere without the risk of death is unusual. We had planned to visit a friend's new baby this month but that is put on hold indefinitely. She'll probably be graduating high school before we get to see her. Was planning a Mt. Rushmore (and surrounding area) vacation this year- but not in August when Sturgis is going on. Now, not at all. Maybe next year.
But we gotta play the game until this gets under control, or there won't be a next year.
Self employed. Still working as many hours as we can get in and thankful for it.
My Wife works is an LPN and works in processing medical scopes, has a seperate certificate for it and assists the Dr while doing the scopes as well. That is all on hold. The work load is much heavier in a non regional hospital, which our hospital is. Means no teams for each seperate area, I know my Wife works too hard while other useless people, mooch the good 12 hour positions. We are a secondary Covid Hospital, they reduce any staff it could become a nightmare. I already expressed to my boss how much this Winter sucked. Each region has their own Coop, we have three driver's at our location. The Coop to the North had two drivers quit it was so bad these last few months with the strike, us running extra fuel and then farmers literally buying every fuel tank available in the country because of the low price. I can't believe Premium is under a dollar a liter and the pumps. Off our truck 70 cents a liter, Diesel was below 60 cents.
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I just started working again after 2 years of staying at home while the wife worked full time. Been on the road driving a truck across the country for almost 2 weeks now with a trainer. I'm supposed to solo out in a few days and get my own truck. If there's anything good that's came of this pandemic, it's the reduced traffic.
I am a registered nurse. If you want to get really particular I'm a circulating nurse. Means I'm in the operating room coordinating patient care, anesthesia, supplies, surgical site preparation, etc. An average case load for our area is 45 surgeries per day distributed over 17 rooms. We're self strangulating down to 6 rooms and anywhere from 12-20 cases per day. Two additional operating rooms are kept on standby for trauma. I think there have been 8 RNs that have been furloughed in my department alone. Pre-op is a ghost town. I got 20 hours last week which is better than the 8 hours the pre-op nurses have been getting per week. There are 2 positive cases in my hospital.
Work is a shitty place to be right now.
Work is a shitty place to be right now.
Still working until places dont want contractors into there buildings....
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