The pandemic and your job

[Muddyboot]

How has the pandemic affected your job? Were you laid off never to return.
Working from home, or never stopped working.

I was one of the lucky ones, working the construction industry in Ohio, deemed vital to the state economy.
My company gave hazard pay ( 2 additional dollars an hour).. I payed less for gas and had less traffic to deal with.

I know I was fortunate, but what about you. Tell me how you were affected.

 

[Telecaster]

Never stopped, busier than ever. Self-employed.

 

[soFlaNative]

My wife went from part to full time from mid March till 2 weeks ago due to full time employee furloughs and others cowering at home.
Though the libraries had closed to the public my oldest hasn't missed a day due to inventories and food giveaways.
The wastewater plant is obviously 24/7 so I haven't had any downtime at all save for a couple vacation days used for a long weekend.

 

[quikdraw67]

My company was deemed essential, so I worked through the spring and summer. It made the job much harder since it was phone orders and curbside pickup only. It was a challenge, and at times frustrating. The day that the doors reopened I was promoted to a desk job. Those who worked through the pandemic were given an extra weeks vacation.
So it wasn't all bad.

 

[Glashaus]

Never stopped, we were deemed essential to infrastructure. Half my department would work from home Mondays and Tuesdays, the other half on Thursdays and Fridays and all of us there on Wednesday. I ended up going into the office most days as I couldn't do AutoCad from home

 

[histreenut]

The University where I worked as a chef manager shut down with Spring Break. I used some vacation time and painted for a friend's business. The company that had the contract for the foodservice has a sister company that has the contract at the local hospital. I am in the process of transferring there permanently.
Part of the reason is the financial stability because if they shut the hospital down, we have bigger problems...
Honestly, I am just blessed.

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[BillBond]

I'm still working and really like the lack of rush hour traffic.

 

[mmb617]

I'm retired so it didn't affect my job at all.

My son is an auto tech and was off for two weeks in the beginning but they were declared as essential and he's been working ever since then.

 

[Farmer17]

I own a small construction company and I've been working 70 hour weeks and it's about To kill me but things have settled down a little And I'm catching up on other work and badly needed rest. This has been one of my my best years ever and there's still four months left to go in the year.

 

[llowry61]

Started working from home 3/18, and haven't been back to the office since. I am fortunate that there was no disruption at all. All of our campuses are closed except for folks doing physical processing of account information etc. Which is minimal. We have a 2500 person facility here in central Ohio and others throughout the country, there were less than 100 people working on site in the New Albany campus. Been very fortunate, the wife and I saved a ton of money during March April and May. We had not realized how much we spent on lunches gas, have a few drinks after work etc.

 

[1911 45]

The company I have worked at for the last 32 yrs is deemed essential due to government and military contracts. The pandemic has not effected my job.

 

[DWalt]

I haven't worked for a long time, so it makes no difference to me. I have a long-time friend who is an attorney, but his work does not demand courtroom time or much F-to-F contact with clients. He has switched to working entirely from home and will probably continue that even after the scare passes. During that period he has gained maybe 40 pounds and sprouted a Santa Claus beard.

 

[Hunter8282]

Switched to work from home. Probably forever....

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[jeff85]

Construction in Chicago never stopped except for a couple of days for peaceful looting.
I'm hearing it may all stop soon due to no one wanting to go downtown anymore. It's a ghost town.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

The federal and state governments want their corporate taxes more than ever. Audits going through the roof. PPP and other hastily added laws complicate an already over complicated area. Could work 24/7 but neither that young nor ambitious anymore.

 

[HardToHandle]

I work for a critical utility in a relatively free state.
Also no hazard pay but sometimes we got hand sanitizer (really).

We sent non-essential staff home in late March to work from home but I stayed on the job. We required everyone to return to the office on June 1, which was only two weeks after the first COVID peak infections. Now that May peak looks comparatively small. Most kids are in school. No mask mandates but most folks wear masks whilst shopping.

Certainly my work colleagues have thousands of different opinions and experiences... My organization and the State officials have tried to play the COVID situation straight down the alley. No overreaction beyond the March drama.

 

[Smoke]

I'm a security guard in a town that's overrun with tweakers and street rats and in which the police aren't responding to non violent crimes.

I haven't missed a day of work. As a bonus I work alone nights on a 9 acre fenced in site, I don't have to wear a mask and I have zero traffic to deal with going to and from.

 

[pharmer]

Schoolteacher here. Some changes in "delivery of instruction" but paychecks are same as ever. Which is the important condition. The "bureaucratic effluent" has increased so much they are having daily meetings to come to a consensus on how to stuff 50lbs in a 5 Lb bag as opposed to 10 lbs usual. Once they come to agreement it will happen because the "committee" has declared it to be "sound educational pedagogy." Joe

 

[BearBio]

Retired but before I pulled the plug, I was Safety Officer (and biologist) for a Federal Agency. As such, I drafted our Pandemic Plan as an addendum to our Safety Plan. It called for dispersed work through teleworking unless we were called upon (due to mandatory advanced first aid training and driving courses) to back up first responders.

Conversations with my former supervisor and friends in other offices show that this is what has been put into play.

 

[desi2358]

If anything I am working more............. my "part time" job at wally world (can't afford full retirement yet!) has me working right at the edge of being full time! Store is short handed (hard to get and keep employees) but a lot needing to be done. The grocery side is always busy (no surprise there!) and the sporting goods and hardware sections where I work are constantly busy. People wanting an escape from being stuck at home have kept the fishing and camping sections cleaned out all summer, guns and ammo are still selling fast too. If the corporate idiots hadn't gotten rid of handgun and AR/AK ammo I'm sure it would be constantly sold out like the 22 ammo (and a few others) always are.

For those stuck at home it appears home improvement projects are a big thing..... Paint, shelving, lamps, all kinds of little things are constantly out of stock. It's been a very busy year so far..........