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Started by Barrister, March 24, 2020, 04:57:44 PM

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How is your employment been affected by Covid-19

I'm "essential" - I still have to go to work
18 (22%)
I'm working remotely from home
49 (59.8%)
I've been laid off
9 (11%)
I wasn't employed to begin with
6 (7.3%)

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garbon

#255
April 03, 2020, 04:32:25 AM
Quote from: Tyr on April 03, 2020, 04:11:39 AM
Probably due to the shortage of pop and chocolate in the house.

I ordered some biscuits/baked goods to come from a local bakery next week. :ph34r:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

#256
April 03, 2020, 06:36:32 AM
While on the topic of operas, there is a free service with a rotation of performances from smaller production stages: https://operavision.eu/
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Sheilbh

#257
April 03, 2020, 06:41:43 AM
Quote from: garbon on April 03, 2020, 04:32:25 AM
Quote from: Tyr on April 03, 2020, 04:11:39 AM
Probably due to the shortage of pop and chocolate in the house.

I ordered some biscuits/baked goods to come from a local bakery next week. :ph34r:
I have been keeping a stock of biscuits because we need to keep our mood up and just have things to enjoy. Right? :mellow: :ph34r:
Let's bomb Russia!

Josephus

#258
April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

mongers

#259
April 03, 2020, 07:18:43 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 03, 2020, 06:41:43 AM
Quote from: garbon on April 03, 2020, 04:32:25 AM
Quote from: Tyr on April 03, 2020, 04:11:39 AM
Probably due to the shortage of pop and chocolate in the house.

I ordered some biscuits/baked goods to come from a local bakery next week. :ph34r:
I have been keeping a stock of biscuits because we need to keep our mood up and just have things to enjoy. Right? :mellow: :ph34r:

I'm relatively well stocked, mainly oaty biscuits, rich tea for the afternoon tea and some ginger nuts bought last night in the co-op and half price too, 14p!  :bowler:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#260
April 03, 2020, 07:20:06 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.

Damn, Josq that's hard, sounds almost like leaving a family setting.  :(
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Syt

#261
April 03, 2020, 07:20:23 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.

:( :hug:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Sheilbh

#262
April 03, 2020, 07:27:13 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.
:( :hug:

Sorry to hear that, must be really sad for everyone after so long but also that it's like a small community institution shutting down.
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

#263
April 03, 2020, 07:38:13 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 03, 2020, 06:41:43 AM
Quote from: garbon on April 03, 2020, 04:32:25 AM
Quote from: Tyr on April 03, 2020, 04:11:39 AM
Probably due to the shortage of pop and chocolate in the house.

I ordered some biscuits/baked goods to come from a local bakery next week. :ph34r:
I have been keeping a stock of biscuits because we need to keep our mood up and just have things to enjoy. Right? :mellow: :ph34r:

That's the reasoning I used with my husband when I bought a box of 160 Yorkshire Gold teabags even though I've still enough loose leaf and assorted other teas to comfortably float a family of four tea addicts for a couple months. -_-
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

#264
April 03, 2020, 07:38:27 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.

Sorry to hear that. :(
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

The Larch

#265
April 03, 2020, 07:39:35 AM
Sorry to hear that, Joe. Hope the future is brighter. :console:

Josquius

#266
April 03, 2020, 08:06:25 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.

That sucks. Hope you've other potential stuff in the works.
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merithyn

#267
April 03, 2020, 09:19:03 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.

I'm sorry, hon. :hug:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

derspiess

#268
April 03, 2020, 09:42:44 AM
Sorry Jos :(
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#269
April 03, 2020, 09:43:31 AM
Quote from: Josephus on April 03, 2020, 07:04:37 AM
So as a few of you know, I lost my job yesterday. My little weekly jewish paper, which was suffering from a pre-exisiting condition was felled by COVID, and is forced to shutter down permanently.
I've been there for around 30 years, so it's hard, but I'm healthy still and look forward to moving on, at some point.

Sad to see another local media source go under :(

Good luck to you Jos :hug:
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