(#33) A Rough Environment
From Redditor /u/depixelated
I worked with a company that did environmental work with concerts and musicians. Just started the job, too, and was really excited to start what I thought was my dream job. I got laid off because of CoV.
Job hunting during the quarantine is really difficult, and I would like to use my environmental science degree for something useful.
(#30) A Silver Lining
From Redditor /u/Canadian_Neckbeard
My mom works in vacation rentals doing housekeeping. She's 61, diabetic and has COPD, and lives in a state that has mandatory shutdown of all non-essential businesses. When she was informed they'd be laying people off but also staying open, she told them she's afraid of getting CoV and they laid her off so she could collect unemployment and continue to pay her bills while staying home safe.
(#34) Closing Time
From Redditor /u/SateenDuraLuxePaints
I'm a bartender. I wasn't working Saturday or Sunday but was watching other places post on social media that they'd be closing for the time being. On Monday, a few hours before I was scheduled to go in, the city declared that sit-in restaurants should only serve take-out and that bars should close, so I spent a while with the owner packing up all the alcohol before we were all laid off in order that we could start collecting EI. I was a regular there for years before I started working there after finding it in its first week open, and it's been open almost as long as I've lived in this neighbourhood. I'm the longest-tenured bartender at this point. It's really f*cked up to think about the place potentially not coming back.
(#3) Left It All Behind
From Redditor /u/rileyellen
We sold our house, packed up our stuff and our two young daughters, and moved our family to the Bay Area in California for my husband’s new job in SF. That was January 25 of this year. He lost his job on Monday as soon as they announced the shelter-in-place order. We left behind our families, friends, home, everything for this job. We don’t know what we’re going to do. Thankfully we have savings from selling our house while he looks for a job. We just don’t know who, if anyone, will be hiring anytime soon. I want to buy a school bus and convert it to an RV and go live in the mountains. I have yet to get my husband and our daughters on board with that plan though.
(#2) For The Greater Good
From Redditor /u/edmidgley
They wanted a coworker and I to reduce our hours to half each because they could only afford one of us and didn't wanna make a redundancy. In the end, I took the redundancy. I'm 21 and live at home, meals provided. My coworker is a 30-year-old homeowner with bills and an unemployed girlfriend. Him loosing half his income for me seemed wrong. Better me than him.
(#14) Grounded
From Redditor /u/blackforestgirl86
I just finished my training as a flight attendant for a major European airline. It's been a dream of mine and I have been putting my love and energy into this training for the past months. I'm in Cancun right now and it's bittersweet because it's absolutely beautiful here, but at the same time, this was my last training flight. I'm now a fully trained flight attendant and yet no one knows when me and my other new colleagues will actually be getting our work contract since the airline industry is suffering a lot right now.
I think I will cry when landing back in Frankfurt tonight because I don't know when will be my next flight ... but I will put on a brave face and genuine smile for our passengers. At least I will do my best.
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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the global unemployment rate has risen rapidly and sharply. So far, more than one-sixth of young people have lost the job due to the epidemic, even unfired workers have reduced their working hours by 23%. The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 is influencing the majority of workers, especially young women. The increase in unemployment will lead to more serious social problems and make economic recovery after the epidemic more difficult.
The labor organization called on developed countries to immediately implement a wide range of employment protection measures to deal with this unemployment crisis. The random tool shares 35 heartbreaking stories of people who lost their jobs during the epidemic.
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