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Originally Posted by BetterRed
But still a lot of people wanting welfare and a lot of businesses (e.g. airlines) wanting subsidies and bail-outs.
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And unfortunately,
needing them.
I saw a post on a mailing list I'm on from an acquaintance who had been laid off after 14 years of service. I blinked in surprise, then recalled that the company he works for as a tech sells and rents lighting and sound gear for events. Events are all on current hold, so hundreds across his company got pink slips. No work for them to do, and their company isn't big and rich enough to keep people on the payroll when there is no money coming in and it's unclear when normalcy will return. I told him to treat it as an enforced vacation, file for unemployment, get around to all the things he was putting off because he was busy working, and expect to be rehired when business resumed. (He was the guy at his location who made sure gear going out worked as designed, and fixed things that didn't. I'm quite certain they'll want him back.)
Airlines are dramatically hard hit. Travel is in the toilet. So are places that do lodging. I was told of a 400 room hotel in San Francisco that is simply closed for the duration.
And lots of folks in "non-essential" occupations have jobs that
cant be done from home, with some question about whether their employers will still exist when this is over.
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Dennis